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Prof. Hourig Attarian

Assistant Professor
Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada
Participates in 1 Session
Hourig Attarian (Ph.D. Education, McGill University) is currently Assistant Professor
in the Department of Education, Concordia University and an affiliate/core member of
the university’s internationally renowned Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
(COHDS). Anchored in the blurred genre of life history and autobiographical inquiry, her
interdisciplinary work focuses on storying memory and identity through visual and
narrative explorations. In 2008-2009, she was Artist-in-residence for the Oral History &
Performance Group of the CURA project titled Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by
War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations at COHDS. The resulting work titled
Stories scorched from the desert sun (a co-authored script for a staged reading with
dramaturge Rachael van Fossen), documented and storied intergenerational narratives of
genocide survivors with an emphasis on women’s and girls’ experiences. Her other
current collaborative research-creation project titled Come wash with us: Seeking home in
story (with Montreal-based multimedia artists Khadija Baker and Shahrzad Arshadi, and
Ottawa-based film scholar Kumru Bilici) seeks to recount stories of mothers, daughters
and granddaughters attempting to come to terms with memories of war and genocide. She
has explored the collaborative process of writing, staging and performing difficult
memories through various scholarly publications and presentations.

Sessions in which Prof. Hourig Attarian participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30

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)

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

Sessions in which Prof. Hourig Attarian attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
17:00
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)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
19:30
19:30

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Regular session

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Moderator)

Dans le cadre de cette session, nous souhaitons faire, dans une perspective multidisciplinaire et critique, un état des lieux qui interroge doublem...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Event

Milan Tanedjikov (Concordia University) and six LaSalle College students. A Material Culture & Fashion Exhibit June 6...

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Event

Dominique Fontaine / Livia Daza-Paris,   A video and photographic installation.
15:30
15:30
Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00
Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Regular session

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Moderator)

In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Prof. Martha Langford, Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada (Moderator)

Photography was recognized as an instrument of heritage preservation from the moment of its inception in the early nineteenth century, when proj...

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Event

Milan Tanedjikov (Concordia University) and six LaSalle College students. A Material Culture & Fashion Exhibit June 6...

Paper

Clara Gutsche, Concordia University (Participant)

This presentation will include images from the Milton Park series (1970-1973) by David Miller and myself, and excerpts from my recent work (2008...

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

Is it possible to democratize the museum experience and open it to non-expert voices through the use of participatory approaches? This paper wil...

Paper

Prof. Martha Langford, Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada (Participant)

In the late 1960s, the North American field of photographic studies began to develop across a range of practices and institutions. By the early ...
11:00
11:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Regular session

Rebecca Lemire, Concordia University (Moderator)

In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...
Critical Creation Series : LWÀZA (The Noise)
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Event

Nyata Nyata (Karla Etienne and Zab Mabongou) This hybrid demonstration project explores the links between heritage...
13:00
13:00

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Research-Creation

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Moderator)

An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...