To browse Academia. Edited by L. Farina and E. The Proceedings 2, Collected here are the abstracts of the speeches delivered by the participants at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies in the different sessions divided into Free Communications, Thematic Sessions, Round Tables, and Posters.
Il progetto, incentrato sul rapporto tra disastri e comunicazione nel Regno di Napoli tra il XV e il XVIII secolo, mira a ricostruire la rappresentazione di questi eventi attraverso le fonti testuali. Visual Reflections Across the Mediterranean Sea, ed. When not the object of study in art history or cultural history, pictorial and material sources often lead something of a marginal existence in academic discourse. They grace book covers and illustrate ideas and themes, in the former role, often to drive up sales, in the latter, mainly to liven up a layout.
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This statement is deliberately polemical and as such overdrawn, yet there is some truth in it. The importance of these documents for research in the field of connected histories remains underrated. This does them an injustice. Whether everyday objects, sophisticated artefacts or the works of famous artists, as creations and tangible products of the skills and abilities, knowledge, experience and emotional entanglements of human beings through space and time, they may all be considered essential repositories of memory.
As such, whatever the medium-drawing or print, map, letter or book, measuring instrument, textile or glass object, mask, painting or film, sculpture or photograph-these sources are to be thought of not as passive entities but as dynamic and many-layered social actors, invested with meaning and an agency resulting from their interaction with people. It seemed to us that this unique agency of the visual, which we all know and have experienced time and again, could be an appropriate, accessible and vivid means to convey many of the themes that the COST Action "People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean ", or "PIMo" for short, is about.
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To enhance readability and allow the authors simply to have more fun writing, we asked for short contributions, in a colloquial style, without any footnotes. As the introductory paragraph on the PIMo page reads: "Each short essay takes an image as a point of departure for reflecting on the multiple. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
