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In celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2026, and building on the success of our 2025 conference-a-thon, we invite scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts to submit abstracts for participation in a free, online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to Read More
The Institute of Photography at Falmouth University, in partnership with the Sustainable Darkroom, are pleased to announce a conference in July 2025 on the theme of (un)sustainable photography.
As we navigate the world of accelerating climate change and collapsing natural systems, we must continue to ask the question:
“How do those involved in photography think about their Read More
Call For Papers
The sixth Fast Forward: Women in Photography conference
Beyond The Canon: exhibiting, curating and collecting photography by women
The conference will take place on October 10-12, 2025
at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń, Poland
The deadline for the submission: 27 January, 2025, 5pm (GMT)
Fast Forward: Women in Photography together withRead More
Engaging Communities in City-making: West Yorkshire-based socially engaged arts practice
In preparation of a book proposal for an edited volume that takes a critical look at engaging community groups in the West Yorkshire area, with a focus on its cities, the editors are holding a one day symposium. This call is aimed at practice-focused researchers who Read More
The Feminist Art Project is now accepting proposals for the 2025 Day of Panels in NYC at the CAA Annual Conference, the largest convening of art historians, artists, designers, curators and visual art professionals. The Day of Panels will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2025 at the Hilton Midtown, NYC (in-person).
TOPIC – SCIENCE AND ART: Read More
Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art
Create/Feminisms at Middlesex University announce a call for papers for their forthcoming September conference on the theme of “Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art”.
What do we mean by Re-Evaluation?
It could be said all new research contains a “re-evaluation” of past work, but this conference aims to re-evaluate feminist research and Read More
Self-portraiture can encompass many forms (Borzello 2016; Battista 2019), from embodied and participatory practices (Luciano & Chen 2015; Hogue 2016; Zivkovic 2022) to disembodied, abstract data (Johnstone & Imber 2020; Piper-Wright 2022). It keeps raising questions concerning the politics of representation and representationalism (Barad 2007).
For example, Susan Morris’ self-tracking self-portraits Medication and Mood Swings (2006) present the Read More
Autograph announces an open call for an upcoming symposium on themes of colonial and extractive histories, reparative and fragile ecologies, and environmental justice and legal rights
The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This symposium asks: what next? By bringing together researchers, artists, designers and activists Read More
Trans Asia Photography Journal
Call for Papers “Orphaned Images: Found or Inherited”, guest edited by Sabeena Gadihoke
This call focuses on the image whose origins are uncertain and history unknown. Photographs have usually been linked to the idea of the evidentiary. Even as the digital turn opens up possibilities of endless transmutation of the image, the `photograph’ still retains its evidentiary status Read More
The first event of a new partnership between Autograph and the Paul Mellon Centre, Extractivism / Activism will take the shape of a three-day symposium in March 2024.
An open call for an upcoming symposium on themes of colonial and extractive histories, reparative and fragile ecologies, and environmental justice and legal rights
Submit your intervention or idea (this could Read More
WOPHA and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions in partnership with Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), welcome submissions for On the Edge of Visibility – An International Symposium focused on Black and Indigenous women* and non-binary artists, with special focus on photographic practices** within three broad geographical zones: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Read More
The International Research Conference by Atlas Skilltech University collaborating with University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is co-hosting the International Conference on Gender and Patriarchy Studies. It is dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program.
This platform provides an interdisciplinary platform in bringing researchers, Read More
We’ve never talked more about it, yet data is showing us that more and more people are having issues with their mental health (Mind, 2022). Exactly how are we critiquing the systems in which issues of care and mental health have arisen? We predominantly live in a neoliberal system, which arguably, has reduced ‘wellbeing by Read More
The aim of this Third International Congress Women Creators: Drawing, Design and Action, is to make visible in the academic field the scientific and artistic research focused on women artist and designers whose essence is linked to drawing or those aspects that are close to it: namely the graphic reflection, the plastic formalization, the graphic Read More
Hidden (Hi)stories: New Perspectives of Women’s Photographies
17-19 May 2024
MOMus -Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography announces the Greek edition of Fast Forward: Women in Photography, which is organised in partnership with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and London College of Communication (LCC) at University of the Arts London Photography (UAL) Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS
To offer a paper for one of forty 2023 Annual Conference sessions held in-person at UCL.
