2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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exhibitions
morning
9:00AM - 8:00PM
Celestin Foyer
Registration and SPE Store Open
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Imperial 5ab
Student Seminar: " A Life in Art: The Realities and the Economy"
Open to volunteers & scholarshop recipients only
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Imperial 4
Regional Affairs Committee Meeting
SPE Business Meeting
10:25AM - 11:45AM
Celestin GH
Tulane University, "Contemporary Art Climate: The Model of New Orleans Collectives"
Industry Seminar with, Emily Wilkerson, Sesthasak Boonchai, Tony Campbell, Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa
10:30AM - 5:45PM
Industry Seminars
Open to all registered attendees
10:30AM - 11:45AM
Celestin AC
A Panel Discussion Moderated by Brenda K. Hipsher: "Teaching Color Management in Digital Photography and Video"
Industry Seminar
8:00AM - 5:30PM
Celestin Foyer
Registration and SPE Store Open.
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Imperial 1
Friday Multicultural Caucus Meeting
8:30AM - 3:30PM
Strand 12 & 13
Student Portfolio Critiques
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Storyville Hall
Exhibits Fair, Silent Auction & Raffle Items on View
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Imperial 9
SPE Film Festival
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin FGH
Mind the Gap: Surviving the Paradigm Shift in Photographic Education
Erin Jennings, Coriana Close, Matthew Clowney, & Michael Darough
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Celestin BC
BagNewsNotes: Visualizing Photojournalism in Today's Media and Social Media Ecology, and the Atmosphere for Literacy
Michael Shaw
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Celestin E
Create Demand for Your Work
Jennifer Schwartz
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Celestin D
The Home Stage
Jessica Todd Harper
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Celestin A
The Art and Science of Climate Change
Melissa Fleming
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin E
Creating Temporal Environments
Adam Ekberg - 2015 Imagemaker Award Winner
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin D
Picture a Cake...
Darlene Kaczmarczyk
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin BC
Photography for Educators: Using Photography to Engage with Learners Across Disciplines
Eliza Lamb
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin A
Exploring Society Through Photography: Connecting Students to Community
Renee Billingslea
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Imperial 5
SPE Members Meeting
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Imperial 1
Saturday Women's Caucus Meeting
8:30AM - 5:30PM
Celestin Foyer
Registration & SPE Store Open
8:30AM - 3:30PM
Strand 12 & 13
Professional Portfolio Reviews
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Imperial 9
SPE Film Festival
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin FGH
Lure of the Local: Issues in Photographing the Familiar
Natalie Zelt, Aaron Blum, Eliza Lamb, Kurt Simonson, & Ashly Stohl
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Celestin E
Projecting the Sky: Photography and the Planetarium/Atmospherium
Chris Burnett
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Celestin D
100 Years of Dust: Owens Lake and the Los Angeles Aqueduct
Jennifer Little
10:00AM - 4:30PM
Storyville Hall
Exhibits Fair, Silent Auction and Raffle Items on View
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin D
Exposed in a Hundred Suns: US-Japan Nuclear Legacies and the New Daguerreotypes as Micro-monuments
Takashi Arai
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Celestin E
Teaching the Business of Art: Incorporating Professional Development and Industry in the Classroom
Becky Olstad
10:00AM - 10:20AM
Celestin A
Unmanned Landscapes
Justin Ward
10:25AM - 10:45AM
Celestin A
David and Rosemary
Linda Smith
10:50AM - 11:10AM
Celestin A
Political and Economical Climates/Gross Domestic Product Reports
Sheida Soleimani
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Celestin E
Tributes to the Data Stream
Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Celestin D
Hacking the Digital Print
Bonny Lhotka
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Celestin FGH
Parallax Errors Aligning Concept with Material in Photographic Practice
Michelle Tinta & Mary Costello
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Celestin BC
In the Ghetto of Warsaw: Heinrich Jost Photographs
Karey Walter
11:15AM - 11:35AM
Celestin A
Man to Man: Expectation, Performance, and Desire within the Male Gender
Chadric Devin
11:40AM - 12:00PM
Celestin A
"I Could Go with You.": Double Literacy in Photography
Michelle Bablitz
afternoon
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Celestin AC
Victor Ha: "6K Video Capture and Its Impact on Photographic Education"
Industry Seminar
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Celestin GH
Jennifer Kilberg, "Vision + U = Success"
Industry Seminar
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Celestin BC
Michelle Bogre, "Photography 4.0: An Educator's Forum"
Industry Seminar
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Celestin GH
Andrew Fingerman, "Growing Your Audience: The Secret Sauce is You"
Industry Seminar
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Celestin BC
Grant Scott, "The New Global Landscape of Photography"
Industry Seminar
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Celestin GH
Lynn Kyle, "Estimating with Confidence"
Industry Seminar
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Imperial 5ab
Thursday Multicultural Caucus Meeting
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Imperial 5ab
Thursday Women's Caucus Meeting
4:30PM - 5:45PM
Celestin BC
Eric Joseph, "The World of Inkjet Papers"
Industry Seminar
4:30PM - 5:45PM
Celestin GH
Judy Herrmann, "Launch Your Career"
Industry Seminar
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin FGH
Should there be Queer Photography Archives?
