The 3rd edition of the Conference on Doctoral Studies in Art and Musicology has the goal of providing an interdisciplinary vision in the field of Humanities. It aims at reflecting on the concept of power as a means of differentiation and prestige on all its levels, in the different cultures and during the course of history; through the material, artistic and musical culture.

 

The exercise of power, both personal and institutional, has worked in all societies as a creative and developmental basis and engine, as a way of making a difference between individuals and determined collectives. Power is created from inequality and hierarchy, present elements in any culture and, in order for it to exist, they necessarily have to be expressed and recognized by all the members of the involved collective. That’s why a key fact for the legitimacy of power is its codification into concrete formulas that, quite often, can be found materialized in artistic, symbolic, mythological, urban, architectural, musical, festive or ritual representations.

 

This year’s conference intends to deepen in the analysis of specific cases from multiple perspectives of study. The goal is to show several types of formulas that show the differentiation, the authoritarianism and the prestige of power that we can use as examples to deepen into the mechanisms of each society, from Antiquity until our present days.

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