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CfP : Audiovisual Remix: The film essay as experiment in trace
April 28-30, 2025 | Porto, Portugal a TRACTS multimodal training school What? Drawing on discussions and debates central to the pedagogical mission of the Centre for Visual Anthropology and the TRACTS Network, this three-day workshop considers how juxtaposing, activating, and remixing image and sound is an experiment with trace, whereby new forms of knowledge are produced through audiovisual experimentation. Approaching the…
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Symposium A line drawn on water — adventures & exchanges at the art-academia interface
download PDF a TRACTS symposium hosted by the Helsinki Research Pavilion September 11-12, 2025 Helsinki, Finland Chairs: Otso Aavaranta (Uniarts Helsinki), Lee Douglas (Centre for Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths UoL), Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University Berlin) The TRACTS Network and Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion invite researchers and artists to participate in a two-day symposium to be in Helsinki on September 11-12, 2025. This event…
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Call for Papers TRACTS Symposium on Water: Traces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis 5th September, Venice
The TRACTS Cost Action is pleased to announce an open call for participation in the symposium “Water: Traces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis”, organized by its Working Groups 2 and 3 in collaboration with the Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. The aim is to offer a platform for interdisciplinary exploration and dialogue, bringing together scholars, practitioners,…
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Tracemaking Border Deaths between Erasure and Co-Memoration – upcoming two-day seminar
Building on the questions about the relationship between violence and traces on one hand, and affects, knowledge, art, and social justice on the other, this seminar focuses on tracemaking, border deaths and co-memoration. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, practices, and experiences, as well as to provide a space for reflection on alternative…
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Conference “Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia, and Semiotics of Recovery”
The conference was late spring space of thoughts and experiences exchange. It took place in Tartu (European Capital of Culture 2024). Two keynote speakers were David B. Rothenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) and Linda Knight (RMIT University, Australia) were performing great lectures. Participants visited University of Tartu Natural History Museum where is presented very inspiring…