The doctoral students in Cultural Heritage and historical-artistic, audiovisual and multimedia production of the University of Turin are pleased to invite you to the first doctoral conference titled S/Objects in motion in cultural heritage: circulation, borders and transformation.
The border has never been merely a geographical boundary or a static barrier, but rather a space of tension, a mechanism to produce meaning, and a site of negotiation. In an era marked by rapid technological advances and global crises, examining borders means analyzing how to cross them. This doctoral conference revolves around this mobility—physical, conceptual, medial, transdisciplinary—and the tensions it generates. The moving subject and the moved object constitute two interconnected dimensions of the same process, where agency and passivity converge. Migrations, exiles, diasporas, and travels inevitably entail the movement of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Objects, practices, media, and texts travel through time and space, change status, acquire new meanings. Dialogue and conflicts may arise within new contexts. All these phenomena invite us to rethink cultural heritage not as a stable, confined entity, but as a field of forces in constant redefinition. The conference therefore aims to explore this continuous flow, analyzing how the permeability of borders—both physical and disciplinary—influences the perception of heritage, challenges dominant paradigms, and raises new ethical and technological challenges.
We welcome submissions from—but not limited to—these following research fields:
1. History, Art History, and Linguistic and Cultural Mediation:
– Handling of artworks, artifacts, documents, and collections;
– Preservation of cultural heritage in past and future conflict scenarios;
– History of exhibitions, international events, and festivals: beyond museum and national borders, new practices, and shifts in content and curatorial paradigms;
– Heritage’s reexamination and enhancement throughout history;
– Migration: permeability between places, methods, productions, and perspectives of artists, critics, historians, and writers;
– Communication, cultural and multilingual mediation practices for the narration and engagement with heritage.
2. Performing arts, audiovisual media, and game studies:
– Aesthetic geographies of audiovisual, performative representations and self-narratives of human mobility: decolonial or marginalized artistic practices, independent, community-based, or alternative forms;
– Audiovisual archives and memories in transit: preservation, access, reactivation, and reappropriation of cultural heritage, as well as the critical use of archives in contemporary artistic practices;
– Intermediality and format migration: alternative circuits to mainstream channels, independent platforms, local community networks, site-specific screenings and performances, redefinition of audiences and modes of access;
– New mediation practices: festivals as spaces for reappropriation, legitimization, and visibility of artworks at the intersection of the market, activism, and curatorial research.
Participation in the event is open to PhD students and Researchers who have obtained their doctoral degree within the last 3 years.
For additional information, visit arthist,net (source of this call): https://arthist.net/archive/53441
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