13/03/2024 conferences Courses seminarios seminars

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21/05/2025

Seminar: “Militant Ecotopias”

In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in ecological utopias within social movements, artistic spaces, intellectual circles, and society in general. This...

14/11/2024

Permanent Seminar “Images (of Art) and Political Ecology”. IX Session: “Water, energy and dispossession in the imaginaries of the Francoist hydromodernity”, with Carmen Martín-Luquero.

Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200....

20/09/2024

Presentation of the book ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia desde los años setenta’.

On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia durante los años setenta’, held at the Centro La...

05/04/2024

Seminar “Energy Humanities. Towards a Conceptual Map”

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09/06/2024

Oppening of the exhibition “ARCHIVO ECOLOGISTA. MEMORIA Y CULTURA VISUAL DEL ECOLOGISMO EN VALENCIA DESDE LOS AÑOS 70”

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12/12/2023, Bilbao

CONFERENCE “LOST IN TRANSITION. POPULAR MUSIC AND THE NEW ENERGY ENVIRONMENT”.

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16/11/2023

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “MODERNITY, ENERGY AND POWER. AN ECO-ENERGETIC CULTURAL HISTORY OF SOUTHERN EUROPE”

A transdisciplinary and genealogical analysis of the experiences of European dictatorships and political regimes in the 20th century has become an urgent task in a...

20/11/2023

Ecology unbound: rethinking finitude

Rethinking ecologically our time is often associated with the economic concept of “sustainability,” with the idea of a limited exploitation of dwindling resources. And this...

27/10/2023

“BEYOND CRITIQUE: POSTMODERNISM, NATURE AND CLIMATE CRISIS”. VI SESSION OF THE PERMANENT SEMINAR “IMAGES (OF ART) AND ECOLOGY POLITICS”

In this session of the seminar, the visiting researcher Matteo Savoldelli, invites us to a collective reflection on the cultural climate that affects and surrounds...

28/09/2023

“Class, culture and climate: cultural imaginaries and fossil modernity”. Fifth session of the permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology”.

On the occasion of the publication of the book Cultura fósil. Arte, cultura y política entre la Revolución industrial y el calentamiento global (Akal: Madrid,...

1-2.07.2023 Fabero

Workshop Imaginaries of the Carboniferous in times of energy transition

The Workshop Imaginaries of the Carboniferous in times of energy transition will take place at the Aula Paleobotánica de Fabero and the Gran Corta de...

27-28.04.2023 Berlin

Tracing Temporalities, Unearthing Archives workshop

On April 27 and 28 at the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Research Institute for Sustainability in Potsdam, the...

03-05.04.2023 Lincoln/ Online

BAFTSS Conference “Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Responsibility and Care in Film, Television, Screen Studies and Practices”

The BAFTTS Conference “Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Responsibility and Care in Film, Television, Screen Studies and Practices” was held in April 3-5, at the Lincoln University...

09.05.2023 Madrid

Seminar “Research experiences in political cinema”

On May 9 from 17:00 to 20:00 at the Meeting Room VII-312 of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UAM, the Seminar “Research...

4-6.05.2023 Maó

XII Escola Europea de Primavera D’Història de la Ciència i la Divulgació. Repensar les transicions ecològiques des de les humanitats i les ciències socials

XII Escola Europea de Primavera D’Història de la Ciència i la Divulgació. Repensar les transicions ecològiques des de les humanitats i les ciències socials...

11.05.2023 Madrid

IV session of the permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology”

IV session of the permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology”: Contesting conservation. May 11, 2023 This session is conceived as a continuation of...

17-21.04.2023 Madrid

XI Seminar of Visual Culture

The colleagues of the Department of Art History and Heritage of the CCHS, among them several members of the Fossil Aesthetics project, have organized the...

22.03.2023 Madrid

Permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology” – III Session “An oil well named Macondo: the Gulf of Mexico and the Infrastructural Turn”

“An oil well named Macondo: the Gulf of Mexico and the Infrastructural Turn” III Session of the permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology”,...

13.02.2023, Madrid

The 1st Conference on “Artistic Practices and Contemporary Forms of Knowledge” will analyse the shaping, distribution and consolidation of imaginaries through art and artistic research,...