There has been an increasing emphasis on the key role played by a series of old and new “global infrastructures”, whose construction is perceived to be at once too critical and too massive to be conceived, implemented, and run by a single state. Global infrastructures traverse national borders and contribute to the formation of new …
[CfP] Global Infrastructures: The Production of the Modern World
A collaborative workshop organized by: The Institute of Contemporary History at Nova University, Lisbon and the University of Bologna The concept of “infrastructure” has become so central to contemporary societies that it has become increasingly difficult to specify what the term refers to. Rosalind Williams has described infrastructure as a “highly promiscuous concept” that, since …
Views from Asia Pacific: Two Events with Ranabir Sammadar
In the month of December we will host the political scientist Ranabir Sammadar from the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. We will discuss with him about India, the war in Ukraine and globalization. Ranabir Samaddar has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in India and more generally in South …
Cos’è la globalizzazione? Storie e teorie
Primo seminario del ciclo Global Reset: scenari dal disordine planetarioIntroduce e coordina: Into the Black BoxCon: Claudio Minca (Università di Bologna) e Francesco Strazzari (Università Sant’Anna di Pisa) Per anni quello della globalizzazione è stato un mantra da ripetere. Eppure, quella che sembrava una condizione irreversibile del capitalismo contemporaneo è stata messa in questione ripetutamente …
Global Reset: scenari dal disordine planetario
Seminario 2022/2023 a cura di Into the Black Box. Sei incontri da ottobre 2022 a maggio 2023 per costruire in forma dialogica e collettiva una riflessione articolata e trans-disciplinare attorno alle sfide che lo scuotersi della globalizzazione per come l’avevamo conosciuta ci pone oggi. 20/10/2022 Cos’è la globalizzazione Storie e teorie Francesco Strazzari, Claudio Minca …
The Forgotten Spaces of Globalization. A Tribute to Allan Sekula
Venue: Sala Tassinari at Palazzo d’Accursio, Piazza Maggiore 6, Bologna Visiting Hours: 1-4-6-8 July 2022, 7-9PM Exhibit Opening: Friday 1 July, 6.30 PM with Into the Black Box Collective, Martina Angelotti and Massimiliano Mollona Globalisation has recently and prominently become a hot topic in the public debate. The disruption of supply chains during and after …