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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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• 31 mai 2019

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Thought

  Fields of collaboration in contemporary art practices

  Can all art be considered collaborative? What has motivated so many artists, in recent decades, to organize in collectives and participate in collaborative projects? Does collaboration in the arts play a major role in redefining the art world and in the production of new subjectivities? How do collaborative art practices challenge the myths of creative genius and artistic individuality?

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• 23 jui 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - Thought

  Revolution, Subversion and Emancipation from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day

  Cultural Journals in the World

  The colloquium "Cultural Journals in the World": Revolution, Subversion and Emancipation from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day aims to present papers dedicated to this internationally critical space that at one time or another in its history has been connected to the artistic and intellectual European spheres or, conversely, has been marked by a transnational tendency, and to its genealogy. This colloquium is part of the project “Global art and cultural periodicals” dedicated to the cataloguing, the study, and the promotion of the non-European periodicals, from before the colonial empires until today. An open access periodical database created within the frame of this project will be presented at the Colloquium opening.

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• 23 avr 2016

  London

  Study days - Thought

  Protest in French and Francophone Arts and Culture

  Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference 2016

  Protest is an intrinsic part of human culture, which enables subjects to express their dissatisfaction with existing social structures and hegemonic hierarchies of power. Protests have occurred across time periods and contexts, and have taken numerous different forms, ranging from personal expressions of discontent to united movements for revolutionary change. Protests can be individual or collective, personal or political, spontaneous or carefully planned, but they are generally orientated towards destabilising the status quo and establishing new modes of existence. Over the ages, political, social and cultural protests have successfully toppled authoritarian regimes, exposed and confronted dominant imbalances of power, and ameliorated conditions for disenfranchised members of society.

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• 19 mar 2015

  20 mar 2015

  Orléans

  Conference, symposium - History

  Francis of Assise. A poet in the city

  Franciscan variations in France from the late 19th century to the present day

  L’entre-deux-guerres et la fin du XX^e siècle manifestent un intérêt commun pour la littérature franciscaine. Cet attrait pour la figure du Poverello s’appuya sur le renouvellement biographique opéré par le protestant français Paul Sabatier en 1893 et le Danois catholique Johannes Joergensen en 1907. Ce recours au réservoir imaginaire franciscain pour penser l'époque et renouveler l'inspiration s’étendit au delà des milieux catholiques ou chrétiens et concerna la littérature mais aussi la peinture, la sculpture, le cinéma ou la musique, ainsi que divers courants de pensée (politique, philosophie, spiritualité). Le colloque François d’Assise, un poète dans la cité se penchera sur ce phénomène intellectuel en France au XX^e siècle.

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• 11 avr 2012	09 mai 2012	06 jui 2012
  01 fév 2012	07 mar 2012

  Paris

  Seminar - Modern

  Les prémices culturelles de l'écologie politique

  Atelier de recherche CHS/IHTP

  En 1974, la candidature de René Dumont à l’élection présidentielle française met au jourune nébuleuse de groupes écologistes et elle fait émerger une nouvelle famille politique,l’écologie politique. Mais cette dernière ne se structure pas ex nihilo.

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• 15 mai 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Colloque Guy Debord à la Bibliothèque nationale de France

  Le présent colloque sera organisé à l'occasion de l'exposition Guy Debord prévue à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) au printemps 2013. La particularité de ce colloque est d'inviter les chercheurs à s’appuyer toujours sur l'archive – à commencer par le fonds Guy Debord – afin de confronter et d’interroger toute hypothèse d’interprétation avec les traces tangibles du passé. Les apports de tout autre source documentaire que le fonds Guy Debord sont également les bienvenus.

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