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. 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: Monday 23 February, 2009

British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London NW1
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 the registration fee)
2.00–3.00 Colleen Skidmore (UCL and Tate Modern), “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)

Acknowledgements

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 r.dennis@geog.ucl.ac.uk.

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.

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