Thursday, October 1 at 6:30 p.m.
Joan M. Schwartz
Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar, Department of Art, Queen's University
Rethinking the Discursive Origins of Photography: Alexander von Humboldt and the Pursuit of Geographical Knowledge
Thursday, October 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Louis Kaplan
Associate Professor of History and Theory of Photography, University of Toronto
Documenting Ghosts: The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
Thursday, November 5 at 6:30 p.m.
Jordana Mendelson
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University
Exhibiting the 1930s: Photography, Modernism, and Print Culture
Thursday, November 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Deepali Dewan
Curator, Royal Ontario Museum, and Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Visions of Colonialism and Modernity: 19th-century India and the Photographs of Deen Dayal
Thursday, November 26 at 6:30 p.m.
David Harris
Associate Professor, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University
Under the Loupe: Contact Sheets and the Creative Process
All lectures in the 2009-10 series will be held in the York Amphitheatre EV-1.615 on the ground floor of the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West. Metro Guy-Concordia. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Speaking of Photography is made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor, with additional support from the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art; the Concordia University Research Chair in Art History; Ciel Variable magazine; and Château Versailles Hotel.
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