The video recordings of the international symposium “Transnational solidarity and visual culture: resistance and revolutionary memories from WWII to the Cold War” (Université Grenoble Alpes, 24-25 June 2019) are now available in our Multimedia section.
The international symposium aimed to open up an innovative field of research on transnational solidarity movements crisscrossing cultural history and visual culture. It considered 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.
The symposium was divided into four panels, available by clicking on the following titles:
Session 1 – Graphic cultures: Towards a visual aesthetics of solidarity and resistance (part 1) and (part 2)
Session 2 – Soft power? Cultural agency, networks and exhibitions
Session 3 – Mechanisms of solidarity, Third Cinema, and montage (part 1) and (part 2)
Session 4 – Transnational collaboration and global fraternity
Keynote lectures by Cristina Cuevas-Wolf and Bojana Piškur are also available online.
Bojana Piškur, Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned.
Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Montage, radical solidarity, and the Vietnam war: Entangled cultural politics of the Left, 1964-1975.
For more information, see the program and read the symposium report written by Jaime Vindel.
