The conference will offer a unique chance to see, hear, and meet representatives of professional excellence and gain insights into innovative contemporarypractice.
In an age of instant automated screen-based predictability it rediscovers accident, wonder and delight through experimentation - qualities increasingly absent from contemporary photographic practice.
Mr Menand, a frequent magazine writer as well as a professor of English, zestfully adopts the contemporary biographical practice of not treating thinkers as disembodied intelligences.
They represent contemporary business ethics that have evolved since 1970, good business practice and an opportunity for building social capital and reputational good will.
It reflects the contemporary intellectual preference in higher education for integrating the theory and practice of a discipline, and for reducing the divisions between vocational and academic qualifications.