LECTURE – Masterclass Thursday, November 14 from 8:30-12:30 am, VA Building, Room 126, Concordia University. Dempsey Bob is an award-winning woodcarver and sculptor, one of the most illustrious representatives of the Northwest Coast Indigenous art. Born to a highly artistic family in 1948, Tahltan-Tlingit artist Dempsey Bob’s success as an artist was perhaps inevitable. He began… Continue reading Dempsey Bob
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The Women of Polytechnique
COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS – Please join us November 16 and November 30, 2019. On December 6, 1989, the tragedy of the École Polytechnique de Montréal profoundly marked women in Quebec and around the world. 14 women were killed because they had chosen to occupy a space traditionally designated for men. The events “Une marche, deux parcours.… Continue reading The Women of Polytechnique
EMERGE
EVENT – Tuesday, November 19 – Saturday, November 23, 2019, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. EMERGE is dedicated to contemporary performance, featuring a dozen European and Canadian artists and participants invited to present recent works that, in some way, address the multidisciplinary direction taken by some of today’s most engaging practices. Dr. Alice Ming Wai… Continue reading EMERGE
Doubt: Modalities of Being and Thinking
7th Edition of the Université de Montréal Arts & Medias Annual Symposium 20 – 22 November 2019 In these times of rapid changes, information appears in such an invasive fashion that it is not always permitted or simply possible to distinguish between what is real and what is fake. Images, which used to vouch for… Continue reading Doubt: Modalities of Being and Thinking
Bourse d’études Supérieures Perras, Cholette et Cholette
FUNDING – The Bourse d’études Supérieures Perras, Cholette et Cholette, valued at $10,000 is open to a former student of the Collège de Montréal (must have completed at least 2 years OR Secondary 5) who is pursuing full-time graduate studies (Master’s, PhD or postdoctoral, with some exceptions) in the fields of Art, Medicine and Science. Applicants must… Continue reading Bourse d’études Supérieures Perras, Cholette et Cholette
Journal of Religion and Cultures
CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions December 15, 2019. The Journal of Religion and Culture (JRC) is seeking papers related to the social scientific study of religion and/or culture for its upcoming 29th edition. We welcome papers from any discipline and that make use of any theoretical approach. Explorations of diverse methodological approaches, historical periods, traditions, and… Continue reading Journal of Religion and Cultures
2020 Columbia University Grad Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS – The graduate students in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University are now accepting submissions for our annual graduate conference to be held on April 3rd and 4th, 2020. This year’s theme is “Disenchantment, disappointment, despair: critical interventions.”… Continue reading 2020 Columbia University Grad Conference
Cold Case? : Forensics of a Fifteenth-Century Portrait Sculpture
LECTURE – Friday, November 15, 2019, 4 to 6 pm, Dr. Jeanette Kohl, University of California Riverside. The talk will be held in the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. Concordia University, EV Building, 1515 St. Catherine St. West, 3rd Floor. More information
Art & Copyright for Artists & Curators
LECTURE – Thursday, November 4, Visual Collection Repository (VCR), EV 03.307, Concordia University. The VCR is hosting this fascinating talk next Thursday on Art & Copyright by Olivier Charbonneau, a Concordia University librarian whose expertise is copyright law. More information