2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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Past SPE Annual Conferences
exhibitions
morning
8:00AM - 7:00PM
Franklin Hall Foyer
Registration & SPE Store Open
8:00AM - 11:00AM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Student Seminar, "Strategizing a Career in Photography"
with Mary Virginia Swanson and Susan kae Grant
9:00AM - 6:00PM
Meeting Room 306
2018 SPE Media Festival
10:30AM - 11:30AM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Screening of: "Patrick Nagatani: LIVING IN THE STORY"
8:00AM - 5:30PM
Franklin Hall Foyer
Registration & SPE Store Open
8:00AM - 10:00AM
Meeting Room 302-303
High School Educators Meeting
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Meeting Room 304-305
Industry & Education Forum
Industry, Educators, and Students
9:00AM - 6:00PM
Meeting Room 306
2018 SPE Media Festival
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Liberty Ballroom (Headhouse Tower)
Student Portfolio Critiques
Registration Required
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
"Foreign Domestic: Identification, Differentiation and Related Strategies in Social Documentary Practice"
Matt Eich, Annie Flanagan, Jared Ragland, and Catherine Wilkins (P)
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Dialogic: MALE IDENTITY
David Barnes, Kelvin Burzon, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Kerry Skarbakka
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
Adobe Demo Session, "Lightroom Classic CC: Insider Secrets"
with Julieanne Kost
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
""White Trash" and "Dirty Mexicans": The Legacy of the FSA Photographic Archive in Imagining Citizens"
Lisa Kaplan (L)
10:00AM - 4:30PM
Franklin Hall B
Exhibits Fair
Silent Auction, Raffle, Demos, Book Signings
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Independence Ballroom I
Career Mentoring
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Meeting Room 304-305
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
"At the Edge of the World"
Nadia Sablin (I)
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Meeting Room 302-303
Women's Caucus Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
"#1960Now: We Love Our People"
Sheila Pree Bright, 2018 Imagemaker Award Winner
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
"Identity: Community & The Global Refugee Crisis"
Marti Corn and Rebecca Hopp (T&L)
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
"KHRONIKY"
Lucia Nimcova (I)
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
""The Decisive Moment": Photography, Sovereignty, Exceptionality"
Jonathan Fardy (L)
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Meeting Room 302-303
Women's Caucus Meeting
8:30AM - 6:30PM
Franklin Hall Foyer
Registration & SPE Store Open
9:00AM - 6:00PM
Meeting Room 306
2018 SPE Media Festival
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Independence Ballroom II & III (Headhouse Tower)
Professional Portfolio Reviews
Registration Required
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
"Everyday I'm Hustlin': Artists Talk about Money"
Jess Dugan, Clarissa Bonet, Kevin Miyazaki, and Rafael Soldi (P)
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Dialogic: MATERIALITY
Elizabeth Claffey, Maria Dumlao, Christine Elfman, Meggan Gould, Garrett Hansen
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
Adobe Demo Session, "Photoshop CC: Beyond the Obvious"
with Julieanne Kost
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
"Undoing Conditioning: Towards a Reciprocal Pedagogical Practice in the Middle East"
Claire Giddings, Ramy Khair, and Heather O'Brien ( T&L)
10:00AM - 4:30PM
Franklin Hall B
Exhibits Fair
Silent Auction, Raffle, Demos, Book Signings
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Independence Ballroom I
Career Mentoring
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
"Uncovering The Museum of the Old Colony"
Pablo Delano (I)
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
""The Place No One Knew" and the Reemergence of a Drowned River"
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (I)
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
"Beyond Tolerance: Pedagogy as Resistance"
Lorenzo Triburgo (T&L)
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
"Corrections: Identification, Influence, and Image"
Zora Murff (I)
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
"Where the Migrants Sleep: The Photographic Practices of Tina Enghoff and Magnus Wennman"
Maria Nilsson (L)
9:00AM - 2:00PM
Informal Portfolio Reviews
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Independence Ballroom III
High School Educator Meeting
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Independence Ballroom III
LGBTQ Caucus Mentoring Sessions
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building
"Keith Smith at Home" Exhibition Tour for SPE Conference Attendees
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Julien Levy Gallery, Perelman Building
afternoon
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Meeting Room 305
Student Volunteer Training 1
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Meeting Room 302-303
SPE Annual Members' Meeting & Roundtable
All welcome!
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Graduate Presentations
Razan AlSalah, Fatemeh Baigmoradi, Peter Hiatt, Melissa Kreider, Emily Wiethorn
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Dialogic: COMMUNITY
Genevieve Allison & Elliot Ross, Claire Beckett, Hellen Gaudence, Anne Goldberg & Maxine Payne, Soon-Hwa Oh
12:00PM - 12:45PM
Chapter Meetings
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
"Diane Dammeyer Fellowship for Photographic Arts & Social Issues: An Entrepreneurial Model Building Bridges between Photography, Social Engagement, Community, Social Justice, and Education"
Anahid Ghorbani, Betsy Leonard, and Judy Natal (P)
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Meeting Room 304-305
LGBTQ Caucus Meeting
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
"Migration of Memory"
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (I)
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
"The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios"
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (I)
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
"Jeffrey Stockbridge: Kensington Blues"
Jeffrey Stockbridge
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Liberty Ballroom Foyer
Ask an Editor
SPE's Exposure Editor, Stacy J. Platt
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Adobe Demo Session, "Lightroom CC: The Evolution Continues"
with Julieanne Kost
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Daniel Milnor: "The Future of Self-Publishing for Photographers"
Sponsored by Blurb, Inc.
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Meeting Room 302-303
Contingent Faculty Caucus Meeting
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
"Deconstructing Robert Capa's D-Day: The Unmaking of a Myth"
A. D. Coleman
3:15PM - 4:15PM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Eric Joseph: "The World of Inkjet Paper...The Print Matters!"
Sponsored by Freestyle Photo and Imaging Supplies
3:15PM - 4:15PM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
Nino Rakichevich: "How to See Beyond the Obvious!"
sponsored by Sony
12:15PM - 12:45PM
Franklin Hall B
Silent Auction Closing
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Grand Ballroom Salon K
Adobe Demo Session, "Showcasing Work: Adobe Spark, Behance, and Portfolio"
with Julieanne Kost
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
"Ever Farther"
Sama Alshaibi (I)
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
"From GO NO GO to La Grieta: European Photobooks on Borders, Immigration and Refugees"
Moritz Neumüller (L)
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
"The Feminist and the Street Photographer"
Sasha Waters Freyer (L)
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Liberty Ballroom Foyer
Ask an Editor.
SPE's Exposure Editor, Stacy J. Platt
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon G
"Artist/Mother: The Maternal Experience as a Creative Catalyst"
Toni Pepe, 2017 SPE Future Focus Project Support Grant Winner
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Invited Speaker Paul O'Leary - "Photocitizens- Students as Co-Producers"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
"Death|s|trip"
2018 Honored Educator Terri Warpinski
3:15PM - 4:30PM
Franklin Hall B
Raffle Drawing
evening
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Franklin Hall Foyer
Pre-Registration Badge Pick-Up
8:00PM - 10:00PM
Meeting Room 305
Student Volunteer Training 2
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Evening Guest Speaker, Anthony Goicolea
"Photography as Painting"
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Franklin Hall B
Exhibits Fair Opening Reception
8:30PM - 11:00PM
Independence & Liberty Ballroom (Headhouse Tower)
Curator Portfolio Walkthrough
Registration required to display work
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Evening Guest Speaker, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
"On the Perils and Possibilities of Being Diverse: a Conversation"
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
2018 Honored Educator Award Ceremony
6:30PM - 8:30PM
UArts Hamilton & Arronson Galleries
The University of the Arts Exhibition Opening and Reception
8:30PM - 10:30PM
Meeting Room 302-303
Tyler School of Art/Temple University/ Alumni Reception
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Evening Guest Speaker, Sarah Lewis
Vision & Justice: Race, Citizenship, and America
7:00PM - 9:30PM
Philadelphia Irish Pub - 1123 Walnut St.
RIT Alumni Get Together
Please join your RIT Family during SPE Philadelphia
7:15PM - 8:30PM
Circ Restaurant (Hotel Lobby Bar)
Meet & Greet with SPE Media Festival Filmmakers and Jurors
10:30PM - 1:30AM
Grand Ballroom Salon H
Dance Party
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