The Photography and Migration Conference is one of many events taking
place at Colby that address the college-wide arts and humanities theme
in 2014-2015, "Migrations," hosted by the Center for the Arts and
Humanities. The conference will include formal presentations and
discussions, a film screening, as well as exhibitions of historical
photographs and artworks.

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Anthony Lee (Mount Holyoke College),
who will discuss the photography of F. Holland Day in relation to period
discourse on immigration; anthropologist Jason de León (University of
Michigan) and photographer Michael Wells, who have collaborated on the
Undocumented Migration Project on the US-Mexico border; and Thomas Allen
Harris, a New York-based writer and documentarian who co-founded the
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow and directed the critically
acclaimed film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the
Emergence of a People (2014). Kicking off the conference on April 23
will be an additional lecture by Ethiopian photographer, Aida Muluneh.

The conference is free and open to the public but advance registration
online is requested. For more information about the conference,
including the full program, please go to:
http://web.colby.edu/photomigration/conference. Questions should be
directed to the conference organizer, Tanya Sheehan, Associate
Professor, Art Department, Colby College, tsheehancolby.edu.


Conference program:

All events take place in Olin 1 unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, April 23

6:30pm
Welcome from Eric Gottesman, Art, Colby College
Lecture by Aida Muluneh, photographer, "Past/Forward: Photography in
Ethiopia"

7:45-9pm
Reception in the lobby of the Colby College Museum of Art


Friday, April 24

8-8:45am
Registration and coffee

8:45-9am
Welcome by Kerill O'Neill, Classics and Center for the Arts and
Humanities, and Tanya Sheehan, Art, Colby College

9-10am
Lecture by Anthony Lee
"Photography and Migration: The Case of F. Holland Day"

10:15-11:00am
Shana Lopes, Rutgers University and Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Locating the Outsider within the Frame: The Self-Portraits of W. and F.
Langenheim"
Response: Laura Saltz, American Studies, Colby College

11:00-11:45am
David Bate, University of Westminster
"In Betweenness: Stieglitz and The Steerage"
Response: Sharon Corwin, Colby College Museum of Art

11:45am-12:30pm
Martha Schwendener, City University of New York and Yale University
School of Art
"Vilém Flusser and His Theories of Photography and Migration"
Response: Lydia Moland, Philosophy, Colby College

12:30-2pm
Lunch at Miller Library; visit to exhibition of historical photographs
at Special Collections; discussion led by students in AR498: Photography
and Migration

2:15-3pm
Heather Shannon, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution
"'Scenes in the Indian Country': Alexander Gardner and the Dispossession
of Native North Americans"
Response: Frank Goodyear III, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

3-3:45pm
Reilley Bishop-Stall, McGill University
"By Invitation Only: Photography, Mobility and the Migrant Idea"
Response: Beth Finch, Colby College Museum of Art

3:45-4:30pm
Erin Haney, University of Johannesburg and Smithsonian Institution
"Beautiful Sleep: New Questions for Photographs in West Africa"
Response: Catherine Besteman, Anthropology, Colby College

4:30-5:15pm
Karen Haas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott"
Response: Dana Byrd, Art History, Bowdoin College

7-9:30pm
Screening of Through a Lens Darkly and discussion with director/producer
Thomas Allen Harris


Saturday, April 25

8-9am
Registration and coffee

9-10:15am
Lecture by Jason De León and Michael Wells
"Undocumented: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail"

10:15-11:00am
Erina Duganne and Jason Reed, Texas State University
"Activating Photography in Borderland Collective's Northern Triangle"
Response: Emma García, Spanish, Colby College

11:00-11:45am
Steven Rubin, Pennsylvania State University
"Images and Advocacy: Photographs of Burmese Chin Refugees"
Response: Winifred Tate, Anthropology, Colby College

11:45am-12:30pm
Marta Zarzycka, Utrecht University
"Moving Images: How War Photographs Migrate"
Response: Eric Gottesman, Art, Colby College

12:30-2pm
Brown bag lunch in the lobby of the Colby College Museum of Art; tour of
Davis and Landay galleries led by students in AR498: Photography and
Migration

2:15-3pm
Gabrielle Moser, OCAD University
"Circulating Imperial Citizens: The Colonial Office Visual Instruction
Committee's Photographic Lantern Slides, 1902-1945″
Response: Shalini Le Gall, Colby College Museum of Art

3-3:45pm
Thy Phu, Western University
"Vietnam in Flames and the Diasporic History of Tears"
Response: Elizabeth LaCouture, History and East Asian Studies, Colby
College

3:45-4:30pm
Grace Aneiza Ali, City University of New York
"A Portrait of Migration in the Guyana Photographic Archive"
Response: Arnout van der Meer, History, Colby College

4:30-5:15pm
Beth Zinsli, Lawrence University
"Captioning Collective Memory: Vernacular Photography from the Dominican
Diaspora"
Response: Chandra Bhimull, Anthropology and African-American Studies,
Colby College

5:15-5:30
Conclusion