[ecrea] Visualising Human Rights Conference

The "Visualising Human Rights" Conference takes place from 5-6 December 
2016 in Fremantle, Western Australia.


This event explores the powerful role of photography in shaping our 
understanding of human rights. Historically images have been a crucial 
way of disseminating ideas, creating a sense of proximity between 
peoples across the globe, and notions of a shared humanity.


In recent years scholars have begun to argue for new notions of 
photography that turn our attention to our responsibilities as viewers. 
A new interest in the medium’s social effects has displaced analysis of 
the photo as sign and the photographer as author, and raises compelling 
questions regarding affect and representation, the limits of empathy 
across racial, gender and class lines, and the complexity of 
understanding images of distant suffering. How do these insights help us 
to understand our own situation, and the varying forces of modern 
imagery? This conference seeks to explore these and other questions 
surrounding the historical reception of human rights via imagery and its 
legacies in the present.


Speakers include Brenda Croft, Leigh Raiford, Barat Ali Batoor, David 
Dare Parker and Sharon Sliwinski, Suvendrini Perera, Vera Mackie and 
Jane Lydon.


Speakers and program: http://www.visualisinghumanrights.com.au/speakers/


Registrations are Open!

http://www.visualisinghumanrights.com.au


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