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Prof. Jennifer Carter

Professor
UQAM
Participates in 3 items
Jennifer Carter est directrice des Études supérieures en muséologie, ainsi que professeure en Nouvelles muséologies, patrimoines immatériels et objets culturels au Département d’histoire de l’art, à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Muséologue et historienne de l'art et de l'architecture, elle est titulaire d'un doctorat en histoire et théorie de l'architecture de l'Université McGill, d'une maîtrise en histoire de l'art (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), et d'un baccalauréat (Honours) en histoire de l'art de l'Université McGill. Elle a travaillé au sein des musées et archives au Canada, notamment au Centre Canadien d'Architecture à Montréal, au Musée des Beaux-Arts de l'Ontario à Toronto, et au Canadian Architecture Collection à l’Université McGill, Montréal. À titre de commissaire, elle a co-organisé les expositions Drawing from Ideas, Building from Books : Architectural Treatises in the McGill University Library, Women and Homelessness, et Safdie's Sixties: Looking Forward to Looking Back. Elle a été professeure en Museum Studies à la Faculté de l'Information à l'Université de Toronto de 2008 à 2011 avant de se joindre au Département d'histoire de l'art à l'UQÀM. Ses recherches s’orientent selon deux axes principaux : sur la relation du musée, la défense des droits et de la justice sociale (subventionnées par le CRSH + FRQSC), ainsi que sur les relations entre la représentation, l'architecture des musées et l’expographie. Elle a rédigé et co-rédigé des articles en français et en anglais dans des livres et revues internationaux, notamment National Museums : New Studies from Around the World, Chora : Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, MediaTropes, Museum Management and Curatorship, Information Research, Curator, et 14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions. Elle est rédactrice associée de la revue internationale, Museum Management and Curatorship, publiée par Routledge / Taylor and Francis au Royaume-Uni. Elle rédige actuellement le manuscrit Museums in a culture of human rights: New museums around the globe pour la maison d’édition Ashgate au Royaume-Uni.
 
Jennifer Carter is Director of the graduate museology program at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she is also professor of New museologies, intangible heritage and cultural objects in the Department of Art History. Museologist and art historian, she has held positions in diverse Canadian cultural institutions, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). Jennifer’s praxis consists of teaching and research in the areas of museology, representation, expology and architecture. She considers how these practices mediate, and are mediated by, the cultural institutions that frame them. A more recent SSHRC- and FRQSC-funded research project takes up the emergent phenomenon of human rights museology, and considers how social justice and human rights are negotiated curatorially, pedagogically, and semantically in cultural institutions dedicated to human rights in Asia, North America and South America. Jennifer has authored and co-authored essays in English and French in international and peer-reviewed journals such as Information Research (2013); Musées (May 2013); Museum Management and Curatorship (2013; with J. Orange, May 2012); MediaTropes (2012); Curator (with J. Orange, 2012); and in book chapters in The Idea of a Human Rights Museum (forthcoming); 14 Arguments in favour of human rights institutions (with J. Orange, 2014); National Museums: New studies from around the world (Routledge, 2011) and Chora Five: Intervals in the philosophy of architecture (2007). In 2013, Jennifer was appointed Associate Editor of the international journal Museum Management and Curatorship, published by Taylor and Francis / Routledge in the U.K.

Sessions in which Prof. Jennifer Carter participates

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...

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)

Un survol du paysage muséal global depuis les années 1980 mène au constat qu’un nombre croissant d’institutions culturelles muséalise les événem...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
15:30
15:30

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

Roundtable

Dr Phaedra Livingstone (Moderator)

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Dr Marie-Claude Larouche, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Département des sciences de l'éducation (Participant)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)

To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...

Sessions in which Prof. Jennifer Carter 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...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
18:30
18:30
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
14:00
14:00
Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30
Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30
8:30
Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke
9 hours, 8:30 - 17:30
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

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