Curating Exhibitions as Public Scholarship
DATE: Nov 25, 2020 TIME: 12:00pm – 1:20pm LOCATION: Zoom This moderated conversation will discuss how to create an exhibition. Panelists will demonstrate the process of developing a scholarly exhibit as a new mode of research at varying skill levels, how to work with a variety of tangible and intangible objects, how to work with […]
Massy Reads: On Interrogating the Colonial Frame
DATE: Nov 18, 2020 TIME: 7:00pm – 8:15pm LOCATION: Zoom Massy Reads: On Interrogating the Colonial Frame A Public Humanities Hub Conversation with UBC Authors Hannah Turner (School of Information) and David Gaertner (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies) Speakers Dr. Hannah TurnerAssistant Professor, School of Information Hannah Turner is an information and museum studies scholar, […]
Rethinking the Road: Autoethnography, Memory and Transient Landscapes
DATE: Nov 6, 2020 TIME: 11:00am – 12:30pm LOCATION: Zoom Speaker Dr. Lynne Pearce, Professor, Lancaster University Department of English and Creative Writing Abstract AbstractIn 2000 I published a book chapter, ‘Driving North/Driving South’, which included a first-person description of one the many journeys I was then making between my parents’ home in Cornwall, my […]