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March 06-08, 2025

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morning

7:30AM - 9:30AM
Windows

Free Breakfast Buffet

Communal breakfast for all SPE Conference attendees 

7:30AM - 8:30AM
Denver

All Recovery Meeting

 

8:00AM - 5:00PM
Tower A

Registration

Conference check-in and general information 

9:00AM - 9:45PM
Windows

FotoFika and the 2020 All Stars

FOTOFIKA is a verb – it's a break to join together and talk about pedagogy over coffee. 

9:00AM - 4:45PM
Aspen

SPE 2023 Media Festival

An international juried video festival 

9:00AM - 4:00PM
North and South Convention Lobby

Exhibits Fair

 

9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom I

Where Does Photography Curricula Go From Here? Broadening the Conversation - Workshop and Presentation

Lindsay Godin, Christopher Kern, Tracy Longley-Cook, Julie Jones, Cintia Segovia Figueroa, Sarah Cusimano Miles 

9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom II

The View from Above: Teaching Drone Photography

Amanda Breitbach & Meghan Kirkwood 

9:00AM - 9:45AM
Tower B

Grad Student Presentations

Louis Chavez, Viktorsha Uliyanova, Angela Shaffer  

9:00AM - 9:45AM
Tower C

Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape

Dana Fritz 

9:00AM - 9:45AM
Tower D

Transcendence - Queer Restoryation

Cai Quirk 

9:00AM - 9:45AM
Denver

High School Caucus Meeting

 

10:00AM - 10:45AM
Tower B

Women's Music Festivals: No Men Allowed

Gina Dabrowski 

10:00AM - 10:45AM
Tower C

The Past Lives On

Janet Pritchard & Epiphany Knedler 

10:00AM - 10:45AM
Tower D

Thresholds

Tomiko Jones & Elizabeth Claffey 

10:00AM - 10:45AM
Denver

Pride Caucus Meeting

 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Tower B

Trans Representations: Decolonizing Visual Theory in Contemporary Photography

Ace Lehner 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Tower C

Years Like Water

Nadia Sablin 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Tower D

A conversation about art, activism, and why silver gelatin is woven into our stories

Krista Erlick & Leah Schretenthaler 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom I

How to move from Awfulizing to Organizing

Caprice Lawless, AAUP, Contigent Faculty Caucus Invited Speaker 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Grand Ballroom II

Freestyle Photo: The World of Inkjet Paper...The Print Matters!

Eric Joseph, Freestyle Photo and Imaging Supplies 

7:30AM - 9:30AM

Free Breakfast Buffet

Sponsored by SONY 

7:30AM - 8:30AM
Denver

All Recovery Meeting

 

8:00AM - 5:00PM
Tower A

Registration

Conference check-in and general information 

9:00AM - 9:45PM
Windows

FotoFika and the 2020 All Stars

FOTOFIKA is a verb – it's a break to join together and talk about pedagogy over coffee. 

9:00AM - 4:45PM
Aspen

SPE 2023 Media Festival

An international juried video festival 

9:00AM - 3:00PM
North and South Lobby

Exhibits Fair

All your favorite vendors 

9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom II

Today, I photographed the Mona Lisa! Professional opportunities in museum imaging

Justyna Badach, Robert Kastler, Melissa Gold Fournier, Kurt Heumiller 

9:00AM - 10:45AM
Tower C

Game-Based Learning: Building Competence in Visual Literacy Through Simulation

Carol Record 

9:00AM - 10:45AM
Grand Ballroom I

"What does this have to do with photography?" The early years of the SPE Women's Caucus

Invited Panel, moderated by Ariel Evans 

9:00AM - 9:45AM
Tower B

Graduate Student Presentations

Jamie Ho, Jessica Hays, Anna Rotty 

9:00AM - 9:45AM
Tower D

Grad Student Presentations

Laura Cobb, Jorge Escobar & Annmarie Suglio, Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos 

10:00AM - 10:45AM
Tower B

White Noise

Kerry Skarbakka 

10:00AM - 10:45AM
Tower D

Home. In my heart, beating far away

Lali Khalid- 2023 SPE Imagemaker Award winner 

10:00AM - 10:45AM
Denver

Multicultural Caucus Meeting

 

11:00AM - 12:45PM
Grand Ballroom I

Mining Identities: Three Artists Discuss Their New Publications

Kelli Connell (moderator), Jess Dugan, Laura Larson, Birthe Piontek 

11:00AM - 12:45PM
Grand Ballroom II

Photography and the Metaverse(s), Web 3.0, NFT's, Public Spaces in VR for Artists: A Critical View and Making Sense of it

