2024 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Amanda Dahlgren

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 12:00pm, Pershing

Creative Tips for Increasing Student Engagement, Attendance, and Retention

Amanda is a photographic artist and Assistant Professor, with 20 years of teaching experience. She prides herself on being an educator first and strives to create a climate of acceptance and celebration of individual expression,... read more

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Andres de Varona

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 12:00pm, Majestic C

The Heat of Life in a Handful of Dust

Andrés Mario de Varona was born into two Cuban families and grew up in Miami as a first generation Cuban-American. Since moving to the New Mexican desert, Andrés' obsession with death morphed into an obsession... read more

Chloe Dichter

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 4:30pm, Westmoreland

The Un-archivable Archive

Chloe Dichter is a photographic artist based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her BFA in photography from Western Washington University and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico. read more

Savannah Dodd

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 11:00am, Westmoreland

Reframing ethics: A principles-based approach to photography ethics education

Savannah Dodd, PhD, is the founder and director of the Photography Ethics Centre. Savannah sits on the Ethical Journalism Network's UK committee, Source Magazine's board, and the Environmental Photographer of the Year Award's ethics panel.... read more

Yuxiang Dong

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 12:00pm, Westmoreland

Central Union Railroad & Saint Denis: Video Games as a Field ofVisualEthnography

Yuxiang Dong is an art, educational, and social worker. His current practices and research are driven by the contradiction between ethnography in the Anthropocene and speculation of object-oriented ontology. read more

Erina Duganne

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 10:00am, Majestic A

New Realities: Academic Writing in an Era of Change – photographies journal.

Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History at Texas State University as well as an editorial board member of photographies. Her recent publications include serving as co-author of Global Photography: A Critical History and co-editor... read more

Dominique Ellis

Thursday, March 21, 2024 @ 12:00pm, Majestic B

How to Archive Yourself

Dominique Ellis is a second-year MFA graduate student in Photography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and uses lens-based media and archives as a vehicle for storytelling, collaboration, and advocacy. Ellis was awarded a U.S.... read more

Caity Fares

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 11:30am, Majestic DE

Creating an Intersectional Learning Space in Your Photography Classroom

Caity Fares is a California-based visual artist, photographic educator, and SOGIE trainer. She received her BA in Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed her MFA in Photography at the San Francisco... read more

Morgan Ford Willingham

Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 3:30pm, Pershing

A Small Step for Cyan, A Giant Leap for Blue-manity!

Morgan Ford Willingham is a photographic artist and educator. Her work explores pop culture, advertising, and societal norms to better understand the influence on women's identity and self-image, using photography, mixed-media, book arts, and installation.... read more

Coco Fusco

Saturday, March 23, 2024 @ 3:30pm, Majestic DE

Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Latinx Art Award, a Fulbright fellowship and a... read more