2021 Annual Conference Association for Art History. Call for Papers: “Surrealism in 1960s and 1970s Latin America”

“But what is the story of all of the Americas if not the chronicle of the marvelous and the real?”, wrote Cuban author Alejo Carpentier in the preface of The Kingdom of This World ([New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux], 2017: [page: xx]). This rhetorical question firmly resonates when studying Surrealism in Latin America. Scholars have given significant attention to the idea of the marvellous in visual arts and literature to define the inventions and reinventions of Surrealism in the New World. However, we could also rethink the marvellous in relation to the utopian impulse and discourses that have shaped the…

2021 Annual Conference Association for Art History. Call for Papers: “Contemporary Art, Health and Medicine”

This panel explores the proliferation of artistic practices addressing medical and health-related subjects, both within and outside of traditional systems of art production and display. As well as the increasing prevalence of medical themes in the work of individual artists, contemporary art is now called on to interpret, communicate and produce health-related knowledge in academic research, medical museums and medical environments. The intersections between contemporary art and medicine have received little critical attention (to date, most work on art and medicine has focused on the 19th and early 20th centuries). As Jordanova notes, “we lack a basic map” of “the…

Webinars “Arquitetura e Transculturação: conexões transatlânticas | 2020” [“The Architecture and Transculturation: transatlantic connections | 2020]

Professora Ana Tostões, chair of docomomo International, participated on the initiative “Architecture and Transculturation event: transatlantic connections | 2020” of LoCAU (Laboratory of Criticism in Architecture, Urbanism and Urbanization) and, in this edition, in partnership with the PhD in Architecture and CITUA (Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (IST-UL). These webinars aim to promote and disseminate the debate on a thematic of transculturation in Architecture and Urbanism between Brazil, Europe and Africa. There will be five webinars, with speakers from Brazil, Europe and Africa. The webinars will take place every Thursday from…

Edinburgh Congress 2020 – Current Practices & Challenges in Built Heritage Conservation

The International Institute of Conservation’s (IIC) Edinburgh Congress “Practices and Challenges in Built Heritage Conservation” will take place online from 2 – 6 November 2020 – with opportunities for real world meet ups and livestreamed tours of remarkable built heritage across Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage site and surrounding areas. The program bridges the divide between built heritage and conservation around the world – with international sessions on the Mackintosh Building and Burrell Collection as well as examples of wall paintings at the Fengguo Temple in Yixian, China, to preservation strategies for painted tombs at El-Kurru, Sudan. Registrations from £35 for…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will be promoted a wide and informed debate in which citizens and specialists…

Tertulias Cycle of GPHUC-UnB

Docomomo International is plesead to announce the Tertulias Cycle of GPHUC-UnB, organized by the Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Urbanismo e da Cidade (GPHUC-UnB) [Research Group on History of Urbanism and the City], to take place between 7th of July and 28th of August 2020. Program 07/10/2020, 17h (Brasília time) Prof. Dr. Renato Rego. Theme: “New Cities in Brazil in the 20th Century and Contemporary Urbanism” (Link to enter the Youtube meeting – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q4delwociM) 07/17/2020, 17h (Brasília time) Profa. Dr. Ana María Rigotti. Theme: “Le Corbusier and the plan director for Buenos Aires (1929/1937/1939/1947) – the future as a…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], with the participation of Professor Ana Tostões, chair of docomomo International and coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will…

Online Seminar ACERCA DE LA ARQUITECTURA / ABOUT ARCHITECTURE

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the Seminar “Acerca de la Arquitectura” [“About Architecture”]; a cycle of conferences of international academic excellence, organized by the Casa Curutchet allied with Alejandro Lapunzina. The Seminar is free for architects and registered architects of the College of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires. It will be held from Barcelona and Paris and is organized in four conferences that will be held on every Friday at 3:00 p.m. (GMT -3) from July 10 to July 31, by Zoom until the capacity of the room is exhausted and will also be broadcast through the…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will be promoted a wide and informed debate in which citizens and specialists…

Online lectures series “Moradas + Miradas: una nueva primavera para la casa moderna” [“Addresses + Views: a new spring for the modern house”]

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the online lectures series “Moradas + Miradas: una nueva primavera para la casa moderna” [“Addresses + Views: a new spring for the modern house”], organized by Docomomo Venezuela together with the Trasnocho cultural center and with the support of the Zoom platform. In these times, the house is more than ever in a compressed world. The house is now our city. It is now converted into the main fortress and refuge for the survival of the man, the themes of the modern house, in a new and unexpected spring, together with aspirations of contemporary architecture,…