You need to provide a title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 20-minute paper (unless otherwise specified), your name and institutional affiliation (if any).
Please make sure the title is concise and reflects the contents of the paper Read More
To be held at Edinburgh Napier University School of Arts and Creative Industries in collaboration with the City Art Centre Edinburgh and The Glasgow School of Art The symposium will take place in Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2023, with an optional cultural programme on 4th February 2023
The Read More
What do we mean by conflict and what is its relationship to artistic practice? What is the role of artistic practice in transforming individuals and societies in contexts of conflict?
The University for the Creative Arts will be exploring these areas at the Conflict & the Creative Arts Conference 2021, a one-day online and in-person conference Read More
On 14 January 1971, The Photographers’ Gallery opened its doors with The Concerned Photographer, an exhibition which had previously been shown in the United States, Switzerland and Japan, and which presented photography as the optimum medium to document social conditions. This online conference will situate the gallery’s fifty-year legacy of innovative programming within broader infrastructures of Read More
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Nov 17–18, 2021
Deadline: Jul 1, 2021
Feminist Futures? Feminism and European Art, 1970-Present
The Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum invite art historians, curators, critics, and artists to propose papers for a two-day Read More
Call For Papers
Picturing Fabrics: Textile and the Photographic Image
CAA 2022 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 16–19, 2022
Photography Network sponsored session Co-Chairs: Sandrine Colard, Assistant Professor of Art History/ACM Department/Rutgers University-Newark and Giulia Paoletti, Assistant Professor of Art, University of Virginia
One of the earliest and most famous instances of photography’s intimacy with textile is Secondo Read More
Bringing down the Archive Fever – opening and collaborating on photography archives and collections
Call for papers
October 21 – 22, 2021, Zagreb
Deadline: June 1, 2021
ORGANISED BY: Institute of Art History, Zagreb; Magnum Photos Endowment Fund, Paris; Spéos International Photographic Institute, Paris; Deusto University, Bilbao; Office for Photography, Zagreb.
Photography archives are more than just collecting, writing about, and curating. Read More
Call for Papers: Not Yet Written Stories. Women Artists in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
Arton Foundation (Warsaw), Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts (Riga), SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts (Ljubljana), Office for Photography (Zagreb) invite for the conference Not Yet Written Stories. Women Artists in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that will be held in Warsaw Read More
BLACK PORTRAITURE[S]: Toronto, Absent/ed Presence, 2021
You are invited to participate in the annual Black Portraiture[s] Conference, to be held online and in-person at Ryerson University, October 14 – 16, 2021
“To live in the Black Diaspora is I think to live as a fiction — a creation of empires, and also self-creation. It is to Read More
This symposium is organised in the frame of a partnership between the Musée National d’Art Moderne and the Département Culture et Création – Centre Pompidou and the association AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. It is part of the programming in parallel to the exhibition Women in Abstraction. Another History of Abstraction in Read More
The Institute of Art History – The Cvito Fisković Centre in Split, Croatia
A call for papers for an international conference of academics and professionals organized as part of a week of events in scholarship and research
DISCOVERING DALMATIA VI
Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation
3rd – 5th December Read More
IAPT are happy to share with you the open call for the 6th International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT2020) titled In/Visible Landscapes: Photography and the politics of land and data-use. The conference will take place between the 27th and 29th of November 2020 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Already in its sixth edition, this year’s conference will Read More
ANOTHER EYE: WOMEN REFUGEE PHOTOGRAPHERS IN BRITAIN 1930s-60s
Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, Friday 1 May 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
The impact of refugee artists in shaping British visual culture between the wars and in the postwar period is relatively well documented. Far less well-known is the fact that among the refugees fleeing Nazi-dominated Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS:
WOMEN, PHOTOGRAPHY, CONFLICT
Fast Forward: Women in Photography: Conference 4 – Tbilisi, Georgia
19-20 – September 2020
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM) announces the Georgian edition of Fast Forward: Women in Photography, which is organised in partnership with University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and London College of Read More
Photography‘s future perfect
From the beginnings, photography changed the relation of humans to time. In its pictures, the present was translated into a future past. On closer looks however, and with some attention to the practices photography is part of, it turns out that the connections between photography and time are more complex than the common Read More
Shrinking horizons, slim pickings, poverty of scope. What new politics of nature are needed here for animals? What representations and spatial practices are required to redress the balance of our shared environments? What is a more animal-centric world like?
The third Animal Gaze symposium will bring together practitioners and academics to consider human/animal interactions and spatial Read More
FUTURE OF WOMEN ’20 CONFERENCE
Call for Papers
You are invited to submit your abstract to the 3rd International Conference on The Future of Women 2020, which is scheduled to be held from 13th – 14th February 2020 in Bangalore, India.
Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities for Women
The theme for the Future of Women 2020 is ” The Next Generation of Women: Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities, and Equal Read More
2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Second Sex written by a famous French philosopher, writer, and feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir. For many women, the book had been a genuine revelation, halfway between an overwhelming awareness of the global condition of women and the need for emancipation that this text-manifesto contains Read More
Photographies Journal are seeking proposals that explore the practices, theories and conditions of photography in and from ‘Asia’, considered as a heterogeneous geography and cultural formation. The conference aims to shed light on specific new issues relating to new technologies, cultural concerns and critical frameworks relating to photography and photography education in these regions. They Read More
Singapore Conference
16 -17 January (Thursday & Friday) 2020
Editorial Information
David Bate- University of Westminster, UK
Liz Wells-Plymouth University, UK
Photographies is excited to announce its second conference hosted in Singapore in January 2020. The two-day international event will bring together scholars, photographers, artists and critics to consider the rapid growth of photography in Asia and its impact in a Read More
The two-day conference will consist of a series of panels that discuss the experience of the workshop but also analyze, from a theoretical perspective, how ways of seeing, representing and reshaping “the real” are conceived by different researchers. This conference will be open to the wider public and it will count with the keynote speech Read More
Indigenous situated knowledges are increasingly being recognized as an urgent voice in global debates on natural resources, sustainability, heritage, governance, representation, and social justice. Given the current world situation, in which migration, poverty, discrimination and other social forces are compounded by natural disasters and anthropogenic climate change—dismantling any humanist ideals of peace and prosperity—, indigenous Read More
This symposium is part of a wider collaboration based on the female artists from the collections of the Public Establishment of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou and the association AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. It will conclude the exhibition of Berthe Read More
Artists and researchers are invited from all fields to take part in this artistic research circle, a migratory non-hierarchical group of international participants. Participants from all geographical, artistic, cultural and academic contexts and backgrounds, both outside and within universities and other institutions are welcome.
The circle is developed within the framework of Nordic Summer University, which Read More
For the first time, the Rencontres d’Arles and the French Ministry of Culture are launching a professional matinée open to all curators.
The curators’ meeting is intended for institutions and curators wishing to present a new exhibition project involving the image and/or photography to a professional public. The event aims to encourage the production or coproduction Read More
SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 2019 | Photography and Printed Matter
20th Anniversary
University of St Andrews
3 – 4 June 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Patrizia di Bello, Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Photography | Co-Director, History and Theory of Photography Research Centre, Birkbeck, University of London| Editor-in-Chief, History of Photography
Dr Dana MacFarlane, Honorary Fellow, School of Art History, Edinburgh College Read More
Migration, the flows of materials, and gentrification are pressing areas of interest to artists and filmmakers working with participatory practices in a globalised, neoliberal context. Common to these practices is a concern with spatiality, acknowledged as a key register of politics and social inequality. This one-day symposium aims to bring practitioners together to open a Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference FAST FORWARD: HOW DO WOMEN WORK
Tate Modern, London, UK
30 November – 1 December 2019
Join this conference to discuss how framing of photographic practice can be reimagined
Following two inspiring international conferences about the role of Women Photographers, held at Tate Modern in April 2015 and National Gallery of Art in Lithuania in 2017, Read More
PhotoIreland Foundation invites individuals and organisations to come forward with proposals for the PhotoIreland Festival 2019.
The year 2019 will see the 10th edition of the PhotoIreland Festival bringing to Dublin an ambitious programme running from May to July. May will see the opening of the main exhibitions, while June will be dedicated to an extended Read More
Proposals by artists and curators based in Europe are invited for projects which address the core themes of A Woman’s Work, a 24 month collaborative programme in which cultural partners in the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Ireland, France and Finland will work together in pursuit of the following objectives: to enable artists and cultural professionals from across Europe Read More
CONFERENCE: Women in Focus: Documentary and Citizenship
Call for Papers
In terms of citizenship and documentary, we are seeking twenty-minute papers that address some of the contexts of women as producers or subjects in photography. These might include conflict, technology, post-truth, political violence, and the blurring of boundaries between virtual and real modes of documentary.
