2026
24-hour conference commencing at 12.01am UTC, 8th March 2026
In celebration of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2026, we will feature the work of photography scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts in a free, online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to contemporary practitioners. This unique event aims to highlight the diverse and impactful work of women and female-identifying photographers, and those working with photography, across many different cultures and time zones.
NOTE: All time zones enter 8th March, International Women’s Day, from 8-11 am UTC.
The talks, speakers, and UTC times are listed below. Links provide detailed abstracts, speakers’ locations, academic/professional affiliations, and a brief biography.
All branding and graphic design was donated to the event by Tyler Barnes.
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| Sunday, March 8th | ||
| 12:00 AM |
Introduction: Conference Organizers' Welcome Rose Teanby 12:00 AM |
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| 12:09 AM |
Whiteout: Photography in Antarctica; Panel Discussion Geoffrey Batchen 12:09 AM |
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| 1:11 AM |
Traces of Light: Women in Early Photography of China Stacey Lambrow 1:11 AM |
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| 1:31 AM |
Quiet Resilience: Alternative Modernity in Xu Xiaoxiao's "Ki Ki So So Lhargyalo" Chuqi Min, Rice University 1:31 AM |
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| 1:31 AM |
Slow Burn: Women and Photography from Te Papa's Collection Lissa Mitchell, Te Papa Tongarewa 1:31 AM |
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| 1:51 AM |
Catlin Langford 1:51 AM |
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| 1:51 AM |
Photomediating Together: Collective Photowalks and Photomontage Marita Ibañez Sandoval 1:51 AM |
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| 4:06 AM |
Homai Vyarawalla: The Lady with the Lens Nabanita Mitra, Women’s Christian College 4:06 AM |
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| 4:28 AM |
Contemporary Encounters with Ethnographic Photography in Britain and the Balkans Jelena Sofronijevic 4:28 AM |
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| 4:48 AM |
Excess, Embodiment, and Exposure: Zarina Bhimji in the 1980s Grace Xiao, University of California, Davis 4:48 AM |
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| 5:08 AM |
Lost in the Blur: The Rediscovery of Betti Mautner’s Photographic Legacy Stefanie Pirker 5:08 AM |
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| 5:28 AM |
The African Female Gaze: Identity, Memory, Diaspora, and Resistance Alessandra Migani 5:28 AM |
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| 5:48 AM |
Panel: Fotografiste: Locating Women Photographers in Pre- and Post-Unification Italy (1840s–1920s) Nicoletta Leonardi, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera 5:48 AM |
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| 6:48 AM |
Emma Colombi, University for Foreigners of Perugia 6:48 AM |
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| 7:08 AM |
Bianca Ceriani, Roma Tre University 7:08 AM |
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| 7:30 AM |
Looking with a Feminist Eye: Swedish Photography and the Politics of the Gaze (1970s–1990s) Ekaterina Skorokhodova, Paris Nanterre University 7:30 AM |
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| 7:50 AM |
Pia Arke and Maud Sulter's Decolonial Visions Through Photography Brenda Bikoko, Sint-Lucas Antwerpen 7:50 AM |
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| 8:10 AM |
Out of the Shadows, Into Focus: The Case of Jane Clifford Rachel Bullough Ainscough 8:10 AM |
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| 8:30 AM |
Panel: Framing the Front – Women Photographers and the Spanish Civil War María de los Santos García Felguera, Complutense University, Madrid 8:30 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Susana Lourenço Marques, University of Porto 9:30 AM |
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| 9:50 AM |
Azahara Lozano Dorado, University of Seville 9:50 AM |
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| 10:10 AM |
Making the Invisible Visible: Patricia Aridjis’s Documentary Lens on Mexico’s Marginalized Women Eunice Miranda Tapia, University of Seville 10:10 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
Acland to Yevonde: A Feminist Historiography of Colour Photography Emery Walshe 10:30 AM |
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| 10:50 AM |
The Many Faces of Barbara Ker-Seymer: British Modernist Photographer of the 1930s Clive Coward 10:50 AM |
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| 11:12 AM |
The Role of Georgia O'Keeffe in Photography Conservation: A Pioneer Ahead of Her Time Mireya Arenas Patiño 11:12 AM |
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| 11:32 AM |
Lady Researchers Wanted for Lady Photographers: Mrs. Strong and the Bertolacci Sisters Annebella Pollen, University of Brighton 11:32 AM |
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| 11:52 AM |
Panel: “Herstory: A Female-Only Endeavor?” Nicole Hudgins, University of Baltimore 11:52 AM |
