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  • Call for papers - Representation

    Tracing the city: city symphonies in reverse and the cinematic apparatus

    « La Furia Umana », numéro 40/2021

    What are city symphonies reflecting in their contemporary cinematic versions?  How are filmic dispositifscapturing and documenting the city as an entity which is both subjective and intersubjective? As Richard Koeck suggests, in his essay Cine-spaces : Cinematic spaces in architecture and cities (2012), it is perhaps from the vantage point of the of the simulacrum that we must understand cinema's inscription within the post-modern city. Indeed, what if we began to think about the city as a visual system based on movements, lights and bodies – one we could explore in a cinematic, cinetic or kinesthesit way? By using film as a lens through which to see urban spaces and places, it would be less a question of showing the placement of architecture, but of seeing how much post-modern architecture, for instance, is a cinematic phenomenon, an urban décor in motion (Las Vegas, Dubai, Macao…).

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  • Santiago de Compostela

    Conference, symposium - Geography

    The Epoch of Space. State and new perspectives

    The next 8th, 9th and 10th of April it will take place at the University of Santiago de Compostela the international conference "The Epoch of Space. State and New Perspectives", where researchers from around the world will meet to discuss the spatial turn of humanities. This interdisciplinary event will bring together geographers, philologists, historians, philosophers, and other interested disciplines to review the current state of spatial humanities, share different approaches, research methods and discuss their future.

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  • Lyon

    Study days - Urban studies

    The underbelly of the city (1)

    The experience of subterranean urban spaces or the ambivalence of an imagination

    L'IRPhil, Ville 10D, ExPVU et EVS vous proposent deux journées d’étude sur les dessous de la ville. Nous y explorerons l'habiter dans les mondes souterrains dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire associant aussi bien les dimensions représentationnelles qu'opérationnelles. Lors de la première journée d'étude qui se tiendra le 21 mars 2014, nous porterons d’abord notre attention sur la dimension imaginaire des mondes souterrains en interrogeant l'expérience et les représentations de ces espaces. Lors de la seconde journée d'étude à l’automne 2014, nous vous proposerons d'articuler dimensions imaginaire et opérationnelle pour explorer les dessous de la ville.

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  • London

    Call for papers - Geography

    Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers

    RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013

    Recent work on affect in Anglophone human geography has opened up new material frontiers by theorizing affective atmospheres (Anderson 2009; Bissell 2010; McCormack 2008). In such work we see an adjustment of thinking towards and around the relations between bodies and their environment by considering the ways in which bodies are situated within diffuse, distributed, sensible, and potentially turbulent volumes. Such an emphasis on the atmospheric, taken in both its meteorological and felt/affective sense, is in many ways tied to an expanded conception of materiality that draws attention to “the vibrant, constitutive, aleatory, and even immaterial indices” of materiality and materialization (Coole and Frost 2010: 14; Bennett 2010).

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  • Nanterre

    Conference, symposium - Sociology

    Henri Lefebvre: thought become world?

    Ce colloque international, à l’initiative des enseignants des départements de sociologie, d’ethnologie et de géographie de l’université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense, est organisé dans ces lieux où Henri Lefebvre fut professeur de sociologie. L’objectif de ces journées est double. D’une part, il importe de faire le point sur l’actualité de la pensée de Lefebvre à l’étranger, en particulier dans les pays où ses livres ont fait l’objet de nombreuses traductions et là où son œuvre se trouve utilisée de façon systématique comme cadre de référence théorique et base de réinterprétation critique, et bénéficie de nouvelles mises en perspective biographiques. D’autre part, il s’agit de croiser ces approches avec les travaux contemporains s’inscrivant explicitement ou implicitement dans cette sensibilité intellectuelle en France, où l’œuvre de Lefebvre semble avoir connu une relative éclipse pendant les dernières décennies.

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