Soixante-trois ans de conférences philosophiques (1933-1995) : pilote d’extraction de corpus et d’indexation analytique par forage textuel des Annales de l’ACFAS
Project Description
The project has two objectives: 1) to produce a computable corpus of abstracts of lectures given at ACFAS conferences under the Philosophy section during the first sixty-three conferences of the association, from 1933 to 1995, and published in the Annals of the association; 2) to test a method of analytical indexing by text mining of the lectures. These 800 philosophical conferences provide a snapshot of the research interests, notably the philosophy of cognition, of those who study philosophy in Québec. The work consists in opening the archive, freeing it from the shackles of the original editing format (unediting), preparing it for computational text analysis. Structured, indexed, accompanied by analytical metadata, and disseminated in the form of a database, the corpus obtained will be immediately computable. (Source: Institut des sciences cognitives)
CIRM Member Involved
Julien Vallières, Student Member
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding
Institut des sciences cognitives de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (2021–2022)
Coney Island MTL : Une approche hybride (physique-virtuelle) de la perception du lieu
Project Description
This project is a research-creation initiative that employs Virtual Reality (VR) and other screen-based media to increase sensory attunement to place. It takes the form of an interactive and immersive story that explores plant-animal-environment relations on the St. Lawrence waterfront in Montreal’s borough of Verdun. This project asks: (How) can immersive and interactive stories enhance human perception of other species and of the environment? It aims to: (1) develop methodological and conceptual tools that harmonize sensory practice and immersive media and (2) employ these tools in a story that plays out across physical and virtual (simulated) spaces, with the effect of increasing environmental perception.
CIRM Member Involved
Natalie Doonan, Regular Member
Role: principal investigator
Funding
Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC)
Constructing participatory performance: the ecologies and architectures of audience engagement
Project Description
This project aims to explore audience engagement and interaction in the context of immersive theatre and performance events. Lorna Heaton and Natalie Doonan suggest that contemporary theatre and performance arts offer a laboratory for engaging audiences with technologies and each other in a quick and iterative way. They further posit that the intensification of experience allowed by this type of situation may generate insights of broader social relevance, such as how emergent, collective action is produced. It offers insights to reimagine participation in a more reflexive way. This project thus proposes the spectatorial encounter as a valuable site for theorising the intersection of aesthetics, politics, epistemologies, and technologies.
CIRM Member Involved
Natalie Doonan, Regular Member
Role: co-investigator
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Le rôle de la Quebec Writers' Federation dans l'institutionnalisation de la littérature anglo-québécoise
Project Description
This project focuses on the evolution of Anglo-Québécois literature in Montreal and the political and linguistic tensions that have influenced it. The study uses the complete archives of the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF), an organization created in the mid-1990s following the merger of two other organizations run by English-speaking literary stakeholders in Montreal. For more information, please visit Marie Leconte’s presentation page. The project is undertaken at McGill University in the Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création, under the supervision of Professor Gilian Lane-Mercier and CIRM.
CIRM Member Involved
Marie Leconte, Resident Scholar
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding
Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (2020-2022)
L'impact du climat interculturel des établissements sur la réussite éducative des élèves issus de l'immigration
Project Description
In this research project, Isabelle Archambault, Marie McAndrew, and their collaborators aim to evaluate how the school climate influences the school experience of students with an immigrant background. More specifically, they are interested in the perception of this climate by students and the various school actors (principals, staff members, community organizations, parents), and how this perception influences student engagement and performance. They also examine variables such as generational status. This research highlights the need for more inclusive practices in educational settings to improve the social and educational experience of immigrant students and support their success.