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| 12:32 PM |
Unexpectedly Unearthing Three Victorian Female Stereoscopic Photographers Rebecca Sharpe, Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy 12:32 PM |
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| 12:52 PM |
Making Female Labour Visible: Eileen “Dusty” Deste Sophie Piper 12:52 PM |
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| 1:12 PM |
Rosalind Maingot (1893–1957): A Woman of Many Parts Pamela Glasson Roberts 1:12 PM |
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| 1:32 PM |
Constructive Collaborations in Early Colour Photography Janine Freeston 1:32 PM |
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| 1:52 PM |
Haohao Zhang 1:52 PM |
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| 2:12 PM |
Pamela Booth (1914–1981): One of Fifty Women Deborah Ireland 2:12 PM |
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| 2:32 PM |
Katherine Howells, National Archives (U.K.) 2:32 PM |
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| 2:52 PM |
THE:Theatre to PHO:Photography: Billie Love and Anna Shepherd in the Picture Library Francesca Issatt, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford (U.K.) 2:52 PM |
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| 3:12 PM |
Ursula Clark: Architectural Photographer David Barber 3:12 PM |
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| 3:32 PM |
Out of the Studio: Female Photographers in the RIBA Collections Valeria Carullo, Royal Institute of British Architects 3:32 PM |
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| 3:52 PM |
A Women's Auxiliary Air Force’s Tale: The Knicky Chapman Collection Gary Winter, Historic England Archive 3:52 PM |
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| 4:14 PM |
“Dirty Work” for a Woman: Exploring the Life and Career of Daguerreotypist Sarah Garrett Hewes Sarah J. Weatherwax, Library Company of Philadelphia 4:14 PM |
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| 4:34 PM |
Edurne Beltran de Heredia Carmona, Coastal Carolina University 4:34 PM |
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| 4:54 PM |
Prolific, Artistic, and Overlooked: Annie Powell (1859–1952) and an Accidental Photo Historian Bernie Zelitch, By Annie Powell 4:54 PM |
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| 5:14 PM |
Kate Fogle 5:14 PM |
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| 5:34 PM |
Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton, Fort Valley State University 5:34 PM |
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| 5:54 PM |
Love and Solidarity in Nina Berman's An Autobiography of Miss Wish Linda Steer, Brock University 5:54 PM |
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| 6:14 PM |
Margaret Watkins: Feeling through the Archive Charlotte Beyries, Art Gallery of Ontario 6:14 PM |
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| 6:34 PM |
Josefina Oliver: A Hidden Photographer and Artist Patricia Viaña 6:34 PM |
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| 6:54 PM |
A Claim to Equality of the Sexes: A Woman Daguerreian Voice in Mid-19th Century Americas Carlos G. Vertanessian 6:54 PM |
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| 7:16 PM |
Panel: Female Lenses – Women Photography Historians in Mexico ERA Colectivo 7:16 PM |
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| 8:36 PM |
Mother St. Croix: Ursuline Nun and Pioneering Photographer in Late 19th-Century New Orleans Amber Shields Johnson 8:36 PM |
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| 8:56 PM |
Contradictory perspectives: Miwa Yanagi’s Elevator Girls Linda Levitt, Stephen F. Austin State University 8:56 PM |
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| 9:16 PM |
An Art of Grief: Kia LaBeija, Kwan Bennett, and Photographic Processing Alex Fialho, Yale University 9:16 PM |
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| 9:36 PM |
Kathleen Wentrack, Queensborough Community College, CUNY 9:36 PM |
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| 9:58 PM |
Chile’s Travestis: AIDS, Politics, and Post-Dictatorship in Pedro Lemebel’s “Loco afán” Riley Klug, University of California, San Diego 9:58 PM |
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| 10:18 PM |
‘Silent, Defenceless Images’: Constrained Bodies in the Photographs of Madame d’Ora Nicole Entin, J. Paul Getty Museum 10:18 PM |
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| 10:38 PM |
Exposing Violence: Women Using Experimental Photography to Confront Gendered Violence Elizabeth Ransom 10:38 PM |
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| 10:58 PM |
Esther Lewittes Mipaas: Photography for the History of Art and Architecture Nicole Krup Oest, City College of San Francisco 10:58 PM |
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| 11:18 PM |
Exploiting the Gaze? Women Workers in the Hula Girl Photo Industry in Wartime Hawai’i Pippa Oldfield, Teesside University 11:18 PM |
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| 11:38 PM |
Conclusion: Conference Co-Organizers’ Thank You Kris Belden-Adams, Texas A&M University 11:38 PM |
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