Art in public spaces

27-31 May 2024 Paris, France Between the 27th and the 31st of May, an intensive course “Art in public spaces” will take place in Paris 8 University. In this course students will have the chance to study the relationship between artworks and their environment. Starting from the observation of historic and contemporary works – ranging […]

Bambara Copular Sentences

A multi-copular language is a language that possesses more than one copular. The multi-copular languages we know hitherto have two copulas: (Spanish: ser/estar), (Irish:bì/is). Mono-copular languages exist too: (French: être), (English: be). When it come to Bambara, there are four copulatives elements: dòn, bɛ́  yé, ká. Each form requires a specific usage. In order to […]

Corpus Methods in Linguistics – compilation, annotation, and quantitative analysis

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Paris 8 University is pleased to announce their upcoming Summer Intensive Program “Corpus Methods in Linguistics–compilation, annotation, and quantitative analysis”, to be held 5-9 June 2023. This will be a 30h week-long course consisting of: –morning sessions devoted to data collection, extraction and organization, as well as DIY corpus building –afternoon sessions focusing on statistical […]

Introduction to cultural studies: bodies in cinema

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This class is an introduction to Cultural Studies and their application to visual film practice through an analysis of the staging of the bodies. The class is taught entirely in English. Students will need to submit a written assignment in English. Duration: 4 days

Art in public spaces

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In this course students will have the chance to study the relationship between artworks and their environment. Starting from the observation of historic and contemporary works – ranging from monuments to street art- we will question the different forms of dialogue between art and public space, including  their urban, cultural and political context. Students are […]

Comedy in American Film and Media (1900 – 1950)

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We will study the history of comedy in the United States from a perspective that is at once aesthetic, cultural, and institutional. Examples of early cinema, slapstick comedy, and musicals will help to examine the role of gag, character, and narrative in both short and feature films. The circulation of jokes, performers, and comic routines […]

Art in public spaces​

In this course students will have the chance to study the relationship between artworks and their environment. Starting from the observation of historic and contemporary works – ranging from monuments to street art- we will question the different forms of dialogue between art and public space, including their urban, cultural and political context. Students are […]

Devenir-fem.me(s) : Militances Guattari 2022

C’est avec une certaine colère et beaucoup de perplexité que les contemporain·e.s féministes de Félix Guattari, psychiatre à La Borde et militant dans diverses associations de gauche, accueillirent en août 1975 le concept de « devenir-femme » qu’il venait de lancer dans un entretien pour La quinzaine littéraire. Un Devenir-femme ? porté par deux voix-hommes […]

Ecologie des pratiques critiques: Memorized sound by Luke Fowler

Luke Fowler is a Scottish artist, filmmaker and musician born in 1978. From archives, he has developed a singular and collaborative practice, poetic and political, structural and documentary, but above all deeply human. With an emphasis on community practices, heterodox thinkers and the history of the left, his 16mm films tell the story of alternative […]