Photography Historians: A New Generation?

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE SYMPOSIUM

March 26 28, 2015

School of Image Arts, Ryerson University

122 Bond Street, Toronto, IMA-307

The fourth Ryerson Image Centre Symposium highlights the most current research in the history of photography, bringing emerging scholars from universities worldwide to speak about their areas of study, their methods and their findings. This rising group of young photo-historians will engage in dialogue with prominent academics, revealing how contemporary historical inquiry sits withinand departs fromestablished traditions. The Symposium is organized by the Ryerson Image Centre with support from Ryerson Universitys School of Image Arts. A complete schedule of events is available via http://ryerson.ca/ric/lectures/symposium15.html

ADMISSION TO THE SYMPOSIUM IS FREE.

Please arrive early to ensure seating.

PARTICIPANTS:

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Franois Brunet, Professor, Art et Littrature des Etats-Unis, Universit Paris Diderot, and Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France

Established Scholars:

Pr. Marta Braun, Professor and Director of the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management Masters program, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Pr. Larry J. Schaaf, Director, William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonn, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK

Dr. Vanessa Schwartz, Professor and Director, Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California, USA

Dr. Douglas Nickel, Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, USA

Emerging Scholars:

Nadya Bair, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Dr. Gabrielle Moser, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

Dr. Estelle Blaschke, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Ellen Macfarlane, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Dr. Marianne Le Galliard, Lartigue Foundation, Paris, and Hartung-Bergman Foundation, Antibes, France

Dr. Mazie M. Harris, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Shannon Perry, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Kate Addleman-Frankel, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada