APP5: After Post Photography-5 European University St. Petersburg, Russia, May 23-25, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.after-post.photography |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=app5 |
Submission deadline | January 20, 2019 |
AFTER POST PHOTOGRAPHY 5
IMAGES AND MEMORIES
cultural, historical and visual studies of photography
23-25 May 2019
European University in St.Petersburg, Russia
Call for papers
Memory is a notion commonly brought forward when speaking about photography. The very idea of close connection between memory and photography has long found itself at the basis of the (re)construction of histories and identities. The photographic image, when regarded as a material evocation of memories, is supposed to not only preserve the past, but to represent a selection of moments worthy of being captured and retained. In this sense, photography has caused fundamental changes to mental structures, such as remembrance and forgetting. Its mechanics, however, is still indecisive: is photography something that evokes memory -- or something that enhances oblivion? Furthermore, is a photograph something that really speaks of a moment of the past, or does it rather testify of certain modes of cultural optics? Is there still a possibility to ‘remember’ with, or through photographs? The traditional belief in photography’s truthfulness, its indexical function, the freezing of a decisive moment, or proof of “what has been”, all this stands in strong contrast with the contemporary discussions on fake news, artificially constructed memories, post-reality politics and “augmented” realities.
Addressing one of the most common concepts that define the nature and function of photography, we aspire for papers that aim at re-thinking the fundamental notions and offer new perspectives on the subject of photography and its connection with memory. We welcome in particular submissions concerned with new theoretical and empirical approaches. The discussion at this year’s conference will be shaped around, but not limited to, the following topics:
-- Photography and mental structures of remembrance, forgetting, replacing, falsification of memories
-- The optics of memory
-- Photography, memory and public/private history
-- Historical meaning of photographic reproduction
-- The time-economy of the gaze
-- Photography and (or as a) ruin
-- Photography and memorial practices
-- Visual archive and the politics of memory
-- Photography and the production/storage of memories: archive fever, big data, surfeit of memory
Please submit your application, including a short summary of your paper (250-400 words) in English using the following link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=app5 no later than 20 December 2018. Note that you should register at the Easychair website in order to submit your application.
There is no participation fee.
Organising committee for After Post Photography 5: Maria Gourieva, Olga Davydova, Natalia Mazur, Moritz Neumüller, Daria Panaiotti, Friedrich Tietjen
E-mail: app@mur.at
www.after-post.photography