Speaker Biographies
Keynote Speaker
Professor Griselda Pollock
University of Leeds
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. She is an internationally renowned scholar of feminist and post-colonial studies in art history and is currently the Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH), a transdisciplinary project fostering links between the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Her current research projects have centered around issues of representation, Jewish cultural history, contemporary art, memory and trauma, contributing to an already extensive body of work on modernity, feminism, film and cultural theory. Her most recent research project, entitled "Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Resistance" explores "the seepage of the totalitarian into popular culture". This has been complemented by recent publications, including Bracha L. Ettinger: Art as Compassion (co-edited with Catherine De Zegher, Brussels: ASP, 2011); Allo-thanatography or Allo-auto-biography: A Few Thoughts on One Painting in Charlotte Salomon's Leben oder Theater? 1941-42, Documenta 13 Notebook, No.28 (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011); and Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics and Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (co-edited with Max Silverman, New York: Berghahn Books, 2011). These works examine otherness, its representation and spatialization, and its temporal, traumatic and bodily connotations.
Read abstract: When History Assumes an Image: Problems with Knowing What You Are Seeing
Selected Graduate Speakers
Hana Buddeus
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (AAAD)
Hana Buddeus (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague) received her MA degree from the Charles University in Prague. In her PhD thesis, she deals with the photographic documentation of performance art in 1970s Czechoslovakia.
Read abstract: Photography and Fiction in Czech 'Action Art'
Natasha Adamou
University of Essex
Natasha Adamou is writing her PhD in the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex, on the legacies of the readymade and the found object in contemporary art. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Essex, and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. Natasha is co-editor of Rebus: A Journal of Art History and Theory.
Read abstract: 'Photography as a Hole': Gabriel Orozco and Photography after Conceptual Art
Giulia Smith
Univesity College London
Giulia Smith is an MPhil/PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art at University College London. Her thesis is titled "The Independent Group: An Other Post-War Britain" and focuses on the work of Nigel Henderson, John McHale and Magda Cordell. She writes for Frieze and This Is Tomorrow.
Read abstract: Zero and Zero: Nigel Henderson's Camera Work
Rachele Ceccarelli
University of Aberdeen
Rachele Ceccarelli (University of Aberdeen) finished her undergraduate degree in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna and a Masters in Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. She is currently doing her PhD at the same institution, developing a research project that investigates contemporary photographic practices - particularly new forms of documentary - as forms of ethical and political intervention.
Read abstract: Indexing the War
Patrizia Munforte
University of Zurich
Patrizia Munforte is a PhD student in Art History at the University of Zurich and writes her dissertation about "Interrelations Between Private Portraits of Deceased and Memorial Images in Paintings, Graphic Arts and Photography of the 19th Century". She is also Research Assistant at the Centre for Studies of Theory and History of Photography at the University of Zurich.
Heather Linton
University of South Florida
Heather Linton is pursuing an MA degree at the University of South Florida where she is researching relationships between ability/disability and photography. Heather received a BA in Art Studio-Photography from the University of South Florida and currently holds a position as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Art History.
Read abstract: Illumination and Victimisation: Mental Illness in Paris and Abidjan
Anne-Sophie Garcia
McGill University
Anne-Sophie Garcia is a PhD candidate in Art History at McGill University. Her thesis dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Christine Ross, focuses on contemporary art practices using construction or interpretation of archives as medium. She holds a Maîtrise in Modern History from the Université Paris-IV Sorbonne and a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
Read abstract: Blurring the Lines between History and Fiction: Walid Ra'ad and the Atlas Group
Edward Bacal
University College London
Edward Bacal received his BA at the University of Toronto. Presently he is pursuing an MA in the History of Art at University college London. His interests focus on postwar art and critical theory, with particular emphasis on abstraction and the politics of subjectivity.
Yoko Tsuchiyama
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS)
Yoko Tsuchiyama is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Arts and Language at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. "Photography and Narrative: the Representation of the Atomic Bomb in Photographs of Nagasaki from 1945 to 1995", will be published in the collection Narratologia (Walter de Gruyter, 2012).
Read abstract: Visibility and Invisibility of the Nuclear Image in The Family of Man
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