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PICT Manifesto 2021
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By joining our First 1000 members, you help PICT to abolish course enrollment fees and increase its open access content!
Saramago Conference Program Announced
The full program of the VII International José Saramago Conference, co-organized by PICT and hosted by the University of Vigo from 26 to 29 October
PICT in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a leading German daily newspaper, featured an article devoted to the PICT publication, “The Real
KEY WORDS 1: coffee beans, potato chips, peasants, artists
Image: Cafetière, Pablo Picasso (1943) KEY WORDS 1: coffee beans, potato chips, peasants, artists by Emanuel Strandsand (Paris, France) FRENHOFER. I saw the name in
Gender, Sex, and Printing Press in Ottoman Constantinople
Image from Hançerli Hikaye-i Garibesi (1851-52) Gender, Sex, and Printing Press in Ottoman Constantinople by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France) EVER since learning Ottoman Turkish nearly
PICT Honorary Lectures VI: Critique in Critical Condition—Fascism on the Rise
The sixth installment in the PICT Honorary Lectures series was held on Wednesday, 8 June, at the Mairie de Paris Centre – Site Marais. Delivered
The Real Academy in Exile (Censored)
Image: Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, J. M. W. Turner (1829) The Real Academy in Exile (Censored) by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France)1 For Talât Halman Sansürün çıkardığı
Review: Giacometti and Beckett: Between Failure and Theatricality
by Maureen Winter (Paris, France) The Giacometti Foundation’s current exhibition, “Giacometti/Beckett – Rater encore. Rater mieux” (January 9th-June 8th, 2021), pairs the celebrated sculptor’s post-surrealist works
PICT Aegean Summer School 2022
It was our great pleasure and privilege to hold the first ever PICT Aegean Summer School in the Turkish coastal town of Ayvalik from 20
PICT Honorary Lectures V: The Shadow of Kant: Reconsidering the Modern Self
The fifth PICT Honorary Lecture, and the first post-pandemic PICT public event, took place on Tuesday, 19 April, at the Goethe Institut Paris. Delivered by
We Are Here to Dance and to Keep Life Going
We Are Here to Dance and to Keep Life Going Interview with Ludmila Pagliero by Tatiana Senkevitch (Paris, France) LUDMILA Pagliero, étoile of the Paris
Wolfgang’s Wager: Thinking Crisis with Wolfgang Streeck
On 26 April 2022, the PICT Student Ambassadors staged their second live online discussion, welcoming the German economic sociologist Wolfgang Streeck. The event was convened