The Photo-Text Conference
1 April 2004
School of Advanced Studies, Senate House, Malet Street
London
The Department of English at Sussex and the English and Comparative
Literature Department at Goldsmiths, London will be hosting a one-day
international conference on the Photo-text in central London. The
conference will examine the intersection between writing and
photography across a variety of periods, genres, and geographic and
cultural areas, from the Nineteenth Century to the present and from
colonial Algeria to contemporary Argentina. It will analyse the
possible alignments and/or disjunctions between the visual and the
written in the works of Bertolt Brecht, Lewis Carroll, Max Ernst,
Walker Evans, Emil Hoppe, Emile Zola and others. Speakers include Elza
Adamowicz, Mick Gidley, Eric Homberger, Andrea Noble, Lindsay Smith
To register please print, fill in and send the enclosed form to
Caroline Blinder, English and Comparative Literature Department,
Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK
Deadline for registration forms to reach Caroline Blinder: Friday 26th
March 2004.
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Conference fees (including lunch and breaks), payable on the day:
£ 25 waged, £ 15 unwaged
For directions to reach Malet Street,
The Photo-Text
1 April 2004
Provisional Conference Programme
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:15 Lindsay Smith, University of Sussex, UK
On Lewis Carroll
10:15-11:30 19th-century panel:
Gavin Adams, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Stereoscopic Travels Around My Room
Susanne Stemmler, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Colonial Harem: Photo-postcards from Algeria around 1900
Annika Trommer, University of Freiburg, Germany
The photographic view in the work of Emile Zola
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:45 Mick Gidley, University of Leeds, UK
Words and Pictures: Textual Play in Hoppe
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:00 Modernism panel:
Christine Ivanovic, University of Erlangen, Germany
Photography is the Liberation of Eros: Artist Books of the European
Avant-garde
Tom Kuhn, St Hughs College, Oxford, UK
No Insight Through Photography: Bertolt Brechts writings on photography
in the late 1920s
Matthias Uecker, the Queens University of Belfast, UK
The Face of Weimar Germany Photography, Propaganda and New Sobriety
15:00-15:45 Elza Adamowicz, Queen Mary, London, UK
Max Ernst's photomontages: Photography of the mind
15:45-16:00 Tea
16:00-16:50 American Panel:
Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, London, UK
The Transparent Eyeball: Walker Evans and Transcendentalism
Andrea Noble, University of Durham, UK
Disappearing Memory: Photography and Testimony in Argentina
16:50-17:35 Eric Homberger, University of East Anglia, UK
TBA
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