2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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exhibitions
morning
8:00AM - 10:00AM
Final Student Volunteer Training
9:30AM - 6:30PM
Franklin Foyer
Registration
9:30AM - 5:30PM
Franklin Foyer
SPE Store
10:00AM - 5:00PM
Franklin Foyer
Informal Portfolio Sharing
10:30AM - 11:45AM
Salon AB
"Toying with Creativity: The Joys & Frustrations of Plastic Cameras"
8:00AM - 4:00PM
Franklin Foyer
Registration continues
8:00AM - 4:00PM
Franklin B
Exhibits Fair/Silent Auction & Raffle Items on View/SPE Store
8:00AM - 10:00AM
Franklin B
Breakfast with the Exhibitors
8:00AM - 8:45AM
Room 413
Women's Caucus Meeting
8:30AM - 8:30AM
Room 406
Check-in for Student Portfolio Critiques
9:00AM - 3:45PM
Room 410
Film Festival
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Room 407-409
Student Portfolio Session
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon B
"Language and Identity, Opportunities and Communities"
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon F
"Framing the Family Photograph"
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Room 411-412
Adobe Demo Session: "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: From Shoot to Image Library"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Salon A
"Walker Evans's Racial Mirror: White Identity in Photographs of African Americans"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Salon CD
"This is NOT Your Caribbean Get-Away Picture-Postcard Tropical Paradise: Post-Colonial Cultural Iden
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Salon E
"Schools for the Colored"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon A
"Seeing Beyond Dirt: The Language of Working-Class Photography"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon CD
"Art, Freedom and Code: Open Source + Collective Creativity = Endless Possibilities"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon E
"Autograph ABP: The Missing Chapter"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Room 411-412
Northwest Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Room 414-415
South Central Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon A
Northeast Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon B
Southwest Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon C
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon D
West Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Southeast Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon F
Midwest Regional Meeting
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Lunch Break
8:00AM - 2:00PM
Franklin Foyer
Registration continues
8:00AM - 9:30AM
Salon A
Industry & Education Forum
8:30AM - 8:30AM
Room 406
Check-in for Professional Portfolio Sessions
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Room 407-409
Professional Portfolio Session
9:00AM - 2:45PM
Room 410
Film Festival
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Room 413
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
9:30AM - 4:30PM
Franklin B
Exhibits Fair/Silent Auction & Raffle items on view/SPE store open
10:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon B
"Bend Me, Shape Me: Self Portraiture and Stereotype"
10:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon CD
"Re-Thinking Photographic Education: Expanding the Canon"
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Room 411-412
"Adobe Photoshop Best Practices"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon A
"Photographic Digital Sublime: An Empirical Study of Its Medium, Style, Aesthetics, and Knowledge"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon E
"Is There a Latino Photographic History?"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Salon F
"The Color of Skin"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon A
"Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon E
"Dust Shaped Hearts"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Salon F
"Ancestral Presence"
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Lunch Break
9:30AM - 12:30PM
Salon AB
Informal Portfolio Sharing
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Salon C
"Round Table: Keeping Art Alive in Our Communities"
10:00AM - 12:00PM
The Print Center
"Reexamining the Position of the Curator in Contemporary Photography"
afternoon
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Student Volunteer Training
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Salon AB
"Digital Color Management in Contemporary Photography"
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Salon CD
"What Every Photographer Should Know About Copyright"
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Salon AB
"Multimedia Crash Course for Photography Students"
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Salon CD
"I Need a Workflow That Works for Me"
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Salon AB
"What's New in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom"
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Salon CD
"Digital Photography Education -- Thinking at the Next Level"
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Room 406
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Room 413
Women's Caucus Meeting
4:30PM - 5:45PM
Salon AB
"19th Century Photography in the 21st Century"
4:30PM - 5:45PM
Salon CD
"Breaking into the Biz: What Every Student Photographer Should Know"
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Salon A
"Self as Object: Perspectives of Identity"
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Room 411-412
"Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: From Image Library to Finish"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Salon B
"Identity and the American Landscape"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Salon CD
"It Is Not in What You Teach, but Who You Teach"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Salon E
"Color Falls Down"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Salon F
"A Shadow, A Trace, Impossible Is Nothing"
2:00PM - 3:45PM
Salon E
"Unexpected Desire"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Salon B
"Inside/Outside"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Salon CD
"Remains"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Salon F
"A Civil Rights Memorial"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Salon A
"The Vasa-Project: Beyond the Classroom Walls"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Salon B
"Working Collaboratively-Teaching Collaboration"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Salon CD
"Making Devices"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Salon F
"Our Stories, Our Voices: Adoptee Korean Artists"
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Salon B
"Representing Diversity: Art, Immigration, and the Formation of Cultural Identity"
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Salon F
"Visual Sovereignty: Contemporary Native American Photography and the Politics of Imagination"
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Room 411-412
"Beyond Photoshop-What Next?"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Salon CD
"Empowering and Connecting Teens Through Photography & Filmmaking"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Salon E
"The Self in Black and White: A Conversation with Bill Gaskins and Erina Duganne"
1:00PM - 1:20PM
Salon A
"Texas Fireworks"
1:25PM - 1:45PM
Salon A
"The Flowing View: Lessons from East Asian Landscape Traditions"
1:50PM - 2:10PM
Salon A
"Afghan/American: Family Politics in the Afghan Diaspora"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Salon E
"House of Nicéphore Niépce: A Retrospective"
2:15PM - 2:35PM
Salon A
"Eleven Megachurches"
2:40PM - 3:00PM
Salon A
"Forget Me Not"
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Franklin B
Silent Auction and Raffle
evening
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Student Volunteer Training
5:45PM - 7:00PM
Dinner Break
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Salon EF
"I Hope You Don't Mind Me Asking, But ..."
8:30PM - 10:00PM
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Welcome Reception
10:00PM - 12:00AM
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Late Night Informal Portfolio Sharing
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Salon EF
"Visual Sovereignty: International Indigenous Photography"
6:00PM - 7:00PM
DInner Break
6:30PM - 10:00PM
PPAC/Gallery 339 Bus Trip
6:30PM - 9:30PM
Tyler School of Art Bus Trip
6:30PM - 6:30PM
First Friday Events in Philadelphia
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Rooms 407-408
RIT Reunion
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Room 409
Art Institutes International Reunion
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Room 413
Photo Centers Mixer, "The Photography Center's Role in the Photographic Community"
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Salon EF
Awards Presentation
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Salon EF
"Beyond Diversity and Toward Inclusivity"
8:00PM - 10:30PM
Salon ABCD
Curator Portfolio Walk-Through
8:00PM - 10:00PM
Dinner Break
10:30PM - 1:30AM
Salon EF
Dance Party
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