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Catherine Charlebois

Muséologue
Centre d'histoire de Montréal
Participe à 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 auxquelles Catherine Charlebois participe

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

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

Sessions auxquelles Catherine Charlebois assiste

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

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

Mardi 7 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
Heritage Changes RightsMuseumsPublic event

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights," met serious criticism from a variety of stakeholders before it even opened its doors. These stakeholders included Indigenous and Ukrainian communities, anti-poverty activists, feminists, gay rights activists, and disability advocates who questioned some of the museum's key curatorial choices in framing issues of righ...

15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the Local SocietiesMuseums
Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local

To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlapping concerns shared by these respective fields. This roundtable addresses the subject of museums as sites of historical consciousness by reflecting on a recent book project. Museums as Sites of Historical Consciousness: Perspectives on Museum Theory and Practice in Canada (working title, UBC Press, 2016) examines (1) ways that museums create and sha...