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The 8th International Conference ‘Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers’ 28 – 30 September 2018, Lucca, Italy CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 15th of July 2018

The aim of the third edition of The Left Conference, Photography and Film Criticism is to debate the use of photographs and film from a leftist stance. In particular, to critical examine and explore the relation of documentary practices with political commitment in different historical circumstances throughout the twentieth century and the early twenty first century. The seminar/conference together will take place at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidade de Lisboa on the 9th and 10th November 2018.

Among several artistic projects and critical debates developed in recent years in the fields of art history, art criticism, film and new media studies, many bring to the fore issues of hybridity, medium specificity and image materiality. Emphasis is placed on questions concerning the ways of experiencing "subliminal images" (R.Durand, 1995) in contemporary visual practices.

The symposium aims at creating a place for sharing and discussion on research in architecture and urbanism, artistic practice and studio pedagogy. It does so by reflecting upon epistemological and cognitive strategies and tools used in understanding and shaping our space, from the immediate human body and its extensions to the territory. As such, the symposium proposes to explore theoretical, practical and ethical connections that link our ways-of-knowing with the ways-of-doing to be desired for a common future. The symposium is open to the participation of people from any field who might see their ideas overlap the proposed themes.

This conference welcomes proposals for papers exploring the means through which political sedition was demonstrated across society and the discourses emerging from these shows of resistance in long nineteenth century Britain. Papers are invited on, but by no means limited to, the following topics: - Politics of sedition and their origins. - New social/political discourses emerging in the 19thC. - Sites of resistance and protest. - Emergence of the mass platform - Contesting status quo through literature and writing. - Artistic and literary imaginings of new socio-political models. - Assertion of and attempt to establish new economic/social models.