McGill AHCS GSA
McGill Art History & Communications Studies Graduate Student Association
2016 Emerging Scholars & Faculty Symposium
“The act of magic, via the measured repetition of the ritual, reveals the ordinary object as extraordinary and impacts its meaning within the objective fabric of reality. Paradoxically, in magic, the object speaks of both familiarity and otherness, revitalizing man’s awareness of the uniqueness of his surroundings, but also pointing out the continuity between the human subject and the phenomenal object.” [Emphasis ours] ---Aga Skrodzka, Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe (2014)
February 19th-20th
Friday: Thompson House Ballroom
Saturday: Leacock 26
McGill University
Montréal, Québec
The Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University is pleased to announce this year's Faculty and Emerging Scholars symposium, “Magic: Between Embodiment and Ontology.” The two-day interdisciplinary symposium will be held at McGill University on February 19th-20th, 2016. The conference seeks to engage and support graduate scholarship from Canada and abroad.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor of Art & Architecture at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Liliana Leopardi
&
Ph.D. Candidate in the Performance Studies Department at New York University, Aliza Shvarts
The aim of this symposium is to examine the ways in which magic, in any incarnation, is used as both a transformative element to inspire civil action as well a communicative channel for intersubjective relations. The symposium seeks to trace magic’s communicative capacities through material culture
The scope in which magic interacts and/or informs scholarship is broad and we hope for the conference to capture a snapshot of the ways in which magic affects material culture. The symposium will examine the roles in which magic or the mystic has played and generate a productive dialogue around such topics as alchemy, the occult, esoteric, rituals, science, early technology, spiritualism, etc.
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Symposium Program
Friday
Panels 1-2 (9:00-3:30 PM)
Location: Thompson House Ballroom
3650 Rue McTavish, Montréal, Québec
Keynote Address: Aliza Shvarts (4:00-5:30 PM)
Location: Leacock 26 (Wheelchair Accessible)
855 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, Québec
Saturday
Panels 3-5 (9:00-4:30 PM)
Keynote Address: Liliana Leopardi (5:00-6:30 PM)
Location: Leacock 26 (Wheelchair Accessible)
Conference Reception (7:00-9:00 PM)
Location: IPLAI Center (Wheelchair Accessible)
3610 Rue McTavish, Montréal, Québec
Sunday
In Conversation with Tanya Tagaq & Jesse Zubot (2:00-4:00 PM)
Hosted by IPLAI Center and the IGSF at McGill
Location: La Sala Rosa
4848 Boul St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec
More Information/Guide to Montréal, Click Here
To inquire about accessibility, please e-mail ahcs.pgss@mail.mcgill.ca
AHCS Conference Organizing Committee:
Ayanna Dozier (Communication Studies)---Conference Chair
Anastasia Howe Bukowski (Art History)
Sofia Misenheimer (Communication Studies)
Zoë De Luca (Art History)
Itzayana Gutiérrez Arillo (Communication Studies)
Generously supported by:
