
Cynthia Imogen Hammond is Professor of Art History at Concordia University. Her research focuses on women and the history of the built environment, urban landscapes, research-creation, and oral history. She has published on architecture, the spatial history of the suffrage movement, public art, gardens, and the politics of urban change. Her recent publications include an essay on the Canadian artist Joyce Wieland and a book chapter on the relationship between photography and the nascent heritage movement in Montreal. Presently she is leading a SSHRC Partnership Development project on the urban knowledge of diverse older citizens of Montreal.
Sessions in which Prof. Cynthia Hammond participates
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- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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- In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
- Signup required Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In recent years, there has been a great deal of debate surrounding so-called ruin gazing and the politics of representing industrial or urban ru...
- Roundtable
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11:00
- In-community session: Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies: Roundtable on Concordia’s ‘Right to the City’ Initiative
- Signup required Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In a collaborative and image-rich conversational presentation, “Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies” outlines the potentials and ...
- Roundtable
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- 13.50 Montreal Mansions: Photography, Architecture, and Heritage
- Participant Prof. Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- “Private clubs and mansions...could [be] interpreted in terms of the masons’ and carpenters’ skills in constructing them, and the maids’ and gar...
- Paper