70 Years of The Family of Man (Conference / Event)
Citation
C²DH, University of Luxembourg. “70 Years of The Family of Man.” Event page. Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg, May 24, 2025. URL: https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/events/70-years-of-the-family-of-man/.
Tier justification
Tier 2: institutional event hosted by the C²DH (University of Luxembourg) in the framework of the FoMLEG research project. The event gathered leading international scholars in The Family of Man reception history, making the proceedings a scholarly conference record. The named speakers are peer-reviewed authors with established publication records.
Relevance
The 70th anniversary conference (May 24, 2025) organised by the C²DH in the framework of the FoMLEG project. The speaker list represents the current state of international scholarship on The Family of Man, and the papers presented are likely to be the basis of forthcoming FoMLEG publications. The event provides institutional confirmation of the scholarly community currently working on the exhibition’s reception history.
Key excerpts / pages
- Event date confirmed in search-result metadata (2026-04-30): May 24, 2025.
- Speaker list (search result, 2026-04-30):
- Prof. Shamoon Zamir (NYU/AD, Abu Dhabi): ‘Photography and cosmopolitan citizenship: The politics of The Family of Man’
- Dr Claude Ewert (University of Luxembourg): ‘The local reception of the family of man: the FOMLEG project’
- Prof. Paul Lesch: ‘Steichen, US camera and The Family of Man’
- Prof. Dr Astrid Böger: ‘Robert Frank and The Family of Man: A double take’
- Prof. Dr Gerd Hurm (keynote speaker)
Notes
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- Shamoon Zamir is one of the editors of
src-hurm-reitz-zamir-2018; Gerd Hurm is another. Their presence as keynote and speaker respectively confirms FoMLEG’s continuity with the 2018 volume. - Prof. Paul Lesch is Luxembourg’s national photography historian and has published on Steichen’s early career (‘Steichen, US camera and The Family of Man’ suggests this talk connects the pre-1955 Steichen to the 1955 exhibition through the US Camera Annual).
- ‘Robert Frank and The Family of Man: A double take’ (Böger) suggests an emerging research thread comparing Robert Frank’s The Americans (1958–59) with The Family of Man — both emerged from the same photographic milieu. Frank participated in the exhibition with photographs.
- A future pass should fetch this event page to obtain the full programme, abstracts, and confirmation of publication plans for the papers.
- Conference proceedings, if published, should each receive their own source entry.