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Conference Program

Vernacular Reframed: An Exploration of the Everyday
Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6, 2004

Location:
Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG), 855 Commonwealth Ave.
CGS, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave.
Photographic Resource Center (PRC), 832 Commonwealth Ave.

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Schedule 

Day One of Conference
Friday, Nov. 5, 2004


Location:
CGS, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Avenue &
BUAG, 855 Commonwealth Avenue


8:30 am Registration
Coffee and Continental Breakfast

Lobby, College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue
9:00 am Opening Remarks and Welcome
CGS Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave
9:15 am

Session I: Approaches to the Vernacular
Moderator: Jessica Sewell, Assistant Professor, Art History and American New England Studies, Boston University


Bernard Herman, Director of the Center for American Material Culture Studies, Edward & Elizabeth Rosenberg Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Vernacular Trouble: Exclusive Practices on the Margins of an Inclusive Art

A.D. Coleman, Photography Historian and Critic, Executive Director, The Photography Criticism CyberArchive
Quotidian/Vernacular Photography: Premises, Functions and Contexts

Ross Barrett, Warren G. Adelson Curatorial Fellow in American Art, Art History Department, Boston University
Vernacular/Spectacular: Everyday Photography and the Society of the Spectacle

10:45 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Session II: A Vernacular History of Photography
Moderator: Kim Sichel, Chair, Art History Department, Associate Professor, Boston University

Stephen White, Photography Collector, Curator, and Former Gallery Owner, Los Angeles
Vernacular Redefined

Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of the History of Photography, PhD Program in Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York
When This You See: Photography, Memory, History

Douglas R. Nickel, Director, Center for Creative Photography, and Associate Professor of Art History, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Vernacular: Genealogy of an Idea
1:00 pm Lunch Break
2:30 pm

Preview of exhibition, In the Vernacular: Everyday Photographs from the Rodger Kingston Collection, and gallery talk with Stacey McCarroll,
Director & Curator, Boston University Art Gallery
BUAG, 855 Commonwealth Avenue

3:30 pm

Reception for the exhibition, Keepsakes, at the Sherman Gallery .
Sherman Gallery, 775 Commonwealth Avenue

http://www.bu.edu/cfa/visual/galleries/gsu_gallery.htm

5:00 pm Lecture: Rodger Kingston Democratic Vistas: Thirty Years of Collecting Vernacular Photographs
Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Avenue
6:00-8:00 pm Exhibition Opening Reception:
In the Vernacular: Everyday Photographs from
the Rodger Kingston Collection

BUAG, 855 Commonwealth Avenue
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