Society Liber pro Arte in collaboration with Polish Association of Photography Historians and yearly journal “Dagerotyp” is organising an international conference:

Discovering “Peripheries”: Photographic Histories in Central and Eastern Europe.

The event will be held on 31 May – 1 June 2016 in Warsaw, Poland.

The conference aims to explore the wealth of photographic practices in the region now commonly referred to as the former Communist bloc. As, generally speaking, photography in this part of the world has been understudied, the conference intends to promote discussion on its cultural, social and political characteristics in contexts such as national and state ideology, art, museums, education, business, everyday life and journalism.

Keynote speakers:
professor Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
professor Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
dr Gil Pasternak, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

We welcome applications from all disciplines and career stages for a 20 minutes papers. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent by 15 February 2016 to conference2016@liberproarte.eu.

Any other information and the full call for papers is available in the conference website.