JOANNA MADLOCH
Photography Workshops and Talks
2024
“The Unruly She-Photographer: Women Photographers in Fiction.” ACLA Annual Convention, Montreal (Canada), March 14-17.
Lecturer at Verona Public Library, Verona (NJ)
Postmortem and Ghost Photography: Victorian Oddities, October 27.
Lecturer at Livingston Public Library, Livingston (NJ)
Postmortem and Ghost Photography: Victorian Oddities, October 22.
Instructor and Lecturer at Adult School, Public Library, Montclair (NJ)
Travel and Documentary Photography: Workshop and Walks, July13-20.
Witches in Lore: Embracing Female Strength and Wisdom, April 25.
Photography: Light and Composition, March 5, 12, 19.
Lecturer at Ridgewood Public Library, Roseland
Lee Miller: From Fashion Model to War Photographer, March 6.
2023
“The Cyclops’ Eye: The Photographic Camera and the Body in Literature.” PAMLA Annual Convention, Portland (OR), October 26-29.
“Photography Witch: “Michel Tournier’s Veronica’s Shrouds.” From Pippi to Ripley. Ithaca College, April 21-22.
Lecturer at Livingston Public Library, Livingston (NJ)
Lee Miller: From Fashion Model to War Photographer, December 7
Conflict in Images and Words: War Photographers as Storytellers, November 7
Lecturer at Roseland Public Free Library, Roseland (NJ)
Postmortem and Ghost Photography: Victorian Oddities, October 24
Instructor for Community Events and Lectures, Public Library, New City (NY)
Lee Miller: From Muse to Photographer, April 19.
Instructor at Adult School, Public Library, Montclair (NJ)
iphone Photography, Two-Days Workshop, October 10 and October 17
Advanced iPhone Photography Techniques, June 8.
Lee Miller: From Muse to Photographer, March 14.
Make the Most of your iPhone Photography, February 15
2022
Speaker at Panel Discussion: The Narrative Impulse. at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit (NJ), September 24.
“Image Gluttony in Italo Calvino’s ‘The Adventures of a Photographer.’” World Picture Conference 2022. Colorado Springs, April 22-23.
Instructor at Adult School, Public Library, Montclair (NJ)
Take the best Photographs in the dark, October 25
Make the Most of your iPhone Photography, Two-Days Workshop, July 16-17
Instructor at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit (NJ)
Photography 101, January 19-March 30
Make the Most of your iPhone Photography, Two-Days Workshop, February 5-6
2021
“Photography and Memory: In Case of Absence.” ACLA, April 8-11. Zoom Conference.
Instructor for Community Events and Lectures, Public Library, New City (NY):
Death and Afterlife in Photography, December 14
Pioneering Women Photographers 1850-1950, June 8
Instructor for Community Events and Lectures, Montvale Public Library (NJ)
Death and Afterlife in Photography, October 28
Make the Most of your iPhone Photography, June 2
Instructor at Adult School, Public Library, Montclair (NJ)
Pioneering Women Photographers 1850-1950, March 11
Make the Most of your iPhone Photography, February 2
2020
Instructor for Community Events and Lectures, Public Library, New City (NY):
Dorothea Lange: Beyond Photojournalism, August 6
Instructor at Adult School, Public Library, Montclair (NJ):
Make the Most of your iPhone Photography, July 14, January 28
Advanced Techniques in iPhone Photography, February 11
2019
“Time and Medical Professional Portraiture in 19th and early 20th Centuries.”Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities. Montclair, NJ: Montclair State University, October 25-26.
Instructor at Adult School, Public Library, Montclair (NJ):
Advanced Techniques in iPhone Photography, October 29
Make the Most of your iPhone Photography, October 22, November 5
Masters of Photography: Daguerre, Nadar, Julia Margaret Cameron & Lewis, September 17.
Basic DSLR, January 30-February 6
Photographer: Friend or Foe, February 27
2018
“The Vulnerability of Knowledge in the Face of an Absent Image.” Images in the Post-Truth Era: Photography in Academic Research. London: Birkbeck University, September 6-8.
