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[caption id="attachment_2464" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Dark Wood, 2011, digital print and oil on canvas, 121 x 121 cm.[/caption]Lieu : Manchester Metropolitan University,Date : 23 - 25 mai 2018Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945Since the end of the Second World War, the nature and depiction of geopolitical conflicts have changed in technology, scale and character. The Cold War political landscape saw many anti-colonial struggles for liberation and national identity become proxy battlegrounds for the major powers. Wars continue to be waged in the name of democracy and terror, and in the interests of linguistic, theological and racial worldviews and migration and displacement are again at the top of the agenda.As the technologies of war have shifted, so have the technologies of making pictures. This conference seeks to engage with these phenomena through critically engaged approaches to the processes of visualisation, their methodologies and epistemologies in order to contribute to our understanding of the ways conflicts are pictured.Conference Themes: A Heritage of Images; Pictures on the Move, Visualising Solidarities; Witnesses to Existence: The ethics of Aesthetics; Visual Activism and the Middle East; Pictures, Conflicts, Modes of Transmission; The Unresolvable Past: Post-Conflict Trauma and Representation.ProgrammeWednesday 23rd May 201817:30Free Public LectureLouie Palu documentary photographer and filmmakerWar &#38; Storytelling After 9/11: A Photojournalist's PerspectiveManchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Lecture Theatre 3.Thursday 24th May 20189.15 - 9.45 Registration and coffee9.45 Welcome (Jim &#38; Mary)PARALLEL STRAND 1Witnesses to Existence: The ethics of Aesthetics I10.00 - 11.30 The Photographer's vision1. Corinne Silva (University of the Arts London). Garden State: Photographing the Politics of Planting in Israel/Palestine2. Sally Miller (University of Brighton). Contemporary photojournalism, post-humanitarianism and the ironic spectator3. Daniel Alexander (London Southbank University). Interrupting a militarised seeing system: Imaging the Drone WarDiscussion11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break11:45-13:15 Picturing the perpetrator4. Eva van Roekel (Utrecht University). In the Eye of the Beholder. Visualizing violence from a perpetrator's perspective.5. Sandra Plummer (University of Dundee) Pictures of Derry: Community Photography and the Visualisation of 'the Troubles'6. Amy Gaeta (University of Wisconsin-Madison). "The Way" of Archipelagic Intimacy: Re-framing Guantánamo BayDiscussion13:15 - 14:15 Lunch BreakPictures, Conflicts, Modes of Transmission14:15 - 15:451. Simon Popple (University of Leeds). Re-staging Afghanistan: Digital simulation and the return of the analogue aesthetic.2. Nathaniel Brunt (Ryerson University and York University). #shaheed: a metaphotographic study of Kashmir's Insurgency3. Yanai Toister (Artist and Scholar). Photography from True/False to Actual/VirtualDiscussion15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break16:00 - 17:004. Shimrit Lee (New York University). Israel's Commercial War Image: Between Brand, Fantasy, and Public Secret."5. Jane Quinn (Birkbeck, University of London). Interpretative war art in a digital space: structures, aesthetics and changeDiscussionPARALLEL STRAND 2A Heritage of Images10.00 - 11.301. Kevin Foster (Monash University). National Projections: Photography and the Cultural Afterlife of WW2 in modern Australia2. Edward Fairhead (University of Kent). The body of late modern war and the spectacle of sacrifice3. William Fysh (University of Toronto). The State Eyewitness: Atrocity and Colonial Visuality in the Algerian War of Independence4. Justin Barski (University of British Columbia). The Society of the Seen11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break11:45 - 13:155. Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton). Postcards: Harold Blakemore, Pinochet and Allende6. Ray Drainville (Manchester Metropolitan University). Pathosformeln and Visual Habitus in Times of Conflict7. Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide). The rubble-strewn interior of post-war England8. Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernandez (Universidad de Los Andes). Flowers, detalles and Medusa's Torso13:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break14:15 - 14:45 DiscussionWitnesses to Existence: The ethics of Aesthetics II14:45 - 15:45 The aesthetics and ethics of the book1. Lewis Bush (University of the Arts London). Brecht's War Primer: Three Conflicts, Three Strategies.2. Tilman Schreiber (Friedrich Schiller University). Montage as ethical form. Criticism of Media and Society in Bertolt Brecht's Kriegsfibel.15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break16:00 - 17:003. Jessie Bond (University of the Arts London). Photojournalism and the Materiality of the PhotobookDiscussion17:30 - 19:00 Conference Keynote Lecture, The Bureaucracy of AngelsOliver Chanarin, from artist duo Broomberg &#38; Chanarin.Drinks and Dinner following KeynoteFriday 25th May 2018PARALLEL STRAND 1Pictures on the Move, Visualising Solidarities10.00 - 11.30 Cold War solidarities1. Catherine Speck (University of Adelaide). Thunder raining poison': how contemporary Aboriginal artists are responding to nuclear bomb tests of the Cold War era.2. Joshua Simon and Nechama Winston (Independent photographers and Scholars). Jewish Arab Brotherhood: Jacob Kösten and Palestine Communists in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia3. Darren Newbury (University of Brighton). Visual mobility and cordiality in the Cold War: Africans in the United StatesDiscussion11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break11:45 - 12:45 Affective communities4. Nela Milic (University of the Arts London). Belgrade riots through images and objects5. Zeina Maasri (University of Brighton). Draw Me an AK-47: the Aestheticization of Revolutionary Anti-ImperialismDiscussion13:15 - 14:15 Lunch BreakVisual Activism and the Middle East14:15 - 15:45 1. Alex Beldea (University of Huddersfield). Digital Intifada2. Ruthie Ginsburg (Tel Aviv University). Armed with a Camera: Visual Documentation and Human Rights Politics in Israel/Palestine.3. Chava Brownfield (Beit Bert College). Moving Images - Visual Confessions and Visual Testimonies4. Yoav Galai (Central European University). The Victory Image: Israeli War-fighting From Lebanon to Gaza15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break16:00 - 17:305. Hala Georges (University of Northampton) Syrian War: A Personal and Domestic Perspective of Suffering6. Ana Cardin-Coyne (University of Manchester). From Military Sublime to Documentary Dystopia: Beyond the Photojournalism/Visual Art Divide7. Rona Sela (Tel Aviv University)DiscussionPARALLEL STRAND 2The Unresolvable Past: Post-Conflict Trauma and Representation10:00 - 11.301. Garry Clarkson (University of Wales). Event. Aftermath. Archive. Disruptive strategies for the depiction of trauma through 'post-memory' reverberations of war and conflict.2. Frank Möller (University of Tampere). From war to peace: a trajectory of post-war photography3. Jayne Buchanan (Plymouth University). Conflicting Memories: War art and Trauma11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break11:45 - 13:154. Johnny Alam (Independent artist and researcher). Understanding Post-Conflict Trauma and the Long-Term Hazards of Representation.5. Charles Fox (Nottingham Trent University). Submerged Past: Photographing the Underwater Deminers of CambodiaDiscussion13:15 - 14:15 Lunch BreakConference Cost and Registration£75 per day. £120 for two-daysStudent: £15 one day, £25 for two-daysPrices include tea/coffee/refreshments and 2x course hot lunch buffet with desert.For bookings, follow the Tickets/Register link:https://www.kxregistration.mmu.ac.uk/Registration/Welcome.aspx?e=35A6F559D2388EE89B7872F0F3F2022CFor further information :http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2018/the-pictures-of-war