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CFP -- AHCS undergraduate symposium sponsored by CANVAS journal -- due January 1, 2025 by @ahcs_mcgill

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The Straw Scene
June 17, 2024
Thompson House, McGill University
Montreal

We invite you to attend a very special one-day symposium featuring invited presentations that will explore and appreciate the scholarly contributions of Will Straw on the occasion of his retirement from McGill University. Film, music, scenes, night, circulation – Will’s research has influenced so many scholarly and popular domains. Join us to acknowledge and assess this vast impact with panels, lunch, and a reception.

Reserve your spot here by May 1, 2024: https://forms.gle/mnQxKLZjxhYf2GfUA.

This event is free and attendance for the entire day is encouraged. Space is limited - priority will be given to former students, postdocs and collaborators of Will Straw.

The Straw Scene sponsored by: Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University; Dean of Arts Development Fund, McGill University; McGill Institute for the Study of Canada; Film and Media Studies Association of Canada.

The Straw Scene Organizing Committee: Charles Acland, Darin Barney, Jenny Burman, Carrie Rentschler, and Jonathan Sterne. taken in Thompson House de l’Université McGill by @ahcs_mcgill

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Join us on February 23rd for a talk by Dr. Chloé Pelletier, Curator of European Art (before 1800) at the MMFA!

Dr. Chloé Pelletier
“Ladies to the Front: A Permanent Collection Activation“
February 23, 2024
4:30-5:30pm
ARTS W-215 (853 Sherbrooke W)

Women make up less than 1% of the named artists in the MMFA’s collection of historical European paintings, sculptures and works on paper. Most have rarely if ever been on view at the Museum. A new exhibition project looks at why that is in order to spark conversations around what – and who – defines great art. This talk offers an overview of the exhibition and introduces the museum’s evolving collection of historical European women artists, including discoveries from storage and new acquisitions. The talk will also give a behind the scenes look at the challenges curators face in exhibiting and acquiring works by women despite the major advancements that have been made in the field since Linda Nochlin published her watershed essay “Why have there been no great women artists?”

More info at the link in our bio! '18th-century portrait by Rosalba Carriera titled "Portrait of Madame Lethieullier", image of a white woman wearing fine clothing, pastel colours' by @ahcs_mcgill

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Join us for another speaker series event next week!

Prof. Michelle McGeough
"Go Wan Go Mohawk’s Queering of West"
November 23, 4:30-5:30 pm
ARTS W-215 (853 rue Sherbrooke W)

Go-won-go Mohawk was, by all accounts, a larger-than-life persona(s) who seemed to defy labels of any kind. Her "troubling gender" performances were, for the most part, confined to the vaudeville stages of North America and Europe. As the first Native American playwright, Go-won-go's life and the retailing of it is an example of what Scott Lyons refers to as "rhetorical sovereignty," the inherent right and ability of peoples to determine their own communicative needs and desires in this pursuit, to decide for themselves the goals, modes, styles, and languages of public discourse" (241). In plying her craft, Go-won-go Mohawk brought into the realm of public discourse a construction of Native American masculinity that differed from popular stereotypes. In her stage performances as the Native American male protagonist in the plays Wep-Ton-No Mah, The Indian Mail Carrier, and The Flaming Arrow, she did not portray Native Americans as victims but as the heroes. While Go-won-go deflected the politics of recognition for her own ends, she also engaged in the ongoing struggle for recognition and justice by Native Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This event is presented and made possible in collaboration with @iscei_mcgill and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Dean of Arts Development Fund, and an Anonymous Donor. Black and white photo of Go Wan Go Mohawk seated on a chair, facing the camera. Event details: Prof. Michelle McGeough: “Go Wan Go Mohawk’s Queering of West,” November 23, 4:30-5:30 pm, ARTS W-215. Sponsored by Dean of Arts Development Fund, ISCEI, AHCS. by @ahcs_mcgill

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Join us for our next speaker series event on Monday, November 20!

Prof. Rafael Grohmann
Workers Governing Platforms and AI
November 20
2:35-5:25 PM EST
LEACOCK 738 & Zoom
(855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7)

This is a hybrid event. You can attend in person or online (Zoom link in bio). The event is open to the public. No registration required.

