The 2019 Conference of the Unviersities Art Association of Canada takes place in Québec City from October 25-27, 2019 and the Department of Art History is pleased to report that a number of its faculty, students, and alumni are participating in this year's event.
Every fall UAAC hosts Canada's professional conference for visual arts based research by art historians, professors, artists, curators and cultural workers. This year's conference features a great line up of events featuring Canadian and international speakers taking part in sessions that have many different themes including period-based studies, photography, animal studies, environment, design, pedagogy, and research creation.
Here is a list of just a few of the events our colleagues are involved in:
Friday, October 25
- Session 1.1: Making Sense of the Senses: Evaluationg the Sensorium in Visual Culture
Chairperson: Samantha Chang, PhD Candidiate, Department of Art History - Session 1.1.2: Hearing the Moon, Smelling Space: Sensory Astronomy in the Work of Katie Paterson
Speaker: Paige Hirschey, PhD Candidiate, Department of Art History
Saturday, October 26
- Session 5.5.1: Echo Chambers or Empathy Arcades? Contemporary Art and Global Inequality
Speaker: Leanne Carroll (PhD 2013) - Session 6.4.3: La chambre obscure du monde: Inside Gustave Courbet's The Painter's Studio
Speaker: Amy C. Wallace, PhD Candidiate, Department of Art History - Session 6.8.3: L'avenir des pratiques commémoratives au Canada: Art contemporain et diversité ethnoculturelle
Speaker: Analays Alvarez Hernandez, Assistant Professsor, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal (former Art History Postdoctoral Fellow) - Sessions 7.2 & 8.2: What Was History Painting and What Is It Now? (Part 1 & Part 2)
Chairperson: Jordan Bear, Associate Professsor, Department of Art History - Sessions 7.8 & 8.8: Open Session: National Network for the Study and Promotion of Latino Canadian Art and Latin American Art in Canada (Part 1 & Part 2)
Co-chairperson: Analays Alvarez Hernandez, Assistant Professsor, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal (former Art History Postdoctoral Fellow) - Session 8.2.1: Echoes of African Modernist Imaginings: The History Paintings of Julie Mehretu
Speaker: Elizabeth Harney, Associate Professsor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media & Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, Department of Art History
Sunday, October 27
- Session 9.3.1: Alex Janvier: Mapping Biopolitical Data Through Abstraction
Speaker: Adam Lauder (PhD 2016) - Session 10.1.4: Intertwined Life and Work: Colour Field Painter, Eleanor Mackey's Contradictory Self-Presentation
Speaker: Heather Saunders (MA 2008)