SPE Events

November 08th, 2025 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Photography's Objects

Geoffry Batchen, Letha Wilson, and Mary Statzer

Photography's Objects—Pushing into the Third Dimension   This event's conversation brings together expertise from three different moments within photographic history. Historian Geoffrey Batchen will ground us in the way that photographs may serve as a form of "vision as a sense of touch" and share examples found...

November 15th, 2025 @ 11:00am – 4:00pm EST

SPE MFA Open House

Join us on Novmber 15, 2025 to learn about MFA Programs at the partricpating institutions.  Participating Institutions:  University of Nebraska - LincolnTexas Tech UniversityTemple UniversityUniversity of Southern FloridaUniversity of IowaCranbrook Academy of ArtUniversity of New OrleansVirginia Commonwealth University Register in Advance

November 20th, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm EST

Re-Reading Photos Through Narratives

Mehrdad Mirzaie

Re-reading Photos Through Narratives explores contemporary photography in Iran by framing artistic practices within their cultural and political contexts. The lecture examines how photographers engage with urgency, time, and representation, while proposing alternative ways of rereading the history of photography in the region. It argues...