BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251112T180932EST-3161IMUtTR@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251112T230932Z DESCRIPTION:\n The Department of Art History and Communication Studies 2021- 22 Speaker Series Presents:\n\n  \n\n PhD Careers Beyond the University: A R oundtable\n\n 28 October 2021\, 16:00-17:30 Montreal time\, online\n\n  \n\n Featuring:\n\n  \n\n Lalai Manjikian\, Instructor\, Vanier College\n\n  \n\n O wen Martin\, Director and Chief Curator\, Norval Foundation\n\n  \n\n Emily Raine\, Lead Copywriter\, Unity Technologies\n\n  \n Tamar Tembeck\, Artisti c Director\, OBORO\n\n  \n\n Moderated by Jonathan Sterne\, Professor\, AHCS .\n\n  \n\n Register at: https://bit.ly/3mgGPSE\n\n  \n\n --\n\n  \n\n Lalai Man jikian is a Humanities professor at Vanier College in Montreal\, Quebec. A s an educator\, researcher\, community volunteer\, writer\, and an advocat e of social justice\, Lalai brings a multi-disciplinary and dynamic approa ch to the classroom\, to social causes\, to her research and writing. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of immigration and refuge e studies\, media representations of migration\, migrant narratives\, and diaspora studies. She has long been passionate about the reasons people cr oss borders and how they adapt to their new realities\, while remaining co nnected to their roots. Collecting\, documenting\, and analyzing migrant a nd refugee narratives are a significant part of her research. She also ser ves as a board member for the Foundation for Genocide Education. www.lalai manjikian.com\n\n  \n\n Owen Martin is the Director and Chief Curator of Nor val Foundation (Cape Town)\, where he has organised major exhibitions of M ichael Armitage\, Wim Botha\, Lisa Reihana\, and Ibrahim Mahama\, as well as co-curated exhibitions of William Kentridge\, Zanele Muholi and Yinka S honibare\, among others. Accompanying Kentridge’s exhibition\, he edited a corresponding 360-page catalogue raisonné of Kentridge’s sculptural pract ice that has been distributed by Koenig internationally. Martin serves as Trustee of the Gerard Sekoto Foundation. From 2015 to 2017 he was Registra r and Curator of Moving Image at Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town\, South Africa). P rior to that\, he worked with the British Council (London\, UK)\, Zeitz Co llection (Segera\, Kenya and Cape Town\, South Africa)\, PUMA.Creative (He rzogenaurach\, Germany)\, and the H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City\, USA). Martin holds a Master of Arts in Art History from ɬÀï·¬ (Montr eal\, Canada) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in both Art History and Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City\, USA).\n\n  \n\n Emily Rai ne is a writer\, editor\, creative project helper\, and lapsed academic. S he worked as a journalist while completing her MA and PhD in Communication Studies at ɬÀï·¬\, then co-founded Cult MTL\, where she was also the art s and culture editor. Emily joined Moment Factory as a creative concept wr iter\, where she worked on experience design and scriptwriting. She curren tly leads a writing team and manages editorial projects for Unity\, a real -time 3D engine-maker.\n\n  \n\n Tamar Tembeck is an art historian\, curator and writer. Her research engages with visual cultures of illness and medi cine\, hospital art practices\, as well as performance and media studies. She holds a PhD in Art History from ɬÀï·¬ and has a profession al background in the performing arts and physical theatre. She is currentl y the artistic director of the artist-run centre OBORO in Montreal. www.te mbeck.org\n\n\n \n\n\n Jonathan Sterne is a professor and author\, most rec ently\, of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment. He has also written widely on the politics of academic labour. He maintain s a set of professionalization resources at sterneworks.org/Academe. \n\n DTSTART:20211028T200000Z DTEND:20211028T213000Z SUMMARY:PhD Careers Beyond the University: A Roundtable URL:/ahcs/channels/event/phd-careers-beyond-university -roundtable-333886 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR