Conference: Visual Culture: Film/Photography/History
April 23-25, 1992

This conference explored the relationships among film, photography, and historical changes in modes of looking and perception. It was the first film conference held at the Center since 1982. The book, Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video emerged as a result of this conference.

Eric Rentschler (UC-Irvine) and Patrice Petro (UWM)

Thursday, April 23
2:00 - 2:30 pm	Welcome: Kathleen Woodward (UWM)
2:30 - 3:30 pm	Histories of Looking: Theories of Perception
	Linda Williams (UC-Irvine)
4:00 - 6:00 pm	Tom Gunning (SUNY-Purchase)
6:00 pm	Reception
8:00 - 9:30 pm	Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds)
(back l-r) Kathleen Woodward, Coco Fusco, Patrice Petro, Patricia Mellencamp, (front l-r) Tracey Moffat, Carol Tennessen
Friday, April 24
10:00 am - 12:00	Visual Economies
	Allan Sekula (California Institute of Art)
	Herbert Blau (UWM)
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 pm	Philippe Dubois (Université de Liège, Université de Paris III)
3:30 - 5:30 pm	Disputed Histories
	Sally Stein (UC-Irvine)
	Charles Wolfe (UC-Santa Barbara)
7:00 - 9:30 pm	Patricia Mellencamp (UWM) Screening of films by Tracey Moffat (Australia) and Laleen Jayamanne (Sri Lanka)
Linda Williams (UC-Irvine)
Saturday, April 25
10:00 am - 12:00	Anatomies of the Visible
	Abigail Solomon-Godeau (UC-Santa Barbara)
	Lynne Kirby (Independent Television Service)
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm	Imagining the Nation
	Eric Rentschler (UC-Irvine)
	Edward Buscombe (British Film Institute)
4:00 - 6:00 pm	Negativity and History (between Photography and Historiograghy)
	John Tagg (SUNY-Binghampton)
	Miriam Hansen (University of Chicago)
Philippe Dubois (Université de Liège, Université de Paris III)
Discussants	Dudley Andrew, Ben Brewster, Eduardo Cadava, Lea Jacobs, Andrew Martin, Linda Mizejewski, Roswitha Mueller

Connie Ballides (Uline Fellow) and Lynne Worshaw

Conference Organizer: Patrice Petro (UWM)
Conference Coordinator: Carol Tennessen (UWM)

Jamie Owen Daniel and Herbert Blau

1968: The Center's Founding

The 1970s: Film, Performance, Language and Technology

The 1980s: Feminism, Modernism and Culture

The 1990s: Culture, Aesthetics, Aging and Animals

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