The talk articulates conversations between worker-owned technologies/platform cooperativism and AI/data/platform governance to discuss how workers can govern platforms and AI, building technologies and policies from below. Based on the theorization, it presents two cases, the Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil - through its technology division - and the Hollywood writers' strikes in the United States. This is part of a book proposal on the topic. Some details can also be seen in the recently published article "Not just platform, nor cooperatives: worker-owned technologies from below" (Communication, Culture & Critique).

Find out more: https://bit.ly/AHCSgrohmann (link in bio)

Image credit: Photo provided by Prof. Rafael Grohmann; background graphic by alejo_m on Freepik event poster for Prof. Rafael Grohmann's talk titled "Workers Governing Platforms and AI" on November 20, 2023, 2:35-5:25 pm EST at Leacock 738. Photo of speaker on pink-black abstract background. by @ahcs_mcgill

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📣 📣 The Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Symposium committee invites proposals for the Annual Graduate Symposium “Reorienting the Sublime.”

The symposium will be held on Thursday, April 4 and Friday, April 5, 2024.

The committee seeks proposals for fifteen-minute-long paper presentations. Current and recently graduated Masters, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral students from various Humanities fields whose research addresses this year’s theme are encouraged to apply.

Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 300 words with the title of the paper, along with a separate document that includes a 250-word bio, to ahcs.pgss@mail.mcgill.ca by Friday, December 29, 2023.

For more information, please review the call for papers at tinyurl.com/gradsymposium2024 (or find the link in our bio!) Call for Papers: Graduate Symposium "Reorienting the Sublime"; megaphone graphic next to text describing the call for papers: "he Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Symposium committee invites proposals for 15-minute-long paper presentations. Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 300 words with the title of the paper, along with a separate document that includes a 250-word bio, to ahcs.pgss@mail.mcgill.ca. Submissions due: December 29, 2023" by @ahcs_mcgill

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The McGill Libraries @mcgilllib @mcgill_rare, the McGill Visual Arts Collection @mcgill_vac, the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and the Centre International d’Art Contemporain @ciac_mtl are pleased to invite you to a lecture by special guest scholar Professor Abigail Susik of Willamette University!

🗓 Thursday, November 16, 2023
🕠 5:30 pm
📍 Moot Court, Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street
❗️ This will be a hybrid event, with online attendance possible.

The lecture, entitled “Trance, Dance, and Surrealism: Françoise Sullivan & Les Automatistes in World War II-era Montréal,” celebrates the creative life and work of artist and dancer Françoise Sullivan.

Please RSVP here: https://libraryrooms.mcgill.ca/event/3759072 (link in our bio!) by @ahcs_mcgill

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COEXISTENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART
a symposium organized by Prof. Christine Ross
November 3, 1:30 – 5 pm*
Thomson House Ballroom,
3rd floor, 3650 rue McTavish

*(5 – 7:30 pm) the symposium will be followed by a toast to celebrate Prof. Ross's research accomplishments and contributions to the department.

The symposium is organized by Christine Ross, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.

With talks by art historian Amanda Boetzkes, artist Caroline Monnet, and curator Dominique Fontaine.

Amanda Boetzkes, “Coexistence as a Realism Without Authority: Inuit Art, Sulijuk and—Oh my Goodness—the Aesthetic Tactics of Reorigination”

Dominique Fontaine, “The Praxis of Coexistence”

Caroline Monnet, “A World of Many Parts”

Find the full symposium program here: https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/events/speaker-series (➡️ or click the link in our bio!)

Image: Caroline Monnet, The Room, 2023. Installation made of Styrofoam, OSB, Wood. 10,6 x 11,6 x 10,6 feet (https://carolinemonnet.ca/) Event poster with image by artist Caroline Monnet titled “The room” from 2023. The image depicts a pink room with structured geometric shapes adorning the walls by @ahcs_mcgill

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📣🗓️ Mark your calendars: We have another speaker series event for you this October!

