Date: Monday, 18th September, from 10.30 to 19h

 Location: Sala Nau (51.100 - 1st floor building 51. La Nau) from Campus del Poblenou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

The concept of visual motif refers to an iconographic pattern of cultural representation that is transmitted and reinterpreted through the history of images and that fosters narrative and emotional recognition. The MUMOVEP-funded research project of the CINEMA group is based on the premise that the images that embody the representations of power in the media and other instances of the public sphere are articulated through visual motifs. At a time of great acceleration of changes in some of the axes of the public sphere - gender identities, forms of representation of war, artificial intelligence - it is essential to delve into the connection between the present and the past to refine analysis methodologies. The International Symposium “Methodologies and mutations of visual motifs”, organized within the framework of MUMOVEP, addresses the theoretical, methodological aspects and analysis of contemporary mutations of visual motifs in the public sphere.                                                                                                                   

Program

10:30 - 11:30

Victoria Cirlot (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Pseudomorphosis and transmission of visual motifs.

11:30 - 11:50

Coffee break

11:50 - 12:50

Monica Centanni (Università Luav di Venezia, Engramma): Explicit tragoedia. The Undressing of the King's Body.

13:00 - 14:00

Martin Treml: Mnemosyne Atlas' Panel 77, Political iconography.

16:00 - 17:00

Session

• Zooming Mnemosyne: Notes on the Use of Detail in the Mnemosyne Atlas, Giulia Zanon (IUAV Universita di Venezia)
• The passage of the Nymph between Botticelli and Ghirlandaio: "A specific dark point" to expose the Warburghian method of text to image, Ada Naval (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
• What does political iconology mean? I will decode the power in the lessons of Lea Ritter Santini, Margherita Picciché (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
• The walker and the mountain as a visual motif of faith. Methodological proposal, Mercedes Burgos (Universitat Jaume I)

17:00 - 18:00

In this session, partial results prepared by the thematic working groups of the MUMOVEP project are presented.

18:00 - 19:00

The current analysis of political iconography

• Round table and discussion with all the speakers: Martin Treml, Monica Centanni, Victoria Cirlot, MUMOVEP (Grup CINEMA) and Engramma.