This symposium seeks to explore how photography and psychology have influenced each other throughout their histories. It aims to uncover how psychological notions have informed photographic practices, and the role that photography has played in the making of psychological knowledge.
This symposium seeks to explore how photography and psychology have influenced each other throughout their histories. Its aim is twofold: to uncover how psychological notions have informed photographic practices, and to bring into light the historical role that photography has played in the making of psychological knowledge and its public dissemination.
Photographic Histories of PsychologyPROGRAM
10:00 Registration
10:30 Welcome Prof. Elizabeth Edwards, Director PHRC
10:40 Introduction Beatriz Pichel
11:00 Photography and Psychology: Historical Exchanges
Chair: Jennifer Chao
Cristina Moraru (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University): “Post-Memory Processes. The Reproduction of Psychological Past Through Photography”
Allison Huetz (École du Louvre): “The Scientific Study of Emotions in France at the Turn of the Century”
David Keller (Universität zu Lübeck): “Picturing a Person’s Essence: Photographic Materials as Epistemic Instruments in the History of Early Personality Diagnosis”
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote Lecture: Dr. Mathew Thomson (University of Warwick): “Photography and the Landscape of the Child in Twentieth Century Britain”
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Photographs and the Making of Psychiatric and Psychological Pathologies
Chair: Damian Hughes
Leticia Fernandez (University of Greenwich): “Imagining the Uprooted Child: Pain, Separation Anxiety and the Second World War”
Julie Mazaleigue (Université de Picardie Jules Verne): “Mental Disorders, Degeneration and Criminality (1880-1910): The Photographs of “Stigmata of Degeneration”, a History Between Psychology, Criminology, Police and Collective Representations”
Katherine Rawling (Royal Holloway): ““The Photographs Illustrating the Book are Good and Well Chosen”. Photography and the Configuration of Psychiatric Knowledge in Late-Nineteenth Century Books”
David Gentilcore, Edigio Priani (University of Leicester): “Towards an Iconography of Pellagrous Insanity in Venice, 1873-1912”
17:00 Open Discussion
17:15 Wine Reception
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