Friday, April 17, 2009
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The Department of Art History, Concordia University and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art present the second annual graduate symposium on the histories of Montréal’s architecture. (Please see www.canadianartinstitute.org/conf08_palimpsest for documentation of last year’s events.)
This event is open to the public. All talks will be in English; questions are welcome in English and French.
Espace Les Neuf Soeurs
1900 Wellington, corner Ste-Madeleine (former Royal Bank) Pointe-Saint-Charles, Montréal
Directions: From métro Charlevoix (Green Line), walk south on Rue Charlevoix to Rue Wellington Street, then east to rue Ste Madeleine (about 15 minutes).
Or
From métro LaSalle (Green Line) take the No. 61 bus on Rue Congregation to Rue Wellington; walk one block west, about 1 minute, to 1900 Wellington.
Program in brief:
12:00 : Welcome
***12:15-1:00 pm : keynote, Susan D. Bronson, architect and heritage consultant, “Palimpsest on the Main: Uncovering Layers of People and Places on Saint-Laurent Boulevard” CANCELED
1:00-6:00pm : four sessions of presentations, refreshments at 2:45pm
Invited critic, Dr. Annmarie Adams, William C. Macdonald Professor, School of Architecture, McGill University
6:00 pm – Reception
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Full schedule, 1:00-6:00pm:
1:00-2:20pm, Session 1: Post/Modern Palimpsests
1:00 Alexandra Mills – The Desire for Integration: Attempts to Engender a Utopian Social Order at Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance
1:15 Adam Van Sertima – The Heritage Debate and Ernest Cormier’s Motordrome Garage
1:30 Silvia Sorbelli – Postmodernism and The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts’ Jean Noel-Desmarais Pavilion
1:45 Steve Bates – The Mechanics’ Institute of Montreal/The Atwater Library: Tracing Ideologies in a Lending Library
2:00 – 2:20 Q & A
2:20-3:00pm – Refreshments
3:00-4:05pm, Session 2: Hauntings
3:00 Adrienne Connelly- This Place Has History Like Ghosts – The NCC/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre
3:15 Sandie Jensen – Writing on the Main: the Street Poster’s Trace on Saint-Laurent Boulevard
3:30 Joanna Nawracaj – Memory and the Mobile Home: Recollecting the Blue Bonnets Trailer Park
3:45 Q & A
4:10-5:00 Session 3: Theatres of Memory
Canceled Heike Zieher – Saint-Laurent Boulevard – The Construction of Ethnicity and Belonging
4:10 Janita Wiersma – Église Saint-Sauveur: Engaging the Abandoned
4:25 Robin Simpson – Idle Scenes: An Account of the Verdun Dance Pavilion
4:40 Q & A
5:00-6:45pm Session 4: Occupations
5:05 Adam Lauder – Fishways: Ecological Metaphors and the Building of Upper Westmount
5:20 Jennifer Patterson – Preserving a Legacy: The Adaptive Re-Use of the Grey Nuns’ Motherhouse
5:35 Danielle Lewis – The Turcot Yards: Community Encounters with a Queer Sublime
5:45 Q & A
6:00 – Reception (wine and light snacks)
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City as Palimpsest II: Hauntings, Occupations, Theatres of Memory
Espace Les Neuf Sœurs
1900 rue Wellington, coin Ste Madeleine
(Ancienne Banque Royal) Pointe-Saint-Charles, Montréal
Horaire: veuillez voir l’horaire en anglais
Dr. Annmarie Adams, école d’architecture, Université McGill