Concurrent Sessions C

-Saturday, March 13
Conference Day 3: 9:00 p.m. ­ 6:30 p.m.

C17: Photography and War

1. John Ibson, California State University, Fullerton, "Picturing Men in World War II: Narratives of Liberation in Fiction, Autobiography and Vernacular Photography"

2. Panel: Edward Welch, University of Durham, "Luc Delahaye and the Rise of the Photojournalist in Post-war Conflict";
Jonathan Long, University of Durham, "Making Meaning: Ernst Jünger's Photographic Book: Records of World War I";
Andrea Noble, University of Durham, "Death, Photography and Memory in the Mexican Revolution"

 

C18: Translation Writing Photograph

1. Kanchanakesi Warnapala, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University, "Dismantling the Gaze: Julia Margaret Cameron's Sri Lankan Photographs."

2. Lourdes Dávila, New York University, "The Appearance of Space: Spatial Inversions in Rulfo's Writing and Photography"

3. Elena Gualtieri, University of Sussex, UK, "Photography and the Translation of History in the Twentieth-Century Novel"

4. M. Kathryn Shields, University of Texas at Arlington, "Stories These Masks Could Tell: Literary References in the Photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard"

 

C19: Architecture

1. Marlene MacCallum, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "The Photograph in an Artist's Book Works: Architectural Images and the Architecture of the Book"

2. Helen Robertson, Independent scholar and artist, London (UK),"The Architecture of the Photograph"

3. Elizabeth Musgrave and Douglas Neale, Architecture, University of Queensland, "Architectural Image and Idiom: Making Local"

4. Tim Gough, Architect, London (UK), "Given Focus"

C20: Photography and Fiction 2

1. Paola Ghinelli, PhD Candidate, University of Bologna, "The Image of an Absence: The Photograph in the Writings of Daniel Pennac"

2. Jean-Pierre Montier, Université Rennes 2, "Proust révélé par Brassaï" ("Proust as Revealed by Brassaï")

3. Magdalena Perkowska-Alvarez, Hunter College, CUNY, "Visual Poetics: On Uses of Photography in the Contemporary Latin American Novel"

C21: Photography/City/Cortázar

1. Steven Jacobs, PhD Candidate, Ghent University, "Horror Vacui or Amor Vacui: Photography and the Deserted City"

2. Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers University, "Writing Against the City: Julio Cortázar's Photographic Takes of India and Peru"

3. Dan Russek, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, "Verbal/Visual Braids: On the Photographic Medium in the Work of Julio Cortázar"

 

C22: Cultural Memory/Ethics

1. Irena Kohn, PhD Candidate, OISE, University of Toronto, "Showing and Telling the Lodz Ghetto: The Struggle Toward an Ethical Translation of History in Mendel Grossman's Photographs and in Chava Rosenfarb's novel The Tree of Life"

2. Pamela McCallum, University of Calgary, "Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras"

3. Karen Benbassat, MA student, OISE, University of Toronto, "Blind Image: Caught Between Written and Photographic Testimonial Witness"

4. Max Kwiatkowski, PhD Candidate, Human Geography, University of Sydney, "Backwards, Forwards, and In-between: Nostalgic Landscapes, Identity and Photography Among Sydney's Polish Community"

C23: Photography and Film

1. Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen, "Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up"

2. Karen Beckman, University of Rochester, "Cut: Photography, Memory, and the Resistance to Film in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros"

3. Joel Freeman, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, "Death and The Ontology of the Still Image in Fritz Lang's M"

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