ICSC Events 2008-9

In 2008-9, ICSC supported:

• “shrink-wrapped,” an art exhibition of responses to war in art by UBC graduate students in curatorial studies, Adel Abidin, Abbas Akhavan, A.S. Dhillon, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Gail Wight and Retort. December 6, 2008 – January 24, 2009;
• Play Chthonics, an on-going series of poetry readings by Canadian poets ranging from Dionne Brand to Karen Solie to Christian Bök;
• Queerly Canadian: Changing Narrative. This conference was held at UBC in June 2009.
• The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historial Principles
• The Vienna-Vancouver: Transatlantic Conversations Colloquium(October 2008)
• The Pacific Northwest Consortium Colloquium (July 2008)

Academic talks by:

• Laura Brandon (Canadian War Museum Curator) on “Double Exposure: Canada, War, Art, and Photography,”
• Jeanne Pfaelzer (University of Delaware) and Patricia Roy (University of Victoria) on “The Forgotten War Again Chinese North Americans,”
• Eve Hepburn (Edinburgh University) on “Territory and Politics: Region, Regionalism, and Party Politics in Canada and Europe”;