CIRM Member Involved
Valérie Amiraux, Regular Member
Role: Co-researcher
Funding
Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (2017-2023)
Public Houses and Hidden Networks of Sociability in Mid-19th-Century Montreal
Project Description
Conducted by Mary Anne Poutanen in collaboration with Sherry Olson, the project Public Houses and Hidden Networks of Sociability in Mid-19th-Century Montreal focuses on the networks of sociability of women who operated public houses – from the modest corner tavern to the top-of-the-line hotel – between 1840 and 1860, a period of political and social upheaval. The fine capillaries of communication and exchange were critical to relations of trust in which trade, social behaviour, and politics were grounded. Poutanen’s analysis of their marriages and residential moves will uncover half-hidden strategies that families employed in time of need and disclose networks of collaboration, and, among their children, a net upward social mobility. Olson’s contribution centres on methods for making “visible” these social networks and evaluating the interdependence of households. (Reference: Mary Anne Poutanen)
CIRM Member Involved
Mary Anne Poutanen, Regular Member and 2019–2020 Resident Scholar
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2020–2024)
TRYSPACES: Transformative Youth Spaces
Project Description
We live in an interconnected world where urban modes of action and interaction dominate. This dominant urbanity generates a worldview different from that which marked the twentieth century, characterized by the power of nation-states. Young people are at the forefront of these cultural, social, economic and political transformations. They are more and more visible in public spaces because their practices distort, disturb and push the limits imposed by social norms. TRYSPACES explores the relationship between the presence of young people in public spaces and the way they experience this visibility. This research team brings together interdisciplinary researchers and students, multimedia artists, youth workers, urban professionals and youth from Mexico City, Montreal, Paris and Hanoi. TRYSPACES has an inclusive vision of research and contribute, through the funding of students, to supporting a plural academic community. (Reference)
CIRM Members Involved
Julie-Anne Boudreau, Regular Member
Role: Principal Investigator
Valérie Amiraux, Regular Member
Role: Co-Investigator
Annick Germain, Axis Co-director
Role: Co-Investigator
Nathalie Boucher, Associate Member
Role: Socio-community Partner
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2017–2023)
Écrire l'histoire des savoirs urbains / Histories of Urban Knowledge
Project Description
The bilingual conference Écrire l'histoire des savoirs urbains : Montréal, Québec, Canada et au-delà (19e-20e siècles) / Histories of Urban Knowledge: Montréal, Québec, Canada and Beyond, 19th-20th Centuries took place on September 27 and 28, 2019 at the Université de Montréal. The event brought together researchers from different backgrounds but with a common interest in how to understand the complex and changing entities that are cities and urban societies. More than twenty speakers discussed issues ranging from the most “classical” forms of urban knowledge — the expertise of urban planners, for example — to its more informal declinations — such as the memories of immigrants who have had to familiarize themselves with new urban environments. We have seen, in particular, that knowing the city means being able to act on it, its environment and its inhabitants. The keynote address was presented by Professor Steven High of Concordia University, under the title The Place of Urban Knowledge in Wider Deindustrialization and Gentrification Processes in Montreal's Sud-Ouest. Access the full program of the event here. (Reference)
CIRM Members Involved
Harold Bérubé, Associate Member
Role: Principal Investigator
Michèle Dagenais, Regular Member
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019)
Se faire une place dans la cité : la participation des groupes religieux à la vie urbaine
Project Description
Se faire une place dans la cité : la participation des groupes religieux à la vie urbaine is an international workshop held in October 2019. These two days of meetings and discussions brought together researchers (from Canada, France, and the Netherlands) and practitioners from the City of Montreal. One of the objectives of the workshop was to gather in the same event different yet complementary expertises: that of practitioners and that of researchers. The City of Montreal and the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) were partners in this project. The workshop will be the subject of a collective book in the Matière à pensée series published by the Presses de l'Université de Montréal. (Reference: Frédéric Dejean).
CIRM Members Involved
Frédéric Dejean, Axis Co-director
Role: Co-Investigator
Annick Germain, Axis Co-director
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019)
The 2018 Canadian Municipal Election Study Conference : Montreal and Quebec in Focus
Project Description
The purpose of this conference held on June 19, 2018 at McGill University was to fundamentally transform our understanding of municipal elections and voting behaviour in Quebec. To date, Toronto and Vancouver are the only Canadian cities to have been subjected to individual-level election studies. An examination of Quebec elections is of particular interest given the unique nature of politics and municipal government in that province (such as party systems, ballot structures, linguistic diversity and nationalism). The body of work produced by this conference represents immediate and substantial progress in the study of Quebec (and Canadian) municipal elections. We seeked to create a collaborative, inclusive environment where scholars from across the country presented and discussed their research findings about the 2017 elections in Montreal and Quebec. Conference proceedings will be based upon data collected by the Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES), including individual level survey data from nearly 4,000 electors in our two cities, media content, and a database of information about candidates. The work presented represent the most substantial and comprehensive analysis of local elections ever undertaken in Quebec. (Reference: Éric Bélanger)
CIRM Member Involved
Éric Bélanger, Associate Member
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2018–2019)
