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Mapping Visual Diversity in Canada: Historical and Contemporary Photographic Perspectives
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Date: | 2009-02-23 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-01-13 |
| Announcement ID: |
166247 |
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Mapping Visual Diversity in Canada: Historical and Contemporary Photographic Perspectives
A one-day conference organised by the London Conference for Canadian Studies in association with the Eccles Centre for American Studies
Monday 23rd February, 2009. 9.30-5.00
British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London NW1
Focusing on photographic representations of Canadian landscape and peoples from the 19th century to the present, this one-day conference brings together leading Canadian authorities on the history of photography and photographic archives with UK-based researchers working on historical and contemporary Canadian photography.
Speakers will be:
Joan Schwartz (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario): "The Eye is a Daguerreotype": Photographic Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Colleen Skidmore (University of Alberta): Women, Wilderness, and Photography in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
James Opp (Carleton University): Finding the View: Landscape, Place, and Colour Slide Photography in Southern Alberta
Cliff Lauson (UCL and Tate Modern): Roy Arden’s Ugly City
Philip Hatfield (Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Library): Modernity in the Frame: Envisioning the Canadian City, 1895-1924
Alex Vasudevan (University of Nottingham): “A Photographer of Modern Life”: Jeff Wall’s Photographic Materialism
Will Smith (University of Nottingham): “PUBLICity” or “real life”? Toronto Photoblogging Considered
Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts): Discussant
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Richard Dennis
Department of Geography
UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, UK
Phone: (44) (0)20 7679-7563
Email: r.dennis@geog.ucl.ac.uk
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