[URBANTH-L] Conference: Urban Encounters: Photography, Ethnography and the City @ Goldsmiths, University of London, May 16 & 17, 2008

[Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani]

We are pleased to announce the first in a series of interdisciplinary  
conferences at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Please forward this announcement to photographers and urbanists of  
all kinds who may be interested.

Thanks,
Paul Halliday (Goldsmiths) & Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani (The Graduate  
Center, CUNY)
Conference co-founders


(apologies for any cross-posting)


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Urban Encounters:
Photography, Ethnography and the City
conference / exhibition / workshops


This two-day conference at Goldsmiths, University of London, will  
bring together international
photographers, artists and academics researching the city. The  
speakers reflect an interdisciplinary
range of photographic, theoretical and research areas, and through  
six panels will explore
the nature of past and contemporary photographic approaches to the  
representation and
evocation of city life.  The theme of 'the encounter' is explored,  
not only in the way
photographers experience the city, but also through discursive  
encounters between
urban social science and visual practice.  There is an associated  
exhibition, photographic
workshop and curated urban walks programme coordinated by Photofusion  
and the
Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR).


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Conference 16th & 17th May 2008

Panel themes include:

* Urban landscapes: mapping memories

* Architecture and photography

* Street photography

* Urban portraiture and identities

* Visual ethnographies and the urban encounter

* Emerging forms


Confirmed speakers:

Liam Kennedy / Paul Reas / Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani / Daniel  
Meadows / Michael Keith /
Les Back / Othello de Souza / Caroline Knowles / Michael Tan / Susan  
Schwartzenberg /
Gary Van Zante / Simon Rowe / Ben Gidley / Kirsten Campbell / Mandy  
Lee Jandrell /
Paul Goodwin /  Ingrid Pollard / Paul Lowe / Theresa Mikuria / Paul  
Halliday / Rosy Martin /
Gregor Stephan / Isidro Ramirez / Melanie Manchot / Britt Hatzius /  
Peter Coles



Cost:  £120 (£80 students, Photofusion and LIP members)

Further information:

Conference details and booking from  http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/
Exhibition and workshop details available at  http:// 
www.photofusion.org/



Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Photography -:- Curation -:- Environmental Psychology
www.buscada.com