Sunil Gupta, Jesse Kahn, Hinda Schuman, & Charan Singh
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin BC
Shooting for the Stars: Starting on the Path to Success in Academia
Rebecca Nolan, Jay Gould, Kathleen Robbins, & Jim Stone
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Celestin D
50 Greenspace Dumpsites
Christine Holtz & Lauren Zadikow
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Celestin A
Online Photography for Study Abroad/Away: This Is My World!
Peter Glendinning
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin E
Earth Now: The Autobiography of an Exhibition
Katherine Ware
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin D
Sometimes You're the Garfunkel: Navigating the Troubled Waters of Collaborative Teaching
Nancy Daly & Kim Llerena
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Celestin E
Beyond the Document - Photography, Video and Antarctica
Liz Wells
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Celestin BC
ANTARCTICA: From "Whiteout" to "Bitch in Slippers"
Anne Noble
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Celestin A
Lars and the Real Girl Vs. Laurie Simmons: Titillation, Sexuality and Provocation in the Utilization of Dolls and Mannequins
Philip Krejcarek
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Celestin FGH
The Art of Plenoptics
Jeffery Wolin, Georgi Chunev, Andrew Lumsdaine, & Zachary Norman
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Celestin BC
Northeast Regional Meeting
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Celestin A
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Imperial 5
Southeast Regional Meeting
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Exhibits Hall Meeting Room
South Central Regional Meeting
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Celestin FGH
Midwest Regional Meeting
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Imperial 1
Southwest Regional Meeting
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Imperial 9
West Regional Meeting
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Imperial 10
Northwest Regional Meeting
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin FGH
Lee Friedlander: Playing for the Benefit of the Band
Stephen Hilger, Benjamin Jaffe, Russell Lord, & Bruce Boyd Raeburn
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Celestin D
The Endangered Coast, Climate Change and the Rising Sea
John Ganis
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Celestin BC
An Antebellum Shift: The Introduction of the Negative into the American Daguerreian Community
David Hanlon
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Celestin E
To Majority Minority
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin D
Digital Humanities and the Documentary Arts
Ruth Dusseault
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin BC
Devil's Promenade
Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Celestin A
Visual Decision Making Through Photo Editing
Marie-Susanne Langille
evening
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Imperial 10
Student Volunteer Training 2
For registered student volunteers only
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Celestin Ballroom
Thursday Evening Guest Speaker: Rebecca Solnit
"Devils In the Details: Photographs, Maps, Words, Truths, and Adventures from Yosemite to New Orleans"
8:30PM - 10:00PM
Elite Foyer
Opening Night Welcome Reception
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Celestin Ballroom
Friday Evening Guest Speaker: Chris Jordan
"Atmospheres of Mind/Heart: Facing the Realities of Our Times"
8:30PM - 11:00PM
Elite Hall A
Curator Portfolio Walkthrough
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Celestin Ballroom
Saturday Evening Guest Speaker: Hank Willis Thomas
"I Am. Amen."
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