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All-Inclusive: Photography for Social Justice

2019 Joint West/Southwest Chapter Conference

Santa Clara University - Santa Clara, CA   |   November 01 - November 03, 2019

Come learn from and connect with other individuals working with critical issues in social justice.

This conference is co-hosted by the West and Southwest Chapters of SPE and the Department of Art and Art History at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, minutes from the San Jose Airport and less than an hour from the old stomping grounds of Group f/64, which includes Carmel, San Francisco, and Oakland.    

We will explore how photography is used to challenge injustice, pursue social equality, and advance human rights through creative skills in order to inspire social movements, to witness, to resist oppression, to pose the difficult questions, and to stimulate debate and awareness about critical social issues.

The deadline for the Call for Proposals has passed. A peer review committee has made their decisions and notification emails have gone out. If you submitted a proposal and did not receive a notification, please check your spam folder and then email west@spenational.org.

Registration fees, paid directly to SPE:

• Regular, Senior, Sustaining member: $75 early, $90 regular
• Adjunct/part-time: $40 early, $55 regular
• Student: $20 early, $25 regular
• Non-member: $215
• Student non-member: $80

Because nearby quick restaurants are very limited, we will be providing an optional $15 lunch on site on Saturday. Must be paid in advance at the time of registration.

Registration is scheduled to open June 30, 2019 and the Early Bird Deadline will be October 1, 2019.

Conference Chair: Renee Billingslea
Conference Co-Chair: Lamia Khorshid

West Chapter Chair: Amanda Dahlgren
Southwest Chapter Chair: Abbey Hepner

For questions or comments about the conference, please email: west@spenational.org

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