Context and Meaning XXIV
FULL SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 1, 2025
9 AM to 4:35 PM
Botterell Hall Room B139, Queen’s University
18 Stuart St, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. EST ➝ Opening Remarks & Land Acknowledgement
9:20 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. EST ➝ Panel 1: Conserving & Preserving
Panel Chair: Dr. Patricia Smithen
Johannah Lamond-Hallett - Embracing Variability: preserving the continuity of live performance
Sonia Gaiess - Unknown Hazards: South Pacific Tools and Weaponry
Joonsoo Park - Preserving and Transforming Beginnings: Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape
10:20 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. EST ➝ Break
10:35 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. EST ➝ Panel 2: Objects in Transformation
Panel Chair: Dr. Antonia Behan
Jackie Mack - Breaking in Porcelain: Rethinking the Early Sino-Portuguese Trade in Blue and White Ware
Tenesha Carter Johnson - The New Blues: George Washington Carver at the Intersection of Art & Science
Bella Jacobs - New Beginnings: The Transformation of Mughal Gems and Jewelry
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. EST ➝ Lunch
12:50 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. EST ➝ Keynote - Dr. Sarah Parsons, York University
1:50 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. EST ➝ Break
2:10 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. EST ➝ Panel 3: The Lens & Rewriting Time
Panel Chair: Dr. Jen Kennedy
Jennifer O'Connor - A Lifetime of Ground to Cover: Photography and Temporalities of Alterity
Sarah Lynne Roberts - Mujeres Oscuras: Archival Memory and Women in Spain’s Silent Cinema
Yuta Shimoyama - Gymnastics for Fascism: New Objectivity in Japanese Photography and Poetry in the 1930s
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST ➝ Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. EST ➝ Panel 4: Women & Carriers of the Divine
Panel Chair: Dr. Fannie Caron-Roy
SOJI Oni Akinsoji Francis - Containers of the Divine: Yoruba Deities in Art, Ritual, and Gender Roles
Ariel Lacombe - Dressing the Divine: Analysing Renaissance Dressing Rituals within Religious Ceremonial Frameworks.
4:15 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. EST ➝ Closing Remarks