DECADOCS · Decadence for doctoral studies

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Project objective

DECADOCS is a research and training programme which aims to renegotiate common assumptions about decadence that equate it with decay and decline. A more nuanced view of decadence predicated on sustainability, transnationalism, and sensoriality, envisages it as a valuable tool to enrich our understanding of contemporary artistic, media, entertainment, and sociocultural practices. Perceived as ubiquitous in 2025, decadence is linked to a rich and still evolving set of meanings and associations cutting across European societies since the nineteenth century. Its persistent link with crises and their recurrence has a continuing valence today and helps to explain the renewed interest in uncovering its illuminating potential. DECADOCS therefore aims to show how that complex transhistorical, transnational, and trans-linguistic European phenomenon still undergirds arts, media, and sociocultural practices. The examples of architecture, fashion, food and drink, tourism, visual and print cultures, entertainment, and immersive media testify to the presence and positive value of decadence. Firmly anchored in decadence studies as a field of the humanities, DECADOCS' research programme will therefore train a cohort of doctoral fellows, notably by addressing those non-literary, underexplored areas of study, embedding different disciplines in a coherent research programme with clearly defined and linked scientific work packages, bespoke network training activities emphasizing digital dissemination, open access, and outreach to various audiences. Tailored intersectoral training delivered by the most appropriate associated partners (museums, archives, libraries, galleries, and SMBs in fashion conservation and translation) during substantial periods reinforces the research programme's scientific and societal impacts. DECADOCS is the first doctoral network in decadence studies.

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Participants

• UNIVERSITE BOURGOGNE EUROPE · DIJONCoordinatorFrance
• Archivio Progetti · VeneziaItaly
• COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL · LISBOAPortugal
• Cadenza Academic Translations LTD · ExeterUnited Kingdom
• Cuirt International Festival of Literature · GalwayIreland
• FONDATION JEROME SEYDOUX PATHE · ParisFrance
• FONDAZIONE PISTOLETTO CITTADELLARTE ONLUS · BiellaItaly
• Finnish Literature Society FILI · HelsinkiFinland
• Fondazione Il Vittoriale degli Italiani · Gardone RivieraItaly
• GOLDSMITHS' COLLEGE · LondonUnited Kingdom
• HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · HelsinkiFinland
• INSTITUT EUROPEEN D'HISTOIRE ET DES CULTURES DE L'ALIMENTATION · TOURSFrance
• Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine · Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-HerbeFrance
• JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ · MainzGermany
• Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik · Frankfurt am MainGermany
• Musée Nicéphore Niépce · Chalon-sur-SaôneFrance
• Syndicat Général des Vignerons de Champagne · EPERNAYFrance
• The Brian May Stereoscopic Archive · WINDLESHAMUnited Kingdom
• The Cinema Museum · LondonUnited Kingdom
• UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · MadridSpain
• UNIVERSITA IUAV DI VENEZIA · VeneziaItaly
• UNIVERSITE DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE · ReimsFrance
• UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · GalwayIreland
• UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW · GlasgowUnited Kingdom
• Volupté · LondonUnited Kingdom
• Zenzie Tinker Conservation Ltd · BrightonUnited Kingdom

Links

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• DOI: 10.3030/101227176