Call for Papers

Space and Place
6th Global Meeting
Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net – Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
Date: September 3-5, 2015
Deadline: May 1, 2015

Space and place affect the very way in which we experience, understand, navigate and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against marginalised individuals, groups and populations, constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement, inclusion and exclusion — whether it be in terms of ideology, nationality, culture, economic status, religious orientation, gender or sexuality. Space and place, are also the focus of the creation and contestation of uncontainable mobilities — the continual movement and shifting of people, identities, cultures, meanings, information, finances and objects — that are disrupting the nature and constitution of the spaces and places that we have lived in; our homes, our neighbourhoods, our cities, countries and continents.… read more. “Call: Space and Place – 6th Global Meeting”

CALL FOR PAPERS

21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
5-6 June 2015

Abstracts due March 10, 2015

This trans-disciplinary conference aims to explore a series of themes that emerge from the understanding of contemporary photography as the basic unit of visual communication of the age of technology: online, off-line and between the lines.

The aim is to bridge the gap between aesthetic, philosophical and technological approaches to the photographic image and to prompt participants from different backgrounds (fine art, critical theory, philosophy, software/hardware) to engage with each other and to open new avenues for the critical interrogation of the roles of images in contemporary culture.

In the past decade, photography has gained momentum in public and private environments becoming one of the determining factors of contemporary life. The hyper-growth in various forms of digital imagery for screens provides a quintessential example.… read more. “Call: 21st century photography: Art, philosophy, technique”