Register of Societies on 3 March 2004. However, the seat of society is connected to the presidency. The first general meeting, at which the board was elected, took place on 8 June in the WestLicht Gallery in Vienna. The new Executive Committee of the ESHPh was elected at the Society's annual general assembly that was held in Vienna on 4 November 2010, at the invitation of the Department for Pictures at the Austrian National Library. ESHPh board (as of 2011) Mag. Uwe Schögl – President Dr. Ulla Fischer-Westhauser – Vice-president International advisory board Hans Christian Adam, picture research, photo consulting (Göttingen, Germany) Professor Anna Auer, photo historian (Vienna, Austria) A. D. Coleman, photography critic (New York City, USA) Professor Alistair Crawford, artist and writer (Sudbury/Suffolk, United Kingdom) Rolf H. Krauss (Stuttgart, Germany) Liz Wells (Plymouth, United Kingdom) Activities The International Letter is sent to members twice a year; the letter is a summary of recent events and information of new events and symposia concerning photography across the world, and also includes exhibition notices and auctions. Symposia Since 1981, the society has brought together practitioners and specialists with the aim of discussing photography and to create contacts from a variety of disciplines relating to photography. 2012 Vienna (A) The Material and Immaterial in Photography 2nd Congress of Photography in Vienna at the MUSA 24 November 2012 Felderstraße 6-8, 1010 Vienna 2008 Vienna (A) 22nd International Symposium The 30 Years Jubilee of ESHPh 1st Congress of Photography in Vienna at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Theatre-Hall) 6–8 November 2008 Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Vienna 2004 Stockholm (S) 21st International Symposium From Nordic Landscapes to North American Indians Current Trends in Nordic and International History of Photography 9–10 September 2004 at the National Library of Sweden and Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2003 Mannheim (D) 20th International Symposium Helmut Gernsheim Reconsidered 12 October 2003 at the Museum of Anthropology and Natural History (Reiss-Engelhorn Museen), Mannheim 2002 Maastricht (NL) 19th International Symposium BOXED 11–13 November 2002 at the Academy of Visual Art, Hogeschool Zuyd, Maastricht, Netherlands 2001 Vienna (A) 18th International Symposium Photography and Research in Austria – Vienna, the Door to the European East 20–22 June 2001 at the Austrian National Library in Vienna 2000 Bradford (UK) 17th International Symposium Retracing the Image: The Emergence of Photography in the Nineteenth Century 16–17 June 2000 at the Museum for Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK 1999 Udine