Archives of Conflict

This international conference invites scholars, artists, curators, archivists, and practitioners to examine the visual and archival systems through which conflict is documented, mediated, remembered and contested. Bringing together perspectives from photography studies, visual culture, media studies, art history, archival studies, history, anthropology, and related disciplines, the conference explores the relationships between institutional image-making, vernacular photographic practices, archival afterlives, and the politics of visual representation. Particular attention will be given to the ways photographs operate not only as historical documents but also as active agents in the production of memory, knowledge, and political narratives.