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Symposium Schedule
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Day One: Thursday, May 6, 2010
1:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.; GRI Lecture Hall
12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Check-in
1:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
Welcome: Andrew Perchuk, the Getty Research Institute
Introduction: Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles
Session I
1:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
Christopher Pinney, University College London
What's Photography Got To Do With It?
1:45 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
Ali Behdad,
University of California, Los Angeles
The Orientalist Photograph
2:15 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Discussion
2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Coffee break
Session II
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Mary Roberts, University of Sydney
The Limits of Circumscription
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Nancy Micklewright, the Getty Foundation
Family, Politics, History, Art: Alternative Histories of Photography in the Ottoman Middle East
4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Discussion
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Reception
Day Two: Friday, May 7, 2010
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; GRI Lecture Hall
9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
Check-in
9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Welcome: Rebecca Peabody, the Getty Research Institute
Session III
9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Off the Frame: The Panoramic City Albums of Istanbul
10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Rob Linrothe, Northwestern University
Travel Albums and Revisioning Narratives: A Case Study in the Getty's Fleury 'Cachemire' Album of 1908
10:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Discussion
11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Coffee break
Session IV
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Darcy Grigsby, University of California, Berkeley
Two or Three Dimensions? Scale and Egypt's Pyramids
12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m.
Luke Gartlan, University of St. Andrews
Dandies on the Pyramids: Photography, Tourism, and German Speaking Artists in Cairo (1875–1876)
12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Discussion
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Lunch break
Session V
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Kathleen Howe, Pomona College and Pomona College Museum of Art
Time and Place: Considering Architectural Travels in the Middle East
2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Anne Lacoste , J. Paul Getty Museum
The Human Figure in 19th Century Photographs of Antique Monuments in the "Orient"
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Discussion
3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Coffee break
Session VI
3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University
Flash Forward: Pictures at War
4:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
John Tagg, Binghamton University, State University of New York
The Mute Testimony of the Picture: British Paper Photography and India
4:45 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Discussion
5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Closing remarks