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Dear Colleagues, Please find below two links related to the forthcoming conference, The Pictures of War: Still image in Conflict Since 1945 to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University 23-25th May 2018. This includes a student Masterclass the day before (limited to 45 students – details within) and a Keynote at the Imperial War Museum, Manchester. Overview: A conference on the intersections of conflict and pictures from the end of the Second World War to the present day. 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 to contribute to our understanding of the ways conflicts are pictured. The intention is to expand the field of enquiry beyond localised, thematic or media-specific approaches and to encourage new perspectives on the material and visual cultures of pictures. Call for Papers: The CfP papers is open till the 12th Jan and the streams, which include sessions on ethics, visual activism and the middle east, trauma and representation, and mediation can be found here: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2018/the-pictures-of-war/ Registration: Information for delegates including location, travel and conference registration is locatable here with payments made via the online system: https://www.kxregistration.mmu.ac.uk/Registration/Welcome.aspx?e=35A6F559D2388EE89B7872F0F3F2022C Lastly, a student Masterclass, limited to 45 is detailed within the call. For those wishing to participate, there are a number of subsided places, which includes full conference attendance and travel bursaries. Please read the details and email me with a rationale before the 26th of March. Best wishes, Gary -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------