[ecrea] Conference Northern Light: Landscape Photography and Evocations of the North

Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University/ 
4th & 5th July 2016

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
This conference, and related exhibition, will explore the ways in which 
photographic images address notions of a Northern landscape. We aim to 
further our understanding of current image making from across northern 
Europe, the Nordic regions, the Arctic and Canada through bringing 
together scholars and practitioners to discuss a wide range of lens 
based practices and critical approaches, from both contemporary and 
historical perspectives.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Liz Wells, Professor in Photographic Culture School of Art and Media 
(Faculty of Arts & Humanities) Plymouth University and visiting 
professor, Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster 'Nordic light, 
lands and landscape: Photographic Modes of Investigation'

Simon Roberts, award winning photographer; visiting lecturer on the 
European Master of Fine Art course at IED Madrid at and an Honorary 
Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of 
Nottingham On photographic work made in Russia during 2004/5 – published 
and exhibited as 'Motherland' and 'Polyarnye Nochi (Polar Nights)'

THEMES
THE ARCTIC NORTH: AT THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION THE NORTHERN LANDSCAPE 
AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN AN EXPANDED FIELD
SCOTLAND: LANDSCAPES OF LIVED EXPERIENCE NORTHERN ENGLAND: BETWEEN GENRE 
AND INDETERMINACY THE SUBLIME: UNSTABLE AND CONTESTED THE NORTHERN 
LANDSCAPE: CONCEIVED, ENCOUNTERED, IMAGINED THE ANIMATED LANDSCAPE

ASSOCIATED EXHIBITION IN THE SIA GALLERY (4 –31 JULY)

Full two day conference – £60; Day tickets – £30; Students – £20 for 
full conference, £10 for one day; Senior Citizens – £20 for full 
conference, £10 for one day; Unwaged rate – £10 for the full conference

WEBSITE - https://northernlight2016.wordpress.com/

REGISTRATION - 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-light-landscape-photography-and-evocations-of-the-north-tickets-21518897602

TWITTER – @2016northlight


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