photography + (con) text

Photography in Academic Research

8 & 9 September 2016
 
Conference Programme

‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to invite you to our conference on ‘Photography in Academic Research’ hosted by UCL Heritage Studies, Institute of Archaeology, in collaboration with RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Birkbeck, Department of Politics.  There are more than 70 delegates from 27 countries.  We will have 20 panels on a wide range of themes related to photography in academic research, such as photography as an artistic practice, photography and science, archive and memory, journalism, education,and politics. We hope that the conference will generate rigorous, challenging and stimulating debates about photography in academic research.  It is a pleasure for us to invite participants from a wide range of academic disciplines and practices and to be able to facilitate a dialogue between theory and practice, art and science, politics and journalism.  Please find the conference programme including venues enclosed.

Registration is essential as places are limited, see here:
http://reyes-cortez.com/index.php/events-reyes-cortez/photography-con-text

Venue:
UCL Institute of Archaeology (IoA)
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY

Map:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ioa

The registration is open on the 8 September 2016 at 9am and 9 September at 8.45am.  

Please feel free to send further enquiries to Marcel Reyes-Cortez (Visual Anthropologist, Photographer) marcel@reyes-cortez.com and Barbara Knorpp (Anthropologist, UCL) barbara.knorpp@gmail.com