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Silvia Forni

curator
Royal Ontario Museum
Participe à 1 Session
Silvia Forni Ph.D. is Curator of Anthropology in the ROM’s Department of World Cultures. She is the curator of the African collection, and responsible for the permanent and rotating display of African artworks in the Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, the Americas and the Asia Pacific. Together with Dominique Fonatiane and Julie Crooks she is leading the ROM’s Of Africa, a three year multiplatform project aimed at rethinking historical and contemporary representations of Africa and its diaspora within the museum. She is also Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto where she teaches Anthropology of Material Culture, Ethnography of Africa and Anthropology of Art. She has published essays in several journals including African Arts and Critical Interventions and contributed chapters to the edited volumes African Art and Agency in the Workshop (2013) and African Art, interviews, Narratives (2013). She recently edited the volume Africa In the Market with Christopher B. Steiner (ROM Publications). Currently she is working with Doran Ross working on the exhibition and book project Art, Honor and Ridicule: Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana.

Sessions auxquelles Silvia Forni participe

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30

Sessions auxquelles Silvia Forni assiste

Vendredi 3 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
17:00
17:00
  • Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
  • Inscription req.
  • Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
  • 17:00 - 19:30  | 2 heures 30 minutes
  • Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event
19:30
19:30

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Lucie Morisset
Modérateur.rice
Chaire de recherche du C...
Event manager
11:00
11:00
13:30
13:30
17:00
17:00
  • Smoked meat in questions
  • Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
  • 17:00 - 18:00  | 1 heure
  • This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event
18:30
18:30
  • Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
  • Inscription req.
  • UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
  • 18:30 - 20:00  | 1 heure 30 minutes
  • Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
    Public event
    Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Participant.e
Harvard University
Ernest E. Monrad Profess...
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Modérateur.rice
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00
12:30
12:30