The book Working Dead. Scenarios del Postrabajo will be presented at La Virreina (Barcelona) on 24 October at 7:00 pm. Edited by Marta Echaves, Antonio Gómez Villar and María Ruido, the book proposes to penetrate into the variable geographies of the new composition of work.
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Conference – The Imperative Eye. Some notes for thinking about colonialism(s) today
Visual artist and researcher María Ruido presents the lecture “The Imperative Eye. Some notes for thinking about colonialism(s) today: global division of labour and visual hegemonies” in the seminar – Images and geopolitics. Thought and artistic practices around the idea of the border.
Conference – Une généalogie des révoltées (Grenoble, October 10, 2019)
The conference “Une généalogie des révoltées du surréalisme à l’Internationale Situationniste, 1920-1978” of Fabrice Flauhutez is organized as part of the seminar Cultures Visuelles Militantes. It will take place at the Magasin des horizons and it will address the use of images with female subjects as a strategy of struggle.
Multimedia updates: Transnational Solidarity and Visual Culture
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.
Report – Critical imaginaries and expanded semantic fields from the Cold War to contemporaneity #2
The workshop was conceived as a space in which to promote and plan the work of researchers in the framework of the project MoDe(s) 2. One of the main objectives of the project is to draw up a glossary of concepts that allow us to understand the cultural tensions that are going through the Cold War and that continue to reverberate in contemporary times.
Workshop – Critical imaginaries and expanded semantic fields from the Cold War to contemporaneity #2
Planned for 18 and 19 July at the Complutense University of Madrid, this research workshop is intended as a space for work and dialogue between the members of the MoDe(s)2 project. It is open to the public (excepted the 19th afternoon session).
Report from the conference Transnational solidarities and visual culture (Grenoble, June 2019)
The international conference was intended to further the cartographic reconstruction of regional and internationalist ties that were forged by the nonaligned culture of the period running from the end of the second world conflict to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Conference of the Memory Studies Association in Madrid, 25-28 June
The annual conference of the Memory Studies Association is taking place at the Complutense University of Madrid, from 25 to 28 June 2019. The session “Texturas del arte y la memoria en la España contemporánea” includes the participation of María Ruido.
Soon: Symposium Transnational solidarity and visual culture, 24 & 25 June 2019 in Grenoble
This international conference aims to open up an innovative field of research on transnational solidarity movements at the crossroads of cultural history and visual culture. It seeks to show how some networks have shaped a transnational visual culture of resistance, while adapting to local contexts and political struggles.