Durante la chiusura al pubblico dell’Istituto, in questa pagina vi proponiamo testi e riflessioni di amici e scrittori, talvolta scritti per l’occasione, scelti ogni giorno per voi. Un modo di rimanere vicini, anche nella distanza.
‘The global fortune of Futurismo: the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies‘
The International Yearbook of Futurism Studies has reached the end of its first decade of existence. Looking back at ten years of editing the periodical, I can say that I met many colleagues who shared my frustration with the lack of communication between scholars working in the broad field of Futurism Studies. Between 2009 and 2012, I attended some twenty-five conferences in order to present the Yearbook and my research into the global reach of Futurism; and on each occasion people approached me with suggestions for an essay that they felt should get translated for an international readership. I have now established a network of some 700 scholars worldwide, and they regularly inform me about books or PhD theses which they think could be of interest to the wider community of Futurism scholars. Especially younger scholars outside the Western strongholds of learning are keen to send me English language summaries of their research. Consequently, every year I receive more essays than I can possibly accommodate in our volumes.
The ten issues published between 2010 and 2020 demonstrate that International Futurism Studies is a thriving academic discipline, to which we have contributed some 5,600 pages of studies concerned with Futurist activities in over 30 countries and on 3 continents. It is encouraging to see how the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies has enriched and broadened our knowledge of the world-wide circulation of Futurist ideas in the years 1909-1945. Volume 10 again examines how the innovative impulses that came from Italy were creatively merged with indigenous traditions and how a variety of national variants of Futurism emerged from this fusion. Vol. 11 will be dedicated to Futurism and the Sacred and Vol. 13 to Neo-Futurism around the world. If you’d like to contribute, do send an abstract to g.berghaus@bristol.ac.uk.
Günter Berghaus, Senior Research Fellow University of Bristol and General Editor International Yearbook of Futurism Studies
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