The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality

The symposium “The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality” (Casa de Francia, 30 July 2025) seeks to undertake a transnational inquiry into the formation and implementation of collective community organizations, with a particular focus on interrogating their spatial, cultural, and visual productions.

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

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.

On Solidarity – The Dilemma of State-Sponsored Exhibitions and Contemporary Questions

On April 25, 2023, the panel discussion “On Solidarity – The Dilemma of State-Sponsored Exhibitions and Contemporary Questions” will take place. This panel will count with the participation of Amin Alsaden, Yazid Anani, Naeem Mohaiemen and Eszter Szakács, who will talk about their research and work on solidarity, and the moderation of Paula Barreiro López.

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

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.

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

  Since the Spanish Civil War the antifascist resistance configured models of struggle and collective organization. After the liberation the battle for freedom of the antifascist movement continued in the following decades as part of the struggles for decolonization, anti-imperialism, civil rights and anti-capitalism, especially in radical left movements, in which similar models of resistance … Continue reading Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images