2025

Part 1: Introduction

Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi
Rose Teanby

12:01 AM

Katarina Hansard (Ngāpuhi, c.1860-1906) and Irene Koppel (1911-2004)

Lissa Mitchell, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

12:20 AM

Silver, Light, and A.I.: Conducting Practice-led Research on Elizabeth Fulhame, the Hidden Woman of Pre-photography, through Early and Post-Photographic Materiality

Yvette Hamilton, University of Sydney

1:00 AM

My assets were one small hand camera and UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE!: Locating Eva Barrett

Catlin Langford, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1:20 AM

Marti Friedlander (1928 - 2016)

Linda Yang, Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust
Freya Elmer, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

1:40 AM

For Her Gaze Only: The Divine Contessa, a Nineteenth-Century Woman in Photography

Frances Di Lauro, University of Sydney

2:00 AM

Re-viewing Julia Margaret Cameron's Ceylon Women Photographs

Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra

2:20 AM

Three Japanese Women Photographers Who Change the History of Photography

Kelly McKormick, University of British Columbia

2:40 AM

Reclaiming the Frame: East Asian Women Photographers Against U.S. Hegemony

Jeehey Kim, University of Arizona

3:00 AM

Performing Through the Lens: The Role of Press Photography in Kang-ja Jung’s Feminist Avant-Garde Art and Political Activism in Postwar South Korea

Sooran Choi, University of Vermont

3:20 AM

Susan Weil’s Blue Journey: Pioneering Cyanotype Photography

Vanessa S. Troiano, City University of New York - Graduate Center

3:40 AM

Subverting the Myth of the Gaucho: Gender and Representation in Alessandra Sanguinetti’s The Adventures of Guille and Belinda Series

Alejandra López-Oliveros, Rutgers University

4:00 AM

Focus on South America: Geography, Cartography, and International Relations in Mary Upjohn Meader’s 1937 Aerial Photography of Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay

Kiki Barnes, City University of New York - Graduate Center

4:20 AM

Photography as Care: Haruka Sakaguchi’s Documentary Practice

Corey Dzenko, Monmouth University

4:40 AM

Illuminating New, Self-Assured Forms of Puerto Rican Representation in Sophie Rivera’s “Revelations: A Latino Portfolio”

Angelina Medina, New York University

5:00 AM

Ruth Matilda Anderson (1893-1983)

Noemi Espinosa Fernandez, Hispanic Society Museum & Library

5:20 AM

Breaking Barriers: Women Photographers in Print Media, 1920s to 1940s

Margaret Denny

5:40 AM

Art is Family, Art Creates Change: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Work on Water

Brittany Kogut, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

6:00 AM

A Conceptual Postcolonial Feminist Photo Studio

Allison Moore

6:20 AM

BREAK

Conference Participants

6:40 AM

Part 2: Introduction and Welcome Back

Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi
Rose Teanby

7:50 AM

(NOTE: All time zones enter 8th March, International Women’s Day, from 8-11 am UTC)

Conference Participants

8:00 AM

KEYNOTE #1: What Does Photography Mean to Me?

Jillian Edelstein

8:01 AM

Views in the Far East: How Isabella Bird Came to Shape the Photographic Medium

Deborah Ireland

9:00 AM

Women, Gender Identities, and “Surrogate Photography” in 19th Century Spain

Stéphany Onfray

9:20 AM

The Problem of Alice Kerr: Tracing a ‘Lost’ Victorian Photographer

Meg Dolan, University of St. Andrews

9:40 AM

Uncover the Overlooked Work of Women Photographers in Photo Archives. The Case of the Travel Photo Albums of Isabel Roberts

Marta Binazzi, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

10:00 AM

Women Photographers within Portuguese Colonial Africa

Inês Vieira Gomes, NOVA University of Lisbon

10:20 AM

Melancholy and Transgression – Photography in Aurélia de Sousa

Joana Rocha e Cunha, NOVA University of Lisbon

10:40 AM

Allowed Spaces: Social Class, Gender Discourses and Photographic Genres in Barcelona, 1890-1936

Núria F. Rius
Lourdes Delgado

11:00 AM

Early Female Daguerreotypists in Spain: Madame Fritz

María de los Santos García-Felguera, Pompeu Fabra University

11:20 AM

Using Photography to Complicate Women’s Artist – Teacher Practice

Joanna Fursman, Birmingham City University
Melanie Woodhead, Birmingham City University

11:40 AM

Kodak Photography - A Simple, Fascinating and Interesting Pursuit for All: Kodak’s Marketing of Camera Ownership and Snapshooting to Women in Britain

Jayne Knight, University of Brighton

12:00 PM

From the Studio to the Street: Re-interpreting Nelly’s Documentary Practice

Alexandra Moschovi, University of Sunderland

12:20 PM

Elizabeth Beachbard (c.1822–1861): America’s First Woman War Photographer?

