Barbara Del Mercato

June 11, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet

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The seminar is in English/Seminario in inglese

Abstract:
In this seminar I build on past research into the performativity of nature to revisit a framework suggesting that artists have engaged with climate change largely through three strategies: representation, performance and mitigation, to affect our understanding of our changing relationship to nature and climate.

June 4, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet

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The seminar is in Italian/Seminario in italiano

This seminar is part of the “Water, water every where… Interdisciplinary online seminar series organised in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari’s Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage and Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with ECLT, issues  5 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities.

The call opened on May 26th, and will close on June 10th, 2020 at 12.00 (Italian time)

Here the links to the call in English and in Italian 

On the grants page, please scroll down to:

“ANNOUNCEMENT AREA- AREA CUN 10 – AREA CUN 11-N. 5 Research fellowships on “Environmental Humanities”- THE APPLICATION FORM NEEDS ALSO A PROJECT PROPOSAL BY THE CANDIDATE-DEADLINE The research project, between 1500 and 3000 words in length, written in English-DEADLINE June 10th 2020 AT 12:00 ITALIAN TIME”

May 28, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet

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The seminar is in English/Seminario in inglese

May 21, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet/21 maggio ore 17

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The seminar is in Italian/Seminario in italiano

Francesco Vallerani, professore ordinario di Geografia Umana a Ca’ Foscari, illustrerà la genesi e le finalità della “Cattedra UNESCO” su Acqua, Patrimonio e Sviluppo Sostenibile che è stata recentemente istituita a Ca’ Foscari e di cui è stato promotore.

Ca’ Foscari è entrata così nella lista delle quasi 800 Unesco Chairs (30 in Italia) che dal 1992 coinvolge una rete di oltre 700 istituzioni di 116 Paesi del mondo, promuovendo collaborazione e scambio di conoscenza su temi cruciali in campo educativo, scientifico e culturale. Questa collaborazione premia una prolungata attività di ricerca dedicata alla conoscenza e alla gestione dei patrimoni delle civiltà dell’acqua e alla promozione degli obiettivi dello sviluppo sostenibile e l’attività dei geografi cafoscarini coordinati da Vallerani ed Eriberto Eulisse, direttore della Rete Mondiale UNESCO dei Musei dell’Acqua, sviluppata con il supporto del Programma Idrologico Internazionale (UNESCO-IHP) e del Centro Internazionale Civiltà dell’Acqua onlus.

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Questo incontro rientra nella serie di seminari interdisciplinari intitolata “Water, water every where… organizzata in collaborazione con Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage and Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

This seminar is part of the “Water, water every where… Interdisciplinary online seminar series organised in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari’s Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage and Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities

May 14, 2020 at 5 p.m. CEST on GoogleMeet

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Jason Kelly is the Director of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute and an Associate Professor of British History in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. More about Jason Kellly here.

Through an introduction to several public humanities projects–Voices from the Waterways, The Museum of the Anthropocene, The Anthropocene Household, and The Covid-19 Oral History Project–this presentation explores the ways in which public scholarship has transformed in response to the current pandemic as well as the ways in which it encourages us to rethink the practices of public scholarship. This talk will draw theoretical connections between the ways that the arts and humanities approach environmental research and the scholarship of pandemics.

This seminar is part of the “Water, water every where… Interdisciplinary online seminar series organised in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari’s Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage and Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities

April 16, 2020 at 5 p.m. on GoogleMeet

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Pablo Mukherjee teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program at the University of Warwick, and is the author, among other titles, of Natural Disasters and Victorian Imperial Culture: Fevers and Famines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 and (With WReC) of Combined and Uneven Develeopment: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2015).

You can read more about Pable Mukherjee here.

The seminar is in English.

Fossil Imprints: Energy Justice, Colonial Writing, Post-Colonial Theory

ABSTRACT

What do Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities have to stay to one another? Given that the former is by now a well-established academic field and the latter a recently emergent one, we might expect the relationship between the two to be marked by wars of position and anxieties of influence. In this essay, however, I suggest that there is much to gain from cross-fertilisation and cross-hatching between the two. if Postcolonial Studies have often been accused of evacuating the matter of history from its purview, Energy Humanities has sometimes suffered from insufficient attention to the dynamics of empire. In this paper, I traverse one of the many common grounds between the two fields – Justice.

