CFP: Workshop: Haunting Memories – Unsettled pasts and disputed spaces

Call For Papers:

The workshop is being organised by the members of the Crossing Cultures Research Group based in the School of Arts and Humanities at Stirling University.

For more information please visit : http://www.crossingcultures.stir.ac.uk/events/haunting-memories-unsettled-pasts-and-disputed-spaces/

'The Lively Morgue' by NY Times

The New York times has launched a website where you can see (and buy prints of) their incredible photographic collection (5-6 million photographs).

http://livelymorgue.tumblr.com/

What is most interesting to me is the fact that each photograph is shown on the front and on the back side, where you can see all the stamps and scribbles of people who handled it. When we watch images on newspapers we only see the front, what they represent, but of course photographs are more than that and seeing the backside provides a glimpse of their complexity (and materiality, fellow anthropologists would say...).

Also interesting of course, is the choice of name...

Enjoy

Dying in the Digital Age - CFP

Call for Papers:

"Dying in the Digital Age"

09-10 June 2012

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute (BRLSI), Bath

http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/news/conferences/index.html#cdas2012