Dr. Antigoni Memou

Antigoni is a member of the Association of Art Historians and a member of the Organising Committee of the research seminar Marxism In Culture (http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/132). She is a member of the Global Nominations Panel for the Prix Pictet (The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability http://www.prixpictet.com/nominators/memou-antigoni/) and a nominator for First PhotoBook Award, New Media Space, Science Museum, London (http://www.firstbookaward.com/2015/). 

She has been previously an Associated Researcher in the European Protest Movements’ Network and she has acted as a reviewer for book manuscript in Bloomsbury Academic (Dec. 2015); the peer-reviewed academic journals: Photography and Culture (Jan. 2016); Visual Anthropology (June 2015); History of Photography (July 2013); Photographies (March 2012); Theory, Culture and Society (May 2010) (Special issue on ‘Photography and the State’); the Czech National Grant for the Arts (Aug. 2013) and the 36^th Macromarketing Conference, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, Stream: Art, Culture and Markets. (Feb. 2011)

2015

‘A Dissident Museum? Counter-Narratives within the Contemporary Museum’, International Conference: Politics, State Power and the Making of Art History, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 18 - 19 June, 2015.

‘Global Photography: Notes on the ‘Documentary Turn’ in Contemporary Art’, International Conference: Situating Global Art, InterArt Research Programme (Free University of Berlin) Berlin, 12-14 February, 2015.

2014

‘Photography and Realism’, Keywords: A (Polemical) Vocabulary of Contemporary Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 7 October 2014. [By Invitation]

Panel Event: ‘What is Photography?’, Free Range, Truman Brewery, London, 21 June 2014. [By Invitation]

2012

‘Green Alternatives/Conflicting Representations,’ International Conference: Eco-images: Altering Environmental Discussions and Political Landscapes, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, 18-19 April 2012

‘Contesting Globalisation: Allan Sekula’s “Waiting for the Tear Gas”’, Art and Globalisation Talks, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 March 2012. . [By Invitation]

2011

 ‘Bernd and Hilla Becher,’ Seminar at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (MA in Contemporary Art), London, U.K., 5 October 2011. [By Invitation]

2010

‘The Düsseldorf School of Photography,’ Seminar at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (MA in Contemporary Art), London, U.K., 28 October 2010. [By Invitation]

‘Carnival Against Capital’: From the Street to the Archive, Symposium: Curating Resistance: Aesthetics and Ethics in Social Movement, University of Essex, U.K., 27 October 2010. [By Invitation]

‘Photography in May ‘68’, Marxism in Culture Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, 28 May 2010.

‘Rethinking May ’68: Photography and Memory’, Seminar at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 May 2010. [By Invitation]

‘A Conflict of Representations: Photography and the Internet in the Zapatista Struggle’, Session Title: Supplementary Conflicts: Domesticities and Life Histories in Wartime, 36th Association of Art Historians’ Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, U.K., 15-17 April 2010.

‘Thinking about Protest through Images’, EU Workshop, Centre for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 18-20 February 2010.

2009

‘Photography and Counter-Globalisation in the Contemporary Art World’, Seminar at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (MA in Photography), London, U.K., 2 March 2009. [By Invitation]

2008

‘May 1968 in Paris: Student Movement, Photography and Memory’, Summer School: Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-25 August 2008.

‘Photographs of May 1968 in the Contemporary Museum: A Note on Politics and Aesthetics’, International Conference: The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art Across Disciplines, Cambridge University, U.K., 24-26 July 2008. [By Invitation]

2007

‘The Student Movement of May 1968: Activist Photography, Self Reflection and Antinomies’, Session Title: 1968: Activist Art and Its Legacies, 33rd Association of Art Historians’ Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, U.K., 12-14 April 2007.

‘When It Bleeds, It Leads: Press, Photography and Ideology in the Anti-globalisation Movement’ (Genoa 2001), Marie Curie Conference and Training Series: Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 7-10 March 2007.

Introduction to the documentary film ‘Crossroads’ (2006), Marie Curie Conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 7-10 March 2007.

‘The Student Movement of May 1968: Activist Photography, Self- Reflection and Antinomies’, AAH conference preview seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, U.K., 16 March 2007.

2006

‘Reclaim the Streets: Social Protest, Photojournalism and Activist Photography’, International Conference: Citizenship(s): International Congress on Discourses and Practices, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, 28 June-01 July 2006.

‘Death in Genoa: Notes on Photography, Press and Representation’, International Conference: Photography, Power and the Institution, Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies, University of Durham, U.K., 8 June 2006. [By Invitation]

‘Che Lives in the Anticapitalist Movement’, World Art Postgraduate Symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., 27 May 2006.

‘Reclaim the Streets: Social Protest, Photojournalism and Activist Photography’, Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, U.K., 20 March 2006.