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

16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Partie de: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Silvia Forni, Royal Ontario Museum (Participant.e)

Sessions auxquelles Silvia Forni assiste

Vendredi 3 juin, 2016

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

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 heures 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Inscription req.

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potentiel.le)

Lucie Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Potentiel.le)

Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Modérateur.rice)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant.e)

Luc Noppen, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Participant.e)

Serge Joyal (Participant.e)

19:30

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 heure 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Modérateur.rice)

Samedi 4 juin, 2016

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

9:00

Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)

1 heure, 9:00 - 10:00

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Modérateur.rice)

11:00

11.30 Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Laura Demeter, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Participant.e)

11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant.e)

11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant.e)

13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant.e)

11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Tracy Ireland (Participant.e)

11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Geir Vestheim, University College of Southeast Norway (Participant.e)

13:30

History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

3 heures 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Raymond Montpetit, Université du Québec à Montréal (Modérateur.rice)

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 heure, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 heure 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant.e)

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Modérateur.rice)

Dimanche 5 juin, 2016

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

11:00

Maverick Heritages. Ugliness, Discomfort and Illegality in the Political and Social Construction of Heritage

1 heure 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE

Regular session

Cristiana Panella, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Modérateur.rice)

Walter E. Little, University at Albany, SUNY, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, United States (Modérateur.rice)

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 heure, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas