Speaking of Photography Archives

Judy Weiser
Psychologist, Art Therapist, Photographer, Founder & Director of the PhotoTherapy Centre in Vancouver, Canada, and author of PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Albums
Healing, Well-Being, and Photographs
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, at 14:30

Liz Wells
Professor in Photographic Culture
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Plymouth, UK
Photography and Ecology: Re-framing Fields of Vision
Friday, 4 October 2019, at 18:30

Duncan Forbes
Independant curator and writer
Getty Research Institute and Research Fellow at the Canadian Photography Institute
Rethinking the Historical Subject of Street Photography: From Helen Levitt to Keizo Kitajima
Friday, 8 November 2019, at 18:30

Gil Pasternak
Associate Professor of Social and Political Photographic Cultures, De Montfort University (UK) and Project Leader of Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts (funded by the European Commission)
Digitized Contestations: Family Photographs in the Struggle Over Cultural Heritage in Israel
Friday, 31 January, at 18:30

Melody Davis
Associate professor and program coordinator for Art History, Sage College of Albany
Women’s Views: The Narrative Stereograph in Nineteenth-Century America
Friday, 19 January 2018, at 18:30

Sandrine Colard 
Assistant Professor / Provost’s Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Double Exposure: The Congolese Bourgeoisie in the Colonial and Family Photographic Album
Friday, 9 February 2018, at 18:30

Maia-Mari Sutnik
Curator Emeritus Photography, Art Gallery of Ontario
Recovering History: The Buried Negatives of Henryk Ross
Friday, 9 March 2018, at 18:30

Sabine T. Kriebel 
Florence Henri's Oblique Subjects
Friday, 23 March 2018, at 18:30

Ann Thomas 
Senior Curator of the Canadian Photography Institute at the Nationalf Gallery of Canada
Josef Sudek as Realist
Friday, 10 March 2017, at 18:30

Jolene Rickard
Director, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
Associate Professor, Departments of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University
Indigenous Time: The Photograph as Resurgence
Friday, 10 February 2017, at 18:30

Janet T. Marquardt
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Eastern Illinois Universtiy
Research Associate, Mount Holyoke College
Renewing Romanesque: the Zodiaque book series and modernist photography
Friday, 20 January 2017, at 18:30

Hélène Samson
Curator of the McCord Museum's Notman Photographic Archives
 "Not to be put in:" Looking further into the Notman Collection 
Friday, 18 November 2016, at 18:30 

International conference, À partir d'aujourd'hui… Reconsidering Postphotography
October 1 to 3, 2015

Julie Crooks
Rebanks Postdoctoral Fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum
“Fugitivity”: Cultivating the Black Subject in 19th-century Photography in Southern Ontario 
Friday, 12 February 2016, at 18:30

Thierry Gervais
Assistant Professor, Ryerson University and Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC)
Photographic Essay versus Pictorial Essay: publishing press photographs
Friday, 4 March 2016, at 18:30

Sherry Farrell Racette
Departments of Native Studies and Women & Gender Studies, University of Manitoba
Indigenous Photography as Voice and Witness
Friday, 3 October 2014, at 18:30

Ian Walker
Independent scholar, London, UK
The Short, Sharp History of Surrealist Photography
Friday, 14 November 2014, at 18:30

Joan Fontcuberta
Artist and guest curator for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2015
Postphotography: The Revenge of Images
Friday, 13 February 2015, at 18:30

Aaron Glass
Assistant professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY
In the Land of Head Hunters
Friday, 13 March 2015, at 18:30
Screening of the film In the Land of the Head Hunters will begin at 18:30

Paul Wombell
Guest Curator, Mois de la photo à Montréal 2013
Beyond Photographic Time
Friday, 4 October 2013, at 18:30

Carol Payne
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Carleton University
The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971
Friday, 1 November 2013, at 18:30
Presented in collaboration with McGill-Queen's University Press

Lucy Soutter
Critical and Historical Studies, Royal College of Art
Beyond Photography: Persistence of the Photographic in Contemporary Art
Friday, 17 January 2014, at 18:30

Judith Nicholson
Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Looking at American Lynching Photographs: A Canadian Perspective
Friday, 7 February 2014, at 18:30

Canadian Photography History Research Group
Department of Art History, Concordia University
Imaged Communities: Putting Canadian Photography History in its Place
Friday, 21 March 2014, at 18:30

Anne Wilkes Tucker
Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
Friday, 18 January 2013, at 18:30

Jordan Bear
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Toronto
Photographs and Other Deceptions, Circa 1839
Friday, 1 February 2013, at 18:30

Vincent Lavoie
Associate Professor, Département d'histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Montréal
Contemporary Photography and Forensic Imagination
Friday, 8 March 2013, at 18:30

Shelley Rice
Arts Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, and Department of Art History, College of Arts and Science, NYU
Local Space/Global Visions: Archives, Networks, and Visual Geography Around 1900
Friday, 15 March 2013, at 18:30  

Tanya Sheehan
Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
National Expressions: Rethinking the History of the Photographic Smile
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, at 18:30

Anthony W. Lee
Professor of Art, Mount Holyoke College
A Shoemaker's Story
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, at 18:30

Kelly Dennis
Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and the History of Photography, University of Connecticut
Digital Proximities: Internet Art and the Economies of Porn 
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, at 18:30

Deborah Willis
Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, and University Professor, Africana Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, NYU
Posing Beauty in African and African American Culture
Friday, 10 February 2012, at 18:30

Laurie Dahlberg
Associate Professor of Art History and Photography, Bard College
Amateur/amateur: Thoughts on the Devolution of a Gentleman's Art
Thursday, 7 October 2010, at 18:30

Robert Hariman
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
John Louis Lucaites
Professor, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University 
Boots and Hands: Visual Tropes and Democratic Public Culture
Thursday, 21 October 2010, at 18:30

Presented in collaboration with the international colloquium Imaginaires du présent. Photographie, politique et poétique de l’actualité/ Imaginaries of the Present: News Photography, Politics, and Poetics, 22-23 October, Grande Bibliothèque M.450.Organized by Figura, centre de recherche sur le texte et l'imaginaire, Université du Québec à Montréal

Jayne Wark
Professor, Historical and Critical Studies, NSCAD University
'Serious Art Is Only Made in Black and White': Photography and Conceptual Art in Canada
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 18:30

Martha Langford
Associate Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Art History, Concordia University
John Langford
Professor School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, at 18:30

Followed by a book launch, co-hosted by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, McGill-Queen’s University Press, and members of the Art History Graduate Students Association.

Joan M. Schwartz
Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, Department of Art, Queen’s University
Rethinking the Discursive Origins of Photography: Alexander von Humboldt and the Pursuit of Geographical Knowledge
Thursday, 1 October 2009, at 18:30

Louis Kaplan
Associate Professor of History and Theory of Photography, University of Toronto
Documenting Ghosts: The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
Thursday, 8 October 2009, at 18:30

Jordana Mendelson
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University
Exhibiting the 1930s: Photography, Modernism, and Print Culture
Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 18:30

Deepali Dewan
Curator, Royal Ontario Museum, and Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Visions of Colonialism and Modernity: 19th-century India and the Photographs of Deen Dayal
Thursday, 12 November 2009, at 18:30

David Harris
Associate Professor, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University
Under the Loupe: Contact Sheets and the Creative Process
Thursday, 26 November 2009, at 18:30

Jerry Zaslove
Professor emeritus, Humanities and English, Simon Fraser University
Mindfulness Toward Memory in Four Photographic Objects
Tuesday, 23 September, at 18:30

William A. Ewing
Director, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Jack's True Calling
Tuesday, 21 October, at 18:30

Elizabeth Edwards
Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London
Unblushing Realism' and the Threat of the Pictorial: Photography, Evidence and the Problem of Style
Tuesday, 4 November, at 18:30

John Raeburn
Professor of American Studies and English, the University of Iowa
Tradition and Modernity in Ben Shahn's American Scene, 1938
Monday, 19 January, at 18:30

Carol Williams
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Feminism & Gender Studies, Trent University
Puncturing History’s Blindness
Monday, 9 March, at 18:30

Marianne Hirsch
Columbia University
Street Photographs: ‘Before, During and After’ the Holocaust
Monday, 22 October 2007, at 19:00

Mary Warner Marien
Syracuse University
The Absent Present: Picturing the Poor in the 1840s
Thursday, 15 November 2007, at 17:00

Rosemary Donegan
Ontario College of Art
Industrial Photography: From the Vernacular to the New Monumentalism
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, at 18:30

Geoffrey Batchen
City University of New York Graduate Centre
Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn
Thursday, 28 February 2008, at 18:30

John O’Brian
University of British Columbia
Camera Atomica: A Case Study in Nuclear Photography
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, at 18:30