6/20/2023 0 Comments Centre for puppetry arts![]() ![]() The workshop will be in-person.The Republic of India (Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya) is a nation in South Asia (seventh largest country by area and the second in population) whose borders have included many kingdoms and ethnic groups over the ages. The discussion of other kinds of images and technologies related to images are welcome. Papers are not restricted to photographs. These might include environmental issues ephemeral or precarious archives ar:s:c responses to ecocide challenges to colonial and other forms of power in the history of photography. We invite par:cipants to submit short abstracts that address issues of power, image, archive and environment. The keynote title is “When Home is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World.” The workshop is inter-disciplinary. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Leigh Raiford, Department of African American Studies, Co-Director and Co-PI of the Black Studies Collaboratory, University of California, Berkeley, author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (2013). Partcipants are invited to consider power not just in terms of a “luminous glare” of flashlight press photography that Martin Luther King artculated in the 1960s, but also in terms of remaking and belonging on the earth when power – luminous or otherwise – is no longer a human-centred queston. □ Call for Papers □ Visual History & Theory Workshop 27-28 July 2023 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 June 2023 Venue: Centre for Humanrties Research, University of the Western Cape Abstracts & Enquiries: to Patricia Hayes at This international workshop seeks to link older debates about representational power with new ones about the changing ecologies in the world. These might include environmental issues ephemeral or precarious archives artistic responses to ecocide challenges to colonial and other forms of power in the history of photography. We invite participants to submit short abstracts that address issues of power, image, archive and environment. ![]() Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance Postgraduate Module In Visual History, 2023 (HIS 735/835).Postgraduate bursaries and postdoctoral fellowships in Visual History & Theory.NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory.Aesthetic Education and the Becoming Technical of the Human. ![]()
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