Conference Program - Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas

FUTURE
HUMANITIES
TRANSFORMING GRADUATE STUDIES
FOR THE FUTURE OF CANADA
COME PLAI WITH US / VENEZ JOUER AVEC NOUS
Now in our sixth year, The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and IDEAS (IPLAI) fosters dialogue among disciplines at the university
and with organizations outside of it. We are a collaboration of seven faculties and the McGill Libraries. We reorient the university and
engage more deeply with the world-at-large. We work on important questions ‒ public questions ‒ bringing artists and community
organizations into collaboration with researchers. We create opportunities for creative teaching and learning, and involve students as
active partners in major collective undertakings beyond the classroom.
Depuis notre création en 2009, nous promouvons le dialogue entre les disciplines au sein de notre université et avec des
organisations à l’extérieur de McGill. Nous travaillons en collaboration avec sept facultés et avec les bibliothèques de l’Université
McGill. Nous réorientons l’université, et nous sommes en prise avec la société dans son ensemble. Nous travaillons sur des enjeux
importants – des enjeux publics – à travers des collaborations entre artistes, organisations communautaires et chercheurs. Nous
créons des opportunités d’enseignement et d’apprentissage, et nous engageons les étudiants comme partenaires actifs dans de
grands projets collectifs au-delà de la salle de cours.
8:00 - 9:15
Faculty Club
Check-in + Breakfast
Registration; Ideas and Innovations
Poster Session
9:15 - 9:30
Bronfman 151
Welcome*
9:30 - 11:00
Bronfman 151
Plenary 1* Student Plenary
11:00 - 12:00
Bronfman 151
Plenary 2* From Being to Doing:
Mobilizing the Humanities
Register: http://goo.gl/49sBdT
THURSDAY, MAY 21
Suzanne Fortier, McGill Principal
Introduction: Angela Campbell (McGill)
Graduate Student Representatives
Register: Same as above
Anne Krook (consultant)
Moderator: Lesley Cormack (Alberta)
Register: Same as above
12:00 - 13:00
Faculty Club
Lunch
13:00 - 16:00
Faculty Club
Plenary Workshop* on the PhD in the
Humanities: short presentations, group
work, general discussion
Program—Martin Kreiswirth (McGill) + Kathryn Temple
(Georgetown)
People—Lynn McAlpine (McGill and Oxford) + Susan Cake
(Alberta)
Purpose—Frédéric Bouchard (Université de Montréal) + Barbara
Crow (York)
Moderators: Leigh Yetter (McGill) and Paul Yachnin (McGill)
16:15 - 17:30
Bronfman 151
Keynote* Graduate Studies in the ReImagining of 21st-Century Universities
Register: http://goo.gl/lZUEw1
17:30 - 19:00
Faculty Club
Reception
Chad Gaffield (University of Ottawa)
Moderator: Ollivier Dyens (McGill)
8:50 - 11:30
Multiple
Locations
Five Parallel Activities
Convene at the Faculty Club for coffee
and tea, then head to breakout sessions.
You will be emailed registration
information or you can sign up in person
on May 21st for activities.
FRIDAY, MAY 22
Working group on Public Humanities, led by Robert Gibbs
(Toronto) and Heather Zwicker (Alberta)
– Bronfman 011
Working group on the Dissertation, led by Eric Lewis (McGill) and
Anthony Paré (UBC) – Bronfman 045
Working group on Reporting—Gathering and sharing information
on recruitment, completion rates, time to completion, and
placement, led by Susan Porter (UBC) and Sandy Welsh (Toronto) –
Bronfman 046
Walking group on humanities in the world (visiting city site or sites
for public art and learning)
Creativity workshops in Dance, Clowning and Poetry/Hip-Hop.
Humanities in Practice (based on Thinking Art program) – Faculty
Club
11:30 - 12:30
Faculty Club
Reporting Sharing what we have learned
12:30 - 13:30
Faculty Club
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Bronfman 151
Plenary 3* Envisioning the future
significance of the humanities for society,
transforming graduate education
Moderator: Julie Cumming (McGill)
Normand Labrie (FQRSC and OISE)
Moderator: Antonia Maioni (McGill)
Register: http://goo.gl/b6bpnS
14:45 - 15:45
Bronfman 151
Roundtable* Doing the Humanities in
Public
Register: http://goo.gl/87prKe
16:00-17:30
Bronfman 151
Closing Roundtable*
Register: http://goo.gl/lp9tqm
17:45
Brutopia
Post-Conference
Informal Gathering
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro (U of Guelph)
Greg Kelly (CBC Radio 1)
Joe Medjuck (Independent film producer)
Kyle Wyatt (The Walrus)
Moderator: Kathryn Muller (McGill)
Marie Audette (Université Laval)
Eliza Bateman (McGill)
Noreen Golfman (Memorial)
Anthony Masi (McGill)
Jonathan Newell (UBC)
Moderator: Ursula Gobel (SSHRC)
1215 Rue Crescent Montréal, QC H3G 2B1
The Future Humanities conference contains a combination of open public sessions and closed working sessions for invited
participants. Many sessions will also be live-streamed, and the work done in closed sessions will be shared on our website after the
conference.
Events marked with yellow are open to the public. Follow the links to register.
* Live-streamed events. View events at: http://goo.gl/sdIOfW
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Deep thanks to:
McGill University
3610 McTavish St., 2nd floor
Montreal, QC H3A1Y2