International Conference THE LEFT CONFERENCE – PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM CRITICISM

deadline for submissions: 
July 31, 2017
full name / name of organization: 
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

International Conference

The Left Conference – Photography and Film criticism

 

 

Since the late nineteenth century, the printed photograph in the media stood as a powerful tool for denouncing social injustice and claiming better life conditions – i.e. as seen in the work of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, or Joshua Benoliel, among many others. In the early decades of the twentieth century the use of images had a significant boost with film, when directors such as Flaherty, Eisenstein, John Grierson, Vertov, Dvorjenko or Ivens, combining documental intentions with avant-garde experimental claims, made possible to discuss political and historical conditions.

The aim of the conference is to discuss and debate photographs and film as a social tool from a leftist stance. In particular, to examine and explore the relation of documentary practices and political commitment in different historical circumstances throughout the twentieth and the twenty first centuries.

The seminar/conference together with a film projection program will take place at Contemporary Art Museum of Chiado in Lisbon on November 16-18 2017.

We invite paper submission of no more than 500 words abstract that focuses on photography and film related to:

  • the creation of documentary as a social and political weapon;
  • the soviet revolution as an experimental wave in photography, design and film;
  • anticolonial and postcolonial imagery;
  • women rights and feminist imagery;
  • avant gardes and  ideology claims;
  • the role of images in the leftist movements;
  • Contemporary art practices and social and political criticism;
  • Alan Sekula legacy and the political commitment with images.

 

 

Keynote speakers

Gail Day (University of Leeds)

Steve Edwards (Birbeck College)

 

Conference Venue & Dates

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado /National Museum of Contemporary Art - Chiado Museum

Faculdade das Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon

November 16-17-18, 2017

 

Languages

English

 

Fees

Paper Submission: free

Regular Registration: 40€

Student Registration: 25€

 

Please send your abstracts until July 31st, 2017 to:

paulo.catrica@gmail.com

detomasi.filippo@gmail.com

lais.ines@gmail.com