Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.

When: Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Time: 11:30 am — 12:45 pm
Location:Richcraft Hall, Second Floor Conference Rooms
Audience:Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty
Cost:Free

This panel is a part of the Visions for Canada, 2042 Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register to attend by visiting the conference webpage.

Thinking about what Canadians will remember 25 years from now is a question of what will be memorable to us, about which memories will leave such an impression that they will remain with us over time. There are also questions about the institutions or professions that curate and re-play certain aspects of the past, and how the incredible expansion of memory on personal devices has given Canadians the capacity to remember many things about our own pasts. In this roundtable, participants will explore the questions of what will be memorable and how Canadians will remember to consider the extent to which 2017 will be remembered 25 years later. The panelists will explore questions about individual and institutional memory practices, and consider the role played by media technologies in storing, re-purposing, and distributing the past.

Presenters:

  • Jennifer Boland is a PhD candidate in communication studies at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. She is interested in research questions related to the people, practices, and politics of unexamined audiences, and her work explores a broad range of receptive and reactive practices to popular culture, including lurking audiences and suspicious audiences.
  • Miranda J. Brady is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication and a Co-Director of the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language, and Education (CIRCLE). Her teaching and research focus on the construction of Indigenous identity in the media and cultural institutions like museums. Her co-authored book with John Medicine Horse Kelly, We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture is forthcoming with UBC Press in 2017.
  • Sheryl N. Hamilton is an Associate Professor appointed to the School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Law and Legal Studies. She is the author of Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture (University of Toronto Press 2009) and Law’s Expression: Communication, Law and Media in Canada (Lexis/Nexis 2009); co-author of Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technologies. (University of Toronto Press, 2011); and co-editor ofSensing Law (Routledge, 2017). Her current research explores the ways in which hands and touch are being reconstituted as objects of formal and informal regulation in pandemic culture.
  • Jonathan Shaughnessy holds a Master of Arts in Communications from Carleton University, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa. Shaughnessy is also full-time Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. He has coordinated numerous exhibitions across Canada and has lectured at the National Gallery of Canada on acquisitions for the contemporary art collection. He is also one of FPA’s 75 for the 75th
  • Ira Wagman is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, and specializes in television studies, cultural theory, media and communication theory, media industries, and the ethics of mediated memory. Wagman is also cross-appointed to the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture, and was recently awarded the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the Center for Public Diplomacy in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.