4:30 - 5:30 PM

• PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Susanne Wiedemann, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
• Brandy Swift, Saint Louis University: "The Gateway Arch As Artifact"
• Julie Chun, San Jose State University School of Art and Design: "Colors of the Night – Signaling in Modernity Through the Effects of Gaslight"
• Katie Moon, Saint Louis University: “Longing for Home: The Ideology of Domestic Stained Glass in the Early Twentieth Century”

• PANEL CHAIR: Michelle Cordone, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
• Ari Lee Laskin, University of California, Irvine: "Nocturnal Omissions: Obscenity and the Historiography of Imaging Illumination"
• Patty Rooney, Saint Louis University: “An Art of Pure Light: The Constant Aesthetic of Daniel Flavin”

• PANEL CHAIR: Eva Navarijo, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
• Jamie Schmidt, Saint Louis University: "Finding ‘A Place in the Sun’:How Crisis Photographs Shaped Public Opinion about Race and Reproductive Rights"
• Nicola Mann, University of Rochester: "Tripping the Light Fantastic: Representing the Teenage Twilight in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Gregory Crewdson’s Twilight (1998-2002)"
• Maurice Tracy, Saint Louis University: "A Light to the World: Matthew Shepard’s Image and the Politics of Gay Visibility"

• PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Cindy Ott, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
• Laura Shields, Saint Louis University: “Finding Light in Darkness: Prisons, Nature, Containment and the Environment”
• Ian Garrett, California Institute of the Arts: "The Ecological Sustainability of Theatrical Lighting"
• Brian Greening, Saint Louis University: "Spectacular Disaster: The Louisiana Superdome and Subsumed Blackness in Post-Katrina New Orleans"

• Introduction by Dr. Matthew Mancini, Chair, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
• Dr. Shawn Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "Seeing Sexuality: Another Look at F. Holland Day"
  Author of "American Archives," "Photography on the Color Line," and co-author of "Lynching Photographs".
  http://shawnmichellesmith.com
  http://www.saic.edu/people/Smith_Shawn_Michelle.html
  

• PANEL CHAIR: Greg Taylor, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
• Emmett McKenna, Saint Louis University: "March on Harlem: Marcus Garvey and the Vision of a Black Empire"
• Nanette Boileau, Saint Louis University: "I am the 'N' Word: An Interdisciplinary Look at Images and Words of Epithets and Euphemisms"

Roundtable/Workshop

• Dr. Angie Dietz: Working with “Found” Photography: A Catalyst for Creativity