Call for Papers Esposizioni / Exhihitions International conference, CSAC, Abbazia di Valserena, Parma, January 27-28 2017 Organised by Università di Parma (CSAC), Sapienza Università di Roma, Università di Salerno, IUAV.

The origins of the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) of the University of Parma could be traced back to a series of exhibitions promoted since 1968 by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, in the context of a reflection on the relationships…

On the occasion of the 2016 Spring Edition of Mercanteinfiera, CSAC Archive-Museum offers a unique chance to all the fair’s visitors and exhibitors to discover the exhibition inside the Valserena Abbey, that brings together and conserves original materials of visual communication, artistic research and design in Italy starting from the first decades of the 20th century. An extraordinary legacy of over 12 million individual items: Fine Art (over 1,700 paintings, 300 sculptures, 17,000 drawings), Photography…

CSAC president Francesca Zanella attended the GALA annual meeting “Communication without Borders”, which took place at the Communication University of China, Beijing on 6-7 July, 2015. University of Parma had been invited as a parter of this network to investigate the ways in which international collaboration can transform our activities as scholars, teachers and students: CSAC has been presented as a case study.

June 15th began the third and last week of the Specialization Course Archiviare il Novecento, organized by the CSAC Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell’Università degli studi di Parma. This course has seen the participation of twenty-nine students in architecture, design and visual arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, after an agreement with the University of Parma. The 60 hours course has been designed with three modules focusing on the…