Conference poster PDF version.
Programme
The full timetable including speakers, titles and panel organisation is listed below and also available in a PDF version. Further information regarding panel chairs will be available shortly. Registration is free, although advance booking is required.
'Photography and the Unrepresentable' takes place in the Senate Room (Room 4.722, Floor 4, Department of Psychology Building, Square 1, Entrance 1W) on the University of Essex's Colchester campus.
Click on a paper title to read the abstract or on a speaker name to read their biography.
Keynote speaker
Professor Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds)
When History Assumes an Image:
Problems with Knowing What You Are Seeing
Chair: Professor Margaret Iversen (University of Essex)
Full programme
09.30 - 10.00: Reception
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and opening remarks
10.10 - 11.10: Session 1 - Photography and Alternative Reality
2 papers (each 20 mins.) + discussion (20 mins.)
Photography and Fiction in Czech 'Action Art'
Hana Buddeus (AAAD, Prague)
'Photography as a Hole': Gabriel Orozco and Photography after Conceptual Art
Natasha Adamou (University of Essex)
Chair: Hugh Govan (University of Essex)
11.10 - 11.25: Break
11.25 - 12.25: Session 2 - History and Trauma I: The Presence of the Unrepresentable
2 papers (each 20 mins.) + discussion (20 mins.)
Zero and Zero: Nigel Henderson's Camera Work
Giulia Smith (UCL)
Indexing the War
Rachele Ceccarelli (University of Aberdeen)
Chair: Aline Guillermet (University of Essex)
12.25-13.25: Lunch break
13.25 - 14.25: Session 3 - Death and Anomaly: The Gaze of Photography
2 papers (each 20 mins.) + discussion (20 mins.)
Visibility and Invisibility in Photographic Memorial Portraits of the Deceased of the 19th Century
Patrizia Munforte (University of Zurich)
Illumination and Victimisation: Mental Illness in Paris and Abidjan
Heather Linton (University of South Florida)
Chair: Taisuke Edamura (University of Essex)
14.25 - 14.40: Break
14.40 - 16.10: Session 4 - History and Trauma II: Documentation and Photographic Truth
3 papers (each 20 mins.) + discussion (30 mins.)
Blurring the Lines between History and Fiction: Walid Ra’ad and the Atlas Group
Anne-Sophie Garcia (McGill University)
Repetition, Return and Representation: Alain Resnais and the Traumatic Temporality of Mechanical Reproduction
Edward Bacal (UCL)
Visibility and Invisibility of the Nuclear Image in The Family of Man
Yoko Tsuchiyama (EHESS)
Chair: Iris Balija (University of Essex)
16.10 - 16.40: Break
16.40 - 17.55: Keynote Address
Paper (45 mins.) + discussion (30 mins)
Professor Gridelda Pollock (University of Leeds)
When History Assumes an Image: Problems with Knowing What You Are Seeing
Chair: Professor Margaret Iversen (University of Essex)
17.55: Closing remarks
18.00: Wine reception ('Seeking Beyond the Surface' at Art Exchange)
The wine reception will be held at the university's Art Exchange gallery, located on Square 5, where the exhibition 'Seeking Beyond the Surface' is taking place. The exhibition features works by Hans Breder, Joan Jonas, Oscar Muñoz, Adad Hannah and Elina Brotherus and is curated by MA Gallery Studies and Critical Curating students.
Press release (Art History at Essex website)
Events programme (Art History at Essex website)
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"Photography and the Unrepresentable" programme (PDF version)