Maison des Sciences de l’Homme–Université Clermont Auvergne

The art of 'vitesse': ntcham music, banditry, and the digital fabric of a pirate industry This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zSf_DZ4zTl266_Tv7cby2g Speaker: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Université de Neuchâtel Discussant: Jamila Dorner, SOAS Abstract “Vitesse” (speed), “vivacité” (liveliness) and “rapidité” (quickness): the texts and videos of Ntcham music are filled with references (textual, musical and gestural) to rhythm and its […]

This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ATz3WvLQC6VvZmbRb90tg Crafting Indigeneity in Taiwan Speaker: Geoffrey Gowlland, University of Geneva Discussant: Michele Feder-Nadoff, artist & anthropologist Abstract Why is it that the revitalisation of forms of art and craft has, for Indigenous peoples around the world, taken such a significance in self-presentations and political engagements? What is it about […]

“Becoming a Dancer, Becoming Mobile”: Navigating mobility regimes in the field of European contemporary dance This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QtetdjO-Q_6vHHhu8tTGEQ Speaker: Julien Debonneville, Hautes École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale Discussant: Robert Simpkins, SOAS & Sainsbury Institute Abstract This seminar will examine the way in which mobility acts to structure artistic careers in the transnational […]

Speaker: Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, University College London Discussant: TBC Abstract:In the 1990s and early 2000s, much of the scholarship on the performing arts celebrated the new insights afforded by the transnationalism paradigm and the ‘mobilities’ turn. There was both enthusiasm and concern about the intensified global circulation of people, things, ideas and capital, as well as art forms. […]