Keynote Address

Abstracts

Concurrent Sessions A

-Thursday, March 11
Conference Day 1: 11:00 a.m. ­ 5:30 p.m.

A1: Photography and Fiction 1

1. Janice Hart, London College of Printing,
"The Girl No One Knew: Photographs, Narratives and Secrets in Modern Fiction"

2. Amy Smith, Hilbert College,
" The Uneasy Alliance of Fiction and Photography in Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries"

3. Arnd Bohm, Carleton University, "Fictional and Non-fictional Photographs in Novels"

A2: Altered Images/Spectrality/the Photographic Uncanny

1. Christopher Moylan, New York Institute of Technology, "Image as Thing: Jonathan Callan's Disfigured Photographs"

2. Brenda Daly, Iowa State University, "Out of the Camera: The Altered Photograph in Janice Williamson's Crybaby!"

3. Paola Cortés-Rocca, PhD Candidate, Princeton University, "Ghost in the Machine: Pictures of Specters at the End of the Century"

A3: Memory/Melancholy/Excess

Panel: Fred Douglas, Vancouver, B. C., W. F. Garrett-Petts, University College of the Cariboo, Donald Lawrence, University College of the Cariboo,
"Fred Douglas's Crossfade and Flutter: Memory, Melancholy, and the Rhetoric of Photographic Excess"

A4: Visual and Visionary History

1. Andrew Taylor, University of Ottawa,
"Sights of Memory: Photography and the Construction of the Middle Ages"

2. Natalia Brizuela, University of California, Berkeley, "Between Empire and Republic; or, on Photographic Melancholy in Brazilian Modernity"

3. Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths College, University of London, "'The Transparent Eyeball': Walker Evans and Transcendentalism"

A5: Ecology, Eco-tourism, Landscape

1. Pamela Banting, University of Calgary, "Shooting Bears: Ethics and Etiquette in Charlie Russell's Photographs of The Spirit Bears of The Western Rainforest and the Grizzlies of Kamchatka"

2. J. Keri Cronin, PhD Candidate, Queen's University, "Picturing the 'Contested Terrain': Imagery, Ecology and Photography in Jasper National Park"

3. Catherine de Lorenzo and Deborah van der Plaat, University of New South Wales, "More Than Meets the Eye: Photographic Records of Humboldtian Imaginings"

4. Elizabeth R. Epperly, University of Prince Edward Island, "Exposing Technique: L. M. Montgomery's Landscape Photographs and Descriptions"

A6: Photography and Race

1. Marijke du Toit, University of Natal, Durban, "Interior Journeys: Amateur Photography and Social Scientific Research on 'White' Poverty in South Africa 1928-1932"

2. Shawn Michelle Smith, St. Louis University, "Race and the Optical Unconscious"

3. Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto, "Racializing the Virile Body: Eadweard Muybridge's Locomotion Studies 1883-1887"

4. D. Stringer, James Madison University, "Carl Van Vechten: Traumatic Portraits as Pedagogy of Race"

A7: Focus: W. G. Sebald

1. Timothy Dow Adams, West Virginia University, "'Heightened by Life' vs. 'Paralyzed by Fact': Reinforcing Memory Through Photography in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants"

2. Silke Horstkotte, Universität Leipzig, Germany, "Photo-text Relations in W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn [Die Ringe des Saturn]"

3. Karen Jacobs, University of Colorado, "Optical Miniatures in Text and Image: Detail and Totality in Nabokov's Speak, Memory and Sebald's The Emigrants"

4. Richard Crownshaw, Manchester Metropolitan University, "Reconsidering Postmemory: Literature, Photography and Memory in the Work of Rachel Seiffert and W. G. Sebald"

A8: The Crime Scene

1. Nancy M. West, University of Missouri, Columbia, "Tabloid Culture and the Crime Scene Photograph"

2. Margot Leigh Butler, Simon Fraser University, "I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture!"

3. Nikki Sheppy, PhD candidate and derek beaulieu, MA student, University of Calgary, "Evidence of Absence in Crime Scene Photography and Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget"

A9: The Photograph and the Victorians

1. Jennifer Green-Lewis, The George Washington University, "Pictorial Photography and the Invention of the Victorian Past"

2. Karen Ruth Gardner, PhD candidate, Cardiff University, "Intimations of Immortality: Theorizing Photographs of Children in Late-Victorian England"

3. Pam Berridge, PhD candidate, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, "I am So Afraid of Forgetting - The Victorian Culture of Death"

A10: Gender

1. Nancy Pedri, Universiteit van Amsterdam, "Photographic Portrayals of Gender: The Representation of Gender in Photographic Portraiture"

2. Mary O'Connor, McMaster University, "Nude Friends and Advertising Body Parts: Women Photographing Women"

3. Elaine Pigeon, Concordia University,"The Photographs in Henry James's The Bostonians"

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