Humanities and Public Life Conference Past Imperfect: Reflections on Memory September 10 -14, 2018

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, September 10th September 11th September 12th September 13th September 14th

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Thoughts on Building Like a Hurricane: Keynote Civic engagement a Common Memory Grappling with Presentation – what it looks like, Across Cultural and the Past after 9/11, who gets to Historical Divides: the Colombian Conflict, A Closer Look participate, and what Muslim Philosophers and Katrina at Human Dignity forms of participation on Memory, Tradition are valued Gray Miles and Social Interaction and Translation Humanities Department, Catherine Richardson/ Rudayna Bahubeshi Michael Nafi Dawson College Kinewesquao Inspirit Foundation Humanities, Metis counsellor, Presentation Co-Sponsored , and Religion, School of Social Work, with Dawson Peace Week College Université de Montréal

10:00 – 11:15 a.m. The Unpast, “You know this: why Politicization and Special Place Narratives, our ‘actual’ form do I have to tell you Polarization? The (3T Theatre) Memory and Policing of memory all this if you already Influence of Mass From Ani Kouni Black Lives know it?”: Recaps, Media on American Dominique Scarfone to Cowboys and Robyn Maynard the binge-watch, and Views and Voting Indians: Increasing Department, the Iliad Behavior Presentation Co-Sponsored Université de Montréal our understanding of with Dawson Peace Week Lynn Kozak Elizabeth Fischer cultural appropriation and Martin Elizabeth Fast Classics Studies, School of Public Affairs, Applied Human McGill University American University Sciences, Moderator Chris Bourne Politics Department, Dawson College

11:30 – 12:45 p.m. Motherhood as Special Time Quelle résistance Planetary health in Special Time Methodology/Desire 12 :00 – 12:45 p.m. aux (mauvais) usages the Anthropocene: 12 :00 – 1:15 p.m. as Theory de la mémoire ? understanding the S.P.A.C.E. Collective present to prepare for Poison Into Medicine: Emily Sims, Djeema Maazouzi on “Perspectives” the future Using Narrative to Make Sense of Humanities Department, Andrew Katz French Department, Concordia University Dawson College Fiona Hanley Tragedy English Department, Nursing Daniel Goldsmith Dawson College Department and Program Coordinator, Humanities Department, Dawson College Dawson College

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. The science of time Dead Reckoning: – why we remember the Night of the past but not the future, Living Dead and the relativity of time, the Return of History and how far back can we “remember”? Panel Panel Coordinator Chris Whittaker Jay Shea Physics Department, English Department, Dawson College Dawson College

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All sessions in 5B.16 unless otherwise indicated. Humanities and Public Life Conference Past Imperfect: Reflections on Memory September 10 -14, 2018 Dawson College

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, September 10th September 11th September 12th September 13th September 14th

2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Reconciling With Beyond Frontier Town: Monument/Counter- Forgetting Recent Lessons and Historical Truth Private Property and Monument: What History: The Legacy of reflections: À la Justice in Complex Nations Choose to Deceit and Denial in rencontre de l’autre Diane Labelle Economies Remember and What the Nuclear Age survivant de génocide First Nations Regional Nations Choose to Katharina Nieswandt Pat Romano Lisa Ndejuru Adult Education Center Forget Philosophy Department, Humanities Department, Centre for Oral History Concordia University Panel Dawson College and Digital Storytelling Panel Coordinator Mikaela Bobiy Humanities Department, Dawson College

4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Art, Installation, Settler Colonialism: Curses, Hexes, Is there a Kanien’kehá:ka / A Memoir and Spells: the Magic Moral Obligation Mohawk cosmography of Gender to Remember? Jocelyn Parr Hannah Claus History Department, Michael Wasser Oran Magal Visual Artist Dawson College History and Religion Humanities and Departments, Philosophy Departments, Dawson College Dawson College

6:30 – 8:15 p.m. Strategic Amnesia: Striking emotions, C’est pas parce que Identity, Memory Secularism and vulnerable memories c’est vintage que c’est and Oral History Conspicuous Religion beau:” The Roles of Nadia Hausfather in Québec Nostalgia in Xavier Panel Humanities Department, Dolan’s Cinema Norma Joseph Ian Cuthbertson Concordia University Humanities Department, Fulvia Massimi Religion and Cultures, Dawson College Film and Moving Concordia University Image Studies, Mark Beauchamp Concordia University and Ben Lander History Department, special Time Dawson College 7 :15 – 8:30 p.m. (Oliver’s) Lisa Ndejuru It Happens Here Centre for Oral History Initiative and Digital Storytelling Presentation Co-Sponsored with Dawson Peace Week

All sessions take place in the Multipurpose Room, 5B.16 except for Thursday morning sessions in the 3T Theatre. The It Happens Here testimonials take place on Wednesday evening at 7:15 p.m. at Oliver’s. For more information please contact Julian Nemeth: [email protected]

All sessions in 5B.16 unless otherwise indicated.