BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261105T045811EST-4592TWauMS@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20261105T095811Z DESCRIPTION:Zoom registration link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register /tZErfuuqqTIrHtEQEI0QrEveuZMaokZT...\n\nThe Ephemeral Stages in the City: Understanding Street Performance and Urban Governance in the Americas\n Jhe ssica Reia\n\nAbstract: Street performance has been intertwined with urban life for centuries\, especially since the mid-1800s. The history of perfo rmances in public spaces is usually found within the regulations prohibiti ng it\, in newspapers’ op-eds on the nuisance of street musicians and poli ce department archives. From Santiago to New York City\, Montreal to Rio d e Janeiro\, the urge to govern street performance highlights power relatio ns and the contested realms of public spaces. Artists have been using spec ific urban infrastructure\, such as subways and sidewalks\, for many years . The act of regulating\, institutionalizing\, zoning\, and enforcing how street performance should take place end up having a significant impact on the right to the city and cultural policy. This presentation explores the relevance of street performance in our cities\, highlighting the struggle s and potentialities of cultural production done at the margins. It is bas ed on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over five years in two cities\, R io de Janeiro and Montreal. Drawing from local experiences\, it offers an understanding of global dynamics and analyzes the challenges faced by cont emporary buskers.\n\nBiography: Jess Reia is currently appointed as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Art History and Co mmunication Studies at McGill University and BMO Fellow (2020-2021) at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal. They are one of the 12 members of the first Conseil de Nuit de MTL 24/24. Reia holds a Ph.D. and an MA in Communication Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Jane iro and a BA in Public Policy from the University of Sao Paulo. Before com ing to McGill\, Reia was a Lecturer and Project Manager at the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School from 2011 to 2019.\n\n \n\n- - - \n\n \n\nSupernatural Landscapes on the Early Modern Italian Stage\n Victor ia Addona\n\nAbstract: From the late sixteenth century\, Florentine scenog raphers began to stage what early modern viewers described as “impossible” or “supernatural” sets for courtly theatrical productions. With sophistic ated machinery\, artists and engineers collaborated to simulate dreamscape s\, heavenly\, hellish\, and mythological places\, natural phenomena such as floods\, earthquakes\, and volcanic explosions\, as well as foreign lan ds and seas. Notably\, the same artists responsible for transforming theat rical environments were often simultaneously entrusted with mapping\, orde ring\, and restoring civic and natural infrastructure. This presentation c onnects the theatrical representation of supernatural landscapes to emerge nt policies and projects of environmental management in early modern Tusca ny. By considering contested relations between nature\, politics\, and myt h-making across building practices\, it emphasizes the key role played by Italian scenography in reshaping a cultural imaginary of the environment a s a domain that could be conquered by technological intervention.\n\nBiogr aphy: Victoria Addona is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow (2020-22) in the Depa rtment of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. A sp ecialist of early modern art\, architecture\, and urbanism\, she received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2020. Her current book project investigates the staging of supernatural en vironments in early modern Italian theatre alongside nascent ideas and pra ctices regarding the technological conquest of local and global landscapes . This research has benefited from the support of SSHRC\, the Renaissance Society of America\, and the Italian Art Society\, as well as fellowships at Villa I Tatti\, the Medici Archive Project\, and Sir John Soane’s Museu m.\n DTSTART:20210406T200000Z DTEND:20210406T213000Z SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Victoria Addona & Jhessica Reia URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/speaker-series-victoria-addon a-jhessica-reia-328341 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR