The first symposium of the PRISME program “Entre sciences et fiction: la critique d’art à l’épreuve des mutations technologiques” (Between sciences and fiction: art criticism proofed by technological mutations), will take place on December 1st, 2016 in Rennes, France, with the participation of MODe(s) and Paula Barreiro López.
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Canon(s) in dispute: The narratives of modernity and their conflicts
On November 23rd, 2016 from 9.45 till 18, Universitat de Barcelona. This seminar seeks to deepen the specific processes through which the modern canon is created, delving also into conflictive models that attempted to challenge its legitimacy. Through the contrasted study of cases, we will seek to create a common framework of reflection on the processes of construction and deconstruction of the canon.
MoDe(s) at the Symposium “One Hundred Years of Cultural Transfer: Barcelona 1888-1992”
The International Conference “One Hundred Years of Cultural Transfer: Barcelona 1888-1992” will take place on November 24, 25 and 26, 2016 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. MoDe(s) reseachers Paula Barreiro Lopez (IP) and Juliane Debeusscher participate in the panel “Networks and Encounters” (25 Nov.)
A presentation from Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez at Saint Louis University Madrid
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez will present her research project developped in the framework of MoDe(s) at Saint Louis University Madrid, Thursday 17 November: “Art and politics, politics and art in the cultural battles of the Cold War.”
Last Multimedia updates
New audio and video archives are now available in MoDe(s)’ Multimedia section: the keynote by Mark Nash in the framework of the Cold Atlantic seminar, MoDe(s)’ communication at the International Colloquium in Geohumanities…and more!
Disaster: art, ethics and politics – A conversation
Juan Albarrán Diego and Carles Guerra were invited to dialogue about the issue of violence and its representations in the framework of the program “Evocations of Ruin”, which questions the absences and ethical failures of the Spanish democracy when it deals with its past of war and dictatorship.
A guerrilla of things? Conference by Paula Barreiro López at Sciences Po Paris, 26 October 2016
Paula Barreiro López’s conference “Une guérilla des choses ? Objet, subversion et anti-impérialisme quand le fond de l´air était rouge” will take place in the seminar Arts et Sociétés, directed by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Wednesday 26 October 26th.
MoDe(s) participates in the International Colloquium in Geohumanities (Barcelona, 19-21 October 2016)
The Annual Colloquium of the History of geographical thought group of the Association of Spanish Geographers, organized at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, from 19 to 21 October 2016, will include a communication by members of MoDe(s) presenting the project’s latest developments in the field of research data visualization through GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
Report and balance of the Cold Atlantic doctoral seminar in Barcelona
The Cold Atlantic pre-doctoral seminar took place on September 8 and 9 at the University of Barcelona and the MACBA. There were two days of very fruitful presentations and exchanges, many thanks to the participants for sharing their work in progress and feeding a debate that two days did not manage to exhaust!