"The Everyday, Lived Realities and Other Fictions"

"The Everyday, Lived Realities and Other Fictions"

Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Student Conference.

"The Everyday, Lived Realities and Other Fictions" is a two-day interdisciplinary conference organized by the Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Student Association. This conference seeks to enhance collegial and scholarly exchange by bringing together a range of graduate students, professors and academics from Canada and abroad.

The theme of the conference examines the various historical moments that make up our everyday, exploring the tensions that emerge between the 'real' and the perceived that manifest themselves within everyday practices. Through the examination of the built environment, media networks, films or texts, the tensions of the ‘everyday’ experience become more apparent. The everyday, through its lived realities and other fictions, can become more than just our requisite critical ‘context’, it has the potential to become a, or perhaps the, common site of collective mediation.

The 2010 keynote lecture will be presented by Dr. Monica Kin Gagnon,"Posthumous Cinema: Reflections on the Creative Animation of Archives."