HomeNews & Events2021December MLC Top 10 of 2021
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Pandemic Webinar Series
The MLC explored new pandemic realities through the Pandemic Webinar Series, engaging 29 international experts in fields ranging from interior design to geriatric care to human rights, and hosting hundreds of national and international participants.
2.
The Baroness Elsa Project
In partnership with the Carleton University Art Gallery, Irene Gammel co-curated The Baroness Elsa Project, featuring eight contemporary racialized, Queer, Trans, gender non-conforming and women artists alongside the work of Dadaist artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
3.
Advancing Arts and Humanities Scholarship
Between the 2020-2021 academic year, the MLC team published or had accepted for publication 5 monographs, 42 articles or book chapters, and 30 conference papers. Despite the hardships of COVID-19, it’s been a productive year!
4.
Modernisms, Inside and Out
Working with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative at Concordia University, the MLC co-hosted the Modernisms, Inside and Out Conference, with a keynote on battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton, and support by Jason Wang and Olivia Trono.
5.
New People at the MLC
We welcomed our new MLC Coordinator Renée LeBlanc Proctor, an MA graduate of the joint program in Communication and Culture; and new members Sara Shields-Rivard, Olivia Trono, Joanna Cleary, Lauren Seto, Rose Maagdenberg, Diamond Carvalho Rocha, and Yifan Kong.
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Books Accepted for Publication: Creative Resilience and Undressing Duchamp
Stay tuned for more on the books that we have had accepted for publication in 2021. They include Creative Resilience and COVID-19, a volume of essays edited by Irene Gammel and Jason Wang (coming out in March 2022), and Dressing and Undressing Duchamp, a monograph by Ingrid Mida (coming out in September 2022).
7.
Operation Canada
Our Canadian war diaries project continued with a slew of new research essays added to our Operation Canada website; in collaboration with the Great War Centre in Montreal, we are digitizing the 1916 Clarence Booth Shell Shock Diary to go live in January 2022.
8.
Curating Social Change
With a focus on Zoom-mediated experiential learning during the pandemic, our graduate students in CC8836: Exhibition, Curation and Literary Cultures hosted a virtual symposium with keynote speakers Natalie Loveless and Christopher Gilbert.
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Thank you to our Donors, Sponsors, and Partners
We are grateful for the support of SSHRC, CFI, Ryerson University, and the Faculty of Arts. Thank you to our partners including Guelph Museums and the War Heritage Research Initiative at Royal Roads University. We are grateful to our donors; to donate, click here.
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Building our Community
Thank you to all of our 9,800+ Twitter and Facebook followers, as well as to the hundreds of virtual participants who have attended our pandemic webinars and book launches. To keep up to date with MLC news, sign up for our newsletter here. We look forward to seeing you in 2022!
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