2009-2010 SEMINAR SERIES

Going Public: Outside the Box Public Lecture 1 
Katerina Cizek: A Filmmaker in Residence
New works and a discussion of the future of interventionist media by this Canadian award-winning documentary/
new media maker who spent four years at the front lines of an inner-city Toronto hospital. 
For more information, please visit: http://filmmakerinresidence.nfb.ca

18:00pm in EV-1.615
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Jesikah Maria Ross: Collaboration in Action
The founding director of the new Art of Regional Change program at UC Davis discusses the benefits
and challenges of bringing together scholars, students, artists and community groups to collaborate on
media arts projects that strengthen communities, generate public scholarship, and inform regional decision
making.
For more information, please visit:http://artofregionalchange.ucdavis.edu 

12:00pm in LB-1042.03
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Going Public: Outside the Box Public Lecture 2
The Department of History's 2009 Public History Lecture
Liz Ševčenko: The power of place
Formerly of NYC's unique Lower East Side Tenement Museum,
the director of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience will discuss how historical sites can be
"activated" for civic engagement.
For more information, please visit: http:www.sitesofconscience.org

Going Public: Outside the Box Public Lecture 3
Toby Butler: Memoryscapes - deepening our sense of place
This historical geographer creates location specific new media trails to "spatialize" oral history.
He will discuss his experiments to give voice to present - and past - residents of rapidly changing London districts.
For more information, please visit: http://www.memoryscape.org.uk

18:00pm in EV-1.615
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Rhona Richman Kenneally: The Mouth that Speaks, Also Eats: Food and Oral History
Rhona Richman Kenneally is an Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Computation Arts of Concordia University. 
Her primary research focus is on the history and culture of food, 
particularly the relationship between food and the built environment.
For more information, please visit: http://rrk.ca/

Going Public: Outside the Box Public Lecture 4
Julie Ellison: The fraught logic of positive thinking
A short history of hopeful civic engagement (1999-2009), presented by the founding director emerita of the consortium
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.
For more information, please visit: http://www.imaginingamerica.org

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

18:00pm in MB-7270
(Acting Studio)
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Caroline-Isabelle Caron: 
Where Oral History and Archival Research Meet: Historical Research in Small Acadian Communities
Caroline-Isabelle Caron is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of Queen'ts University.
Her primary research focus in on the representations of the past, in the form of  genealogies and commemorations, 
and on the representations of the future, in the form of  science fiction, to get a better sense, 
a closer glimpse at Acadian's and Québec collective encyclopedias, in Umberto Eco's sense  of the word.

Friday, February 19th, 2010

2:00pm in LB-1042.03
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Going Public: Outside the Box Public Lecture 5
Bill Cleveland: Doing arts-based community development
The founding director of the Center for the Study of Art & Community will speak about strategies for mobilizing a vastly underutilized natural resouce - human creativity - to build caring, capable communities.
For more information, please visit: http://www.artandcommunity.com

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