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
Saturday 28 May, 2022
La ville extraordinaire is a three-year Partnership Development oral history research-creation project that aims to understand the ways in which diverse communities have shaped the city of Montreal over time. To this end, for the past year, our team has been interviewing older (broadly defined) residents of the city, including members of the Filipino-, Haitian-, and Chinese-Montreal communities, as well as less clearly delineated groups, such as older sex workers and older adults who face ...
Sessions in which Prof. Cynthia Hammond attends
Saturday 28 May, 2022
We offer a unique experience for the closing dinner of this conference in Montreal, in the former U.S. pavilion of Expo'67 - the most popular of the exhibition, with 5.3 million visitors: the "geodesic dome" designed by architect Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) with the collaboration of Shoji Sadao. The self-supporting steel honeycomb structure, covered with a polymer skin, was burned down in 1976 and redeveloped in the 1990s, according to the plans of architect Éric Gauthier, into an envir...