[eccr] Cfp Beja 2004 session on humanist photography

>The Second International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
>Beja, Nov 24-27, 2004
>
>Deadline for 150-word abstracts: July 15, 2004
>
>All abstracts to be submitted through Mundiconvenius
>www.mundiconvenius.pt
>www.mundiconvenius.pt/2004/culture/default.htm
>(info /at/ mundiconvenius.pt)
>
>(APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS)
>
>Themed session:
>Humanist photography: culture, society, visuality
>
>Session organiser: Alvaro Pina
>
>
>In recent years, exhibitions, publications and on the whole a growing
>interest in photography and visual culture have brought humanist photography
>to the focus of renewed theoretical and critical attention. In connection
>with the exhibition of photographs by an international artist being
>organised for the 2nd International 'Language, Communication, Culture'
>Conference, this session welcomes 20-minute papers which contribute new
>approaches to and perceptions of, among other topics,
>
>humanist photography as cultural practice in society as social space
>
>the work of individual humanist photographers
>
>humanist photography as pedagogical resource for democratic education
>
>the role and significance of humanist photography for theories of visuality
>and of the image
>
>how humanist photography foregrounds the everyday as a meaningful context of
>democratic practices of hope in struggles for participatory citizenship and
>common humanity
>
>humanist photography as intellectual practice and its relations with the
>intellectual practice characteristic of cultural studies in its democratic
>socialist traditions and perspectives
>
>how humanist photography illuminates the relation of society and culture and
>challenges what Pierre Bourdieu called the myth of globalisation
>
>humanist photography as ground and context for analysis of the theory of
>culture as the study of relations between elements in ways of life and
>struggle.

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Carpentier Nico (Phd)
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