Kate Domin gives us a summary of our doctoral seminar of 6 and 7 March, which aspired to open lines of discussion on the tools and methodological resources involved in the task of creating a transnational history of art. In addition, participants’ bibliography is shared.
Universitat de Barcelona
Multimedia updates: Questioning the great divide(s) during the Cold War
The sound recording of the workshop “Questioning the great divide(s) during the Cold War: a tool box for a transnational history of art” (Universitat de Barcelona, 6-7 March 2018) are now available in our multimedia section.
Questioning the great divide(s) during the Cold War: a tool box for a transnational history of art
Taking place in Barcelona on March 6th and 7th, this workshop proposes to share and discuss methodological and theoretical resources related to the study of cultural and intellectual practices carried out during the Cold War. It is conceived as a join working session including presentations, discussions and shared readings.
Between diplomacy and dissidence: politics of exhibition and curatorial positioning during the Cold War
This seminar (13 December 2017 in Barcelona) aims to generate a debate around the importance of exhibition policies and curatorial practices, in order to understand the cultural dynamics of a period in which the geopolitical scene needed all the means available to transmit new stories.
Expanded histories: Ways of narrating in the cultural Cold War
This doctoral seminal proposes to reflect on the practices of narration developped through the arts during the Cold War period (1947-1991) or in relation to it. On Wednesday April 19th at the Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universitat de Barcelona.
Call for Papers! Expanded histories: Ways of narrating in the cultural Cold War
This doctoral seminal proposes to reflect on the practices of narration developped through the arts during the Cold War period (1947-1991) or in relation to it. We are expecting proposals from PhD candidates to participate on April 19th, 2017 at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona.
Conference by Julia Ramírez Blanco in Barcelona on January 18th
Researcher Julia Ramírez Blanco will give the conference “Utopias of Revolt: Reading activist aesthetics through the lens of the social dream”, Wednesday 18 January, 1 p.m at the Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universitat de Barcelona.
Multimedia updates: Canon(s) in dispute
The sound recording of the seminar “Canon(s) in Dispute: the Narratives of Modernity and their Conflicts” (Universitat de Barcelona, 23 November 2016) are now available in our multimedia section.
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.
