2024

After Post-Photography
Ninth International conference on visual studies, history and theory of photography
11-13 April 2024, European University in St Petersburg (online)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

11 April

11.00 – 16.00 MSK (UTC+3)
Workshop for emerging researchers (in Russian only) 

Julia Bogdanova, Chronotope of the Belarusian Art Photography of the 1960s – 1991
Victoria Fomina, Landscape Photography as a Way of Mythologization. Lermontov’s Places in the Works Of G. I. Raev

12:30 – 12:40 Coffee Break

Olga Davydenko, Violence Over The Nature of the Frame: The Functions of the Use of Photography in Late Soviet Cinema
Yuri Kozyrev, Discourse Analysis of the Visual Image of V. M. Sablin

14:00 – 14:40 Lunch

Anastasia Grigoriadi, Air Turns into Your Face, or Wild Archives
Pavel Sharkov, Between Ethnography and Psychiatry: Types and Diseases in the Book «The Caucasus: Peoples of The Caucasus» by Pavel Kovalevskii

Discussants: Olga Annanurova, Ekaterina Vassilyeva, Ekaterina Kalinina, Daria Panaiotti, Erika Wolf, Olga Davydova

12 April
13:00 – 18:00 MSK (UTC+3)
(Russian and English, translation provided)

Panel 1 . Chair: Olga Davydova

Irina Chmyreva, Reality in Scotoma of Photography and Propaganda: Gulag Photography Collection, 1929-1936
Erika Wolf, From Belly to Brain: The Soviet Reception of the Leica  
Sofia Lavrova, What we show there, here is… how to put it, embarrassing to show: Soviet Photography at Foreign Photographic Exhibitions
Anastasia Kuryanova, Seen Eye to Eye: China Through the Lens of Russian Photography vs. Other Visual Media, 1860s-1900s
Discussion

15.20 – 16.20 lunch break

Panel 2. Chair: Samuel Driver

Zsolt Batori, AI-Generated Photo-Based Images: Their Ontological Status and Interpretation
Timothy Druckrey, The Age of the Word Picture
Renee Brown, Unsystematic Systems: Paul Vanderbilt’s Reorganization of the FSA/OWI File
Discussion

13 April
13:00 – 18:00 MSK (UTC+3) (Russian and English, translation provided)

Panel 3. Chair: Olga Annanurova

Maria Gourieva, Photographic Objects and Materiality of Private Photography
Galina Orlova, Dosimetric Camera Obscura: Biopolitical and Photographic Arrangements of the Nuclear Century
Ondine Duche, Amateur Photography and the Persistence of Photographic Truth: A Critical Historiography Through Primitivism
Discussion

14.50 – 15.50 lunch break

Panel 4. Chair: Farrah Karapetian

Ilya Leonov, Revisiting Ancient Monuments: Domon Ken’s Buddhist Images in the Context of 1950s Japanese Photography
Varvara Mikhailovskaya, Katerina Gulina, Subjectivity of Broad-Scale Historical Corona Spy Satellite Photography in the Context of Ferrous Metal Diggers’ Сommunities
Marina Belaya, PhotoTherapy – How to Work with Photographs in Psychological Practice
Discusion

Conference organizing committee 2024: Maria Gourieva, Olga Davydova, Daria Panaiotti, Friedrich Tietjen, Glafira Kukhareva, Viktoria Fomina, Polina Shishkina