Aesthetics After Photography - 2010 Conference Programme
Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the 1960s
Tate Modern, London 10-12 June 2010
Thursday 10 June
18.30-20.00 (followed by wine reception)
Welcome by Margaret Iversen and Diarmuid Costello (Co-Directors of AHRC ‘Aesthetics after Photography’ Research Project)
Keynote Address: Jeff Wall, Artist.
Chaired by Diarmuid Costello (Philosophy, University of Warwick).
Wine reception
Friday 11 June
Welcome: Margaret Iversen, AHRC ‘Aesthetics after Photography’ Project Director.
10.30-12.30 Session 1:
Chaired by Dr Dawn Phillips (AHRC ‘Aesthetics after Photography’ Project Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Warwick).
Professor Carol Armstrong (Art History, Yale University)
Dr David Davies (Philosophy, McGill University)
12.30-13.30 lunch (own arrangements)
13.30-15.30 Session 2:
Chaired by Dr David Campany (Reader in Photography, University of Westminster)
Professor Briony Fer (Art History, UCL)
Professor Robin Kelsey (History of Art, Harvard University)
15.30 - 16.00 tea & coffee (provided)
16.00-18.00 Session 3:
Chaired by Dr Jason Gaiger (Art History, Open University)
Professor Cynthia Freeland (Chair of Philosophy, University of Houston)
Dr. Anna Dezeuze (Postdoctoral fellow, Smithsonian Institute)
Saturday 12 June
Welcome: Diarmuid Costello, AHRC ‘Aesthetics after Photography’ Project Co-Director
10.30-12.30 Session 4:
Chaired by Dr Simon Baker (Curator of Photography, Tate Modern)
Dr Susan Laxton (History of Art, UC Riverside)
Professor Margaret Iversen (Art History and Theory, University of Essex)
12.30-13.30 lunch (own arrangements)
13.30-15.30 Session 5:
Chaired by Dr Wolfgang Brückle (AHRC ‘Aesthetics after Photography’ Research Fellow, Art History, University of Essex)
Dr Sherri Irvin (Philosophy, University of Oklahoma)
Dr Nigel Warburton (Philosophy, Open University)
15.30 - 16.00 tea & coffee (provided)
16.00-18.00 Session 6:
Chaired by Professor Margaret Iversen (Art History, University of Essex).
Dr Diarmuid Costello (Philosophy, University of Warwick