
Catherine Charlebois est responsable des expositions et des collections au Centre d’histoire de Montréal à titre de muséologue. Depuis son arrivée en 2009, elle a coordonnée de multiples projets d’exposition où l’histoire orale occupe une place prépondérante et novatrice: Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance. 50 ans d’histoireS, Quartiers disparus et Scandale! Vice, crime et moralité à Montréal, 1940-1960. Ces divers projets l’ont entraîné à se spécialiser dans la mise en exposition des témoignages oraux dans les musées d’histoire. Elle est la co-auteure du livre Quartiers disparus Red Light, Faubourg à m’lasse, Goose village(2014) et de l’article scientifique Les sources orales au cœur de l’exposition muséale. L’expérience du Centre d’histoire de Montréal à paraître prochainement dans la Revue d’histoire d’Amérique française. Précédemment à son travail au Centre d’histoire de Montréal, elle a œuvré à titre de coordonatrice des programmes éducatifs au Musée McCord et comme conservatrice au Museum Village (Monroe, NY). Elle est graduée au Baccalauréat spécialisé en Histoire de l’Université de Montréal et détient une maîtrise en muséologie des musées d’histoire du Cooperstown Graduate Program (Cooperstown, NY).
Catherine Charlebois is the curator of exhibition and collection at the Centre d’histoire de Montréal (Montreal’s History Center). Since her arrival in 2009, she has coordinated several award winning museum exhibitions where oral history is use as a primary source of documentation and interpretation: The Habitations Jeanne-Mance. 50 years of HistorieS, Lost Neighbourghoods and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960. These projects has inspired her to focus her work on curating personal testimonies in history museums. She is the author of a several articles on the subject and co-author of the award winning book Quartiers disparus. Red Light, Faubourg à m’lasse, Goose village(2014). Prior to this, Ms.Charlebois worked at the McCord Museum of Canadian History as an educational coordinator and at the Museum Village (Monroe, NY) as a curator. She is an alumni of the Cooperstown Graduate Program from which she received her MA in History Museum Studies in 2000.
Catherine Charlebois is the curator of exhibition and collection at the Centre d’histoire de Montréal (Montreal’s History Center). Since her arrival in 2009, she has coordinated several award winning museum exhibitions where oral history is use as a primary source of documentation and interpretation: The Habitations Jeanne-Mance. 50 years of HistorieS, Lost Neighbourghoods and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960. These projects has inspired her to focus her work on curating personal testimonies in history museums. She is the author of a several articles on the subject and co-author of the award winning book Quartiers disparus. Red Light, Faubourg à m’lasse, Goose village(2014). Prior to this, Ms.Charlebois worked at the McCord Museum of Canadian History as an educational coordinator and at the Museum Village (Monroe, NY) as a curator. She is an alumni of the Cooperstown Graduate Program from which she received her MA in History Museum Studies in 2000.
Sessions in which Catherine Charlebois participates
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- 09.30 Documentaires et dialogues citoyens : des « artéfacts » au coeur de l'exposition muséale. L'expérience du Centre d'histoire de Montréal
- Participant Catherine Charlebois (Centre d'histoire de Montréal) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Depuis 2001, le Centre d’histoire de Montréal (CHM) a choisi de mettre le témoignage au cœur de ses projets. Ce faisant, il a pu explorer le pot...
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Sessions in which Catherine Charlebois attends
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- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...
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- 11.00 To and from Youth: Co-producing a Learning Program on Digital Democracy with Youths
- Participant Torhild Skåtun (Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- This paper will present the project “To and from Youth” at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, which allowed a group of eight youths...
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- 10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them
- Participant Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- The rise of web 2.0 (including social media) motivated the museum sector’s embrace of participation, including highly interactive, co-curated ex...
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- 09.20 The Role of Empathy and Affect in Pro-Social Museum Transformations
- Participant Mr Lachlan Dudley (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Significant debate has occurred in disciplines outside of a heritage framework in relation to the ability of empathy to act as a catalyst for pr...
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- 11.00 Found; Finding; Foundling, Mine: Searching for the Voice of the Historical Child in the Foundling Museum
- Participant Miss Rachel Emily Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Biographical narratives are being used as vehicles for history within contemporary heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialog...
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- 15.50 Jean-Paul Gill's 1957 Red Light Photographs: A Heuristic Archive
- Participant Philippe Guillaume (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
- The Archives de la Ville de Montréal house a series of 1002 black and white film negatives that document the old Red Light neighbourhood at the ...
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- 12.00 Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation
- Participant Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Is it possible to democratize the museum experience and open it to non-expert voices through the use of participatory approaches? This paper wil...
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- 09.00 Caring (or Not) about the Beamish Museum: The Co-Production and Co-Enactment of Affective Heritage
- Participant Dr Sarah De Nardi (Durham University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- The poetics of heritage co-production works as a connective tissue between heritage publics, practitioners and heritage objects through material...
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- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant Ms Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- In this paper I will address ACHS Conference questions surrounding the building of “critical innovations” in heritage and how heritage offers us...
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- 10.00 The Role of Co-Production in Addressing Difficult Pasts and Futures
- Participant Dr Bryony Onciul (Univerisity of Exeter) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- This paper will set out to understand what heritage changes and will ask “can heritage affect reality”? It will explore the way heritage and col...
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- 14.00 Co-Production in Heritage: Toward New Imaginaries
- Participant ms Kayte McSweeney (British Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- “ …it’s important not to be ignorant, especially in such a public space not to be ignorant of different perspectives and to make sure you don’t ...
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- 11.40 Expo 67, Revisited and Recycled
- Participant Johanne Sloan (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
- Montreal is just over a year away from celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Expo 67, the world’s fair held in Montreal during the summer of...
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- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
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- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable