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Presentations at a Glance

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Seminars and Workshops

9:00 am – 1:00 pm Student Seminar
Rose Island I Susan kae Grant & Mary Virginia Swanson, “Strategizing a Career in
Photography” and Keith Johnson, “Finding a Day Job to Pay for the
Photo Habit” (For Volunteers and Scholarship recipients only)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ilford Seminar
Rose Island I Randy Juster, “Inkjet Technology for the Artist”

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Adobe Seminar
Rose Island I Julieanne Kost, “Teaching Adobe Photoshop”


8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Keynote Speaker Presentation
Church Frank Gohlke, “Henry Thoreau, Herbert Gleason, Concord, and the Idea
of Place”


Friday, March 26, 2004

9:00-9:45 AM Presentations
Heritage Janice Levy, “Out of Place” (I)
Vanderbilt Monique Silverman and Lisa Quinn, “Converging on the ‘Real’:
Photographs and Literature of the American Civil War” (L)
Aquidneck Michelle Woodward, “Between Orientalist Tropes and Images of Modernization: Photographing the Ottoman Empire” (L)
Rose Island I Christine Gorby with David Gissen and Alexander Straub, “Capitalist Culture Imaged” (P) 105 minutes
Rose Island II Andy Grundberg with E. Brady Robinson, Jennifer Dorsey, Dean
Kessman, Muriel Hasbun, “Place Located Within Self and Culture” (P) 105 minutes

10:00-10:45 AM Presentations
Heritage Katharine Kreisher with Jeffrey Hoone and George Slade, “Home and
Away: Roger Mertin’s Journeys” (L)
Vanderbilt Christopher Burnett, “The New Landscape (in formation): Rethinking
Visual Studies” (L)
Aquidneck Janet Zandy, “Ghostly Workplaces and Displaced Workers:
Representations of the Changing Landscape of Labor” (L)
Rose Island I Gorby/Gissen/Straub Panel (cont’d)
Rose Island II Grundberg/Robinson/Dorsey/Kessma/Hasbun Panel (cont’d)

11:00-11:45 AM Regional Meetings
Heritage Southwest Regional Meeting
Vanderbilt West and Northwest Regional Meetings
Aquidneck Northeast Regional Meeting
Rose Island I Southeast and South Central Regional Meetings
Rose Island II Mid-Atlantic and Midwest Regional Meetings

11:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

1:00-1:45 PM Presentations
Heritage Liz Wells, “Facing East: Contemporary Landscape Photography from
Baltic Areas” (L)
Vanderbilt Joan Lyons, “Representations and Other Visual Narratives” (I)
Aquidneck Kathleen Robbins, “1,000 Beautiful Things” (I)
Rose Island I Ann Fessler, “Giving Voice to a Community Silenced by Shame” (I)
Rose Island II "Adventures in Photographic Book Publishing," with George F. Thompson of the Center for American Places, Darius Himes of photo-eye books & prints, and published Photographic Artist Joyce Tenneson (P) 105 minutes

2:00-2:45 PM Presentations
Heritage Francois Deschamps, “Photographing Paradise” (I)
Vanderbilt Joan Klatchko, “Levittown Revisited” (I)
Aquidneck Anthony Thompson, “Incendiary Iconography: The Legacy of the Cold
War in America” (I)
Rose Island I Christa Erickson, “Networked Interventions: Artists and the Public Space
of the Internet” (L)
Rose Island II "Adventures in Photographic Book Publishing" Panel (cont’d)

3:00-3:45 PM Presentations
Heritage Vincent Feldman, “Philadelphia: City Abandoned (Charting the Loss of
Civic Institutions in Philadelphia)” (I)
Vanderbilt Laura Burns and Rachel Schreiber; Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge;
Shalia George (Unseen America); and Sergio Muñoz-Sarmiento, “Work/Place” (P) 105 minutes
Aquidneck Teresa Tamura, “Remnants: The Minidoka Interment” (I)
Rose Island I Lauren Shaw, “Maine Women: Living on the Land, the Evolution of a
Photographic Project from Concept to Museum Installation” (L)
Rose Island II Stephen Marc, “Digital Documentary: Communities and Historic Sites” (I)

