Doctoral Program archivos - Modernidade(s) Descentralizadas Art, politics and counterculture on the transatlantic axis during the Cold War Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:20:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 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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]]> Powers, Challenges and Potentialities of Images: Theoretical and Practical Approaches in Art History and Visual Culture https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/powers-challenges-and-potentialities-of-images-theoretical-and-practical-approaches-in-art-history-and-visual-culture/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:21:31 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7767 The doctoral seminar "Powers, challenges and potentialities of images: theoretical and practical approaches in art history and visual culture" will take place on 17 and 18 January 2024 at the Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès. Understanding the image as a tool, this seminar aims to reflect on its powers, challenges and potentialities from the perspective of the history of art and visual culture.

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]]> The Ways of Archiving. Practices, Conditions and Discourses around the Study of Arts and Culture https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/the-ways-of-archiving-practices-conditions-and-discourses-around-the-study-of-arts-and-culture/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:56:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7186 The International PhD Workshop  "The Ways of Archiving. Practices, Conditions and Discourses around the Study of Arts and Culture" will take place in Madrid (12-13 September) and Grenoble (15 - 16 September). The Workshop seeks to offer a critical and transversal approach to intrinsic and current issues related to the archival device and its associated practices.

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]]> Cartographic Narratives: Trajectories of Cultural Agents and Artifacts in the Atlantic Space https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/cartographic-narratives-trajectories-of-cultural-agents-and-artifacts-in-the-atlantic-space%ef%bf%bc/ Sat, 02 Jul 2022 18:48:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7149 The doctoral seminar "Cartographic Narratives: Trajectories of Cultural Agents and Artifacts in the Atlantic Space" (Université Grenoble Alpes, 8 July 2022) seeks to discuss the contributions that the geospatial approach brings to the history of art. Based on current research and the work with MoDe(s) Database, we will reflect on how to interrogate and analyze the points of contact, transaction or disjunction of the (spatial) history of art.

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]]> Against the Canon: Artistic and Historical Narratives on the Two Sides of the Iron Curtain (1960-1990) https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/against-the-canon-artistic-and-historical-narratives-on-the-two-sides-of-the-iron-curtain-1960-1990/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:26:02 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6768 The seminar "Against the Canon: Artistic and Historical Narratives on the Two Sides of the Iron Curtain (1960-1990)" (9 July) aims to recover the notion of "canon" as a rationality or way of thinking. This seminar will present projects that revisit experiences rooted on both sides of the Iron Curtain, rehearsing other ways of thinking contemporaneity - its discourses, its practices, its relations, its institutions - but also the experience of working with the MoDe(s) project database, a tool for the exploration of these historiographical alternatives.

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]]> From Geopolitics to Geoaesthetics. The Challenges of the Spatial Turn, or Debates for a Transnational Art History https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/from-geopolitics-to-geoaesthetics-the-challenges-of-the-spatial-turn-or-debates-for-a-transnational-art-history/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:16:45 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6294 The objective of this workshop is to examine and compare the methodological and theoretical approaches that propose to think space and place through the lens of art history and aesthetics. And those, which propose to think art history and aesthetics through the lens of space and place.

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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-2/ Wed, 15 May 2019 15:51:08 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=3921 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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]]> Questioning the great divide(s) during the Cold War: a tool box for a transnational history of art https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/doctoral-workshop-questioning-the-great-divides-during-the-cold-war-a-tool-box-for-a-transnational-history-of-art/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:13:43 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?p=2221 Taking place in Barcelona on March 6th and 7th, this workshop proposes to share and discuss methodological and theoretical resources related to the study of cultural and intellectual practices carried out during the Cold War. It is conceived as a join working session including presentations, discussions and shared readings.

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]]> Expanded histories: Ways of narrating in the cultural Cold War https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/doctoral-seminar-expanded-histories-ways-of-narrating-in-the-cultural-cold-war/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:46:31 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?p=2363 This doctoral seminal proposes to reflect on the practices of narration developped through the arts during the Cold War period (1947-1991) or in relation to it. On Wednesday April 19th at the Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universitat de Barcelona.

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