Special Collections 8th Annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium:

8:30 a.m. Doors open at East Library

9 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Tim Blevins and Paula Miller

9:15 - 10:45 a.m.
BIOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHY

Mike L. Olsen
Imaging & Imagining: Focusing on the History of Film & Photography

Nancy Bathke & Brenda Hawley
Early Women Photographers of the Pikes Peak Region

Leah Davis Witherow
Selling This City: The Commercial Photography of Harry L. Standley

Katie Rudolph
When the West was New: Examining Robert Adams’s Colorado Springs

Mike L. Olsen
Questions & Discussion

10:45 - 11 a.m. Break

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
THE PIKES PEAK REGION THROUGH A CRITICAL LENS

Katherine Scott Sturdevant
Photographer Laura Gilpin: Colorado’s “Highly Individualistic
Eye”

Joyce B. Lohse
Artist’s Glen: A Tale of Two Photographers – William E. Hook
& Paul Idleman

Joe Tarabino
An Interesting Thing Happened on the Road to Hollywood

Jan Olsson
Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film in the
Specter of Lynching

Mike L. Olsen
Questions & Discussion

12:30 - 1:15 p.m.
Complimentary Light Lunch

1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
MAKING MOVIES & MAKING MONEY

Steven Antonuccio
The Alexander Film Company & Its Role in the Birth of Theatrical
& Television Advertising

Doris A. McCraw
Vision, Discipline & Synchronicity:the Life of Karol W. Smith

Robin K. Hammitt
Cañon City: “Filmed with the Naked Fury of Fact!”?

David Emrich
Tourism, Economic Development & the Movies

Mike L. Olsen
Questions & Discussion

Closing Summary

3:00 p.m.
FILM FESTIVAL & RECEPTION
Viewing of clips and discussion of today’s featured films

We thank our speakers for agreeing to limit their presentations to 20 minutes. There will be 10 minutes at the end of each session for questions from the audience.