CFP: The World of Prisons: The History of Confinement in Global Perspective, Late 18th to Early 20th Century (7 – 10 September 2016)

Guest editors: Carlos A. Segura y Richard Gerald—Rondón Institutions are inevitable conventions. They classify, create temporalities, remember and forget precedents, and authorize or censor narratives. They capture the shifting features of reality in order to serve...

The word 'heirloom' evokes objects tucked away in wardrobes, imbued with woody, musty fragrance, aged with patina and eerie silence – rescued, retained, preserved, and remembered. Their fate remains unpredictable: second-hand stores, antique shops, auction houses,...

What is the domestic? Modernity closely bound this concept to the house, and especially to bourgeois housing. So-called private life emerged from a historical reconfiguration of the divisions between the public and the private, and the dwelling consequently became one...

www.facesmagazine.ch “Creating does not mean deforming or inventing people and things. It means forging new relationships between existing people and things.” This quotation by Robert Bresson encapsulates the approach of FACES no. 88, devoted to the theme of working...