SELECT CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • ‘A Strange Tissue of Space and Time:’ Modernist Photobooks and Reproductive Value

    German Studies Conference, Atlanta, October 2024, Session: Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Reconsidered

    IMAGE: August Sander, Brick Layer, 1928

  • “What London Saw”: Gawkers, Sensation and Zepp Sunday

    Invited speaker: (Dangerous Crowds) in Pre-Modern and Modern History conference, Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, September 12-14 2024

  • A Tyranny of Intimacy: Stasi Surveillance and its Photographic Legacy

    Presented at the German Studies Conference, Montreal, October 4-8 2023.

    IMAGE: Excerpt from Simon Menner, Top Secret: Images from the Stasi Archive, 2013.

  • Moholy-Nagy: Photography, Light, Space, and Time

    Keynote Address: Times of Metaphor: A Symposium on the Temporal, Metaphorical, and the Still and Moving Image, Royal College of Art, London UK, 8 July 2022. Convened by Carmen Hannibal & Cole Robertson https://timesofmetaphor.wixsite.com/symposium.

  • Catastrophe & Calamity: Picturing British Disaster

    Presented at Disaster Discourse: Representations of Catastrophe, University of Bucharest, 2-4 June 2022. https://engleza.lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/

    IMAGE: H. Scott Orr, The destruction of airship SL-11 near London Sept 1916

  • H. Scott Orr, The destruction of airship SL-11 near London Sep 1916

    Anarchy and Calamity: Picturing British Disaster

    Presented at IMPACT, the AAANZ Conference, University of Sydney, 8-10 Dec 2021.

    IMAGE: H. Scott Orr, The destruction of airship SL-11 near London Sep 1916

  • Operation Overlord: Civilian Photography and Artistic Mediation

    Presented at the Photographic Digital Heritage: Institutions, Communities and The Political, convened by Gil Pasternak (De Montfort), UK October 2021

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  • The Doubled Self: Shadow Play, Photography, Surrealism

    Presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, USA, October 2021.

  • Photo: Francois Lagarde, on 25th April 1979/ALAMY

    Roland Barthes and Lost Images

    Presented at the Light Matters Symposium, UTS, 2019.

    IMAGE: Photo: Francois Lagarde, on 25th April 1979/Alamy

  • The Business of Photography & the Ministry for State Security in the GDR .

    The Business of Photography, Photographic History Research Centre conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, June 2019

    IMAGE: BStU Berlin

  • The Stasi Archive as Visual and Material History

    Material Practices of Visual History, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, 18-19 June 2018.

    IMAGE: BStU Berlin

  • After 1989: Photography and the German Landscape

    New Territories: Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photographic Practices, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 2017.

    Image: Thomas Struth

  • Witnessing the Archive: The Stasi, Photography and Escape from the GDR

    Photography.Ontology.Symposium, University of Sydney, 2-3 June, 2016.

    IMAGE: Arwed Messmer, using a print, call number BStU MfS HA IX Fo 2180 Bl. 0004.

  • Photography, Flight and Exile in Cold War Germany

    Passages of Exile Symposium, Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Dec 2016

    IMAGE: Imperial War Museum, Rvd Bernard Elsdo, HU 99609, HU 99582

  • Damaged: Ruin and Decay in Walker Evans’ Photographs

    Centre for Contemporary Photography. Walker Evans: Reading the Magazine Work, 7 October 2016.

    IMAGE: Walker Evans, Damaged, 1928-30

  • Ways of Looking

    Reframing Seeing and Knowing in the 21st Century Symposium, 20 February 2016. MAAS, Sydney

    Image: Thomas Ruff