The Second International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
Beja, Nov 24-27, 2004
Deadline for 150-word abstracts: July 15, 2004
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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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