Please send proposals Read More
The British, American and French Photobook:
Commitment, Memory, Materiality and the Art Market (1900-2019)
A conference to be held at the Maison Française, Oxford
Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 March 2019
The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals on the social history of the British, American or French photobook from 1900 to the present. Papers will address: commitment or Read More
This symposium adds to the growing body of feminist scholarship that is deconstructing the male-dominated history of commercial and industrial artistic production. The programme will bring together current interdisciplinary perspectives on women’s experiences of work and the gendered dynamics of commerce in the creative industries in Britain between 1750 and 1950.
We invite critical and creative Read More
Catalyst and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) invite contributions from scholars, artists, activists, and community members for a special issue which will feature cross-disciplinary dialogue on chemical exposure and gender.
This publication is an outgrowth of CSW’s larger Chemical Entanglements research initiative. In the context of increased reports of environmental illnesses like Read More
Tate Modern, 13 October 2018, 11.00am-5.00pm
We are inviting experimental presentations, which consider how photography is expanded, altered and dissected through the use of text, voice and language in exhibition practices today.
This event will bring together artists, writers, curators and researchers, to present and discuss photography as an interdisciplinary space. Building on London College Read More
Perspectives on the Gender of Photography, Panel AHA (Chicago, 3-6 Jan 19)
American Historical Association (AHA), Chicago, IL, 03. – 06.01.2019
Deadline: Feb 5, 2018
Before and Behind the Lens: Global Perspectives on the Gender of Photography
Recent scholarship has uncovered new histories of women’s participation in professional photography beginning circa 1840. While such work has increasingly added women’s Read More
5th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2018)
PHOTOGRAPHIES AND CONFLICT: ARCHIVING AND CONSUMING IMAGES OF STRIFE
November 22-24, 2018
Nicosia, Cyprus
International Association of Photography & Theory (IAPT)
www.photographyandtheory.com
Keynote Speakers:
Akram Zaatari. Filmmaker, photographer, archival artist, curator and co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation.
Dr. Anthony Downey. Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Read More
Call for papers for the conference: ‘Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts’,
Christie’s Education, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, June 26-27, 2018
Transnational belonging and subjectivity-in-process: contemporary women artists’ encounters with space ‘You grant me space, you grant me my space. But in so doing you have always already taken me away from my expanding space.’ Luce Irigaray, Read More
Place:
St. Petersburg, European University in St. Petersburg, Russia
Organisers:
Maria Gourieva, Olga Davydova, Natalia Mazur, Daria Panaiotti, Friedrich Tietjen
Dates:
16.05.2018 – 18.05.2018
Deadline:
20.12.2018
https://appconference.wordpress.com/
That photographic media, in one way or the other, record, depict and represent truth, realities and the past, is a staple. In theory this relation has been called into question, in particular with the Read More
CONFERENCE
8-10 May 2018
Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (Ljubljana), Slovenia, in association with Liber pro Arte (Warsaw), Humboldt University (Berlin), Institute of Art History, The Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague), Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) and Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University (Leicester).
Keynote speakers: TBC
Deadline for paper proposals: 31 December 2017
Helsinki Photomedia 2018
Reconsidering the “Post-truth Condition”:
Epistemologies of the photographic image
March 26, 2018 – March 28, 2018
The fourth international photography research conference.
We welcome submissions from all areas of photography research. Helsinki Photomedia 2018 offers various platforms, where artistic, philosophical, social, cultural, economical and technological approaches meet. Conference language is English.
Deadline for 500 word Read More
Call for Papers
Helsinki Photomedia 2018
March 26 -28, 2018
Aalto University, Helsinki
Deadline for 500 word abstracts: October 31, 2017
Theme: Reconsidering the “Post-truth Condition”: Epistemologies of the photographic image.
Contemporary photography takes place in a world where the relation between facts and values is a social and political issue which has repercussions in art and education as well. The Read More
EXHIBITION, LIVE ART EVENT & SYMPOSIUM:
Symposium: Drama Department, Queen Mary University, London (Thursday 19 October, 2017)
Live Art Event: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London (Saturday 21 October 2017)
CUNTemporary is now accepting proposals for a new episode of ‘Deep Trash’, the unique multi-disciplinary exhibition and performance club night in London.
