[ecrea] CFP Photographic Histories of Psychology

Postgraduate Symposium “Photographic Histories of Psychology”

25th November 2014

PHRC, de Montfort University


This symposium seeks to explore how photography and psychology have 
influenced each other throughout their histories. Its aim is twofold: to 
uncover how psychological notions have informed photographic practices, 
and to bring into light the historical role that photography has played 
in the making of psychological knowledge and its public dissemination.

The emergence of psychology as a scientific discipline and the 
popularization of photography occurred in parallel in the last third of 
the nineteenth century. Since then, photographs have been used in 
psychological experiments, and psychological theories of perception have 
been applied to understand the reception of photography. Whereas much 
research has been done on these topics, only sparse scholarly literature 
has attended to other aspects such as the role that photographic images 
played in the configuration of psychological and psychiatric thinking in 
the nineteenth century, and the ways in which psychological findings 
have penetrated into popular culture by means of photography.

“Photographic Histories of Psychology” will contribute to this 
scholarship by reflecting on how photographic materials have circulated 
through scientific and non-scientific contexts. It proposes to analyse 
the ways in which professional and amateur photography have historically 
appropriated, negotiated, rejected and disseminated psychological ideas. 
Rather than focusing on the notion of photographic representation or its 
meaning, we invite contributors to examine how, for example, 
psychological definitions of memory have affected the notion of the 
archive and the family album; how psychological theories on emotions 
have incited different gestures and expressions in front of the camera; 
and what role the illustrated press has played in the dissemination or 
depathologization of psychological disorders. Conversely, the event also 
seeks to examine how practices such as photographing, collecting 
photographs, or posing for the camera have penetrated into psychological 
discourses. How, for instance, particular uses of photography have 
inspired psychological research into historically specific patterns of 
behaviour.

Plenary Lecture: Dr. Mathew Thomson (University of Warwick) “Photography 
and the Landscape of the Child in Twentieth Century Britain”

We welcome original studies that focus on any historical period, carried 
out within the arts and humanities or the social sciences. While the 
event is open to scholars at any career level, we particularly encourage 
applications from postgraduate students and early career researchers. An 
abstract of no more than 300 words for a 20 minutes presentation, along 
with the title, name and affiliation, should be sent to Dr. Beatriz 
Pichel ((beatriz.pichel /at/ dmu.ac.uk)) by the 15th of August. Accepted papers 
will be notified by the 1st of September.

More info: http://photographichistory.wordpress.com/symposium-november-2014


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Dr. Beatriz Pichel
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Photographic History Research Centre
de Montfort University
Leicester

e: (beatriz.pichel /at/ dmu.ac.uk)
t: +44 1162506427
profile: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/beatrizpichel // 
https://dmu.academia.edu/BeatrizPichel


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