Boissonnas and Egypt Conference
2nd Nov 2017
Venue: Ondaatje Theatre
Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore
United Kingdom
The conference will present different perspectives on the context of 1920s Egypt in relation to Boissonnas’s work and explore wider debates around photography and cultural geography.
Speakers:
Professor Oriana Baddeley (University of the Arts London)
Dr George Manginis (Benaki Museum)
Dr Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia)
Dr Ahmed Shams (Durham University)
Dr Estelle Sohier (Université de Genève)
The conference will be followed by a private view of the exhibition from 17.30-19.30.
Tickets for the conference £35 (lunch and refreshments included) please rsvp:
https://www.saintcatherinefoundation.org/product-page/boissonnas-in-egypt-conference
FULL PROGRAMME:
10.00 Arrival, tea & coffee
10.15 Welcome and introduction by Professor Oriana Baddeley
10.30 Dr George Manginis, 'Into Cheltenham' - On the Way to Mount Sinai
11.15 Dr Ahmed Shams, A Swiss Photographic Voyage
12.00 Dr Christina Riggs, Modern antiquity: Photography in 1920s Egypt
12.45 Panel discussion - Chair Prof. Oriana Baddeley
13.15 Lunch break
14.15 Dr Estelle Sohier, L'Egypte by Fred Boissonnas (1932): a Photographic Monument for the Egyptian Nation
15.00 Dr Kathy Brunner, Boissonnas' Return to Egypt, the Unfinished Sinai Project
15.45 Tea & coffee
16.15 Professor Oriana Baddeley, Boissonnas, Modernity and the Aesthetics of the Wilderness
17.00 Panel discussion - Chair Ewelina Warner
17.30 Private view of Boissonnas in Egypt exhibition