Pub: PHOTOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. HISTORY AND THEORY 48 (2009).

• Introduction: "Entwined Practices: Engagements with Photography in Historical Inquiry" by JENNIFER TUCKER in collaboration with TINA CAMPT
• "Incongruous Images: 'Before, During, and After' the Holocaust by MARIANNE HIRSCH and LEO SPITZER
• "Seeing and Saying: a Response to 'Incongruous Images'" by GEOFFREY BATCHEN
• "Santu Mofokeng, Photographs: 'The Violence is in the Knowing'" by PATRICIA HAYES
• "Of Fish, Birds, Cats, Mice, Spiders, Flies, Pigs, and Chimpanzees: How Chance Casts the Historic Action Photograph into Doubt" by ROBIN KELSEY
• "Neither Fish nor Flesh" by JOHN TAGG
• "Photographic Ambivalence and Historical Consciousness" by MICHAEL S. ROTH
• "'When I Was a Photographer': Nadar and History" by STEPHEN BANN
• "Photography and the Practices of Critical Black Memory" by LEIGH RAIFORD
• "Photography and the Material Performance of the Past" by ELIZABETH EDWARDS
• "The Evidence of Sight" by JULIA ADENEY THOMAS

Download the issue here: http://www.historyandtheory.org/archives/dec09.html.

Cfp: "Feeling Photography," Toronto Photography Seminar, University of Toronto, October 16-17, 2009.

“Feeling Photography” is an international, interdisciplinary conference that will bring together scholars working in a range of interpretive and theoretical approaches to interrogate the relationship between the affect, emotion, and/or feeling and the photograph. The conference will be held at the University of Toronto and is sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States and the Toronto Photography Seminar. The conference features plenary addresses from the following scholars: Lisa Cartwright (UCSD); Ann Cvetkovich (UT Austin); David Eng (Penn); Marianne Hirsch (Columbia) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth); Christopher Pinney (University College, London); Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Diana Taylor (NYU). We have assembled fifty-two papers from our fall CFP into sixteen panels featuring scholarly work from across the globe and the disciplines. Panel topics include Children and the Political Management of Affect; Feeling Together: Publics and Counterpublics; Emotional Geographies; Marketing Emotions: Loss, Fear and (Comic) Loathing; Racial Affects; Emotional States: Citizenship and Photography; Instrumental Images: Bodies, Cities and Empires, 1903-1918; Digital Affects; Public Intimacies; Touching Photo; Visual Witnessing: Photography and World War II; Feeling First: Documentary and Left Internationalism; Photography, Trauma, and the Ethics of Witnessing; Queer Affect(s); Affective Economies; Facial Tics – Faciality. Visit the conference webpage here: http://www.torontophotoseminar.org/?page_id=88.

"Bildtheorie and Photography: Comparative Philosophical Approaches," Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, April 30, 2009.

The German discipline of Bildtheorie, broadly construed as the theory of images or pictures, offers an important approach to the visual arts but is relatively unknown in the UK. The purpose of this one-day workshop is to invite a leading specialist of Bildtheorie (Professor Lambert Wiesing, Jena) to share his knowledge of contemporary methods, debates and writers (including Peter Geimar, Bernd Stiegler, Gottfried Boehm and Wolfgang Kemp). He will also discuss material from his book Artifizielle Präsenz: Studien zur Philosophie des Bildes (Artificial Presence: Studies in the Philosophy of Images), particularly the view that pictures need not always be signifiers. Three UK speakers will present recent research from the philosophy of the visual arts for comparative discussion. Dawn Phillips and Diarmuid Costello (Warwick) will address the philosophy of photography, in the light of their current AHRC project: Aesthetics After Photography. Jason Gaiger (Open University) will present material from his recent book Aesthetics and Painting, where he engages with Professor Wiesing’s work on ‘the logic of depiction’. By bringing together expertise from Germany and the UK, this event will stimulate new avenues for future research in the philosophy of the visual arts. More information may be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/activities/aestheticsafterphotography/bildtheorie2009workshop/.