Research & Projects
Beyond Museum Walls
The project Beyond Museum Walls: New Methodologies for Public Dialogue Around Difficult History and Cultural Conflict is designed to support the creation and mobilization of knowledge via new methodologies for critical museum-scholar-community engagement with difficult subject matter. Over four years, the project will generate critical dialogue and student training at the intersection of the five overlapping and […]
Read moreMuseum Queeries
Museum Queeries is a new interdisciplinary research group that prioritizes Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and queer contributions and interventions into museums and museum studies. Click here for a link to the website.
Read moreFamily Works
Family Works is a website produced in partnership between Concordia University and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Students in the undergraduate seminar Here’s Looking at You Kid: Picturing Children, Envisioning Childhood, led by Dr. Loren Lerner, Professor in Art History at Concordia University, produced research on eighty-two artworks in the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine […]
Read moreCanadian Portraits
Graduate student curators in Concordia University’s Art History program worked under the guidance of Dr. Loren Lerner to produce virtual exhibitions of Canadian portraits. Click here for a link to the website.
Read moreCuratorial Dreaming Workshops
Curatorial Dreaming Workshops are creative workshops tailored for museum and heritage professionals, researchers, community groups, and students to address social, cultural, and pedagogical challenges with curating. Click here for a link to the website.
Read moreCollaboration – Exhibition – Research
5 day curatorial research working group project Encuentro 2014. Click here for a link to the website.
Read moreBirthright Poland
Birthright Poland was a proposal presented at the 1st Congress of the The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland in Berlin, May 12th, 2012. Birthright Poland is a travel program that brings Jewish youth to Poland to explore the country’s long and diverse history alongside their Polish, German, Roma, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and other European counterparts. Instead of visiting only […]
Read moreodpowiedz… please respond.
odpowiedz… please respond was an unconventional, hybrid work — part participatory public art installation, part intercultural dialogue project, part experimental ethnography. It began with our fascination with Krakow’s annual Festival of Jewish Culture and its role in celebrating and preserving Jewish heritage in Poland. What does it means to revive Jewish culture in this emotion-laden […]
Read moreThinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public
Thinking through the Museum is a SSHRC-funded Partnership Development Grant that brings together researchers, curators, artists, and community members seeking new terms of engagement for learning from histories of violence and conflict in museum space. Click here for a link to the website.
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