Podcast
Looking at the Past
Hosted by Erin Morton · EN
Podcast for History 1715 Visual Culture: Looking at the Past at the University of New Brunswick with Dr. Erin Morton.
10episodes
Episodes
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Episode 13 “This Work Is Not for You”: Two-Spirit Kinship
Mar 24, 202100:19:08Tap to summarizeLooks at Dayna Danger’s photography series Big’Uns with the scholarship and activism of Jas M. Morgan, and their 2017 “Kinship” issue of Canadian Art magazine.
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Episode 12 - Inuit Filmmaking and Food Sovereignty
Mar 24, 202100:16:50Tap to summarizeExamines the concept of northern food sovereignty in relation to Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s 2016 film “Angry Inuk.”
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Episode 11 - Orientalism, Art, Imperialism
Mar 24, 202100:16:49Tap to summarizeCovers the work of Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, his concept of Orientalism, and European art and literature’s invention of “the Orient.”
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Episode 10 - Photography, Film, and the “Tourist Gaze”
Mar 22, 202100:16:43Tap to summarizeWorking with John Urry’s concept of the “tourist gaze” (1990) to understand the documentary work of Dennis O’Rourke and his 1988 film “Cannibal Tours.”
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Episode 9 - Asian Canadian Art Matters
Mar 15, 202100:16:37Tap to summarizeExplores the work of art historian Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim and her Ethnocultural Art Histories research group at Concordia University, pertaining to histories of Asian art and Asian diaspora in Canada.
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Episode 8 - Colonial Canadian Art History and the “Order of Terror”
Mar 8, 202100:16:26Tap to summarizeSurveying the colonial foundations of Canadian Art History using the work of Welastekwewiyik historian Andrea Bear Nicholas and her award-winning article in the Journal of Canadian Studies (2015).
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Episode 7 - On Disability and “Cripping” the Arts
Feb 22, 202100:16:14Tap to summarizeDraws on Christinina Myers’s recent article in Canadian Art magazine, on a symposium entitled “Cripping the Arts” (Toronto 2019) in relation to Canada’s Bill C-81.
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Episode 6 - Claiming “Bad Kin”
Feb 22, 202100:13:29Tap to summarizeThis week we work with Dr. Alexis Shotwell’s concept of white settlers claiming “bad kin” under settler colonialism, in relation to Dr. Sheelah McLean’s concepts of white meritocracy from her article “We built a life from nothing.”
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Episode 5 - Black Fungibility and “Seeing” Enslavement
Feb 8, 202100:16:47Tap to summarizeUses work by Black scholars Saidiya Hartman, Tiffany Lethabo King, and Robyn Maynard to examine the visual culture of enslavement.
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Episode 4 - “How to Steal a Canoe” and Anti-Indigenous Cultural Violence
Feb 1, 202100:16:55Tap to summarizeDiscusses Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s 2016 animated short, directed by Amanda Strong, in the context of the Canadian government’s 1884 potlatch ban and Audra Simpson’s concept of settler statecraft.
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