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Society for Photographic Education
43rd National Conference in Chicago

A New Pluralism: Photography's Future

March 23-26, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois
Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (as of 3/9/05)

printable schedule (476K PDF)

 

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Calumet OFFSITE 1:00 - 5:00 p Digital Workflow Workshop- Patricia Russotti from RIT
Michigan A&B 3:00 - 5:00 p Student Volunteer Training
OFFSITE 5:00 p David Bate, Zone
Lecture at MoCP, 600 S. Michigan
Michigan A&B 6:30 – 8:00 p John Paul Caponigro, Reflections
Sponsored by Canon, Inc. and Calumet Photographic
Michigan A&B 9:00 - 11:00 p Student Volunteer Training

 

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Parlor F 8:00 - 10:00 a Final Volunteer Training
Ontario 9:00 a - 12:00 p Publishing Seminar, Publishing the Photographic Book: A Primer Darius Himes, Jim Stone and Joanna Hurley
Michigan A&B 9:00 a - 1:00 p Student Seminar (volunteers & scholarship recipients only)
River Exhibition Promenade 9:00 a - 4:00 p SPE Store
Calumet OFFSITE 9:00 a – 5:00 p Digital Workflow Workshop
Presented by Patricia Russotti from RIT
Sponsored by Calumet
River Exhibition Promenade 9:00 a - 6:30 p Registration
Superior A 10:00 - 11:45 a Academic Practicum Workshops: Career Track
Educating the Next Generation of Photo Educators
Glenn Rand with Beth Linn, Jane Alden Stevens and Richard Zakia (panel discussion)
Superior B 10:00 - 11:45 a Academic Practicum Workshops: Pedagogical Track
Photographic Education Today
Richard Newman with Dennis Keeley and Ed Myers (panel discussion)
Ballroom Promenade 10:00 a - 5:00 p Informal Portfolio Sharing
Michigan A&B 1:00 - 2:30p Digital Color Management in Contemporary Photography
Presented by Tom P. Ashe
Sponsored by The MAC Group and X-Rite Photographic Marketing
Superior A 1:00 - 2:45 p Academic Practicum Workshops: Career Track
Part Time Pay/Full Time Responsibility – Are Adjuncts Getting The Shaft??
Colette Copeland with Cate Fallon and Brian Moss (panel discussion)
Superior B 1:00 - 2:45 p Academic Practicum Workshops: Pedagogical Track
Chasing The Monkey: Digital Photography And The State Institution
Calla Thompson (lecture)
Parlor G 1:00 - 2:45 p Academic Practicum Workshops: Career Track
Dossier Building Workshop
Libby Rowe with Jessica Jacobs and Marni Shindelman (hands-on workshop)
Parlor B 1:00 - 2:45 p Academic Practicum Workshops: Pedagogical Track
Critique as Method of Critical Engagement
Mariah Doren (lecture/workshop)
River Exhibition Hall A 11:00 a Check-in for Portfolio Reviews
River Exhibition Hall A 1:00 - 5:15 p Portfolio Reviews
Michigan A&B 2:30 - 4:00 p Adobe Seminar
Presented by Julieanne Kost
Sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated
Parlor F 3:00 - 4:00 p Multicultural Caucus Meeting
Parlor E 4:00 - 5:00 p Women’s Caucus Meeting
  5:00 - 7:00 p Dinner Break
Chicago Ballroom 8-10 7:00 - 8:30 p Keynote Speaker - Henry Jenkins, I Want to Teach the World to See: Amateur Photography, Participatory Culture and Media Convergence
Sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company
Ballroom Promenade 8:30 - 10:00 p Welcome Reception
Ballroom Promenade 10:00 p - 12:00 a Late Night Informal Portfolio Sharing

 

