This conference on Canadian photographic
practices should be of interest to more than just
Canadian Studies people. Please pass on details
to anybody you think might be interested. Contact me for further details.
Richard Dennis
Geography, UCL
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Mapping Visual Diversity in Canada: Historical
and Contemporary Photographic Perspectives
A one-day conference organised by the London
Conference for Canadian Studies in association
with the Eccles Centre for American Studies
Monday 23rd February, 2009
British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London NW1
Focusing on photographic representations of
Canadian landscape and peoples from the 19th
century to the present, this one-day conference
brings together leading Canadian authorities on
the history of photography and photographic
archives with UK-based researchers working on
historical and contemporary Canadian photography.
PROGRAMME
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome and Introduction: Dr Richard Dennis (UCL)
10.10-11.10 Joan Schwartz (Queen’s University,
Kingston, Ontario): "The Eye is a Daguerreotype":
Photographic Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Canada
11.10 Coffee
11.30-12.00 Philip Hatfield (Royal Holloway,
University of London and the British Library):
Modernity in the Frame: Envisioning the Canadian City, 1895-1924
12.00-12.30 James Opp (Carleton University):
Finding the View: Landscape, Place, and Colour
Slide Photography in Southern Alberta
12.30-1.00 Cliff Lauson (UCL and Tate Modern): Roy Arden’s Ugly City
1.00 Lunch (included in registration fee)
2.00-3.00 Colleen Skidmore (University of
Alberta): Women, Wilderness, and Photography in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
3.00 Tea
3.15-3.45 Alex Vasudevan (University of
Nottingham): “A Photographer of Modern Life”:
Jeff Wall’s Photographic Materialism
3.45-4.15 Will Smith (University of Nottingham):
“PUBLICity” or “real life”? Toronto Photoblogging Considered
4.15-5.00 Discussion, introduced by Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts)
LCCS acknowledges with thanks the support of the
Government of Canada, the Eccles Centre and the
British Library in the organization of this meeting.
To register, please complete the registration
form and return (by 16 Feb) to Dr Richard Dennis,
Department of Geography, UCL, Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] .
LCCS (The London Conference for Canadian Studies)
is an informal interdisciplinary group of
researchers and teachers with interests in
Canada. If you would like to be kept informed of
future activities, please tick the box on the
registration form. LCCS also publishes an annual,
refereed journal, The London Journal of Canadian
Studies, which is available free, online, at
<http://www.canadian-studies.info/lccs/LJCS/current/index.html>http://www.canadian-studies.info/lccs/LJCS/current/index.html
Mapping Visual Diversity in Canada: Historical
and Contemporary Photographic Perspectives
A one-day conference organised by the London
Conference for Canadian Studies in association
with the Eccles Centre for American Studies
Monday 23rd February, 2009
British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London NW1
REGISTRATION FORM
The cost of attending the conference (to include
lunch and refreshments) is £35.00 full fee/
£20.00 students, unwaged. Cheques should be made
payable to ‘LCCS’. We regret we do not have
facilities for payments by credit/debit card.
Name:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
I enclose a cheque for £35.00 / £20.00 (please
delete as appropriate) made payable to ‘LCCS’
Please tick the box if you would like to be kept
informed of future LCCS activities:
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Please send your completed form, to arrive no
later than Monday 16 February, to:
Dr Richard Dennis,
Chair LCCS,
Department of Geography,
UCL,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT
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Cities in Modernity, Richard Dennis
For more information see
<http://www.cambridge.org/9780521468411>www.cambridge.org/9780521468411
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