April 22-23, 2010
Thomson House Ballroom
3650 McTavish Street
Montréal, Québec

We are pleased to announce the first annual Art History and
Communication Studies Graduate conference "The Everyday, Lived Realities
and Other Fictions". With over 20 presentations and the launch of
SEACHANGE Journal, the conference seeks to engage and support graduate
scholarship from Canada and abroad.

The 2010 keynote lecture will be presented by Dr. Monika Kin Gagnon,
titled "Posthumous Cinema: Reflections on the Creative Animation of
Archives."

The theme of this year's conference examines the various historical
moments that make up our everyday, exploring the tensions that emerge
between the 'real' and the perceived that manifest themselves within
everyday practices. Through the examination of the built environment,
media networks, films or art, the tensions of the 'everyday' experience
become more apparent. The everyday, through its lived realities and
other fictions, can become more than just our requisite critical
'context', it has the potential to become a, or perhaps the, common site
of collective mediation.

For full conference schedule, presentation abstracts, adjunct events and
updates, please visit our website: www.ahcsgradconference.com

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For more information, please contact: ahcsconferencegmail.com

AHCS Conference Committee:
Samantha Burton
Nadia Kurd
Paulina Mickiewicz
Cheryl Thompson

Generously supported by the Department of Art History and Communication
Studies, MediaMcGill, AHCS GSA and PGSS.