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• 10 jui 2020

  Venice

  Call for papers - History

  Intersections. New perspectives for public humanities

  HFC-INT 2020

  The international network Humanities for Change, in accordance with the interdisciplinary spirit and the contaminatory approach that characterize its activities, intends to organize a day of study on the theme of public humanities. The meeting aims to stimulate some reflections coming from different fields of knowledge and to encourage the dialogue between researchers on the possibilities of the humanities to escape from academic circles. In this sense, the main object of study is the analysis of methodologies and tools related to knowledge dissemination practices for historical, artistic and philological-literary disciplines. Particular attention will also be given to new professional figures connected to the degree courses of the humanities faculties (such as the 'public historian') and to the interactions of these professional figures with the new media of communication and mass dissemination.

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• 04 jui 2019

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  Caging the sky: art, history and anthropology of aviaries

  Deeply rooted in the long history of technology, architectural construction, and the domestication and acclimatisation of animal species by humans, aviaries are an interdisciplinary research subject offering multiple approaches for studying both past and present bonds, connecting societies to their environment, to explore the place of birds in the collective imaginary, but also to appreciate the originality of works or constructions that were conceived in order to  represent, signify or house animal life. They make a spectacle of the flight of birds for the external observer and tend to celebrate the captivity of animals as a state of “semi-freedom”.

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• 07 jui 2019

  Palermo

  Call for papers - Representation

  In/visible: representation, discourse, practices, “dispositifs”

  Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

  How is the materiality of the visible world inscribed in its cultural representations? What are the more or less visible actors and mechanisms in the genesis of a cultural artefact? Should the visible / invisible binomial be considered as an anthropological constant or as the effect of a certain epistemological constellation? To what extent does visibility coincide with power and, therefore, how should one represent the in/visible? These are just some of the questions that cultural studies, in their innate interdisciplinarity and methodological heterogeneity can formulate with respect to the issue.

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• 18 déc 2017

  Rome

  Call for papers - Representation

  The italian fascism through the prism of contemporary arts

  Reinterpretations, montages, deconstructions

   

  In a more or less explicit way, daily news bring to our attention the survival of forms and values which rely on fascist imagery. Thinking about fascism through the prism of contemporary arts means to deal with a term whose significance has to be read at least in a double sense: on one hand, the historical experience of the regime that ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943; on the other hand, by extension, the very form of totalitarian power. Contemporary arts’ gaze seems to work on these two different albeit related topics: the Italian fascism as historical event (faced with all the troubles of its memories), and the fascism as the fundamental process of power’s relationship and rituals.

   

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• 19 mar 2015

  20 mar 2015

  Florence

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Pourquoi transmettre la connaissance des arts ?

  La contribution des musées

  Dans une société toujours plus matérialiste où les savoirs sont essentiellement jugés au regard de leur utilité instrumentale, comment justifier la transmission des savoirs artistiques ? Quels en sont les enjeux de citoyenneté ? Et quelle peut être la contribution spécifique des musées ? Faisant suite au colloque organisé en 2009 au Palais Strozzi, Pourquoi enseigner l’histoire de l’art ?, cette nouvelle initiative permettra d’échanger sur un vaste ensemble de questions allant des principaux enjeux démocratiques de la connaissance artistique dans notre société, jusqu’aux techniques pédagogiques les plus efficaces, notamment celles recourant au numérique. Avec cette manifestation, notre souhait serait d’engager un cycle biennal qui permettrait de faire régulièrement un « état de la transmission artistique » en Europe. Tous les deux ans, un grand musée européen accueillerait ainsi la réflexion la plus large sur cette question assurément déterminante pour l’avenir de la démocratie telle que nous la cultivons. Un monde où l’art et la pensée demeurent une condition de la liberté.

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• 01 jui 2015

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  Héraldique et papauté

  Araldica e papato

  Au Moyen Âge comme à l’époque moderne, la papauté dispose d’imaginaires variés pour alimenter sa communication institutionnelle. L’héraldique y joue un rôle majeur. Un nouveau pape apporte avec lui son blason qui paraît sur les monnaies, les sceaux, les médailles, la vaisselle et les ornements liturgiques, les reliures et les illustrations des livres, dans les armoriaux et dans la littérature de célébration ou de satire (pasquinades), sur les façades et les décors peints ou sculptés des bâtiments (succès dans la grotesque), dans les diverses fêtes et cérémonies, sur les portraits, les monuments et les tombeaux, sans oublier les jardins, les fontaines, etc... Les cardinaux augmentent souvent leurs armoiries de celles du pape qui les a créés. Ce n’est pas un hasard si la Rome pontificale peut être considérée comme l’une des capitales les plus héraldiques du monde. Dans la peinture, cet imaginaire prend des formes allégoriques. Les grands décors sont élaborés en programmes. L’héraldique papale, dans ses différents emplois, n’a pas suscité tout l’intérêt qu’elle méritait. Vaste sujet, propre à stimuler historiens, historiens de l’art et historiens de la littérature.

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• 16 oct 2014

  17 oct 2014

  18 oct 2014

  Venice

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  “Venetian” enamels on copper from the Italian Renaissance

  Artistic geography, collecting, technology

  Enamelled and gold flecked copperware are a rare and highly refined feature of the decorative arts of the Italian Renaissance, of which less than three hundred pieces survive, and which are traditionally referred to as Venetian. Admired and sought after in the 19th century, when the main European collections were built up, these objects, whose origins date back to the end of the fifteenth century, were subsequently forgotten. The cross-disciplinary conference will shed light on technical and manufacturing aspects, and the forms and decorations of these artistic masterworks, which can be found in major museums and collections throughout the world, and point to the socio-cultural context of which they are a product. An attempt will be made to define a corpus of forms and decorations, to identify clients and patrons, thanks mainly to research into heraldry and symbols, and finally to trace their arrival on the European and American art markets in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively.

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