Ideas and concepts of justice lie at the heart of both appraisals of colonialism/imperialism, and of our concerns with the use of energy in a climate-altered world. By comparing two classic colonial texts from 19th-century South Asia by Rudyard Kipling and Dinabandhu Mitra, I argue that the intersections between energy and empire had already been examined thoroughly by writers long before the formation of the academic disciplines that today take them as their area of study. As ever, it is to literature and culture we must turn in order to appreciate the limits and possibilities of theory.

in collaboration with / in collaborazione con

April 9, 2020 at 5 p.m. on GoogleMeet

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Jasenka Gudelj is Associate professor at the University of Zagreb, and the  head of a ERC Consolidator grant dedicated to “Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic” (which will kick off at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in September) . She specializes in history of architecture of the Adriatic region, and obtained her PhD from School of Advanced Studies Venice, and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pittsburgh and BibliothecaHertziana, Rome. 

Organised in collaboration with the Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage in Italian.

The seminar is in Italian.

Abstract (ITA)
La cultura architettonica dell’Adriatico orientale tra il Quattrocento e il Settecento: il mercato architettonico tra ridefinizioni territoriali, religiose e cognitive

Dopo aver introdotto il contenuto dell’ERC Consolidator grant Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic che inizierò presso Ca’ Foscari a settembre 2020, il mio intervento cercherà di mostrare alcuni aspetti della ricerca, attraverso qualche caso esemplificativo.

Tra il XV e il XVIII secolo, le divisioni politiche trasformarono l’Adriatico orientale in un vasto arcipelago, dove persino le città costiere di terraferma furono divise dall’entroterra. Questo processo ha innescato la formazione di un mercato architettonico fluttuante e flessibile che ha funzionato all’interno di una cultura architettonica multilingue e multiconfessionale. Questa complessa produzione culturale creò numerosi edifici importanti, ma finora la loro valutazione rimase piuttosto parziale e incompleta, condizionata dalla divisione delle storiografie in diverse lingue, dagli approcci tradizionali basati sul paradigma nazionale e da quello di centro/periferia. Il mio progetto cerca di superare i limiti di questi metodi, introducendo uno sviluppo concettuale nello studio del patrimonio costruito nella prima modernità dell’Adriatico orientale, prendendo in esame lo spettro dei problemi correlati alla cultura architettonica adriatica. Per affrontarli in modo più sistematico, il progetto si concentrerà su quattro domìni correlati: la territorializzazione, la sfera religiosa, la circolazione del sapere architettonico, la pratica architettonica.

Per illustrare alcuni segmenti dell’approccio che sarà applicato nel progetto, nella seconda parte dell’intervento saranno presentati due casi studio su cui ho lavorato recentemente: la costruzione della Loggia comunale di Sebenico e la ricostruzione della concattedrale di Cherso, entrambi interventi cinquecenteschi.

in collaboration with / in collaborazione con

April 1, 2020 at 3 p.m. on GoogleMeet

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Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace is Professor at the English Department of Boston College and specializes in British eighteenth-century literature and culture and feminist and cultural theory (more here).

The seminar is in English.

Abstract (ENG)

“While we are clearly still “in” coronavirus,” we will some day (hopefully not too far away), look back at everything before, including the seminar, as belonging to another age, epoch, moment when all kinds of things were still doable, possible, thinkable.” EKW

In the “after coronavirus” moment, how will the humanities in particular ready themselves to take up the challenges that will surely arise?

My talk will have three parts. First, in Part One I’ll briefly survey how medical, philosophic, and technological trends have resulted in an altered definition of the human body and mind. Second, in Part Two I will quickly describe how some scholars in the humanities have begun to rethink their disciplinary efforts as a result. I’ll describe how transdisciplinarity—especially the crossover from the humanities and the social sciences to the sciences as well as the reverse—has begun to unfold. I’ll also describe how this transdisciplinarity moves us forward, out of the disciplinary impasse once characteristic of high poststructuralism. Lastly, in Part Three I’ll address the question of how do those of us, like myself, with our traditional training in specifically literary and visual arts, might begin to respond in our scholarly work and in our pedagogies.

in collaboration with / in collaborazione con