Friday, Feb. 3rd, 12:30 – 2:30
LB-1014, Library Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
CEREV presents a viewing and discussion of “People are Knowledge” (dir. by Achal Prabhala), a 45-minute film exploring the incorporation of oral citations into Wikipedia.
Discussants will include Dr. Jon Soske, History (McGill) & Dr. Monica Patterson, History/CEREV (Concordia)
Abstract: Does the internet, and particularly digital archiving, have the potential to transform the practice of academic history? Read the rest of this entry »
Session organizers: Dr. Sima Aprahamian (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University and Dr. Karin Doerr (Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Montreal Institute of Genocide Studies, Concordia University)
Session Abstract: Scholarship of Difficult Knowledge: Feminist Perspectives on Genocide, Narratives of Displacement and Social Death in the Twenty-first Century. Read the rest of this entry »
Annual Public History Lecture: Dr. Joy Sather-Wagstaff
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011, 6:15 p.m.
York Amphitheatre (EV-1-605)
Drawing upon her work in
Heritage That Hurts: Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11 (2011, Left Coast Press), Dr. Joy Sather-Wagstaff discusses the value of a multisensory approach to understanding how the public makes history meaningful as a part of crafting individual and community historical consciousness. In challenging notions that “authentic” historical knowledge and consciousness is strictly cognitive, she proposes that we take seriously the senses – vision, hearing, touch, physical actions, smell, even taste, as well as emotional states of being, as critical components in the ways that we, as humans, negotiate and construct our knowledge of history.
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A Workshop with Joy Sather-Wagstaff, Ph.D.
Monday, November 21st, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
LB-1014 (History Dept. seminar room)
In this workshop I will provide a brief overview of my work at two sites on two exhibitions. First, work with the collecting curators of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History September 11: Bearing Witness to History 2002-03 exhibit will be presented in the context of discussing shifting contexts of exhibit interpretation. Second, my collaborative project with Rebekah Sobel on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2009-present From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide Today exhibit will be discussed as a further entry point to facilitating workshop conversation. This conversation will center on issues and challenges specific to evaluating the actual and potential social justice impacts of museum exhibitions on both the aftermaths and ongoing progression of violent events of scale.
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Film Screening
Saturday, November 19th, 7pm
J.A. de Sève Cinema, Library Bldg., Room LB-125
Concordia University
CEREV & Ethnographic Terminalia are pleased to present a public screening of Barbash and Castaing-Taylor’s ethnographic film Sweetgrass in Montréal. We have procured a 35mm print of this award winning film, which will be shown for the first time in Quebec!
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, head of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, will be in attendance. Read the rest of this entry »
