Conferences archivos - Modernidade(s) Descentralizadas Art, politics and counterculture on the transatlantic axis during the Cold War Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:19:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 Visual Logics and New Aesthetics of Protest: Transnational Reverberations and Confluences between Zapatismo and Alter-Globalization (1994–2021) https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/visual-logics-and-new-aesthetics-of-protest-transnational-reverberations-and-confluences-between-zapatismo-and-alter-globalization-1994-2021/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:59:35 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=8398 The conference "Visual Logics and New Aesthetics of Protest: Transnational Reverberations and Confluences between Zapatismo and Alter-Globalization (1994–2021)" (UGA / Le Magasin, 22-24 April 2026) seeks to explore the power of images and performative practices within social movements resisting globalization, examining their role from a dialogical and transnational perspective that foregrounds Zapatismo and the struggles of the Global South. 

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]]> Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/archival-fever-in-the-exhibition-critical-intertextualities-politics-and-display-practices-from-the-cold-war-to-global-contemporaneity/ Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:36:03 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=8356 The symposium "Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity" (Les Abattoirs / Bibliothèque d’Études Méridionales, December 4-5, 2025) seeks to reflect on exhibitions through the lens of archives and historical records preserved on both sides of the Atlantic.

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]]> From Biennale to biennials. The impossible desire https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/cfp-from-biennale-to-biennials-the-impossible-desire/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:56:16 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7334 The international conference "From Biennale to biennials. The impossible desire" will take place at the University Ca' Foscari Venezia (April 26 - 28, 2023). This conference aims to create a space for reflection and dialogue on the term 'biennial,' the biennial phenomenon, and the individual and collective histories of biennials that took place between the 1930s and the 1980s.

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]]> Living archive of revolt. Dissident Aesthetics of the Chilean October https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/vital-archive-of-the-revolt-dissident-aesthetics-of-the-chilean-october/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:33:06 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7248 From the 18th to the 24th of January 2023 will take place the congress "Vital archive of the revolt. Dissident Aesthetics of the Chilean October" (Aix-Marseille Université / Université Grenoble Alpes) that aims to study the different visual strategies developed and deployed during the massive Chilean social movement, called "estallido social", which took place between October 2019 and March 2020.

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]]> Rebellious arts and writings: dissident images and language resistance https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/rebellious-arts-and-writings-dissident-images-and-language-resistance/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:48:28 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6974 Soon: "Arts et écrits rebelles : images dissidentes et résistance de la langue" (Rebellious art and writing: dissident images and linguistic resistance, May 11- 15, 2022) at the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy (Cerisy-la-Salle, France). This conference will seek to examine the rebellious and ingenious thinking of dissidence in the arts and in writing. Among the speakers will be Juan Albarrán, Paula Barreiro López and Maria Ruido from MoDe(s).

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]]> A neoliberal counter-revolution? Cultural Imaginaries, Political Subjectivities and New World Order (1979 – 2019) https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/a-neoliberal-counter-revolution-cultural-imaginaries-political-subjectivities-and-new-world-order-1979-2019/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:54:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6532 The international conference "A neoliberal counter-revolution? Cultural Imaginaries, Political Subjectivities and New World Order (1979 - 2019)" will take place on 16 and 17 September 2021 at MACBA. Responding to the reflections developed in the framework of the research projects Decentralised Modernitie(s) and Fossil Aesthetics, this international conference asks about the role that cultural imaginaries have played in the shaping of neoliberal subjectivity during the period from 1979 to 2019.

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]]> International conference Visual Semantics-Visualizing Global Networks, Circulations, and Patterns https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/international-conference-visual-semantics-visualizing-global-networks-circulations-and-patterns/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:36 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?p=4403 On June 13th and 14th at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, this international conference will discuss the potential of digital technology in renewing our understanding of artistic circulations and in the deployment of alternative narratives.

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]]> Transnational solidarity and visual culture: resistance and revolutionary memories from WWII to the Cold War https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/transnational-solidarity-and-visual-culture-resistance-and-revolutionary-memories-from-wwii-to-the-cold-war/ Wed, 15 May 2019 17:13:44 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=3910 This international symposium aims to open up an innovative field of research on transnational solidarity movements crisscrossing cultural history and visual culture. This approach seeks to explore the role of visual culture as a transnational vehicle for collective dissent and consciousness, and its agency in shaping social movements through international networks of resistance. We propose … Continue reading Transnational solidarity and visual culture: resistance and revolutionary memories from WWII to the Cold War

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]]> Visual Semantics – Visualizing Global Networks, Circulations, and Patterns https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/artifacts-images-and-forms-in-global-circulation/ Fri, 10 May 2019 08:50:55 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=4379 Chairs : Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Paula Barreiro López, Catherine Dossin. In his groundbreaking project, the Atlas Mnemosyne, Aby Warburg suggested that some shapes travel, passing times and cultures. On their way, accompanied by processes of mixture, borrowings, transfers and resemanticizations that contribute to their impact, they become acting symbols. Building on this idea, Herbert Read proposed … Continue reading Visual Semantics – Visualizing Global Networks, Circulations, and Patterns

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