Photography, Archive and Memory.
Day symposium at Roehampton University, London.
Friday 5th June 2009.
Recent debates about photography and the archive
are currently being reformulated in relation to
?memory? resulting in a critical challenge to
more traditional formulations of the history of
photography and notions of ?archive?. Through
?memory? the archive becomes open to new
interpretations, uses and new formulations; the
social material relations, the materiality of
the medium and the institutional nature of the
archive are potentially revealed and
contested. The symposium will map this emerging
body of work from practitioners, theorists,
historians and curators and critically reflect
on the theoretical and methodological
implications of the use of ?memory? as a
conceptual category within photography.
A range of themes addressed in this event will include:
Strategies of memory, alternative and counter
histories of photography, collective and
cultural memory, digital technologies and
methodologies, institutional framings, national
identities, place and home, trauma and
postmemory, postcolonial reinterpretations,
artistic interventions, familial archives,
personal narratives, transcultural perspectives,
remembering photographers, retrieving history and generating new memories.
Keynote speakers:
? Dr. David Bate (Reader in Photography, University of Westminster).
? Dr. Joanna Zylinska (Reader in New
Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London).
Further information about the event can be
obtained from Julia Peck and Karen Cross at
(photoarchive /at/ roehampton.ac.uk) or by visiting:
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/crfac/events/index.html
Consider the environment. Please don't print
this e-mail unless you really need to.
This email and any attachments are confidential
and intended solely for the addressee and may
also be privileged or exempt from disclosure
under applicable law. If you are not the
addressee, or have received this e-mail in
error, please notify the sender immediately,
delete it from your system and do not copy,
disclose or otherwise act upon any part of this email or its attachments.
Internet communications are not guaranteed to be
secure or virus-free. Roehampton University does
not accept responsibility for any loss arising
from unauthorised access to, or interference
with, any Internet communications by any third
party, or from the transmission of any viruses.
Any opinion or other information in this e-mail
or its attachments that does not relate to the
business of Roehampton University is personal to
the sender and is not given or endorsed by Roehampton University.
