Introduction: Conference Organizers' Welcome
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
8-3-2026 12:00 AM
Description
Opening remarks by the conference organizers to welcome participants and frame the day's discussion.
Co-Convenors/Co-Organizers:
Dr. Rose Teanby (U.K.) & Dr. Kris Belden-Adams (USA)
Dr. Rose Teanby is an independent photographic historian specialising in early British women photographers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Rose gained her PhD in Photographic History at the Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, researching early British women photographers 1839-1861. Having previously gained a Diploma in Photography in 1983, one of her portraits was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2015. Rose has presented her research at conferences including Anna Atkins Symposium, New York Public Library 2018), Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries: Britain, 1750-1950 (Westminster University, 2019), Royal Photographic Society (International Women's Day, 2022), A New Power (Bodleian Library, Oxford 2023), and Women and Worlds of Learning (Oxford University, 2024). Rose contributed two essays to the 2022 publication A World History of Women Photographers and online articles for the Journal of Victorian Culture, Photo Oxford Festival, The Royal Society, V&A, National Portrait Gallery and Linnean Society. She has contributed to the PhotoHistorian, Photography and Culture, and Art Inquiries. Her 2025 Photo Oxford talk about the life of Constance Talbot is available here.
Kris Belden-Adams is an Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University. She is the Chief Editor of Art Inquiries journal, and the author of monographs Photography, Temporality, Modernity: Time Warped (2019), and Photography, Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics’: Picturing Privilege (2020). In addition, she is an editor and contributor to the volumes Photography and Failure: One Medium’s Incessant Entanglement with Mishaps, Flops, and Disappointments (2017), and Diverse Histories in Photographic Albums: ‘These Are Our Stories’ (2022). With Dr. Karen Barber, Belden-Adams is a Content Co-Editor for Smarthistory’s/Khan Academy’s coverage on the history of photography, and is dedicated to expanding coverage of women photographers. Her research and other projects help to give rise to new voices, illuminate the work of overlooked women photographers, and help enrich our histories. Her scholarly writing is accessible here: https://tamu.academia.edu/KrisBeldenAdams
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Teanby, Rose and Belden-Adams, Kris, "Introduction: Conference Organizers' Welcome" (2026). Women of Photography: A 24-Hour Conference-a-thon Celebrating International Women’s Day. 1.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotography/2026/schedule/1
Introduction: Conference Organizers' Welcome
Opening remarks by the conference organizers to welcome participants and frame the day's discussion.
Co-Convenors/Co-Organizers:
Dr. Rose Teanby (U.K.) & Dr. Kris Belden-Adams (USA)
Dr. Rose Teanby is an independent photographic historian specialising in early British women photographers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Rose gained her PhD in Photographic History at the Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, researching early British women photographers 1839-1861. Having previously gained a Diploma in Photography in 1983, one of her portraits was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2015. Rose has presented her research at conferences including Anna Atkins Symposium, New York Public Library 2018), Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries: Britain, 1750-1950 (Westminster University, 2019), Royal Photographic Society (International Women's Day, 2022), A New Power (Bodleian Library, Oxford 2023), and Women and Worlds of Learning (Oxford University, 2024). Rose contributed two essays to the 2022 publication A World History of Women Photographers and online articles for the Journal of Victorian Culture, Photo Oxford Festival, The Royal Society, V&A, National Portrait Gallery and Linnean Society. She has contributed to the PhotoHistorian, Photography and Culture, and Art Inquiries. Her 2025 Photo Oxford talk about the life of Constance Talbot is available here.
Kris Belden-Adams is an Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University. She is the Chief Editor of Art Inquiries journal, and the author of monographs Photography, Temporality, Modernity: Time Warped (2019), and Photography, Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics’: Picturing Privilege (2020). In addition, she is an editor and contributor to the volumes Photography and Failure: One Medium’s Incessant Entanglement with Mishaps, Flops, and Disappointments (2017), and Diverse Histories in Photographic Albums: ‘These Are Our Stories’ (2022). With Dr. Karen Barber, Belden-Adams is a Content Co-Editor for Smarthistory’s/Khan Academy’s coverage on the history of photography, and is dedicated to expanding coverage of women photographers. Her research and other projects help to give rise to new voices, illuminate the work of overlooked women photographers, and help enrich our histories. Her scholarly writing is accessible here: https://tamu.academia.edu/KrisBeldenAdams