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Catherine Charlebois

Muséologue
Centre d'histoire de Montréal
Participates in 1 Session
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.
 

Sessions in which Catherine Charlebois participates

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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Catherine Charlebois, Centre d'histoire de Montréal (Participant)

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...

Sessions in which Catherine Charlebois attends

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

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Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

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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Torhild Skåtun, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (Participant)

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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Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

The rise of web 2.0 (including social media) motivated the museum sector’s embrace of participation, including highly interactive, co-curated ex...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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9:00

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Mr Lachlan Dudley, Australian National University (Participant)

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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Miss Rachel Emily Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University (Participant)

Biographical narratives are being used as vehicles for history within contemporary heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialog...

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Philippe Guillaume, Concordia University (Participant)

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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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...

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Dr Sarah De Nardi, Durham University (Participant)

The poetics of heritage co-production works as a connective tissue between heritage publics, practitioners and heritage objects through material...

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Ms Jessica Douthwaite, University of Strathclyde (Participant)

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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Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

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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ms Kayte McSweeney, British Museum (Participant)

“ …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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Johanne Sloan, Concordia University (Participant)

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...
13:30
13:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
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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...