4:00-4:45 PM Presentations
Heritage Daniel Kariko, “Balkan Principle: The Aftermath” (I)
Vanderbilt Burns/Schreiber/Conde/Beveridge/George/Sarmiento Panel (cont’d)
Aquidneck Laura Larson, “Well-Appointed” (I)
Rose Island I Barry Anderson, “Between Expectation and the Everyday” (I)
Rose Island II Meridel Rubenstein, “Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam Photoworks
1980-2000” (I)


7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Featured Speaker Presentation
Church Mark Sealy, “Sense of Place and the Axis of Power”


8:45 pm – 10:15 pm Honored Educator Presentation
Church Jerome Liebling with introduction by Ken Burns: “My Photographs from
1947 to the Present: Their Humanist/Political Meaning During the Years of Change and Competing Choices”

Saturday, March 27, 2004

9:00-9:45 AM Presentations
Heritage James Lerager, ”Nuclear History/Nuclear Destiny and Beyond:
Documentary Photography, Social Science, and Public Policy” (I)
Vanderbilt Therese Mulligan, “The Colorama: Envisioning a National Identity in the
Postwar Era” (L)
Aquidneck Toshi Ueshina, “Enghi Journey” (I)
Rose Island I Deborah Whaley, “With/Out Sanctuary: Teaching Race, Trauma, and
Collective Memory Through Photography” (L)
Rose Island II Gary Metz, “Quaking Aspen: Populous Tremuloides-Observations Made
in Reciprocal Landscape” (I)

10:00-10:45 AM Presentations
Heritage Marie-Susanne Langille, “Community Photojournalism in Jasper, Indiana,
at the Herald” (I)
Vanderbilt Liz Lee with Marni Shindelman, Gary Kolb, Ken White and Michael
Ensdorf, “Experiences in Academic Survival” (P) 105 minutes
Aquidneck Graduate Student Presentations (20 minutes each, double slot)
Joy Christiansen, “Woman Made” I)
Maria Colon & Keith Jules, “Southern Baggage: Northern Cross” (I)
Sarina Finkelstein, “On Stage in Central Park” (I)
Christopher Jordan, “Technology and a Personal Aesthetics of Place” (I)
Tarrah Susan Krajnak, “Examining the Family Album” (I)
Rose Island I Walter Bodle with Alejandro Tomas, “Blue Earth Alliance: Supporting
Photographers Wanting to Make a Difference” (L)
Rose Island II Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, “ The Work We Make: Content and
Collaboration” (I)

11:00-11:45 AM Presentations
Heritage Nancy Whipple Grinnell, “Rhode Island as Place: Gertrude Käsebier and
Lewis Hine” (L)
Vanderbilt Lee/Shindelman/Kolb/White/Ensdorf Panel (cont’d)
Aquidneck Graduate Student Presentations (cont’d – see above for titles)
Rose Island I William Williams, “The Underground Railroad Made Visible” (I)
Rose Island II Dan Burden, “Images of Change: Documenting the Move to a New
American Nation” (L)

12:00-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00-2:45 PM Presentations
Heritage James Yarnall, “It’s Just Paradise” (L)
Vanderbilt Susan Ressler, “Women Photographers in California: A Tribute to Peter E.
Palmquist” (L)
Aquidneck Andrew Hershberger, “Re-Placing the Tijuana/San Diego Border circa 1985: Jay Dusard and the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo”
(L)
Rose Island I Amy Holmes George with Lawrence McFarland, Kenda North and Anna
Tomczak, “Study Abroad: Bridging the Educational Gap” (P) 105 minutes
Rose Island II Dan Schlapbach, “A Stereoscopic Journey through the Land of Uz” (I)

3:00-3:45 PM Presentations
Heritage Janet Pritchard, “Seeking Home” (I)
Vanderbilt Gretchen Garner, “The Sixties, A Turning Point in American
Photography” (L)
Aquidneck Paola Ferrario, “Borders of Labor: The Landscape of New Immigrants in Italy” (I)
Rose Island I George/McFarland/North/Tomczak Panel (cont’d)
Rose Island II Nick Tobier, “Scenic Backdrop or Starring Role? The Role of the
Background in the Foreground of Social Status” (L)

Conference 2004

Photography And Place:
Home-Neighborhood-Nation-World

Newport, RI, March 25-28, 2004
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