Friday, March 24, 2006

Parlor E 8:00 - 8:45 a Women’s Caucus Meeting
River Exhibition Hall B 8:00 - 10:00 a Breakfast with the Sponsors
River Exhibition Hall B 8:00 a - 3:00 p Exhibits Fair
River Exhibition Hall B 8:00 a - 3:00 p SPE Store
River Exhibition Promenade 8:00 a - 4:00 p Registration continues
River Exhibition Hall A 8:30 a Check-in for Portfolio Reviews
River Exhibition Hall A 9:00 a - 3:30 p Portfolio Reviews
All Presentation Rooms 9:00 - 10:45 a General Session Presentations
Huron Room 11:00 - 11:45a Northeast Regional Meeting
Ontario Room 11:00 - 11:45a Midwest Regional Meeting
Erie Room 11:00 - 11:45a Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
Parlor A 11:00 - 11:45a Southeast Regional Meeting
Parlor B 11:00 - 11:45a South Central Regional Meeting
Parlor E 11:00 - 11:45a Northwest Regional Meeting
Parlor F 11:00 - 11:45a Southwest Regional Meeting
Parlor G 11:00 - 11:45a West Regional Meeting
  11:45a - 1:00 p Lunch Break
All Presentation Rooms 1:00 - 3:45 p General Session Presentations
Chicago Ballroom 8-10 4:00 - 4:15 p Crystal Apple and SPE Student Awards
Sponsored by Freestyle Photographic
Chicago Ballroom 8-10 4:15 - 5:30 p Honored Educator - Carl Toth, Visual Semantics in a Technological Age
Sponsored by Sprint Systems of Photography
Michigan A&B 5:30 - 6:30 p Members Meeting
  6:30 - 9:30 p Dinner Break
Gallery Reception/offsite 6:30 - 9:30 p Reception to Museum of Contemporary Photography
Ballroom Promenade 9:00 - 12:00 a Late Night Informal Portfolio Sharing

FRIDAY PRESENTATIONS

9:00 - 9:45 a  
Huron Carol Golemboski, Psychometry (imagemaker)
Ontario David Bate, A New Photographic Space (lecture)
Erie Ruth Dusseault, Watching Place-Making: Atlantic Steel Redevelopment Project (imagemaker)
Superior A&B Gary Kolb, Digital Migration: One Program's Journey (lecture)
Michigan A&B Invited Speaker - Kerry James Marshall, The Last Picture Show (imagemaker)
10:00 - 10:45 a  
Huron Peter HappelChristian, Brief Notes on Existence (imagemaker)
Ontario Martin Lister, Photography and Information (lecture)
Erie Margaret Denton, Looking at the Future from the Past: The Reception of Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France (lecture)
Superior A&B Susana Reisman, Inside Out (imagemaker)
Michigan A&B Marshall cont.
11:00 - 11:45a Regional Meetings
11:45 - 1:00 p Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:45 p  
Huron Jane Button, Forms in Flux: The Shifting Sites of Photographic Practice (lecture)
Ontario Corinne Rose, Inspiring Teens' Voice and Vision: Educational Outreach at the MoCP (lecture)
Erie Javier Carmona, Epic Photography, Revisited (imagemaker)
Superior A&B Andrew Hershberger, Daguerre's Diorama: A Bit of Photography's Pluralistic Future in its Pre-History? (lecture)
Michigan A&B Therese Mulligan w/ Patricia Russotti & Greg Barnett, Putting the Digital in Photographic Education (panel discussion)
2:00 - 2:45 p  
Huron Sant Khalsa w/ B.H. Fairchild, The Death of the Heart (imagemaker)
Ontario Thomas Shirley w/ Bob Thall, George F. Thompson, Ben Gest, Justin Kimball & Andrew Borowiec, Columbia College Chicago: Explorations in Book Publishing (panel discussion)
Erie Michael Marshall, Natural Histories: Narratives in Science and Personal Experience (imagemaker)
Superior A&B Andrew John Liccardo w/ Rick Dingus, Miguel Gandert, Deborah Luster & William E. Tydeman, El Llano Estacado: A Cultural and Geographical Island in the Sky (panel discussion)
Michigan A&B Mulligan panel cont
3:00 - 3:45 p  
Huron Douglas Holleley, On the Reading of Images (imagemaker)
Ontario Shirley panel cont
Erie April Watson, The Problem of the Polish Venus: the Liminal Subject in Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits (lecture)
Superior A&B Liccardo panel cont.
Michigan A&B Michael J. Emme, Darkroom Hermeneutics: Photography as Metaphor and Method in Qualitative Research (lecture)

 

