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First Annual Graduate Student Colloquium - Writing the Histories of Photography

The Developing Room holds its first annual graduate student colloquium, an event for Ph.D. candidates from any field of study who are working on dissertation topics in which photography--its histories and theories--play a central role. 

How do we write the histories of photography today? What sort of topics, themes, objects, and methodologies should we foreground? What are the most pressing questions that our work suggests? This event showcases six new doctoral investigations to gauge the direction of our field across numerous disciplines. The presenters will share their work with an audience of peers and an official respondent, Prof. Steffen Siegel of the Folkwang Universität der Künste. The aim is to solicit a free exchange of ideas that will help nourish all our work and lead organically toward next year’s grad workshop.

The event is free and open to the public. But please RSVP at developingroom@gmail.com

Sponsors

Center for Cultural Analysis

Art History Department, Rutgers University

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Schedule

9:30 Coffee and Pastries

10:00 Introduction

10:15 Stella Jungmann

10:40 Discussion

11:00 Donata Panizza

11:25 Discussion

11:45 Anne S. Cross

12:10 Discussion

12:30 Lunch Break

2:00 Emily Doucet

2:25 Discussion

2:45 Margaret Innes

3:10 Discussion

3:30 Coffee Break

3:45 Nicholas Morgan

4:10 Discussion

4:30 General Discussion led by Dr. Steffen Siegel

5:00 End


Respondent

Steffen Siegel, Folkwang Universität der Künste

Talks

Labor and the Picturesque: Photography, Propaganda, and the Tea Industry in Colonial India and Sri Lanka, 1880-1914

Photographs of a Death Foretold: Florence's Modernization and The Alinari Brothers, 1852-90

'Features of Cruelty Which Could Not Well Be Described by the Pen': The Media of Atrocity in Harper's Weekly, c. 1865

Developing the Future: Technological Determinism and 19th Century French Photography

Action and Speech: The Photographic Program of the Workers' Film and Photo League

The Bodily Activity of Photography: Mark Morrisroe's Late Photograms