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Re-Staging the Past: 2015 Shannon Lectures

The Department of History will commence its 2015 Shannon Lecture Series on Friday Sept. 18, 2015.

The lectures will examine ways in which our understanding of the past is enhanced through performance. What does it mean when our histories take alternative forms such as film, theatre, re-enactment, cabaret and virtual gaming? How does re-staging the past in these ways shape the history that is produced and how audiences experience the past?

Five renowned speakers will deliver lectures on this year’s theme, Performing History: Re-Staging the Past. They include:

Ferdinand Bloch: Terezín Cabaret, PT 3958, Terezín Memorial, Herman´s Collection, © Zuzana Dvořáková
Ferdinand Bloch: Terezín Cabaret, PT 3958, Terezín Memorial, Herman´s Collection, © Zuzana Dvořáková

Friday, Sept. 18:
Lisa Peschel (University of York, England)
Theatre and the Holocaust: Recently Rediscovered Scripts from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto.

La Deroute, Bruno Ramirez
La Deroute, Bruno Ramirez

Friday, Oct. 9:
Bruno Ramirez (University of Montreal)
Through Images, Words, and Sounds: Filmic Narration and Public History

Scene from Assassin’s Creed Victory
Scene from Assassin’s Creed Victory

Friday, Oct. 23:
Maxime Durand (Ubisoft, Montreal)
From Dreams to Realities: Performing History in the Assassin’s Creed® Video Game Series

Vanessa Agnew ‘Defending the Freedom to Teach the Armenian Genocide’
Vanessa Agnew ‘Defending the Freedom to Teach the Armenian Genocide’

Friday, Nov. 13:
Vanessa Agnew (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Re-enacting Genocide

Scene from Pygmalion
Scene from Pygmalion

Friday, Nov. 27:
Peter Hinton (Shaw Festival Theatre)
Why Shaw Now? A Modern Pygmalion

Where: All lectures will take place in the Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, Fourth Floor MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa.

When: Each lecture begins at 1:30 p.m. and is followed by a reception in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall.

Visit the Shannon Lectures page for more information.

About the Shannon Lectures:
The Shannon Lectures in History are thematically linked public lectures offered annually at Carleton University and made possible through the Shannon Donation, a major anonymous gift from a friend of the Department of History. Previous lectures have focused on the history of food and drink, the history of the senses, the history of emotion, storytelling and gender history.