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Parlor F 8:00 - 8:45 a Multicultural Caucus Meeting
Michigan A&B 8:00 - 8:45 a Calumet Panel & Breakfast
River Exhibition Promenade 8:00 a - 2:00 p Registration continues
River Exhibition Hall A 8:30 a Check-in for Portfolio Reviews
River Exhibition Hall A 9:00 a - 3:30 p Portfolio Reviews
All Presentation Rooms 9:00 - 11:45 a General Session Presentations
River Exhibition Hall B 10:00 a - 4:30 p Exhibits Fair
River Exhibition Hall B 10:00 a - 4:30 p SPE Store
  11:45 - 1:00 p Lunch Break
All Presentation Rooms 1:00 - 2:45 p General Session Presentations
River Exhibition Hall B 3:00 - 4:00 p Silent Auction and Raffle
Chicago Ballroom 8-10 4:30 - 6:00 p Featured Speaker - Barbara Stafford, Beyond the Atomistic Aperture: The Spiritual History of Apparatus
Sponsored by Calumet Photographic and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
  6:30 - 8:30 p Dinner Break
Erie Room 6:00 - 7:00 p The Photography Institute Reunion
Huron Room 6:00 - 7:00 p Arizona State University Reunion
Superior Room 6:00 - 7:00 p Rochester Institute of Technology Reunion
Michigan Room 6:00 - 7:00 p Cranbrook Academy of Art Reunion
Ontario Room 6:00 - 7:00 p School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  6:00 - 8:30 p Dinner Break
Parlor F 8:30 p - 10:00 p Women’s Caucus Videos
Chicago Ballroom 8-10 9:30 p Melanie Walker & George Peters, Smoke and Mirrors
Chicago Ballroom 8-10 9:30 p - 12:30 a Dance Party
Sponsored by Mamiya America Corporation and Melanie Walker & George Peters, Smoke and Mirrors

SATURDAY PRESENTATIONS

9:00 - 9:45 a  
Huron Wilka Roig w/ Tarrah Krajnak, Photography, Performance & Subjectivity (imagemaker)
Ontario April Katz, Photography and the New Genetic Pluralism (lecture)
Erie Todd Wemmer, Talking about the Visual (lecture)
Superior A&B Rebecca Sittler w/ Caroline Burghardt, Adam Lampton and Lyssa Palu-ay, The Shared Photographic Moment in Post-Directorial Photography (panel discussion)
Michigan A&B E. Brady Robinson w/ Kristen Hileman (Moderator), Roberto Bocci, Dean Kessmann, John Pickel, New Media and Photography; Inside/Outside Academia (panel discussion)
10:00 - 10:45 a  
Huron Grad Track: Beau Comeaux, It's Blurry, Isn't That Art? (10:00 - 10:20 a)
Huron Grad Track: Mary Goodwin, Auto Obscura: The Car Nation (10:25 - 10:45 a)
Ontario Nina Levitt w/ Katherine Knight, Vid Ingelevics & Robert Bean, Towards a New Pluralism: Research and Collaboration in Canadian Photographic Practices (panel discussion)
Erie Jeffrey A. Wolin, Inconvenient Stories: Vietnam War Veterans Portraits and Text (imagemaker)
Superior A&B Sittler panel cont.
Michigan A&B Robinson panel cont.
11:00 - 11:45 a  
Huron Grad Track: Jyl Kelley, Pinholes: Stitching Time Together (10:50 - 11:10 a)
Huron Grad Track: Steven Krutek, Photography's History of Plurality (11:15 - 11:35 a)
Huron Grad Track: Alexandra Oliver, The Conformist and the Critic: Photography and the Development of the Culture Industry (11:40 - 12:00 n)
Ontario Levitt panel cont.
Erie Carol Flax, Change and Resistance: A Personal Report on Changing Photographic Practice (lecture)
Superior A&B Jawshing Arthur Liou, Blood Work (imagemaker)
Michigan A&B Liz Wells, Landscape, Geography and Topographic Photography (lecture)
11:45 - 1:00 p Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:45 p  
Huron Adrienne Pao w/ Dore Bowen, Morgan Konn, Robin Lasser, Melanie Pullen, Erin V. Sotak, The Allure of Being Desired: Photographers Re-Vision Fashion (panel discussion)
Ontario Michael Ensdorf w/ Stephen Komp and Vagner Whitehead, Hybrid Practices: From Photography to Video (panel discussion)
Erie Alexander Mouton w/ Christian Faur, Ethereal Landscapes (imagemaker)
Superior A&B Mary Virginia Swanson, More Than a Portfolio Piece: Making the Most of your Digital Self-Promotions (lecture)
Michigan A&B Christa Kreeger Bowden w/ Ruth Adams, Darryl Curran & Maggie Taylor, Scanner as Camera (panel discussion)
2:00 - 2:45 p  
Huron Pao panel cont.
Ontario Ensdorf panel cont.
Erie Jane Tormey, Photography Traversing Domains: the literal, the non-literal and the literary (lecture)
Superior A&B Jonathan Gitelson w/ Brian Ulrich & Matt Siber, Promotion, Advertising and Branding: New Trends in Chicago Photography (imagemaker)
Michigan A&B Bowden panel cont.

 

Sunday, March 26, 2006

9:30 a - 12:30 p  
Parlor F Women’s Caucus Videos
Chicago Ballroom 8-10 Open Portfolio Sharing

 

Conference 2006

A New Pluralism:
Photography's Future

Chicago, Illinois
March 23-26, 2006

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