Wednesday, 26 October 26
18.00
Keynote Lecture
Annette Vowinckel (Potsdam/Berlin): Image Agents. Photography as a New field of Action in the 20th Century
Welcome Reception
Thursday, 27 October
9.00 – 11.00
Panel 1: Views from the Fourth Estate: Photojournalism and Press Photography
Katalin Bognár (Budapest): A Country Without Christmas? Topics Missing from the Photograph Archives of the Hungarian Daily Newspaper Szabad Nép, 1949–1956
Rebekka Grossmann (Jerusalem): Global Visions, Envisioned Mobility and Visual Friction: Agency Photographs and the Contested Nature of a ‘National Socialist Aestheticsʾ
Helena Holzberger (Munich): The Visual Shaping of Stalin's Orient. Photographs of Uzbekistan in the Soviet Press During the First Five-Years-Plan
Commentary: Harriet Scharnberg (Münster)
Coffee Break
11.15 – 13.15
Panel 2: Reverse Shot: Self/Representations in Photo Albums
Tatiana Saburova (Bloomington/Indiana): “Two Generations”: Public, Private, and the Images of Generations in the Soviet Photography
Nathalie Patricia Soursos (Vienna): The Dictator’s Photo-albums: Private and Public Photographs in the Metaxas-Dictatorship
Ulrich Prehn (Berlin): Framing Work: Visual Tropes and Narrative Paradigms in Private and Institutional Photo Albums from Nazi Germany
Commentary: Elizabeth Harvey
Lunch
14.30 – 16.45
Panel 3: Close-ups: Localized Photographic Perspectives
Linda Conze (Berlin): Filling the Frame: Crowd Shots of May Day 1934 from Provincial Germany
Fátima Moura Ferreira / Patricia Leal (Minho/Lisbon): Re-reading the Photographic Archive: Political Imaginaries and Propagandistic Mis-en-scène – Portuguese New State
Sandra Starke (Berlin): Between Private and Public: Curt Biella's Photographic Studio in Gunzenhausen under National Socialism
Julia Werner (Berlin): Shared and Divided Spaces: Photographic Perspectives on Occupied Warsaw (1939-1945)
Commentary: Malte Zierenberg (Berlin)
Coffee Break
17.00 – 19.00
Panel 4: The Artistic Lens: Photographic Appropriations and Interventions
Daria Panaiotti (St. Petersburg): Discipline of the Photographic Gaze: Normative Language and Individual Strategies in the Late-Soviet Documentary Photography
Bertram Kaschek (Dresden): Defensive Mimicry: Christian Borchert’s Photographic Interventions of the Late 1970s and 80s
Briana Smith (Des Moines/Iowa): „Fotografieren Verboten!“ Photography and Action Art in the Late GDR
Commentary: Petra Bopp (Hamburg)
19.30 – 20.30
Book Presentation
Thomas Medicus (Hg.), Verhängnisvoller Wandel. Ansichten aus der Provinz 1933-1949: Die Fotosammlung Biella (Hamburger Edition, 2016).
Friday, 28 October
9.00 – 11.30
Panel 5: Dodging and Burning: State Repression and Subversive Counter-Strategies
Alumah Florsheim-Shoham (Jerusalem): Public Space in a Dictatorship: the Stasi Photographers Design the Public Sphere
Denis Skopin (St. Petersburg): Elimination of “Public Enemies” From Group Photographs in the USSR During the Stalin Era: Psychological and Political Mechanisms of the Phenomenon
Natalija Arlauskaitè(Vilnius): Making the Soviet Atrocity Archive Visible: Photo/Graphic Art Projects by Lithuanian Artist Kestutis Grigaliunas
Jeff Hayton (Fairmount/Wichita): Capturing Difference under Dictatorship: Punk Rock, Photography & Dissent in the GDR
Commentary: Alexandra Oberländer (Bremen)
Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00
Closing discussion