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