Concurrent Sessions B

-Friday, March 12
Conference Day 2: 9:00 p.m. ­ 3:00 p.m.

B11: Testimony, trauma, postmemory

1. Katja Haustein, PhD Candidate, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, "The Photograph in the Drawer: Picturuing the Self and the Other in Prousts's A la recherche du temps perdu."

2. Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College, "Framing Memory: Photographs and Text in Flores en el desierto"

3. Øyvind Vagnes, PhD Candidate, University of Bergen, "Here is New York Again: Looking at Amateur Photographs of September 11"

4. Marlene Briggs, University of British Columbia, "Wilfred Owen's Photographs: Towards a Genealogy of Great War Postmemory"

 

B12: Family/Photograph

1. Josephine van Bennekom, PhD Candidate, Universiteit van Amsterdam, "Fictional Adventures of Family Shots: How Writers Unravel a Desired Past"

2. Frances Sprout, PhD Candidate, University of Victoria, British Columbia, "Lost Photographs/ Photographed Losses: Fictional and Non-Fictional Responses to Parental Loss"

3. Laurence Petit, PhD Candidate, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Romance of a Family or Inverted 'Family Romance': Familial Gaze and Narratorial Look in Anita Brookher's Family and Friends"

4. Linda Rader Overman, California State University, Northridge, "Developing Portraits with Layers of Time"

 

B13: Photo-theory

1. Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto, "Community Exposed Photography: Theorizing Photography and Community via Jean-Luc Nancy"

2. Jonathan Friday, University of Kent, "André Bazin's 'Ontology of the Photographic Image'"

3. Eugénie Shinkle, University of Westminster, UK, "Boredom, Repetition, Inertia: The Banal in Contemporary Photography"

4. Kas Saghafi, Grinnell College, "The Truth - Of Photography: Derrida's 'Aletheia'"

 

B14: The Archive

1. Elena Siemens, University of Alberta, "From the Archive: Representations of Death in Russian World War II Photography"

2. Carol Payne, Carleton University, Ottawa, "Archival Canada: The NFB's Still Photography Division and Constructions of Nationhood"

3. Patricia Levin, Independent Curator, Los Angeles, and Jeanne Perreault, University of Calgary, "Fabrications: Archive and Identity"

4. Petra Dreiser, PhD Candidate, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, "Where Time and Space are Thicker: Photography's Invisible Archives in John Edgar Wideman's Two Cities"

B15: Portrait/Portraiture

1. Dean DeFino, Iona College, "Poe, Whitman, Daguerre: Photography and the American Romantic"

2. Ian Walker, University of Wales, Newport, "The Photographic Portrait in André Breton's Nadja"

3. Catherine Dhavernas, Cornell University, "Photography's Accidental Happening Upon Eternal Time"

4. Yves-Antoine Clemmen, Stetson University, "Amélie Nothomb: The Corpus and the Photographs"

B16: Realism/the Document/the Politics of Representation

1. Larry D. Griffin, Dyersburg State Community College, "Realism and Photographic Images in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary"

2. Steven Scott, Brock University, "Clearing the Smoke: Auster and Representation"

3. Rachel Hung, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, "The Afterimage of Ethnicity: Seeing the That-Has-Not-Been in C. D. Hoy's Photo-Graphy"

4. Sue Sorensen, University of Winnipeg, "Against Photography: Susan Sontag and the Violent Image"

Concurrent Sessions A | Concurrent Sessions B
Concurrent Sessions C | Keynote Address