Following the government’s announcement on Saturday, March 14, 2020, that the country was moving to Phase 3 to combat the risks associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the upcoming “Amphis pour Tous” lectures have been canceled for the coming months and postponed until next season.
The conference “Landscapes from Yesterday to Today: Sensory and Digital Approaches, ” presented by Dominique Pety, professor at theLaboratory of Languages, Literature, and Society – Transborder and International Studies(LLSETI),Facultyof Letters, Languages, and Humanities,will take place on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc Administration Building in Chambéry.
It will also take place on Tuesday , May 26, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. in Thonon-les-Bains.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The landscape paintings in our museums, the engravings in old books, and even photographs of today’s landscapes can all be found on our phone or computer screens. How does this change our relationship with landscapes? Do landscapes feel closer to us in these images at our fingertips? Do their transformations—sometimes radical—strike us more deeply when, for example, we access a whole series of photographs of the same landscape? And isn’t there also, with online images, a new way of framing the representation of landscapes? We will attempt to answer these questions by presenting various digital tools, including the Photographic Landscape Observatories, on the occasion of the publication of the book Representing Landscapes Yesterday and Today: Sensory and Digital Approaches (late 2019 from Presses Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc, LLSETI, “Patrimoines” collection, edited by Dominique Pety, Hélène Schmutz, and Pascal Bouvier).