Panopticon: In/visibility in Representation and Research

Birkbeck, University of London

History of Art and Screen Media Postgraduate Research Conference

43 Gordon Square, Cinema and Room B13

This year's research conference will focus on the concept of visibility and invisibility across the disciplines of history of art and screen media. We hope to explore this topic both as a theme related to specific subjects, mediums, periods and genres, and with respect to the actual process of research, analysis and interpretative strategies.

Schedule:

9:30am-10:00am Coffee/Tea (B13)

10:00am-10:10am Welcome Address (Cinema)

10:10am-11:10am Session 1 (Cinema)

Kirstie Imber: Silence and Invisibility in Contemporary Iranian Art

Fiona Johnstone: Nicholas Nixon's People with AIDS: Photography, Ethics, and the Other

11:10am-12:10pm Session 2 (Cinema)

Liz Drew: 'Rapidly Sinking into Oblivion': The Invisible Influence of Raymond Moore (1920-1987)

Naomi Roux: Making Memory Visible: Public History and the Politics of Exclusion

12:10pm-1:15pm Lunch (please provide your own lunch)

1:15pm-2:15pm Session 3 (Cinema)

Alison Payne: Choosing to "Unsee"? Why Academics and Practitioners Ignore the History of Television Advertising

Cordelia Smith: Wot No Archives? Or, What to do When Everything you Wanted to Read has Been Thrown Away, Bombed, or Didn't Exist in the First Place

2:15pm-2:45pm Coffee/Tea (B13)

2:45pm-4:15pm Encounters with In/visibility Workshop (Cinema)

All Welcome