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
Friday 3 June, 2016
Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration with Dr Jill Didur, will curate a series of installations and performances that speak directly to the rich heritage of a specific urban landscape: the gardens of the Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, now part of the Concordia University downtown campus. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the lost working gardens of the Grey Nuns. As with other such...
Monday 6 June, 2016
In recent years, there has been a great deal of debate surrounding so-called ruin gazing and the politics of representing industrial or urban ruination. Recent years have seen photographers, artists, film-makers, urban explorers, scholars and others flood into newly deindustrialized areas to record signs of ruins and abandonment, prompting a public backlash against the hipster commodification of misery. Some have gone so far as to call the voyeuristic appeal of industrial or urban ruinatio...
In a collaborative and image-rich conversational presentation, “Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies” outlines the potentials and problematics of “The Right to the City,” a multi-year transdisciplinary curriculum initiative that brings graduate and undergraduate students from Concordia University to Montreal’s historic South West borough. Through our tethered teaching, four professors have asked, “what does it change for the university to teach/learn on-site with the resident...