“Colorsnap! Aesthetics, Technology and Capital in the 1928 Boom”, keynote at The Business of Photography, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, June 2019
“Feeling Photos: photography, picture language and mood capture” keynote at Photography Off the Scale, FAMU, Prague, 9-10 November 2018
"Photochemistry, Atmosphere and Affect in the Case of Ilford Limited 1914 –1945" invited paper at the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre, Birkbeck, London, 5 June 2018
"Affective Realism: Creative Photography on Ice" at Out of Sight: Practices and Theories of the Image,
Third Annual Staff and Doctoral Symposium, London School of Film, Media and Design, 30 May 2018
"‘The Power Behind the Lens’: Photochemistry and the Transformation of Sensory Experience in the Case of Ilford Ltd." at After Post-Photography 4 - Modes of Production, European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, 16-18 May 2018
"International Picture Language, the Attention Economy and the Market in Images" at UBIQUITY: photography’s multitudes: symposium at the University of Rochester Humanities Center, NY, USA, 26-27 April 2018
"Photography Sets the Image Free", Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of West London, 7 March 2018
2018 "Ilford Photographic Manufacturers: Industry, Innovation and Sensory Experience", invited paper at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University, 5 February 2018
“Holes”, at The Left Conference: Photography and Film Criticism, Museum
of Contemporary Art of Chiado (MNAC), Lisbon, Portugal. 16-18 November
2017.
“We Are Here But Where Are You?”, invited paper at Urban Encounters
Conference, Tate Britain, London, UK. On Panel "Optical Transformations:
Between the Analog and the Digital", 11 November 2017.
“Image
Flow: Photography on Tap” at Photographies journal: Critical Issues in
Photography Today, International Conference, University of Westminster,
London, UK. 18 - 20 May 2017
“Microfilm
and Memex: Lucia Moholy, Photography and the Information Revolution”,
Staff and Doctoral Symposium, London School of Film, Design and Media, 3
May 2017
“The
Floating Face: Glamour, Photography and Death Masks” at the Inaugural
Staff and Doctoral Symposium, London School of Film, Design and Media,
18th May 2016
Artist's talk : “The Hope Six Demolition Project”, University of West London, 13th April 2016
“Making
Photo-things: Contemporary Photography and New Materialism”. Conference
paper given at Material Culture in Action: Practices of making,
collecting and re-enacting art and design, Glasgow School of Art, UK,
7-8 September 2015
“Photography, Attention and The Museum” invited paper for the School of
Anthropology / Pitt Rivers Museum seminar in Visual, Material and
Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford, 13 November 2015
“In Conversation: Aurélien Froment, Anna Craycroft and Michelle
Henning”, event for the exhibition Aurélien Froment Fröbel Fröbeled at
Spike Island, Bristol, 13 August 2015.
“Of Tennis Courts and Fireplaces: Neurath's internment on the Isle of
Man and his politics of design” invited paper at Otto Neurath:
Democratisation and Civic Education Workshop, University of Vienna, 28
May. 2015
“Museums,
Media Archaeology and the Image”, paper given at Archaeologies of Media
and Film conference, University of Bradford / National Media Museum, 4
September 2014
“From a World in a Box to a World without Borders: Art Museums, Media
Technologies and Cosmopolitanism”, invited public lecture at the Museum
Sztuki in Łodz, Poland, as part of their Universal Museum series,
November 2013
“The
Virtual Artefact: Social Media and the Play of the Image”, paper given
at Artefacts Culture and Identity, annual conference of the
International Society for Cultural History, Istanbul / Turkey, 12
September 2013
“Mediated
Lives: Harnessing Students’ Media Use”, workshop / talk at Refresh:
Reinvigorating Film and Media Teaching in the Digital Age, Watershed
Media Centre Bristol, 26 June 2013
Invited
speaker in Ten--‐Cities international workshop organized by the Goethe
Institut, Nairobi held in Nairobi, April 2013. This included a public
discussion and debate at the Goethe Institut.
“Locating
the Bristol Sound: Archiving Music as Everyday Life”, paper given with
Rehan Hyder at Sites of Popular Music Heritage, University of Liverpool,
8--‐9 Sept. 2011.
“Archiving
the Bristol Sound” paper given with Rehan Hyder at Collecting and
Curating Popular Music Heritage Symposium, British Library, London, July
2011.
“Neurath’s Whale” (invited paper) The Afterlife of Animals, at Manchester University / Manchester Museum, December 2009
My Recent Research”, (invited paper) International Isotype Symposium, University of Reading, September. 2009
”Imagining
Post-War Happiness: Otto Neurath and Britain in 1945”, After the War:
Post-War Structures of Feeling, the Institute of English Studies, /the
Birkbeck Centre for Post-War Cultural Research, University of London,
May 8-9, 2009.
“Isotype”, Manifesting Type workshop, Portsmouth University, April 2009
“Picture
language as visual writing: Otto Neurath’s Isotype”, Sublimely Visual:
The Art of the Text, Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary
Cultures, University of Bristol, September 2008
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