The Department of Art History and Communication Studies presents:

Prof. Juliet Bellow (American University)
“Faunesque: Auguste Rodin, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Public Sexuality in Paris, ca. 1912”
October 19, 4:30-5:30 pm
Arts W-215

On the evening of May 29, 1912, Vaslav Nijinsky, the star dancer for the Ballets Russes troupe, made his choreographic debut to a packed house at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Set in archaic Greece, L’Après-midi d’un faune concerned a young faun’s lustful and ultimately fruitless pursuit of two alluring nymphs, which culminated in an onanistic sex act. The morning after, the newspaper Le Matin published a front-page article by “the great sculptor Rodin” that praised the ballet’s contribution to a modern aesthetic and compared its beauty with that of ancient Greek statuary. In the following days, Nijinsky and Rodin were swept up in a scandal stirred by critics who denounced both artists for their perceived offenses against public morality. The affaire Nijinsky is one of the most famous scandals in the history of modern art, yet there has been surprisingly little reflection on its causes and effects. This talk will consider why Rodin and Nijinsky publicly tied themselves to one another, and what their decision to do so tells us about the connections between dance, sculpture, bodies, and sex circa 1912. It will situate the scandal in the hyper-partisan atmosphere of the early French Third Republic and discuss its links to Parisian music-hall culture, where the limits of tolerance for displays of sexuality were regularly tested. The talk will also relate this episode to Rodin’s successful campaign to convert his studio in the Hôtel Biron into the Musée Rodin. It will show how Nijinsky helped Rodin to revolutionize the art of sculpture and to present himself as an embodiment of the Republic’s secular values.

Find out more at: https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/events/speaker-series (or click on the link in our bio) Speaker series poster on green gradient background. Two images: (left) Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky laying down and playing a flute at the ballet (1912) and (right) Rodin’s sculpture of Nijinsky. Talk details: Prof. Juliet Bellow: “Faunesque: Auguste Rodin, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Public Sexuality in Paris, ca 1912”, October 19, 4:30-5:30 pm, Arts W-215 by @ahcs_mcgill

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The Department of Art History and Communication Studies invites applications for course lecturers to teach ARTH 353 (Selected topics in Art History 1) and ARTH 440 (The Body and Visual Culture) in the Winter 2024 semester.

📌 For more information, please visit https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/jobs or find the link in our bio! by @ahcs_mcgill

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📣 📣 Join us for our first AHCS Speaker Series event this semester:

Dr. Kath Albury: "Digital sexual health - from literacies to capabilities"
October 16, 4-6 p.m. (EST)
Leacock 429 & on Zoom

This is a hybrid event. Please register here to receive a Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/nhbeecw6 (link in bio!)

The event is presented in partnership with @igsf.mcgill, @dr.alexketchum Feminist and Accessible Publishing/ Communications Technologies Series, and Concordia University’s DIGS Lab.

Digital literacy education is often proposed as a panacea for a range of everyday sexual health and wellbeing concerns - from 'safe sexting' and dating app use, to consent education. Sexual health workforces, too, are increasingly required to adopt data-driven digital technologies and practices (sometimes referred to as eHealth or mHealth) to undertake core activities such as clinical service provision, health promotion, education and outreach, reporting and quality assurance. This presentation draws on preliminary findings of sociotechnical research investigating the intersection of sexual health, digital literacy, and data literacy. It uses interviews with sexual health researchers and practitioners, and the findings of a narrative literature review, to identify current limitations in sexual health research addressing “digital literacy for sexual health.” Current 'digital health literacy' discourse tends to frame literacy in terms of individual deficit - and exclude the digital and data literacies of health workforces from consideration. I propose alternative (and less morally loaded) frameworks of digital and data capability for sexual health, building on recent participatory research with members of the not-for-profit workforce. This 'capabilities approach' attends to the complexities of digital health practice, while remaining mindful of the social and political factors that are critical to sexual health and wellbeing.

Find out more at: https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/events/speaker-series (or click on the link in our bio) Speaker series event poster: Dr. Kath Albury’s photo on purple gradient background. Talk title: Digital sexual health-from literacies to capabilities; event details: Oct 16, 4-6pm, hybrid event at Leacock 429 and on Zoom. To receive a zoom link, register at the Eventbrite link in our bio. by @ahcs_mcgill

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AHCS Alumni News: Leah Clark (PhD Art History, 2009) is an Associate Professor in History of Art and a Fellow of Kellogg College as well as Director of Studies in History of Art at the University of Oxford.

This month, Leah Clark published her new book Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated.

Leah Clark’s research explores the exchange and mobility of art objects in the 15th century. She is author of Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court:  Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and co-editor of European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550 (Manchester University Press, 2017).

Find out more at the link in our bio!

📌 For more alumni news, go to: https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/graduate/alumni Leah R. Clark portrait and banner that reads “Alumni news” by @ahcs_mcgill

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