Seminar series: Oxford Photography

[Mirjam Brusius]

We are pleased to announce a new research seminar on all aspects of photography, co-hosted by the History of Art Department and the Bodleian Library. The Bodleian’s recent acquisition of papers by William Henry Fox Talbot is simply the latest addition to Oxford’s rich and varied collections of photographic material. Like the researchers who work on photography at Oxford, these materials can be found in many different—and at times unexpected—departments, institutions and intellectual contexts.

The aim of the seminar is to bring together scholars from across Oxford and beyond to consider some of these ‘local’ collections, as well as to explore photography more generally from a wide variety of historical, material and theoretical perspectives. To this end, the seminar will begin this term with two site visits to Oxford collections in order to initiate what will hopefully become an ongoing conversation amongst scholars, curators and archivists about the place of photography, both literally and metaphorically. The seminar will continue next term with a combination of further site visits and work-in-progress research papers in order to encourage dialogue and debate. 

SESSION I
Feb 3rd (Tuesday, Week 3): The Talbot Archive at the Bodleian Library
Larry Schaaf and Mirjam Brusius in conversation with Geraldine Johnson
 
Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford (please leave your belongings in the lockers)
• RSVP by Jan 28 to book a place: programme begins at 1pm, Horton Room (1st Floor) (*please note that no more places are available for the lunch at 12.30*)

SESSION II
March 3rd (Tuesday, Week 7): Photography at the Institute of Archaeology
Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider in conversation with Mirjam Brusius

(*please note that all places for March 3rd are now taken*)                                                                          

 
To RSVP and for further information, contact: [e-mail]

More information can also be found on our Oxford History of Art Blog. This seminar as well as future sessions will also be announced on our website.

The poster can be downloaded here: Photography%20Seminar-Oxford-Hilary%202015.pdf

If you are in Oxford on Feb 3rd, Mirjam Brusius will give a paper on Middle Eastern Photography at the Oxford Art History Research Seminar on the same day at 5 pm.