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-----Original Message----- From: Alvaro Pina [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 14 April 2004 15:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Cfp Beja 2004 session on humanist photography [bayes] 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 [log in to unmask] (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.