Workshop: Censorship & Visual Culture. Ruling Images, Shaping Societies

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12 December 2022 (day 1) 09.00-09.15 INTRODUCTION Claudio Monopoli and Gil Pasternak 09.15-10.45 PANEL I: CENSORING ART 09.15-09.30: Alessandro Grelli (Università degli Studi di Padova - Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Between Self-censorship and State control: the production of military panoramas in 19th-century France (1814-1865) 09.30-09.45: Paula Fayos-Perez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Censorship and Self-Censorship in Goya and Grandville: A Parallel Study 09.45-10.00: Discussion 10.00-10.15: Erin Duncan-O’Neill (University of Oklahoma) Arrows and Quills: Daumier’s St. Sebastian and Press Censorship 10.15-10.30: Steffen Siegel (Folkwang University of the Arts) The Reviewer as Censor? On the Political Premises for Producing Photo Books in East Germany 10.30-10.45: Discussion 10.45-12.00: Break 12.00-13.15 PANEL II: PARTICIPATION IN INSTITUTIONAL CENSORSHIP 12.00-12.15: Denis Skopin (Independent researcher) With Ink and Blade: Editing Graduation Photo Albums in Stalin’s Russia 12.15-12.30: Abhinandan Sarkar (Jadavpur University) From Print Media to “New” Media: Censoring Political Cartoons in India, 1975 to the Present 12.30-12.45: Ronnie Close (American University in Cairo) Anonymous Interlopers: Egyptian State Censorship of Western Photography Books 12.45-13.15: Discussion 13 December 2022 (day 2) 09.00-10.30 PANEL III: PROTESTING CENSORSHIP 09.00-09.15: Silvia Genovese (University of Edinburgh) Productive Censorship: The Circulation of Photographs from Kashmir After 5 August 2019 09.15-09.30: Camille Melissa Waring (University of Westminster) Deghettoising of the Internet: Cleansing the Internet of transgressive sex sub-cultures 09.30-09.45: Discussion 09.45-10.00: Nelly Ating (Cardiff University School of Journalism) Visual Politics: Amnesty International's Evasion of Apartheid Regime Censorship 10.00-10.15: Charlotte Reuß (University of Applied Arts Vienna) Terms of Use(rs): Strategies of Bypassing Censorship on Social Media 10.15-10.30: Discussion 10.30-12.00: Break 12.00-13.15 PANEL IV: CONTROVERSIAL CENSORSHIP 12.00-12.15: Clara Masnatta (Independent researcher) Who’s afraid of Eva Perón? The manufactured controversy of Gisèle Freund’s photo reportage of Evita 12.15-12.30: Annebella Pollen (University of Brighton) Art, Science, Sociology, Pornography? Jean Straker’s Gynaecography in the Dock 12.30-12.45: Deléne Human (University of Pretoria) “Sex is sin!” A contrived landscape of Afrikaner morality: Prohibiting Moses Kottler’s commissioned “Man and Woman” (1957) during apartheid South Africa 12.45-13.15: Discussion The language of the workshop will be English, and it will be hosted via Microsoft Teams ORGANISERS Claudio Monopoli | PhD Candidate in Historical, Geographical, Anthropological Studies, University of Padua, Italy. Gil Pasternak | Professor of Photographic Cultures and Heritage, De Montfort University, UK. For information on the aims of the event and the topics to be covered please read the workshop synopsis. Should you have any questions, you can contact the organisers via visualcensorship@gmail.com.

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