[ecrea] Call Photography and the Left

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas /

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/Cic.Digital FCSH/

/ (Centre for research in communication, information and digital culture/)

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/Institute of Contemporary History / FCSH/

/ (IHC/FCSH)/

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/International Conference/

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*PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LEFT*

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Since the late nineteenth century, with Jacob Rijs and Lewis Hine as
many others from all over the world, photography has been a medium for
denouncing injustice, claiming for better life means and helping
revolutionary causes. As a natural consequence of its documental nature
it became the privileged medium for contemporary art that aim to
challenge political and social establishment.

This conference will explore photographic creation as a social and
leftist weapon and its publics all along the twentieth and
twentieth-first century. It aims to examine the relationship between
documentary photography, human causes and social ideals, class and
political commitment, social and economical criticism. It will consider
photographic practices and their production of both publics and
politics, thinking specifically about the relationship between Leftist
practices and the mainstream. It will be accompanied by a film
projection program at the Museum of Chiado – Museum of Contemporary Art
in Lisbon, the site where the conference will take place on 16 and 17
June 2016.

We invite paper submission of no more than 500 words abstract that
focuses on photography related to:

·social work

·revolutionary causes

·colonial and postcolonial

·political fights

·the role of images in leftist campaigns

·photography and ideology

·contemporary art photography and social criticism

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*_Keynote speakers _*

Jorge Ribalta (confirmed)

Steve Edwards (tbc)

*_Conference Venue & Dates_***

Museum of Chiado (MNAC) – Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon

16-17 June 2016

*_Languages_*

Portuguese, Spanish and English

Please send your abstracts by 12^th April 2016 to:

(patrikia.leal /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(patrikia.leal /at/ gmail.com)>

(lorenakrs /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(lorenakrs /at/ gmail.com)>



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Patricia Leal
PhD Research Fellow at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de
Ciências Sociais e Humanas
skype: patrikia.leal



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