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Event

Silence! McGill AHCS Emerging Scholars Conference

Friday, April 24, 2015 09:00to19:00
Chancellor Day Hall Room 312, 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Room 312, New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street

Artist Projects

Richard Wheeler, UCLA, The Sounds of Silencers
Matthieu Saladin, University Paris 8 – Vincennes, Saint-Denis, Silent Track
Jane Birkin, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Lecture-Performance: Writing the Image: Reading Allan Sekula

Conference Schedule

8:3­0-9:00 am Coffee and bagels

Welcome and opening remarks

9:00­-10:00 am Shhh! Silence in the Classroom, Whispers in the Hall: Silence and Pedagogy

Moderator: Dr. Becky Lentz, McGill University

Adam Lauder, University of Toronto, “Non-verbal Teaching as Conceptual Pedagogy and Object of Critique”

Lindsey Albracht, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Making Space(s) for Sound: Educational Soundscapes and the Active Learner”

Kristen Millar, McGill University, “Barriers of Whiteness:   Discourses of Exclusion within Canadian Art History”

10:00-10:15 am Questions

10:15-10:25 am Coffee Break

10:25­-11:25 pm A Quiet Space: Silence and the Built Environment

Moderator: Dr. Will Straw, McGill University

Amanda Dalla Villa Adams, Virginia Commonwealth University,””In the Middle of Nowhere:” Robert Irwin’s Experiments with the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 1968-1970″

S. Alana Wolf­ Johnson, University of Rochester, “Capture/Create: Sonic Potentialities in Zones of Open Narrative”

Katrin Schamun, University of Arts Berlin/Harvard University, “How Does Architecture Sound?”

11:25-11:40 am Questions

11:40­-1:00 pm Lunch at Thompson House, 3650 McTavish

1:00­-2:00 pm The Sound of Silence: Silence as Resistance in Political Speech and Popular Culture

Moderator: Dr. Darin Barney, McGill University

David Aitken, McGill University, “Silence as Reply”: Albert Camus on Algeria”

Patrick Brodie, Columbia University, “Buster Keaton and Silent Resistance in Seven Chances”

Josephine Hoegaerts, UPenn/KULeuven,”Graves et silencieux, leur voix se faisait cependant entendre: Charismatic silence and political influence in nineteenth ­century parliamentary politics”

2:00-2:15 pm Questions

2:15­-3:15 pm The Object of Silence: Listening to Things and Images

Moderator: Dr. Chriscinda Henry, McGill University

Jeroen Deraeve, Université de Montréal, “The Dissolution of Censorship in Iran: How Digital Media and Film Festivals Help Filmmakers To Break Through Government Imposed Silence”

Ying Sze Pek, Princeton University, “Mute: Hito Steyerl’s “Documentary Abstraction” and the Limits of Speech”

Karolina Zgraja, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, “The Silence of Venetian Renaissance Altarpieces: Considerations on Giovanni Bellini’s Unperceivable Music with Regard to its Devotional and Theoretical Implications”

3:15-3:30 pm Questions

3:30-3:45 pm Coffee Break

3:45-5:05 pm Silently Speaking: Performative Silence and Rhetoric

Moderator: Dr. Milena Tomic, McGill University

Kyle Winkler, University of Pittsburgh, “The Silent Dissolution of Rhetoric in Sophokles’ Philoktetes”

Avra Spector, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Tracing Foucault’s use of Silence: Toward a Transgressive Silence”

Alessandro Simari, Keble College, University of Oxford, “The Resumption Cue: Scripting Silence in Early Modern Drama”

Sakina Jangbar, The University of Texas at Austin, “Can Silent Utterances be Performative?”

5:05-5:20 pm Questions

5:20-5:30 pm Coffee Break

5:30-­6:30 pm Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jonathan Katz, Associate Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, “Hearing Silence: The Strident Noise of Negation”

6:30-6:45 pm Questions

7:00-10:00 pm Reception

Collateral Events at articule

Friday, April 24th, 2015:

5:30-07:00 pm Conversation with artist Dylan Miner, articule, 262 Fairmount W.

7:00-9:00 pm Vernissage for the exhibition Silence of Sovereignty, articule, 262 Fairmount W.
 

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