Conference Announcement and Programme:
Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945
23, 24 - 25 May 2018
Manchester Metropolitan University
Since the end of the Second World War, the nature and depiction of geopolitical conflicts have changed in technology, scale and character. The Cold War political landscape saw many anti-colonial struggles for liberation and national identity become proxy battlegrounds for the major powers. Wars continue to be waged in the name of democracy and terror, and in the interests of linguistic, theological and racial worldviews and migration and displacement are again at the top of the agenda.
As the technologies of war have shifted, so have the technologies of making pictures. This conference seeks to engage with these phenomena through critically engaged approaches to the processes of visualisation, their methodologies and epistemologies, in order to contribute to our understanding of the ways conflicts, are pictured. Conference Themes: A Heritage of Images; Pictures on the Move, Visualising Solidarities; Witnesses to Existence: The ethics of Aesthetics; Visual Activism and the Middle East; Pictures, Conflicts, Modes of Transmission; The Unresolvable Past: Post-Conflict Trauma and Representation
Public lecture, Free and open to all:
23 May 2018, 5.30pm, Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU
War & Storytelling After 9/11: A Photojournalist's Perspective
Louie Palu, documentary photographer and filmmaker
Conference keynote:
24 May, 5.30pm-7.30pm, Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU
Oliver Chanarin, from artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin
Conference Programme:
http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/download/POW2018-PROGRAMME.pdf
More info:
http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2018/the-pictures-of-war
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