Janine Marchessault, Trudeau Fellow and professor in Cinema and Media Studies at York University, will speak about Expo 67 films at the final lecture in this fall’s Shannon Lecture series at Carleton University.
Expo 67 has been the focus of the Department of History’s 2017 lectures. This lecture is co-sponsored by Carleton’s School for Studies in Art and Culture.
Marchessault’s lecture, “The Missing Archive of Expo 67,” considers the fate of the cinematic archive of an ephemeral World’s Fair.
When: Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Where: Multi-Media Lab (Room 482), Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library
Info: This event is free and open to the public. Lecture begins at 2:30 p.m., followed by a reception nearby in the History Lounge at 433 Paterson Hall.
Background
Expo 67 looms large in national memory as a landmark event for which Canada won international acclaim. Yet world’s fairs are, by nature, transitory events. This lecture explores the possibility that the Expo zeitgeist conflicted with the archival impulse. Recent anarchival artistic projects and films about the utopian Expo moment play on this possibility. Space Fiction & the Archives (film and installation Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen 2012) and By the Time we got to Expo (Philip Hoffman/Eva Kolcze 2015) are works of dynamic excavation that undermine any attempt to stabilize public memory of Expo 67.
About Janine Marchessault
Janine Marchessault is a professor of Cinema and Media at York University. In 2012, he was awarded a prestigious Trudeau Fellowship to pursue her curatorial and public art research. She is the author of two books and co-edited numerous collections. She was the president of the Film Studies Association of Canada, held faculty positions at McGill University and Ryerson University, and has taught at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV. Books in preparation include Archival Imaginary: Creative Approaches to Digital Memory; The Oxford Guide to Canadian Cinema; and Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age.
About the 2017 Shannon Lectures
This year’s lecture series looked at Expo 67 as the highlight of Canada’s centennial. A world’s fair held in Montreal, it dazzled with daring architecture, innovative exhibits and the high-minded theme “Man and His World.” Many Canadians regarded it as Canada’s coming-out party, a moment when the young nation burst into the international limelight. Substitute “Quebec” or “Indigenous Peoples” for “Canada” in the previous sentence and it would be equally true – Expo 67 was a rich, multivalent spectacle that generated diverse messages. In Canada’s 150th anniversary year, the Carleton Department of History is revisiting Expo 67 to reflect upon the meaning of it all. This public lecture series is made possible by the Shannon Fund, an endowment created by an anonymous friend of the Department of History.
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