Geoff Batchen Online Events 2020

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A lot of an academic’s work takes place between teaching stints, and this is especially so during a pandemic. Geoff Batchen, for example, has a number of talks coming up or already presented, delivered at his desk in Oxford but heard by a global audience.

On February 17, for example, he appeared at Rutgers University in New Jersey under the auspices of The Developing Room and the Center for Cultural Analysis to discuss his new book, Negative/Positive. A visual trace of that talk is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INs3CMAdS8c.

On April 14 he gave a more formal talk about reproductive daguerreotypes (photographs taken of prints or paintings) as part of a lecture series titled ‘Photography at Work’, hosted in Sweden by ABF (Workers Educational Association), CFF (The Center for Photography), Malmö Art Academy, Konsthall C, and Konstfack: University of Art, Craft and Design.

The following week, on April 23, he will be moderating a talk by artist Nicola Green about her exhibition titled Unity. On May 10, he is giving a talk about the history of cameraless photography for the Oxford Art Society Associates.

A few days later, on May 15, Geoff is presenting the keynote lecture for a symposium devoted to Thomas Wedgwood, the first man to publish an account of his photographic experiments (this account appeared in June 1802 in the Journals of the Royal Institution).

Then, on May 19, Geoff is giving another keynote lecture, this time for a conference hosted in Argentina by the Program of Studies on Photography and Visual Arts of the Centro de investigación en Arte, Materia y Cultura/ IIAC - Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. More details to follow.

For those interested in hearing Geoff speak more generally about photography, he has recently been interviewed for Pix, an on-line journal based in India. These conversations can be found at http://www.enterpix.in/pix-post/collapsing-binaries-in-photographic-history-in-conversation-with-prof-geoffrey-batchen-part-1/ and http://www.enterpix.in/pix-post/photography-beyond-its-truth-claims-in-conversation-with-geoffrey-batchen-part-2/.