Dr Nadine Blumer

Affiliate Faculty

Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL)

Participates in 1 Session

Nadine Blumer (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Toronto) is affiliate faculty at Concordia University’s Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV). Her research explores the development of Canada’s newest cultural institution, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), and its positioning as part of a Canada-wide network of commemorative spaces and activist responses. An article on this subject is published in the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. She has also researched and published on commemoration of the Roma Holocaust, including an article in a special issue on counter-monuments in Espace arts magazine and a chapter in the edited volume The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (Berghahn Books, 2013). She is a previous postdoctoral fellow of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C., and of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Sessions in which Dr Nadine Blumer participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

13:30

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Prof. Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant)

Sessions in which Dr Nadine Blumer attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)

19:30

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 hour 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

09.20 Imported Ghosts and Figurative Bodies: Mobilizing Heritage in Ottawa

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

Paper

Dr Jerzy (Jurek) Elżanowski, Carleton University (Participant)

Dr Rebecca Dolgoy, University of Ottawa (Participant)