[Commlist] Conference: Arctic Photography, Film, Exploration and the Archive

Arctic Photography, Film and the Archive Conference. National Maritime 
Museum, Greenwich. Thursday 2^nd – Friday 3^rd December 2021. 
<https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/conference-arctic-photography-film-exploration-archive>*Registration:* 
free (please book to receive Zoom links).

This interdisciplinary conference examines the role of photography and 
film narratives in shaping cultural perceptions of the Arctic, Antarctic 
and the history of polar exploration. Museum collections and archives 
store photographs and films that were produced using a diverse range of 
technologies and techniques from scientific experiments with telephoto 
lenses, flashlight photography, chrono-photography, photomicrography, 
early colour processes (Autochromes, Paget Plates) remain among the 
time-lapse and animated studies of wildlife and inhospitable polar 
climates that were made contemporary to the emergence of cinema. The 
conference brings together scholars, curators and artists whose work 
examines the histories, theories, and memory photography and film which 
intersect with narratives of exploration: its politics, ideologies 
(gender, class, imperialism) their subversion and subtexts through to 
its use in educational and entertainment forms both past and present. 
*Conference Programme and Booking: Arctic Photography, Film and the 
Archive. 
<https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/conference-arctic-photography-film-exploration-archive>*

Organised by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the University 
of Leeds. *Contact:* Dr Liz Watkins, Research Fellow, University of 
Leeds (e.i.watkins /at/ leeds.ac.uk) <mailto:(e.i.watkins /at/ leeds.ac.uk)> or Sally 
Archer, Research and Heritage Partnerships Manager (sarcher /at/ rmg.co.uk) 
<mailto:(sarcher /at/ rmg.co.uk)> or Jeremy Michell, Senior Curator, Maritime 
Technologies (jmichell /at/ rmg.co.uk) <mailto:(jmichell /at/ rmg.co.uk)>



Dr Elizabeth Watkins. Research Fellow. School of Fine Art, History of 
Art, Cultural Studies. University of Leeds.
*Contact:* (e.i.watkins /at/ leeds.ac.uk) <mailto:(e.i.watkins /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>
Vice Chair, British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies.

*Conference:* Arctic Photography, Film, Exploration and the Archive 
(Online), National Maritime Museum Greenwich. 2-3 December 2021. 
<https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/conference-arctic-photography-film-exploration-archive>* Registration:*free.

*Recent Publications:*
‘The Spectacle of ‘nothing’: the image, material and object in a 
Photographic Ecosystem of Antarctica’,/photographies/ (2021) 14, 3, 
pp.481-503.
‘The Strange Art of Scientific Photography: Anomalous Images 
of Antarctic Exploration’ in/The Empiricism of the Gaze. The Assignment 
of Meanings to Scientific Expedition Photography/, eds. Gisela Parak / 
Elke Bauer (Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2021), pp.74-85.
‘The Politics of Nostalgia: colourisation, archives and spectatorship’, 
special issue on Colour Contrast, Chromatic Connections in 
Cinema,/Comparative Cinema/, 2021, No.17. - December. 2021
/Gesture and Film: New Critical Perspectives/, eds. Chare and 
Watkins (Routledge 2017).


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