Category Archives: CFP

Future Backgrounds brings together the contemporary geographies of Israel/Palestine with photographic styles that emerged as a result of British and French Imperial rule in the nineteenth-century. This exhibition considers what interests photographers about these distant places, and how their images … Continue reading →

Pasternak, Gil, « Récits d’un territoire » / “Ground Narratives,” in Shoshan, Assaf, Territoires de l’attente, Paris: Diaphane éditions, 2013, pp. 67–71 (French), pp. 71–76 (English). This text explores the political use of family portraits in Assaf Shoshan’s Territoires de … Continue reading →

Pasternak, Gil, “’The Brownies in Palestina’: Politicizing geographies in family photographs,” Photography and Culture, 6(1): 41–64, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. This article is concerned with the production of domestic familial knowledge in connection to the modern Israeli State’s geographical terrain. Considering … Continue reading →

Talk by Gil Pasternak 19 November 2012 18.00-20.00 ICS Cinema, the University of Leeds, in collaboration with Pavilion Video still: Ursula Biemann, “X-Mission”, 2008 In this talk I will peruse the visual traditions utilised in Nervus Rerum (2008) and X-Mission … Continue reading →

                at the Photographers’ Gallery in London 18th September 2012 (time TBC) My forthcoming talk will investigate the practice of family photography and its interrelationship with the social domain, with state politics, and … Continue reading →

    Insight Palestina: Images, Discourses, and the Image of Discourse at the University of Leeds,  7 June 2012 9.30– 20.45, Room 1.08, Parkinson Building Click here to view and download the Conference programme and paper abstracts Co-organised by Dr. … Continue reading →

  Insight Palestina: Images, Discourses, and the Image of Discourse Conference Date: 7 June 2012 Conference Organisers: Dr. Gil Pasternak (The University of Huddersfield) Lior Libman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The University of Leeds) Keynote Speakers: Professor Griselda Pollock … Continue reading →