IADT
Global Photographies: Histories¦Theories¦Practices

Wednesday 27th June

 

11.00 - Registration Desk opens in Quadrangle Building

 

1.00 – Conference Opens

Venue: Trevor Scott Hall, Quadrangle Building

 

1.00 – 1.15 – Welcome: Justin Carville (IADT)

 

1.15 – 1.30 – Introduction

 

1.30 – 2.30 - Professor Iain Boal (University of California, Berkley) 

Chair: Justin Carville (IADT) 

 

2.30 – 3.00 – Tea/Coffee

 

 

3.00 – 4.30 Academic Sessions

 

Panel 1: Global Image Wars

Chair: Justin Carville (IADT)

 

Liam Kennedy (Clinton Institute for American Studies, UCD) Unknown Knowns: Soldier Photography and the War on Terror

 

 

Jennifer Pollard (University of Nottingham) 9/11: Online Photographic Representation and Sites of Mourning

 

Alexandra Murphy (Trinity College Dublin) Globalisation, Militarization and Representation: Abuse at Abu Ghraib and the Globalised Visual Economy

 

 

Panel 2: Visualizing Environmentalism

Chair: Ian Mitton (IADT)

 

Richard Holden (Photographer, Canada) Gardening the Planet

 

Claude Baillargeon (Oakland University, Rochester Michigan) Poisoned Ecosystems: Photographic Testimonies of reckless Stewardship and Collateral Damage

 

Eamonn Slater (NUI Maynooth & NIRSA) The Tyranny of the Front Lawn as a Globalised Work of Art and Nature in the Age of Photographic Reproduction

 

 

Panel 3: Global Identities and the 19th Century

Chair: Daniel De Chenu (IADT)

 

Michelle Woodward (Photo-editor, Middle East Report) Negotiating Modernity and European Influence in 19th Century Indigenous Photography of the Middle East

 

Philip Goldswain (University of Western Australia) Globalisation and the Gold Rush City: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 1893-1917

 

Sarah Jane Edge (University of Ulster) Urbanization, Class and gender in Mid-Victorian Commercial Photography: Reading the Archive of Arthur J. Munby

 

 

Panel 4 : Photography’s Nations 

Chair: David Farrell

 

Marta Vosyliute (Artist, Lithuania) Mixed Identities

 

Susan van Wyk (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne) Departure Lounge : Photographs by Max and Matthew Sleeth

 

Daniel Diaz Arrasco (Artist, Cuba) Globalizing Cuban Photography

 

4.45 - Bus Leaves for Bary

 

6.30 - Film Screening

 

The Lottery of the Sea, Allan Sekula

 Venue: Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray

Hosted By: Institute of Art, Design & Technology,            Dun Laoghaire

 http://www.iadt.ie/  

Keynote Speakers:

 Shahidul Alam

 Iain Boal

 Steve Edwards

 Allan Sekula