Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 12:15 p.m.
Carleton University Art Gallery
Admission is free and everyone is welcome!
Carleton University Art Gallery:
Each semester, we showcase a Carleton faculty member whose academic interests complement one of our exhibitions, and invite them to give a talk on their research.
Inspired by Dennis Tourbin’s paintings, prints, and drawings depicting the events of the October Crisis, as presented in the exhibition Dennis Tourbin: The Language of Visual Poetry, this special Lunchtime Lecture will feature a conversation between Anne Trépanier and Darren Pacione on the topic of the October Crisis and the media.
Bring your lunch, we’ll provide coffee and tea, and we’ll all learn something new!
Anne Trépanier is an assistant professor in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Her teaching and research interests comprise national representations and moments of re-foundation, and the redefinition of collective identity at various points in history as a result of the tensions between a group’s political self-concept and historical reality.
Darren Pacione’s recent work in the Law and Legal Studies Department at Carleton University involves considering how memory, history, and the law fall into interdisciplinary conversations in the contexts of political trials. His most recently published essay focused on judicial responses to Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) criminal trials, which resulted from acute episodes of political violence, particularly in Quebec during October 1970. In this paper, the political trials of the FLQ are used to show how principles of judicial independence and the separation of powers, which underlie the rule of law, are often strained in times of crisis.