On Friday, May 11th, CEREV will host the Trudeau Scholars‘ workshop “Communicating/Informing Otherwise: Creative, Affective, and Alternative Forms of Research Expression and Public Engagement.” The workshop intends to explore the ways that the Trudeau community experiences, understands and navigates alternative forms of expression in their own research engagements, including photography, video and film, creative writing, poetry, sound, dance and other performance-based art/research forms. Read the rest of this entry »
On Monday, April 30th, CEREV will host a curatorial workshop to help design a Virtual Memorial & Memory Bank for the planned Museum of AIDS in Africa. Members of CEREV’s curatorial research group will work with the museum planners to envision an accessible, inviting and meaningful mobile and web space for individuals and communities to preserve, honour and celebrate the memories of people they loved who have died of AIDS-related causes.
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Public Lecture by Dr. Ray Silverman
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 12:00-2:00
LB-1014, Library Building
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology-Anthropology & Art History.
Museums in Africa are a poignant legacy of colonial pasts. Many have little relevance to the communities in which they are situated, and at best, serve as tourist attractions for expatriate visitors. Authority and responsibility for constructing narratives presented in these museums rest with professional curators whose knowledge and insight are grounded in European museological traditions. Following such models, the voices encountered in most exhibitions are those of “expert” curators. There are exceptions, but not many. Read the rest of this entry »
A talk by Carla Rose Shapiro
Friday, March 30, 2012, 2:00-4:00
LB-1014, Library Building
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.
Covering differing modes of persecution, ranges of geography, and points of time, Dr. Shapiro will present a comparative and connective discussion of the use of survivor narratives within exhibition spaces. This presentation will draw on her extensive documentary work with diasporic survivor communities which includes the collection of first person accounts, family photographs, and material culture, and their reconfiguration as features in permanent and traveling exhibitions. Read the rest of this entry »
