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Wednesday, June 16, 2:00–6:00 PM EDT
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Join us as we explore themes and processes of social change through the theory and praxis of exhibition, curation, and literary cultures. From the modernist period through to the COVID-19 pandemic, we consider how artists and public intellectuals curated cultural shifts and historical upheavals. Keynote speakers include scholars Christopher Gilbert and Natalie Loveless. This event centrally involves academic papers and creative projects from Communication and Culture graduate students as part of the course, CC8836/CMCT 6135 Selected Topics in Media and Culture: Exhibition, Curation, and Literary Cultures.
Welcome
2:00–2:05pm
Opening Keynote
2:05–2:40pm
Opening Keynote: Christopher Gilbert | Curating Social Change Symposium from MLC Research Centre on Vimeo.
Christopher Gilbert (Assumption University), Caricature and National Character: The United States at War
In the opening presentation, scholar Christopher Gilbert discusses his new book Caricature and National Character: The United States at War (Pennsylvania State University Press), which examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity. Christopher Gilbert is Assistant Professor of English at Assumption University.
Panel 1: Cultural Upheaval & Reconstructions
2:50–3:50pm
Panel 1: Cultural Upheaval & Reconstructions | Curating Social Change Symposium from MLC Research Centre on Vimeo.
New York Dada and Social Change: An Intersectional Approach
Esmée Colbourne
Social and Cultural Change at Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Company
Caitlyn Ng
(Pre)Feminist Art Praxis: The Stettheimer Salon and Socially Engaged Resistance
Katie Huckson
Culture and Aesthetic Shifts at 27 Rue de Fleurus: The Gertrude Stein Salon
Nikole McGregor
Panel 2: Aesthetics of Social (Dis)Order
4:00–5:00pm
Panel 2: Aesthetics of Social (Dis)Order | Curating Social Change Symposium from MLC Research Centre on Vimeo.
Portable Museums, Corporality, and Social Change: Curating the Dada Baroness Elsa
Natalie Ilsley
Western Art Institutions, Indigeneity, and Social Change: The Case of George Hunt and Franz Boas
Shanice Wolters
Apocalypse: Art Making and Music in a Perpetual End of the World
Oyindamola Esho
Performing the Personal Archive: The Pandemic, Social Change, and Documentary Video Art
Amy Siegel
Closing Keynote
5:10–5:50pm
Closing Keynote: Natalie Loveless | Curating Social Change Symposium from MLC Research Centre on Vimeo.
Natalie Loveless (University of Alberta), How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation
Closing the symposium is scholar Natalie Loveless, who presents her critically acclaimed book How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation (Duke University Press). The book draws on diverse perspectives—from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate students—to argue for research-creation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university. Natalie Loveless is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Alberta.
Book Giveaway
5:50–5:55pm
Closing Remarks
5:55–6:00pm
Event Planning
Logistics and Technology Support: Nikole McGregor & Caitlyn Ng
Communication and Liaison: Esmée Colbourne & Natalie Ilsley
Stakeholder Engagement: Amy Siegel & Shanice Wolters
Symposium Moderators: Oyindamola Esho & Katie Huckson
Thanks
We thank the following without whom this symposium would not have been possible: the MA and PhD students in CC8836/CMCT 6135 Selected Topics in Media and Culture: Exhibition, Curation, and Literary Cultures; Irene Gammel for her care, passion, and stewardship; Jason Wang and Cameron MacDonald for their logistics and planning; and Allison Kinahan and Lauren Seto for their assistance with communication. We thank Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, for giving a passionate and insightful guest lecture in the course. We especially thank Christopher Gilbert and Natalie Loveless for their time and intellectual generosity in delivering keynote remarks at this symposium.
Program
Download or view the symposium program (PDF)
Curating Social Change Graduate Symposium
Wednesday, June 16, 2:00-6:00 PM EDT
Free of charge and open to the general public
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