Co-organizers: Mirjam Brusius and Geraldine Johnson

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.

Hilary Term

Feb 3rd 2015 (Tuesday, Week 3), 1pm: The Talbot Archive at the Bodleian Library
Larry Schaaf and Mirjam Brusius in conversation with Geraldine Johnson
Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Lecture Theatre (please leave your belongings in the lockers)
RSVP by Jan 30

March 3rd 2015 (Tuesday, Week 7), 1pm: 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)

Trinity Term

May 2015 (week 4, date tbc): Photography at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Christopher Morton in conversation with Geraldine Johnson and Mirjam Brusius
Pitt Rivers Museum, Parks Road, Oxford

June 3rd (Wednesday, week 6), 5pm: Ken Jacobson on 'Carrying Off the Palaces: John Ruskin's Lost Daguerreotypes', followed by a book launch and reception
Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Lecture Theatre (please leave your belongings in the lockers)

For details and bookings, please contact mirjam.brusiushistory.ox.ac.uk