Day: March 11, 2014

Workshop: Thursday Apr 24 and Friday 25, 2014
Exhibition: Apr 24 to May 8, 2014
Location: Intersections Digital Studios, Mocap Studio (NB285e)
To register: http://if2014.ecuad.ca/registration/
 
IF'14, More-Than-Human Worlds combines interdisciplinary academic research with explorations in new media and design practice to consider alternative conceptions of human relations with other animals and the environment. The inquiry calls upon methodologies within environmental studies, philosophy, Eastern beliefs, First Nations’ mythologies, critical animal studies, culture studies, and art and design practices using new technologies and interactive modes, to propose approaches towards improved human awareness about and relationships with more-than-human worlds.
 
A workshop and exhibition, open to the public, will be held at Intersections Digital Studios, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, engaging faculty and graduate and undergraduate students from 5 partnering universities (Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Ontario College of Art and Design, University of British Columbia Okanogan, Simon Fraser University, York University).
 
More info: http://if2014.ecuad.ca
 
Workshop Presenters include: 
Aleksandra Dulic + Kenneth Newby, UBC O
Alex Philips, ECUAD
Beth Carruthers, SFU
Calliope Gazetas, York U
Chris Jones, ECUAD
Genevieve Raiche-Savoie + Jesse Garbe, ECUAD
Heesoon Bai, SFU
Jay White, ECUAD
Jodey Castricano, UBC O
Julie Andreyev, ECUAD
Kacie Auffret, UBC O
Leesa Fawcett, York U
Maria Lantin, ECUAD
Mimi Gellman, ECUAD
Sandra Semchuk, ECUAD
Stephen Smith, SFU
Steve Duguid, SFU
 
for more info contact: Julie Andreyev, Artistic Director, jandreye@ecuad.ca

Call for Abstracts for the conference “School vs. Memory” to be held in Prague, 10-11 October 2014.  See the website, http://www.schoolxmemory.eu

In Central European countries, a tension potentially arises between history education in schools and memory at the level of family, social group or community. Memory as a concept describing a plurality of modes of relating to the past has gained grounds both in the humanities and in social sciences. Memory replaces or complements traditional historical narratives. This conference focuses on memory from a didactic perspective. Our aim is to deal with questions such as What are the difficulties that result from the employment of memory layer into the traditional interpretative frameworks employed at school? How does memory layer arise and what are its sources? What role does the family memory play in the creation of historical consciousness? Where are frictions between family remembering and school history narratives formed and under what conditions do they vanish? And last but not least: What does the impact of this memory in the classrooms look like?