REGISTRATION STILL OPEN! The programme and registeration information for our #PHRC19 conference THE BUSINESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY are both available via the conference webpage: bit.ly/2RHIK28 Registration will close on 3 June '19 but why wait!?? #photography #photohist

University of West London currently has an open call for proposals for PhD scholarships (stipend: £15,000 pa). uwl.ac.uk/academic-schoo… How to apply: uwl.ac.uk/research/gradu… Image/Photo/Literature/Film thinkers email: [email protected] and/or [email protected]

What do photographs ‘do’ in museums? Find out at our biannual lecture, Elizabeth Edwards on 'Collections, Non-collections and Ecosystems: Case notes on photographic cultures in the Museum’. 4 July at Science Museum mghg.info/forthcoming-ev…. Free to members

So 👏excited👏 to announce that Prof Esther Leslie & Dr Louise Purbrick will be guests on #TheStuffofPhotography, a workshop series facilitated by @henningmc_ and myself The Photographers' Gallery. Only a handful of places left! #dreamteam #materiality #photography thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/cours…

Thanks to everybody who put in to our Light Sensitive Material Conference. We received lots of proposals! The call for papers is now closed and we are now in process of selection.

Theory of the Image (OUP, 2019) OUT NOW! philosophyofmovementblog.com/2019/06/18/the… via Thomas Nail

Light | Sensitive | Material 1-2 November 2019 UWL LSFMD *Booking now open* Our conference will examine photography as both material & immaterial, addressing the tangible properties of photographic objects and the ecosystems in which they circulate. thinkingtheimage.tumblr.com/symposia/light…

In the lead up to #LightSensitiveMaterial, we introduce our keynote speakers... Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy CRMEP, Kingston University. He has published on Kant, Kafka, 20th century philosophy and aesthetics. His paper: The Photography of Plants 🌱

Laura U. Marks is our first #LightSensitiveMaterial keynote speaker. Professor of Contemporary Art Simon Fraser University Vancouver, she works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus. Her lecture – A Radical Indexicality: Cultivating Cosmic Perception 🌠 uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitiv…

In our first #LightSensitiveMaterial panel *Atmospheres of Photography and Film*, we encounter Antarctica, smoke, lava & strange radiance... ❄️ Liz Watkins University of Leeds 🌋 Victor dos Reis ULisboa ☀️ Stephen Turner & Susanna Collinson University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitiv…

Our second #LightSensitiveMaterial panel features: 💾📺 Joel McKim on oscillons, cathode rays & photographic hybrids 🎹🔦 Pierre-Jacques Pernuit on the light machines of Thomas Wilfred 🖐️🎞️ @experimentalKim on gestures of material film practice uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitiv…

It's less than two weeks until #LightSensitiveMaterial University of West London! Our third panel features: 🛩️ Tonje H. Sorensen on Aerial Photography & Trench Warfare 🎯 Justin Parks on Operational Images 🥬 Abelardo Gil-Fournier on The Vegetal Calculated Image See full schedule: uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitiv…

Solidarity to our colleagues Science Museum in Bradford, Manchester, York & London, who were on strike today - because 25% of their workers are paid beneath living wage. Much of our research wouldn't be possible without them. #SMGstrike bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Our fourth #LightSensitiveMaterial panel features: 🏛️ Lucy Mensah @lkmens: Black Female Spectrality, Architectural Photography & Institutional Critique in Carrie Mae Weems 🎥 Lara Thompson: Past-Light: Photo-filmic History as (En)lightened Cinematic Fetish uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitiv…

UPA members take part in #lightsensitivematerial University of West London, 1-2 November: Book tickets University of West London Thinking the Image

L'Imagement - Jean-Christophe Bailly - Littérature française via Éditions du Seuil seuil.com/ouvrage/l-imag…

Ausculter les images - Conversation avec Peter Szendy academia.edu/41962088/Auscu… via Academia

The audio recordings from Light | Sensitive | Material conference (November 2019) are available as podcasts at backdoorbroadcasting.net/2019/12/light-…