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Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage – Semester Two 2025/26 Image credit: Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) leading the final march to Parliament during the Total Revolution Movement (Sampoorna Kranti), 7 March 1975. Picture courtesy: Shail Nath Sinha. PHRC is pleas…

you can check the whole programme of talks here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/r...

There is still time to register for tomorrow's seminar by the one and only Donna West Brett! Her talk "A Strange Tissue of Space and Time" is part of our Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, and will be online on Thurs 19 Feb 5.30 pm UK time www.ticketsource.co.uk/photographic...

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Autumn 2025 #3 Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Ana Catarina Pinho IHA, NOVA University Lisbon / University of Coimbra, Portugal The Empire of Fiction: Images and Counter-Images of the Port…

Join us this Thursday at 5:30pm (GMT/UTC) for the PHRC’s online Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures & Heritage. We’re delighted to welcome Ana Catarina Pinho who will explore images & counter-images of the Portuguese dictatorship. Open to all but registration required - shorturl.at/DQz1f

Autumn 2025 #2 Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Pippa Oldfield Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK Tom Allbeson Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Peace Photographies: Rethinking Photo…

Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist

Autumn 2025 #1 Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Martha Langford Concordia University, Montreal Through Line 1: The Ebb and Flow of Illustration in A History of Photography in Canada, 1839-2…

Our first Research Seminar in Photographic Cultures and Heritage is tomorrow 5.30 pm UK time online! Martha Langford will present "Through Line 1: The Ebb and Flow of Illustration in A History of Photography in Canada, 1839-2010" Book your place here photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-1/

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A reminder that the first session of our new Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage starts this week!

Annual Conference 2026 Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…

We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist

Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage – Semester One 2025/26 PHRC is pleased to announce the launch of Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a new, free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with pol…

We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist

Hello #photohist! we're now in Bluesky just in time to announce plenty of news! First of all, our Director of almost 10 years Prof Kelley Wilder left DMU at the end of August. We miss her deeply but we're in excellent hands as Prof Gil Pasternak has become our new Director!