Shifting Borders Program
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Visual Culture
17-18 March 2006
Concordia University, Montreal
Friday, 17 March 2006
1:15 pm
Frontier Continent: Identities and Crossings in Canada, the United States and New Spain
Moderator: Luke Nicholson, Concordia University
Writing their Lives: The Autobiographies of Early Canadian Women Pioneers
Mireille Eagan, Concordia University
Forging American History: Landscape Painting, Native Americans, and National Identity
Nancy Palm, Indiana University
Rethinking the Frontier in Spanish America: Art on the Jesuit Missions of Northeastern New Spain
Katherine Moore McAllen, Harvard University
3:45 pm
Wired Terrain: Checkpoints at the Digital Border
Moderator: Amanda York, Concordia University
The In-Between World of Contemporary Painting: Praxis and Reception in an Age of Pluralism
Jeffrey Nye, University of Regina
Playing Modernity: The Mapping Impulse in Empire Simulation Video Games
Trent Cruz, University of Western Ontario
A Borderland as Palimpsest: Articulating Borders of North American Selfhood with Bricolages in Digital Space
Jennifer Kocsmiersky, Dartmouth College, and Kiara Vigil, Dartmouth College
7:00 pm
Keynote Address
Talking Pictures: Black Feminist Generations
Michele Wallace, Cornell University
Saturday, March 18, 2006
10:00 am
Crossing Cultures, Crossing Mediums: Postcolonial Art and Innovation
Moderator: Marsha Taichman, Concordia University
We must daguerreotype Uncle Tom for our readers’: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Nearly Photographic Text
Diana K. Truite, Princeton University
Restraterizing Hybrid Identity in the Visual Arts
Kevin Ei-ichi deForest, Brandon University
Esteban Vicente, National Identity and the Borders of Collage
Daniel Haxall, Pennsylvania State University
1:00 pm
Definitions and Boundaries: Reality, Fiction, and the Art Object
Moderator: Amanda Beattie, Concordia University
La relique en art contemporain
Ève DeGarie-Lamanque, Concordia University
La filature de Sophie Calle entre le mode factual et fictionnel
Marie-Pierre Boucher, Concordia University
Science, art et manifestations rituelles : de l’épaisseur de la marge dans le bioart
Christine Desrochers, Université du Québec à Montréal
3:30 pm
Beyond Borders: Bridging Differences
Moderator: Jean-François Bélisle, Concordia University
Crossing Borders and Imagining Home/land: Armenian Artists Construct a Diasporic Identity in Los Angeles
Ramela Grigorian Abbamontian, UCLA
The Language of Home and (Dis)placement: The Photographs of Gabor Szilasi
Sharon Murray, Concordia University
Architecture and Artifice in the Recent Work of Krysztof Wodiczko
Tom Williams, SUNY Stony Brook