Rebecca Hackemann(panel chair/speaker), Perry Hoberman (panelist/speaker), Patrick Lichty (panelist/speaker) 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Tower B

In Over My Head & In Memoriam

Thalassa Raasch & Katina Bitsicas 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Tower C

Impermanence: Louisiana's Fraying Coast & Going Away from Here

Daniel Kariko & Jennings Sheffield 

11:00AM - 11:45AM
Tower D

The Good Citizen

Benjamin Rasmussen 

afternoon

12:00PM - 8:00PM
Tower A

Registration

Conference check-in and general information 

1:00PM - 3:00PM
Tower D

Student Volunteer Training

Session 1 

4:00PM - 6:00PM
Tower D

Student Seminar- Strategizing a Career in Photography

Susan kae Grant and Mary Virginia Swanson 

12:00PM - 5:00PM
Windows

Portfolio Reviews, Student

20 minute one-on-one review sessions 

12:00PM - 2:30PM
Henry's Tavern, 500 16th Street, Denver, CO

UNM, ASU & UArizona Reunion

 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Tower B

South Central Chapter Meeting

 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Tower C

Southeast Chapter Meeting

 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Grand Ballroom I

West & Southwest Chapter Meeting

 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Grand Ballroom II

Mid Atlantic & Northeast Chapter Meeting

 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Denver

Northwest Chapter Meeting

 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Aspen

International Chapter Meeting

 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Tower D

Midwest Chapter Meeting

 

1:00PM - 2:45PM
Grand Ballroom I

SPE Member's Meeting

Where the business gets done 

3:00PM - 5:00PM
Denver

Academic Career Mentoring

Mock interviews, application packet review 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Tower B

Photography's Home(s): A Brief History

Andrew Hershberger 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Tower C

Do Not Attempt to Deceive; Photographing the Unphotographable & Dancing in Purpletown

Brian Shapiro & Paul Shambroom 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Tower D

Nihighan: Our Home

Rapheal Begay 

4:00PM - 4:45PM
Tower B

Thomas Barrow's Cancellations-series: "You Don't Know Sh*t." Stieglitz.

Mark Rawlinson 

4:00PM - 4:45PM
Tower C

What Has Been Will be Again: Place, Time, and the Politics of Remembrance

Jared Ragland 

4:00PM - 4:45PM
Tower D

The Lora Webb Nichols Photography Archive

Nicole Jean Hill 

12:00PM - 5:00PM
Windows

Portfolio Review, Professional

30 min one-on-one review sessions 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Tower B

[color/shift] - On Risograph Color Models for Photography

Travis Shaffer 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Tower C

Building Equity Through Open Access Resources

Alanna Styer & Zora J. Murff 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Tower D

Community News: The Fourth Estate in Kansas

Jeremiah Ariaz 

12:00PM - 12:45PM
Denver

Contingent Faculty Caucus Meeting

 

1:00PM - 1:45PM
Tower B

High Visibility (Blaze Orange) & Catalouging the Wolfcamp

Jaclyn Wright & Amy Kim 

1:00PM - 1:45PM
Tower C

LIKE-WhatsApp and Migrant Workers in the Middle East

Ryan Debolski 

1:00PM - 1:45PM
Tower D

Ancient Cities, Daughters, and Suns

Clare Benson 

1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom II

Nigel Poor: 2023 Insight Award Recipient

 

1:00PM - 1:45PM
Denver

Women's Caucus Meeting

 

1:00PM - 1:45PM
Grand Ballroom I

Tamron: Fundamentals of Modern Optics

Marc Morris, Tamron 

2:00PM - 2:45PM
Grand Ballroom II

Henry Horenstein: 2023 Honored Educator Award Recipient

Sponsored by Sprint Systems of Photography 

3:00PM - 5:00PM
Denver

Academic Career Mentoring

Mock interviews, application packet review 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Tower B

La Eterna Injusticia

Martín Wannam 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Tower C

Unaffordable-Viewing the Housing Crisis Through an International Lens & American Standard

Valerie Mendoza & Kaitlyn Smith 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Tower D

What She Carries With Her: Investigating Women's Interwar Travel Narratives

Salena Parker 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Grandballroom I

Hahnemuehle USA: Paper Makes a Difference Sustainable Papers from Germany's Oldest Artist Paper Mill

Joe "Paper Nerd" Domeier 

3:00PM - 3:45PM
Grand Ballroom II

Bostick & Sullivan: From Anthotype to Ziatype

Industry Seminar 

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