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 Toronto

  • How Many Conservators Does it Take to Treat a Watercolour?
    Frances Opferman, Queen’s University

  • Graffitiing 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 University

  • It’s a Man’s World: A Look into the Representation of “First Man” in Medieval and Renaissance Year Cycles
    Willow Simmonds, Queen’s University

  • Recarving 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 Toronto

  • Resistance in Conformity: Women Artists under the Nazi Regime
    Alexandra Chafe, Queen’s University

  • subRosa and Reproductive Health: Tracing the History of 1990s Cyberfeminist Activism
    Anna Douglas, Queen’s University

  • Feedback, 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 University

  • Mining, Mythology, and Materiality: Bronwyn Katz’s Artistic Reimagining of Histories of Extraction in Kimberley, South Africa
    Stefanie Jason, Rutgers University

  • Shifting Contexts and Meaning: Richard Harrington’s 1950 Padlei Photographs, Then and Now
    Jamie Cameron, York University

  • Navigating 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 University

  • New History Painting: Georges Braque’s Still Lifes and French Historical Culture, 1815-1914
    Melanie Buteau-Delatolla, Queen’s University

  • Notions 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 University

  • Tunneling Time Through Visual Archives: Fabricated Memories from Iran’s Pahlavi Era
    Ali Ghasemibarghi, Western University

  • A 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 Alberta

  • Epic (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