2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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Past SPE Annual Conferences
exhibitions
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
evening
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 1070 Bannock St
Reception and Exposure Release party
Co-hosted with our friends at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Rotunda Gallery RMCAD 1600 Pierce St, Lakewood CO
Combined Caucus Exhibition Opening Reception
Juried by Jess T. Dugan
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Tower D
Student Volunteer Training
Session 2
6:00PM - 7:45PM
Grandballroom I & II
Jess T. Dugan: Look at me like you love me
Invited Speaker, Sponsored by Sony
8:00PM - 10:00PM
Windows
Education Fair
Find your best school, Find your best student
8:00PM - 9:00PM
Bezel (Hotel Bar)
Meet & Greet with 2023 Media Festival filmmakers and jurors
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Grandballroom I & II
An Index of Return - Sama Alshaibi
Invited Speaker
7:30PM - 8:00PM
Grand Ballroom
Raffle Drawing
Must be present to win!
8:30PM - 11:00PM
North and South Convention Lobby
Portfolio Walkthrough
See what everyone's been up to
10:00PM - 1:00AM
Grandballroom I & II
Dance Party
DJ, tunes, and cash bar
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