Dear colleagues, if you happen to know of emerging researchers (grad/post-grad students, PhD candidates &c) who do research on the the history of photolithography for manufacturing integrated cicuits, lens design for smartphones, the logistics of image databases, the photorealism of AI generated imagery or similar or other topics - please encourage them to send us a paper. Many greetings Friedrich ---snip--- International conference on visual studies, history and theory of photography After Post-Photography-10: APP+ workshop/panel for emerging researchers CFP In 2025, After Post-Photography will celebrate its 10th year. After several years of online conferences we move back into the more material world: this year’s conference will be held offline in Yerevan, Armenia, on 5-8 November. We are very much looking forward to meeting cherished colleagues and friends and new people, learning and sharing about new research and trade ideas and stories. And as with previous conferences we have set the first day of the conference aside for emerging researchers to share their ongoing work and receive feedback from colleagues in photography studies. The APP+ panel/workshop is tailored for detailed discussion of the participants’ projects in order to serve as a think tank for their work to develop further, so it will suit best research that is still in progress. As before, this Call for Papers has no specific subject – we’re open to, and interested in, projects from all walks of research, as wide apart as x-ray movies, the history of photo-novellas in Brazil, poverty in private photography, new approaches to photo-realism, the use of AI generated images in local elections in India, smartphone optics – and similar, or completely different topics. APP+ timeline: 15 August - deadline for submissions 25 August - participants whose work is selected for the panel will be notified 25 October - selected participants to send full text of their research (5000-8000 units) in to be reviewed 6 November - selected participants meet at the conference site in Yerevan Please submit your proposal of no more than 1600 characters in English no later than 15 August 2025 to app@mur.at. As we will do blind reviews of the submissions, make sure that your name does not appear in the proposal itself. If your work aims at analyzing visual material please include images or links where we can see what you intend to talk about. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to app@mur.at – we should get back to you within a few days. And should you like to know more about previous conferences, have a look at our website http://after-post.photography/ APP+ team: Pavel Sharkov, Olga Davidenko, Ksenia Kuznetsova APP organizing committee: Olga Davydova, Maria Gourieva, Farrah Karapetian, Daria Panaiotti, Friedrich Tietjen, Erika Wolf -- The gibberish in the attachment is not a corrupt file, but my public PGP key - use it in case you prefer encrypted communication; otherwise ignore.