The Southern Modernisms project (EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and coordinated by Joana Cunha Leal, will present its first results during a two-day research seminar (October 17-18), that will take place in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), in the room Multiusos 3 (4th floor of the I&D Building, Av. de Berna 26). Apart from the project's researchers, announcing the results of their investigation, the seminar also counts with the participation of the project's consultants: Ana Tostões (Chair of DOCOMOMO International), Mercè Vidal i Jansà (Grup de Recerca en Història de l'Art i del Disseny Contemporani, Universitat de Barcelona), Michelangelo Sabatino (College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology) and Nikos Daskalothanassis (Athens School of Fine Arts). The program can be consulted in its entirety here.
The Futures of History - Annual meeting of the Institute for Contemporary History (FCSH/UNL)15/9/2014 Joana Cunha Leal will be participating at the annual meeting of the Institute for Contemporary History (IHC, FCSH/UNL), with the paper "Modernism in Portugal and the modernisms of the South". This year's meeting will focus on the subjects of history, interrogating the re-emergence of their centrality in historical narratives, such as the biographical genre among others. The meeting, coordinated by José Neves, will take place on September 25th (Auditorium 1, Torre B, FCSH/UNL) and on September 26th (Sala Multiusos 2, Edifício I&D). The full program, including abstracts and participants' bios, can be consulted here.
The Call for Papers for the Southern Modernisms International Conference has been published at the IHA site. It can be consulted in its entirety below:
Call for papers: Internacional conference Southern Modernisms: critical stances through regional appropriations ESAP, Porto, 19-21 February 2015 Issued by Project Southern Modernisms (FCT Exploratory Project EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013) IHA | Instituto de História da Arte / FCSH-UNL CEAA | Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo / ESAP-CESAP Description The hegemonic definition of Modernism has been subjected to an intense critical revision process that began several decades ago. This process has contributed to the significant broadening of the modernist canon by challenging its primal essentialist assumptions and formalist interpretations in the fields of both the visual arts and architecture. This conference aims to further expand this revision, as it seeks to discuss the notion of “Southern Modernisms” by considering the hypothesis that regional appropriations, both in Southern Europe and the Southern hemisphere, entailed important critical stances that have remained unseen or poorly explored by art and architectural historians. In association with the Southern Modernisms research project (FCT – EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013), we want to consider the entrenchment of southern modernisms in popular culture (folk art and vernacular architecture) as anticipating some of the premises of what would later become known as critical regionalism. It is therefore our purpose to explore a research path that runs parallel to key claims on modernism’s intertwinement with bourgeois society and mass culture, by questioning the idea that an aesthetically significant regionalism – one that resists to the colonization of international styles and is supported by critical awareness – occurred only in the field of architecture, and can only be represented as a post-modernist turn. Submissions are invited that engage with all aspects of the title. Papers might include (but are not limited to): 1. the discussion of current definitions of modernism(s), regionalisms, folk art, vernacular architecture, and those of the tangent notions of avant-garde, tradition, nationalisms, rationalism, popular or mass culture and primitivism; 2. the effects of established dichotomies such as centers vs. peripheries; high art vs. low art (including folk art), etc; as well as the challenges raised by north/south and west/east conceptual divides; 3. the impact of modernist approaches on the history of Modernisms; the hegemony of teleological discourses positing abstraction as the necessary historical outcome for the arts (thus neglecting other ongoing interrogations on the means and possibilities of representation), or as far as architecture is concerned instrumental notions of rationalism; 4. the political implications of the above-mentioned interpretations: the impact of fascism’s populism on Southern Europe; the potential of regionalism as resistance; the political implications of validating popular and vernacular modes in the realm of high art, and their relation to the avant-garde militant anti-bourgeois positions; the problems raised by the surveys on folk and vernacular cultures through the lens of modernist visual culture (particularly through the use of photography), etc. We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations in English, which should include: -Title of the proposal -Applicant’s identification (name, institution, country, position and email) -Abstract (up to 300 words) -Short curriculum vitae (up to 300 words) Proposals must be sent in Word (.doc format) by email to [email protected] Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission – October 19, 2014 Notification of acceptance of abstract – November 3, 2015 Deadline for full paper submission – January 27, 2015 Deadline for Registration – January 27, 2015 Conference – February 19-21, 2015 Further publication After the conference, the opportunity will be given to participants to submit revised, full length articles based on their conference papers, to be published in a special issue of RIHA Journal, an open access Web of Science-indexed publication.Articles submitted to RIHA Journal will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process and will have to follow this publication’s editorial guidelines. Conference Registration Fees: 175 euros. The conference fees will include 2 lunches, cocktail, coffee breaks and seminar package with a book of abstracts and conference proceedings (published in CD with ISBN). For regular updates on the project's activities, please visit the site http://southernmodernisms.weebly.com. The research cluster "Art. Critique. Politics" that integrates the "Art Theory, Historiography and Criticism" group of the IHA is organizing its first colloquium, to take place at the Auditório Goethe-Institut and the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, on the 19 and 20 of June 2014 (the full program can be consulted here). The colloquium seeks to rethink the concept of critique/criticism (the Portuguese term 'crítica' can stand for both). To cite the cluster's coordinator, Nuno Crespo, the objective is not simply "to underline the relevance of criticism as a reflexive moment, necessary for the construction of the artistic object, but, at the same time, to review the context of the activity of criticism, contributing to the re-validation of its autonomy and disciplinary pertinence".
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