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• 15 jan 2020

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Europe

  Make our own Walter Benjamin's “Experience and Poverty” ?

  We are not in 1933, nor are we threatened, here in Europe, as Walter Benjamin was when, between two apocalypses and already in exile, in an indifference due to historical circumstances, he published his short and incisive text « Experience and Poverty » in a Prague’s newspaper with short-lived existence. However, isn’t the assessment he made of an alliance, by the great creators, between « a total disenchantment about the age » and, nevertheless, « an unlimited commitment to it » also ours ? Not still ours (the Shoah and other catastrophes have shaken up, since then, the order of the thinkable), but again ours, as if we were at the point where, undertaking our poverty today or, disarming voluntarily, would be the lifeline, the way out to escape the inertia promised by a dark future.

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• 15 sep 2018

  Call for papers - America

  Envisioning Latin America: Power and Representation in audiovisual (re)productions

  Forma Revista d'Estudis Comparatius. Art, Literatura, Pensament

  This issue seeks to critically address power structures in audiovisual (re)productions in and from Latin America and discuss how these play a role in the societal construction and representation of individual and collective identities, the ‘us’ and the ‘other’. By doing so, it aims at understanding how these representations – and broader discourses associated therewith – can be critically examined through media productions (cinema, television, radio, photography etc.) and their use as historical sources.

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• 04 jui 2014

  05 jui 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  How do we globalize the long eighteenth century?

  Quelle globalisation pour le long XVIIIe siècle ?

  Every student of the 17th or 18th century encounters in his or her own way the global historical dimensions of the more or less ‘domestic’ (provincial, national) subject being addressed. For decades, perhaps, many of us ignored these ramifications, which among other things were hard to treat because we are generally hardpressed to bring to such subjects the kind of specialized knowledge we are used to. (There are of course exceptions, involving colleagues who consciously adopt a global approach, e.g. Atlantic studies, though even these are no doubt truncated in different ways.) In all, the global was not an ‘aporia’ of our studies, so much as something more or less difficult to draw into the discussion and, in that sense, an ‘impensé’. 

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• 01 jui 2014

  Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  The body of emotions

  About the performativity of emotion in history

  En prenant pour point de départ la métaphore du corps, ce colloque veut faire émerger de nouvelles possibilités d’étude de la performativité historique des émotions, comprises comme des agents donnant du sens aux corps, que ceux-ci soient physiques, sociaux, politiques, artistiques ou littéraires. Ainsi, l’expression « corps émotionnel » peut être considérée comme une catégorie analytique permettant de comprendre comment différentes conceptions historiques des émotions, ainsi que les pratiques et les objets qui leur sont associés, ont produit des systèmes de relations physiques et symboliques qui peuvent être compris comme des corps, dans une optique multidisciplinaire.

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• 18 avr 2012

  Barcelona

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  New lines of research in the Humanities

  First International Congress of Young Researchers in Humanities

  La revue Forma, l'Institut Universitari de Cultura et le Département de sciences humaines de l'Universitat Pompeu Fabra sont heureux d'acueillir le premier congrès international de chercheurs en scienes humaines, qui aura lieu du 18 à 20 d'avril 2012 sur le Campus de la Ciutadella de la UPF (Barcelone). Cet évènement a comme objectif de proposer un espace où les étudiants, qui commencent des investigations dans le domaine des sciences humaines, peuvent confronter leurs propres conclusions, sujets et méthodologies.

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