Ways of seeing

L’Istituto Svizzero inizia un nuovo ciclo di conferenze che riunisce studiosi di fama internazionale e giovani ricercatori delle scienze umane e sociali, così come da discipline scientifiche e tecnologiche, per approfondire la discussione e la riflessione sull’indagine visuale, le sue fonti disciplinari e i suoi sviluppi futuri nel contesto dei Big Data, delle visualizzazioni digitali e dell’analisi secondaria.

Comunicato stampa

WAYS OF SEEING / MANIÈRES DE VOIR / MODI DI VEDERE / SICHTWEISEN
Perception, Understanding, and Argumentation in a Digital World

Ciclo maius

This conference cycle brings together internationally renowned scholars and upcoming researchers from the humanities and social sciences, as well as from science and technology studies. The key purpose of the conference cycle is to deepen the discussion and reflection on visual inquiry, its disciplinary sources and future developments, in the context of big data, digital visualizations, and secondary analysis (e.g., digital humanities). The envisaged interdisciplinary dialogue will be conducted in a series of workshops, workshops that are also designed to open up a more general discussion on perception, understanding, and argumentation in a (partly) digital world.
The workshops are public and multilingual (French, Italian, German, English). An evening lecture will be part of each of them.

25-26 February 2016
Images, inquiry, and innovation
Interdisciplinary opening workshop
(25 February, 6 pm: evening lecture Prof. Dr. Martina Merz, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Vienna)

23-24 March 2016
Going digital? Images, data, and disciplinary imaginaries
Historical and archeological approaches
(evening lecture: Dr. Annamaria Carusi, University of Sheffield)

13-15 April 2016
Transcribing and visualizing language, time, action, and the body: an experimental project
Linguistic approaches of interaction
(evening lecture: Prof. Dr. Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel)

26-27 Mai 2016
Visual inquiry in the social sciences: intelligibility, analysis, and reflexivity
Sociological approaches
(evening lecture: Prof. Dr. Giolo Fele, University of Trento)

16-17 June 2016
Montages: film, video art, and critical aesthetics
Historical and philosophical approaches
(evening lecture: Prof. Dr. Pietro Montani, University La Sapienza, Rome)

Scientific Program: Istituto Svizzero in Rome

Partner Institutions: Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Visual Studies Rome Network, University of Basel, University of Roma Tre, Swedish Institute in Rome.