Context and Meaning XXIII
Present | Past
FULL SCHEDULE
Friday, February 9, 2024
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University
36 University Ave, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
8:30 a.m. EST ➝ Registration & Coffee
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. EST ➝ Opening Remarks & Land Acknowledgement
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. EST ➝ Keynote: Dr. Mary Hunter, McGill University
Victor Hugo’s Death: Waiting and the Art of Shaping Future Histories
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. EST ➝ Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. EST ➝ Panel 1: Methods for Turning Back the Clock
Chair: Dr. Allison Morehead
Beyond Du Hua (Reading Paintings): Revisiting Chinese Art Scholarship with Xu Longsen’s Contemporary Installations of Traditional Shanshui Paintings
Yujie “Tracey” Lan, University of TorontoHow Many Conservators Does it Take to Treat a Watercolour?
Frances Opferman, Queen’s UniversityGraffitiing the Ivory Tower: Graphic Representations of Canadian Military History
Rebecca Hartley, Queen’s University
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST ➝ Lunch Reception, Agnes Etherington Art Centre Atrium
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST ➝ Panel 2: Reading Time through Objects
Chair: Alicia Boutilier, Chief Curator, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Captive Labour: Exploring Labour within Canadian Penitentiaries
Sephra Lamothe & Camilla Leonelli Calzado, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityIt’s a Man’s World: A Look into the Representation of “First Man” in Medieval and Renaissance Year Cycles
Willow Simmonds, Queen’s UniversityRecarving the Past: Antiquities in the Ten Bamboo Studio Catalogue of Letter Paper
Jingxian Gloria Jin, University of British Columbia
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EST ➝ Break
2:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST ➝ Panel 3: Complicating Histories and Futures
Chair: Dr. Jen Kennedy
Refraction Waged Against Reflection: The Centennial Commission of Waabidiziiyan Doopwining (To See Yourself at the Table)
Alexandra Box, University of TorontoResistance in Conformity: Women Artists under the Nazi Regime
Alexandra Chafe, Queen’s UniversitysubRosa and Reproductive Health: Tracing the History of 1990s Cyberfeminist Activism
Anna Douglas, Queen’s UniversityFeedback, Fugitivity, and Overexposure in Monique Walton’s Dark Matters
Francesca C. DiBona, Queen’s University
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. EST ➝ In-Person Day Closing Remarks
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. EST ➝ Casual Evening Reception
The Grad Club, Main Floor
162 Barrie St, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3K2
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Online - Zoom
(Link Provided upon Registration)
8:30 a.m. EST ➝ Zoom Call Opens
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. EST ➝ Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. EST ➝ Panel 4: Indexing History
Chair: Dr. Norman Vorano
Giving Birth to Time: Reading into Cary Beth Cryor’s 35mm Self- and Birthing-Portrait
Lizette London, Emory UniversityMining, Mythology, and Materiality: Bronwyn Katz’s Artistic Reimagining of Histories of Extraction in Kimberley, South Africa
Stefanie Jason, Rutgers UniversityShifting Contexts and Meaning: Richard Harrington’s 1950 Padlei Photographs, Then and Now
Jamie Cameron, York UniversityNavigating Identity and Artistry: Black Mother Artists from the United States, Brazil, and South Africa
Carolina de Campos Tornich Manoel, Queen’s University
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EST ➝ Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST ➝ Panel 5: The Pasts of the Past
Chair: Dr. Gauvin Bailey
Material Reconstruction: Ecologies of Metal in a Photograph of Disabled Union Veterans
Colton Klein, Yale UniversityNew History Painting: Georges Braque’s Still Lifes and French Historical Culture, 1815-1914
Melanie Buteau-Delatolla, Queen’s UniversityNotions of Present and Past in Giambattista Tiepolo’s Renaissance-Revival
Torsten Korte, FHNW Basel/University of Bern
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST ➝ Lunch Break
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EST ➝ Panel 6: Saving Time
Chair: Dr. Juliana Ribeiro da Silva Bevilacqua
From Curios to Art: A Re-Interpretation of the Bishop White Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum
Kara Ma, University of Toronto“We’re Taking It Home”: Franco-African Activists and the Move Towards Restitution
Anne Hollmuller, New York UniversityTunneling Time Through Visual Archives: Fabricated Memories from Iran’s Pahlavi Era
Ali Ghasemibarghi, Western UniversityA Slippery Transnational Archive: Reconsidering the Past in the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection
Frances Dorenbaum, York University
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST ➝ Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST ➝ Panel 7: Multimedia Pasts, Presents, Futures
Chair: Dr. Caroline-Isabelle Caron
The Artful Detective: Framing Manifest Destiny and Canadian Progress in the CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries
Sofia Parrila, University of AlbertaEpic (Re)Tellings: Visual Narrative and Fictional Histories in Werewolf by Night
Victoria Quint, University of York“No Stopping This Train”: Replaying Climate Crisis in Final Fantasy VII: Remake
Shannon Payne, Dalhousie University
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m EST ➝ Conference Closing Remarks