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LIEU: Colby College, Waterville, ME, 24-25 avril 2015DATE LIMITE : 15 décembre 2014On April 24-25, 2015, scholars, artists, students, and members of theWaterville community will come together at Colby College to interrogatethe relationship between photography and migration. This conference isone of many events taking place at Colby that address the college-widehumanities theme in 2014-2015, “Migrations,” hosted by the Center forthe Arts and Humanities. It will include formal presentations androundtable discussions, film screenings, as well as displays ofhistorical photographs and artworks.Throughout its history, the photographic medium has played an importantrole in the movement of people, objects, identities, and ideas acrosstime and space, especially in the human crossing of geographical andcultural borders. Scholars have shown how cameras documented, enabled,or controlled such forced and voluntary movement, while photographersattempted to put a face on immigration around the world, making visibleits associations with transition, displacement, hardship, andopportunity. The goal of the conference is to consolidate and expandupon the critical questions asked about photography and migration. Whatdoes it mean, for instance, to represent photographically theexperiences of immigration, exile, diaspora, and passing? How might wereimagine concepts essential to migration, such as (im)mobility anddissemination, in specifically photographic terms? How do photographsthemselves, moreover, migrate across local, regional, national, andglobal contexts?Confirmed keynote speakers include: Anthony Lee (Mount HolyokeCollege), who will discuss the art photography of F. Holland Day inrelation to period discourse on immigration; anthropologist Jason DeLeón (University of Michigan) and photographer Michael Wells, who havecollaborated on the Undocumented Migration Project on the US-Mexicoborder; and Thomas Allen Harris, a New York-based writer anddocumentarian who co-founded the Digital Diaspora Family Reunionproject and directed the critically acclaimed film Through a LensDarkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2013).To stimulate lively and productive exchanges during the conference, weare soliciting proposals for 10-minute presentations from scholars,curators, image-makers, and others that highlight major questions aboutphotography and migration. Following each presentation will be a shortresponse by a discussant from Colby College and 20 minutes ofconversation with the audience. We are looking for proposals thataddress directly the theme of the conference; foreground their owncritical and creative interventions; and engage deeply with a set ofimages, or even a single image.Please submit the following materials to Tanya Sheehan, Associate  Professor, Department of Art, Colby College, tsheehan@colby.edu by  December 15, 2014:- Cover letter; please include your contact information and explainyour interest in the conference theme- Abstract; no more than 200 words, including a working title for yourpresentation- Professional bio; no more than 100 words- Curriculum vitaeDecisions on proposals will be made by January 15, 2015. Details aboutthe conference will be posted to http://web.colby.edu/photomigration.This conference is sponsored by the Colby College Center for the Artsand Humanities, Colby College Museum of Art, and Colby LibrariesSpecial Collections. For more information about the college’s annualhumanities theme, please go tohttp://www.colby.edu/centerartshumanities.