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Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake

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Middle East Centre
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The Director and Fellows of the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College convened a memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) and Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023).
Guest Speakers and times:

0:00 - 4:17 Eugene Rogan, Middle East Centre Director (moderator and opening remarks)

4:17 - 15:30 Roger Goodman, Warden of St Antony's College

15:30 - 21:40 Rosie MacGregor, sister of Celia Kerslake

21:40 - 32.33 Michael Willis, Muhammad VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, tribute to Derek Hopwood

32:33 - 42:29 Laurent Mignon, Professor of Turkish, tribute to Celia Kerslake

42:29 - 55:20 Linda Schilcher ('69 Antonian), tribute to Derek Hopwood

55.20 - 1:12:18 Ahmed Al-Shahi ('65 Antonian), tribute to Derek and Celia

1:12:18 - 1:21:43 Dimitris Antoniou ('03 Antonian), student of Celia Kerslake

1:21:43 - 1:29:44 Gina Rowland ('85 Antonian), student of Derek Hopwood

Closing remarks by Eugene Rogan

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Middle East Centre
People
Eugene Rogan
Roger Goodman
Gina Rowland
Rosie MacGregor
Michael Willis
Dimitris Antoniou
Linda Schilcher
Laurent Mignon
Ahmed al-Shahi
Keywords
memorial
Middle East Centre
Department: Middle East Centre
Date Added: 22/08/2023
Duration: 01:31:46

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Indian Encounters with Early Photography: Camera, Cannon, and the ‘Exhibitionary Complex’

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
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Sean Willcox: Indian Encounters with Early Photography: Camera, Cannon, and the ‘Exhibitionary Complex’

Abstract: This paper explores early photography’s shifting status within the imperial culture of display, whose contents ranged from the fine arts to heavy artillery. In examining early photography’s wider role within Nowrojee and Merwanjee’s 1841 book, I explore its reception by Indian elites in the 1840s and 50s and consider how the British tried, with varying degrees of success, to manage the terms of Indian engagement with the new technology via the colonial control of photographic societies.

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
People
Sean Willcox
Keywords
photography
arts
indian
Department: Bodleian Library
Date Added: 20/08/2023
Duration: 00:19:37

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Materiality and ‘Substance’: Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
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Francesca Strobino: Materiality and ‘Substance’: Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing

Abstract: This talk explores William Henry Fox Talbot’s photomechanical work, focusing on the materiality of his experimental practice. This talk discusses the complexity of experimental practice within photography – from metal plates and paper proofs to ink and etching compounds as well as the photographic and photoglyphic engraving processes which encompass a variety of materials and techniques. By looking into Talbot’s practice of designing and testing new photomechanical processes, I show how materials critically informed his approach, providing a precious insight into how Talbot’s view of photography was moulded and developed.

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
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Francesca Strobino
Keywords
photography
techniques
Engraving
Department: Bodleian Library
Date Added: 20/08/2023
Duration: 00:10:17

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The early history of photography in relation to three notions of “fixity”: chemistry, politics, and meaning

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Chitra Ramalingam: The early history of photography in relation to three notions of “fixity”: chemistry, politics, and meaning.

Abstract: The fragility and ongoing decay of the image was an undeniably essential element of the early photograph’s chemical nature, aesthetics, and cultural life. This talk offers a reworking of the early history of photography in relation to three notions of “fixity”: chemistry, politics, and meaning. It mobilizes the archive of faded, damaged, and illegible photographs from the medium’s early decades, the archive behind every early photographic exhibition, and explores its relation to preservation, reproduction, and representation. Despite powerful narratives on photographic history as a medium of fixity, photographs are always, profoundly, unfixed.

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
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Chitra Ramalingam
Keywords
archive
photography
preservation
Department: Bodleian Library
Date Added: 20/08/2023
Duration: 00:40:30

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Early descriptions of the process of photography

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Michael Pritchard: Early descriptions of the process of photography.

Abstract: The announcement in Britain of photography’s invention was quickly followed by a proliferation of publications, some of them detailed expositions and some no more than a folded page, in which the new medium is described or promoted. This paper will trace the arc of these publications with a view to providing a history of photography in print.

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
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Michael Pritchard
Keywords
british
photography
print
Department: Bodleian Library
Date Added: 20/08/2023
Duration: 00:22:55

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The global engagement of two British photographers, James William Newland (1810-57) and Louisa How (1821-93)

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Elisa deCourcy: The global engagement of two British photographers, James William Newland (1810-57) and Louisa How (1821-93).

Abstract: This paper begins with two daguerreotype portraits of unidentified men taken by James William Newland (1810-57) which appear typical of the Daguerreian period but also bookend the exceptional career of their photographer. Made in two of the busiest mid-19th century ports, the images are a part of a mid-century entanglement between commodity trade, photographic knowledge, and an expanding market of globally disseminated illustrated publishing. This paper traces two British photographers: Newland, and the calotypist Louisa How (1821-93). We will look at the ways both engaged with a metropolitan culture of photography through supplies and periodicals which updated their knowledge and tethered them to English photographic conversations. Newland and How’s biographies emphasise the expansive reach of early British photography whilst problematising its homogeneity.

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
People
Elisa deCourcy
Keywords
photography
publishing
global
Department: Bodleian Library
Date Added: 20/08/2023
Duration: 00:23:42

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