Pippa Oldfield, Teesside University

12:40 PM

Material Collaborations: Returning Ina Stūre to the History of Latvian Photography

Liana Ivete Zilde, Art Academy of Latvia

1:00 PM

Housewives and Nimble Fingers, Gender Segregation in the Norwegian Photofinishing Industry in the 1960s

Anja Hysvær Langgåt, Norwegian Museum of Cultural History

1:20 PM

Hera, “The Women’s Photo Archive” in Oslo, Norway

Arne Langleite, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

1:40 PM

Three Romanian Photographers under the Communist Regime: Hedy Löffler, Clara Spitzer and Liana Grill

Adriana Dumitran, National Library of Romania

2:00 PM

Rosalie Chichester of Arlington Court: An Accomplished, Unexplored Amateur Photographer

Jess McKenzie, National Trust of England, Wales & Northern Ireland
Barbara Wood, National Trust of England, Wales & Northern Ireland

2:20 PM

The Role of Women Within the Photographic Industry Up to 1939

Michael Pritchard

2:40 PM

Sunlight and Shadow: The Nudist Photography of Yvonne Gregory (1889-1970)

Tania Cleaves

3:00 PM

Women Émigré Photographers and Architecture in 1930s Britain

Valeria Carullo, Royal Institute of British Architects

3:20 PM

BREAK

Conference Participants

3:40 PM

Part 3: Introduction and Welcome Back

Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi
Rose Teanby

4:40 PM

KEYNOTE #2: Matilda Moore: Photographer of Civil War Era New Yorkers

Katherine Manthorne, City University of New York – Graduate Center

4:45 PM

Identity Isn't Everything: How I Came to Write a Biography of Berenice Abbott

Julia Van Haaften, New York Public Library

5:40 PM

Armour and Lace: Women Photographers in Nineteenth-Century Institutions

Erika Lederman, Victoria and Albert Museum

6:00 PM

Photo Femmage: A History of Women and Feminist Photomontage

Fiona Rogers, Victoria and Albert Museum

6:20 PM

Grave Goods, a Portrait, a Biography or Reliquary of a Woman’s Life

Nettie Edwards

6:40 PM

The Photographs of Florence Farmborough on the Russian Front during the First World War

Hilary Roberts

7:00 PM

Margaret Tomlinson and the National Buildings Record

Gary Winter, Historic England Archive

7:20 PM

Constructing the Bauhaus’s Mythos: Lucia Moholy’s Architectural Photography

Angeliki Bara, Athens School of Fine Arts

7:40 PM

Bertha Beckmann-Wehnert: The German Lady and Her Big Adventure in Early Photo-History

Hans Gummersbach, City of Münster, Germany

8:00 PM

Marian Ethel Driffield: A Biography

Ronald M. Callender

8:20 PM

First Female Photographers in Argentina. 1840-1875

Carlos G. Vertanessian

8:40 PM

Julia Herschel’s Handbook for Greek and Roman Lace Making and the Rhetoric of the Handmade

Beth Saunders, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

9:00 PM

Capturing Flight: Giannina Censi’s Aerofuturist Dance and the Evolution of 1930s Photography

Lucia Colombari, University of Oklahoma

9:20 PM

Pioneering Practices: Contemporary Female Photographers Working With Alternative Photo Processes

Laura Perdrizet

9:40 PM

The Afterlife of a Forgotten Archive: Artist Sophie Thun Interprets the Photographic Legacy of Zenta Dzividzinska

Alise Tifentale, City University of New York, Kingsborough

10:00 PM

Women in Colour: Anna Atkins, Color Photography and Those Struck by Light

Ellen Carey

10:20 PM

Through Her Eyes: Celebrating Women in Photography through the Peter Palmquist Collection

Matthew Daniel Mason, Yale University

10:40 PM

Photographs of African Descent Women in Mexico

Maria Dolores Ballesteros Páez, INAH/UNAM

11:00 PM

An Introduction to the Life and Still Photographs of Frances Hubbard Flaherty

Betsy A. McLane

11:20 PM

Conclusions/Reflections

Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi
Rose Teanby

11:40 PM

Conference Finish

Conference Participants

12:00 AM