Tue 03 Nov 2015

Transregional Academy

Transregional Academy
“Modernisms: Concepts, Contexts and Circulations” from 17th to 24th July 2016 in São Paulo

Application deadline: 28 November 2015.

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The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien and the German Center for Art
History in Paris (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, DFK, part of the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad) invite applications from doctoral and postdoctoral scholars of art history and related disciplines to participate in a Transregional Academy in São Paulo on the topic of modernisms. The academy will take place from July 17–24, 2016 at the Universidad Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp) and the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC-USP) and will conclude with a conference, open to the public, on July 23.

The academy is part of the research focus “Circulation and Multipolarity: Transregional Networks in Exchange between Latin America and Europe” of the German Center for Art History in Paris and the Global Modernisms research focus at the Forum Transregionale Studien and is being organized in cooperation with the Network of Art Historians at Latin-American
Universities and Museums.

The goal of the academy is to facilitate an exchange on concepts and variations of modernism across nations and regions. In the spirit of this kind of transregional perspective, the objective is to compare the modernist debates in Latin American countries with those occurring in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America and to locate them within a global context. In doing so, questions arise concerning appropriation and distinction, as well as revisions and translations of developments and processes that manifested themselves in terms such as “colonial art,” “independence,” “originality,” “primitivism,” and “nation building.”

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