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April 27, 12 – 2pm: 3 short talks + discussion, “Materiality and Witness in National Museums”

Alex Robichaud

Join Concordia PhD student Hugo Rueda (History), Professor Erica Lehrer (History & Sociology-Anthropology), and Queen’s University postdoc Jennifer Robinson (Visual Anthropology) as they present 3 short talks in preparation for their participation in an upcoming conference at the British Museum, “Art, Materiality and Representation”.  Presentations: ➞ “Materialities made testimony. Objects as a way to organize the […]

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April 5 & 6: Vernissage + Performance/Lecture by Annie Rollins as part of “Immaterial Remains”

Alex Robichaud

April 5, 5:00 – 7:00pm: Vernissage + Performance/Lecture April 6, 6:00 – 7:30: Performance + Lecture In this performance/lecture, Rollins presents her most pressing conundrum: how do you preserve a shadow? With a short survey of her apprenticeship and fieldwork, a trajectory of the failures that brought her to her thesis question and a musing of shadows, […]

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March 23, 2018: Integrating Social Issues in the Art Museum: Creating Audio Guides for Visitors, Designing Training for Museum Guides

Alex Robichaud

How do you create an ‘peace-themed’ audio guide with a group of artist-students for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Pavilion for Peace? This multimedia presentation profiles Six Tales of Peace (and War), which was created for a graduate seminar course in the context of a Concordia University-MMFA partnership. Kathleen Vaughan, faculty member behind the […]

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March 16, 2018: Book Launch of Cynthia Milton’s “Conflicted Memory: Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru”

Alex Robichaud

Join us at the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab for an exhibition and discussion of “Conflicted Memory,” with book author Cynthia Milton, Shelley Ruth Butler (Institute for Study of Canada, McGill), and Kevin Gould (Geography, Concordia). What happens when concepts of “truth,” “memory,” and “human rights” are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of […]

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