Université Grenoble Alpes archivos - Modernidade(s) Descentralizadas Art, politics and counterculture on the transatlantic axis during the Cold War Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:35:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 Visual Logics and New Aesthetics of Protest: Transnational Reverberations and Confluences between Zapatismo and Alter-Globalization (1994–2021) https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/visual-logics-and-new-aesthetics-of-protest-transnational-reverberations-and-confluences-between-zapatismo-and-alter-globalization-1994-2021/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:59:35 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=8398 The conference "Visual Logics and New Aesthetics of Protest: Transnational Reverberations and Confluences between Zapatismo and Alter-Globalization (1994–2021)" (UGA / Le Magasin, 22-24 April 2026) seeks to explore the power of images and performative practices within social movements resisting globalization, examining their role from a dialogical and transnational perspective that foregrounds Zapatismo and the struggles of the Global South. 

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]]> Equipo Comunicación, in Context: Anti-Francoism, Publishing, and Cultural Criticism https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/equipo-comunicacion-in-context-anti-francoism-publishing-and-cultural-critique/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:37:56 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=8011 The seminar "Equipo Comunicación, in Context: Anti-Francoism, Publishing, and Cultural Critique" (Madrid, 6-8 November 2024) aims to recover and contextualize the work of Equipo Comunicación, revisiting the collective as a crucial agent in shaping an anti-Francoist and proto-democratic cultural sphere.

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]]> The Ways of Archiving. Practices, Conditions and Discourses around the Study of Arts and Culture https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/the-ways-of-archiving-practices-conditions-and-discourses-around-the-study-of-arts-and-culture/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:56:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7186 The International PhD Workshop  "The Ways of Archiving. Practices, Conditions and Discourses around the Study of Arts and Culture" will take place in Madrid (12-13 September) and Grenoble (15 - 16 September). The Workshop seeks to offer a critical and transversal approach to intrinsic and current issues related to the archival device and its associated practices.

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]]> Cartographic Narratives: Trajectories of Cultural Agents and Artifacts in the Atlantic Space https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/cartographic-narratives-trajectories-of-cultural-agents-and-artifacts-in-the-atlantic-space%ef%bf%bc/ Sat, 02 Jul 2022 18:48:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7149 The doctoral seminar "Cartographic Narratives: Trajectories of Cultural Agents and Artifacts in the Atlantic Space" (Université Grenoble Alpes, 8 July 2022) seeks to discuss the contributions that the geospatial approach brings to the history of art. Based on current research and the work with MoDe(s) Database, we will reflect on how to interrogate and analyze the points of contact, transaction or disjunction of the (spatial) history of art.

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]]> Against the Canon: Artistic and Historical Narratives on the Two Sides of the Iron Curtain (1960-1990) https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/against-the-canon-artistic-and-historical-narratives-on-the-two-sides-of-the-iron-curtain-1960-1990/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:26:02 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6768 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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]]> Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/partisan-genealogies-counter-visualities-from-the-wwii/ Sat, 02 May 2020 16:43:05 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?p=5801 Basing on a crossed-reading of historical moments, this international workshop aims to reflect on how exhibitions, archives, films, journals and visual productions deal with the partisan imaginary.

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]]> Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/partisan-genealogies-counter-visualities-from-the-wwii/ Sat, 02 May 2020 16:42:06 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=5777 This international workshop is the second part of Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images which took place in March virtually due to the Covid-19. Following with our research on the complex role of the oral, written and visual productions as agents for a culture of resistance, this  workshop seeks to … Continue reading Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII

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]]> Report – Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/report-partisan-resistances/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:43:31 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?p=5699 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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]]> Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/partisan-resistances-visual-culture-collective-imagination-and-revolutionary-memory/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:20:40 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=5653   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

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