Max and Iris Stern International Symposium 11
Topographies of Mass Violence
March 31 and April 1, 2017
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Beverley Webster Rolph Hall
Friday, March 31, 2017
10:30 a.m. Welcome
John Zeppetelli, Director and Chief Curator
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Clarence Epstein, Senior Director, Urban and Cultural Affairs
Concordia University, and the Max and Iris Stern Foundation
Introductory remarks
François LeTourneux, Associate Curator
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Emanuel Licha, Artist and filmmaker, Visiting Professor
School of visual arts, Université du Québec à Montréal
Jean-Philippe Uzel, Full Professor
Department of Art History, Université du Québec à Montréal
11:00 a.m. Opening keynote
Ellen Gabriel, Artist and Indigenous Human Rights Activist
The Art of Propaganda, “Real Facts”, and the Erosion of Indigenous Human Rights [EN]
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Poster presentations by the postgraduate participants in the Interuniversity and Interdisciplinary Study Days on Mass Violence (session 1)
2:00 p.m.
Kyle Matthews, Executive Director
Marie Lamensch, Project Coordinator, Researcher and Communications Manager
Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University
Conceptualizing Mass Violence [FR, with EN transl. and EN]
3:15 p.m.
Vincent Lavoie, Full Professor
Department of Art History, Université du Québec à Montréal
Quelle visualité pour l’exode de masse ? [FR, with EN transl.]
Marta Zarzycka, Visiting Scholar
Center of Women and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Cartographies of Violence [EN]
4:30 p.m. Break
4:45 p.m.
Susan Schuppli, Artist and Researcher
Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London
Media as Conflict Zones [EN]
Krista Lynes, Associate Professor
Department of Communications Studies, Concordia University
Sites of Upheaval and Transgression: The Material Politics of Grounded Media [EN]
Saturday, April 1, 2017
9:30 a.m.
Mariam Ghani, Artist, writer, filmmaker, teacher
Queens College Art Department and Cooper Union
The Seen Unseen: Black Sites and Contractual Invisibility
[EN]
Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor
Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
The Death of the Clinic: Surgical Strikes and Spaces of Exception [EN]
10:45 a.m.
Nuria Carton de Grammont, Independent Curator and researcher
Department of Art History, Concordia University
Violence, Narco-culture et la géographie de la peur [FR, with EN transl.]
Joaquin Barriendos, Associated Researcher
Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (UNAM-Mexico)
Spectral Topographies. Fosses, Aesthetics and the Politics of Truth in Mexico [EN]
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Poster presentations by the postgraduate participants in the Interuniversity and Interdisciplinary Study Days on Mass Violence (session 2)
2:00 p.m Touring of the exhibitions. Performative action in Teresa Margolles’ La Promesa [The Promise], 2012. Collection of MUAC.
3:00 p.m
Caroline Monnet, Artist and filmmaker
Territoires d’une identité dépossédée [FR, with EN transl.]
Julie Nagam, Chair in Indigenous Arts of North America
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery
Revealing the Ontology of Land Through Indigenous Visual Narratives of Memory, Knowledge and Living Histories [EN]
4:15 p.m. Closing keynote lecture
Andrew Herscher, Associate Professor
Stanford Arts Institute, Stanford University/Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Necropolitics of the Architectural Imagination [EN]