2017
“Dead and Alive: Re-writing the History of Medicine with Photography.” The Anatomy of the Image: Perspectives on the (Bio)medical Body in Science, Literature, Culture and Politics. Melbourne (Australia): Monash University,
February 16-18.
“Defeating Death with the Camera: The Thanatographic Photographer in the 1800s.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Charleston February 1-4.
2016
“The Comedy of the Studio: Vladimir Sollogub’s and Petr Karatygin: The Daguerreotype, or I Know All These Faces.” International Conference Discovering “Peripheries”: Photographic Histories in Central and Eastern Europe. Society “Liber pro arte” in collaboration with Polish Association of Photography Historians. Warsaw (Poland), May 31-June 1.
“Проза Михаила Шишкина в поисках утраченных фоторафий. ” (Mikhail Shiskhin Proze in Search of Lost Photographs.) I Международная научная конференция Знаковые имена современной русской литературы: Михаил Шишкин. Krakow (Poland): Jagiellonian University, May 19-21.
“Photography Kills: Death by the Camera.” ACLA annual convention, Boston, March 17-20.
2015
“О функционировании «словесных фотографий» Иосифа Бродского в переводах: Открытка от поэта.” (Verbal Photographs of Joseph Brodsky: A Postcard from the Poet.) I Международная научная конференция Русская литература в переводах на иностранные языки. Русский Литературный Канон: Центры и Периферии. Krakow (Poland): Jagiellonian University, October 22-23.
“This Ridiculous Photographer: The Portrait of the Photographer in Nineteenth-century Satire.” Rethinking Early Photography, Lincoln. UK, June 16-17.
“Seeing People and Killing People: The Photographer and Her Camera in Robert Eversz ‘Nina Zero” Series.” NeMLA annual convention, Toronto, April 30-May 3.
“Death by Photography in Michel Tournier’s ‘Veronica’s Shrouds.’” MLA annual convention, Vancouver, January 8-11.
2014
“The Vulnerability of a Non-Existent Photograph.” (Pecha kucha presentation). MLA annual convention, Chicago, January 9-12.
2013
“Joseph Brodsky and Photography.” NeMLA annual convention, Boston, March 21-24.
2012
“Thanatography of Amanda Palmer: Biography as Death.” ACLA annual convention, Providence, March 29-April 1.
“Horror of Photography and the Photographer's Horror.” MLA annual convention, Seattle, January 5-8.
2011
“Horrors of Photography.” MAPACA annual convention, Philadelphia, November 3-5.
2010
“Do You Believe In Photography.” The Image Conference, Los Angeles, December 2-3.
“The Monstrous Eye (Set at f/5.6).” 8th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous, Oxford (UK), September 19-22.
2009
“The Meaning of a Photo-text in the Context of Popular Culture.” MAPACA annual convention, Boston, November 5-7.
“The Challenge of a Hybrid: How to Read a Poetic Photo-Text.” ACLA annual convention, Boston, March 26-29.
2008
“A Photographer: from the Trickster to the Monster.” SCMLA annual convention, San Antonio, November 6-8.
“A Photographer Ridiculed. The Portrait of a Photographer in Romance Language Literature.” At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures. Hofstra University, Hempstead. April 10-12.
“A Three-Eyed Monster: The Picture of a Photographer in World Literature.” NeMLA annual convention Buffalo, April 10-13.
2007
“How to read a photograph: Analyzing the poem ‘Мы жили в городе...’ (‘A Photograph’) by Joseph Brodsky.” SCMLA annual convention, Memphis, November 1-3.
2006
“Joseph Brodsky’s Представление: At the Crossroads of Poetry and Photography.” SCMLA annual convention, Dallas, October 26-28.
“How to read a photo-text? On the example of Joseph Brodsky's Представление.” BASEES annual convention, Cambridge (UK), April 1-3.
2005
“Joseph Brodsky’s Представление: At the Crossroads of Poetry and Photography.” AATSEEL annual convention, Washington D.C., December 27-30.