Cold War archivos - Modernidade(s) Descentralizadas

CFP – Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity

MoDe(s) — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:25:50 +0000

The call for papers for the symposium "Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity" (Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès) is open until July 6, 2025.

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Release of the book – Compagnons de lutte by Paula Barreiro López

MoDe(s) — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 20:24:37 +0000

Based on unpublished archival documents, the book "Compagnons de lutte. Avant-garde et critique d’art en Espagne pendant le franquisme" by Paula Barreiro López reveals the artistic and intellectual circles of the left fighting against Francoism.

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Visual spaces as constellation: images and imaginaries of violence in Latin America

MoDe(s) — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:35:00 +0000

The seminar "Visual spaces as constellation: images and imaginaries of violence in Latin America" (26 November) proposes to trace and discuss a critical cartography of the artistic practices and visual artifacts that have dealt with and visualized political violence in Latin America since the second half of the 20th century.

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Against the Canon: Artistic and Historical Narratives on the Two Sides of the Iron Curtain (1960-1990)

MoDe(s) — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:26:02 +0000

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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Critical concepts and semantic turns from neoliberalism to the Cold War

MoDe(s) — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:42:17 +0000

This research workshop is proposed as a space of working and dialogue between the members of the MoDe(s)2 project. Throughout the workshop, we will discuss concepts that will allow us to understand the cultural tensions that are present in the Cold War and that continue to reverberate in the contemporary world.

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Report – Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images

MoDe(s) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:43:31 +0000

The International Workshop "Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images" sought to deepen the complex role of oral, written and visual productions as elements of a culture of resistance that links the Western world, socialist countries and the Third World.

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Multimedia updates – Resonances/disonances of history and memory in global contemporaneity

MoDe(s) — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:04:56 +0000

The sound recording of the international seminar "Resonances/disonances of history and memory in global contemporaneity" (Universitat de Barcelona, 8 January 2020) are now available in our multimedia section.

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International Seminar – Resonances/disonances of history and memory in global contemporaneity

MoDe(s) — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:30:35 +0000

On January 8 at the Universitat de Barcelona, this seminar aims to reflect on the various ways, themes and forms through which contemporary artists are representing the recent past and its effects.

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MoDe(s): second round 2018-2020!

MoDe(s) — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:10:34 +0000

The research project MoDe(s)-Decentralized Modernities: Art, Politics and Counterculture in the Transatlantic Axis during the Cold War is continuing with its second phase: MoDe(s)2 (2018-2020). MoDe(s)2 incorporates new themes and focuses of attention, new team members, and has already an exciting program of upcoming activities. Have a look at them!

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