Other Events
ASA12: Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world
3rd-6th April 2012, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Call for papers open, closing 7th December
See the 45+ panels http://www.theasa.org/asa12
Conference on Issues of Legitimacy: Entrepreneurial Culture, Corporate Responsibility and Urban
Location: Naples, Italy 2012
Convened by: IUAES Commissions on Urban Anthropology and on Enterprise Anthropology
Please download the full call for papers here: urban.anthroweb.net/xwiki/wiki/urbananth/download/Main/Forthcoming/Naples2012Conference.doc
HPA2011 launched
HPA is an international competition, aiming to call upon photographers all over the world to widely and deeply record and preserve the heritage of the folk culture. HPA finds a way for photography to ally with folklore, anthropology and sociology and its series of photos provide the most systemic specimens and trustworthy evidence for cultural heritage, which is far beyond artistic value.
During the past over 10 years, photographers from 108 countries have joined HPA for recording, spreading and sharing culture diversity. HPA has grown up to be a notable culture brand and captured so many cultural scenes from over half countries of the world , providing a big world folklore photo museum for human beings.
"The Humanity Photo Awards represent an undertaking that aims a more profound mutual understanding and interaction across cultural, geographical and political frontiers. HPA allows us to reflect on human activities by people in all continents and involving all age groups, HPA will allow us to get to know each other better, and above all HPA highlights and advocates strongly the value of our common humanity in diversity." said by Hans d'Orville, Deputy Director-General a.i. and Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning in the forewords of Memory of Mankind IV. In 2005, the best works of HPA were exhibited at the UN Pavilion of the World Expo in Aichi, Japan and UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France.
In 2010, HPA again was invited by UNESCO to join UNESCO Week at World Expo Shanghai. HPA is organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and China Folklore Photographic Association (CFPA). UNESCO's mission is to build peace in the minds of people through education, sciences, culture, communication and information. Meanwhile, peace is a conscious activity which is based on difference-respecting and dialogues. CFPA is the only photographic association in the world who enjoys full operational relations with UNESCO. For the past years, CFPA has gathered almost 40,000 members who have become an important force in exploring, rescuing, documenting and preserving Chinese cultural heritage.
If you want join us, please visit http://hpa2011.worldfpa.org or http://www.china-fpa.org/ to know more information. If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us: hpa@worldfpa.org