Calling for performances, videos and artworks to be shown on Read More
Sao Paulo, Museum of Contemporary Art, August 30 – September 1, 2017
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART – UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO
CALL FOR PAPERS
I International Seminar Histories of Photography
Women photographers / Women photographed: photography and gender in Latin America
The Seminar’s goal is to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue among researches from different countries, sharing case studies Read More
March 26 -28, 2018
Aalto University, Helsinki
Deadline for 500 word abstracts: October 31, 2017
Theme: Reconsidering the “Post-truth Condition”: Epistemologies of the photographic image.
Contemporary photography takes place in a world where the relation between facts and values is a social and political issue which has repercussions in art and education as well. The public discussions on information Read More
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Para Site’s 2017 Workshops for Emerging Art Professionals / Scholarships
Workshop Dates: October 14 – 21, 2017
Para Site is pleased to announce the 2017 Workshops for Emerging Curators, alongside Para Site’s annual International Conference, which will take place from October 14 – 21.
In its third succeeding edition, we will work Read More
“BEYOND THE DOCUMENTARY”
Call for presentations in the discursive program of the 9th edition of Organ Vida Festival
We wish to consider the concept of the New Citizen as the thematic framework of the 9th Organ Vida not only through photography, but also discursively, by introducing for the first time an integrated discursive program entitled “Beyond Read More
Hosting Partner:
Bridgewater State University, USA.Academic Partners:
Rikkyo University, Japan.
Nepal Center for Contemporary Research.
Centre of Excellence for Women’s Studies – University of Karachi, Pakistan.
International Center for Research on women.
WCWS 2017 cordially invite reaserchers to take part in the 03rd World Conference on Women’s Studies. WCWS 2017, dedicated to the theme Building Resilience: Dialogue, Collaboration and Partnerships across Our Differences,will deliberate on related Read More
The residency programme at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) is open for emerging and experienced artists, designers, architects, curators and researchers. NAC is the biggest art, residency and education venue in the Baltic region that provides the opportunity to live and work in theCuronian Spit National Park. Since 2011, when the Read More
Symposium: January 27–28, 2017
Application deadlines: March 1 and May 15
Piet Zwart Institute
Master Education in Arts
P.O. Box 1272
3000 BG Rotterdam
The Netherlands
www.pzwart.nl
www.pzwart.nl/open-call-for-presentations
Symposium Agents in the Anthropocene
The Master of Education in Arts warmly welcomes you to the symposium Agents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today, which takes place at Read More
After Post Photography — 3
With the third edition of After Post-Photography we will continue to explore how photographic images and realities – whatever they may be – are interconnected. We share the post-photographic critique that these connections are by no means stable as concepts such as indexicality suggest. Yet in particular the practices of using Read More
New Territories: Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photographic Practices
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 16 – 18, 2017
International Workshop
16, 17 and 18 June 2017, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
This three-day international workshop provides an opportunity for an in-depth examination of contemporary developments in the genre of landscape and its photographic representation, and the ways in which Read More
With the third edition of After Post-Photography we will continue to explore how photographic images and realities – whatever they may be – are interconnected. We share the post-photographic critique that these connections are by no means stable as concepts such as indexicality suggest. Yet in particular the practices of using and perceiving photographic images Read More
Tate invites applications for the next edition of Tate Intensive, held in the new Switch House at Tate Modern, July 9 through 14, 2017.
Brought together in a spirit of exchange and collaboration, Tate Intensive participants will be asked to make specific contributions to discussions during the week, drawing on their own experience and Read More
Photography in Academic Research
‘photography + (con) text’ was set up with the aim of promoting the collaboration and exchange between social researchers and practitioners who use photography in their research and practice.
This conference, hosted by the Institute, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute and Birkbeck, Department of Politics, Read More
After a few editions on the road, Redeye is very pleased to bring Hothouse back to Manchester this June. Hothouse will take place on Saturday 18th June at thestudio in HIVE Manchester. This day of new photography is a showcase of creative talent and a hive of photographic activity and information.
What is Hothouse?
Hothouse is an event with Read More
