24 Jan - 7 Mar 2013
Belkin 101: Esther Shalev-Gerz
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Shelly Rosenblum
Shelly Rosenblum is Curator of Academic Programs at the Belkin. Inaugurating this position at the Belkin, Rosenblum’s role is to develop programs that increase myriad forms of civic and academic engagement at UBC, the wider Vancouver community and beyond. Rosenblum received her PhD at Brown University and has taught at Brown, Wesleyan and UBC. Her awards include fellowships from the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University and a multi-year Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of English, UBC. She was selected for the Summer Leadership Institute of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (2014). Her research interests include issues in contemporary art and museum theory, discourses of the Black Atlantic, critical theory, narrative and performativity. Her teaching covers the 17th to the 21st centuries. She remains active in professional associations related to academic museums and cultural studies, attending international conferences and workshops, and recently completing two terms (six years) on the Board of Directors at the Western Front, Vancouver, including serving as Board President. At UBC, Rosenblum is an Affiliate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Esther Shalev-Gerz
Artist
Belkin 101 opens up a space for discussion relating to our current exhibition, Esther Shalev-Gerz. Please join Shelly Rosenblum, Curator of Academic Programs, for an informal reading group to discuss:
Discourses of Trauma in Visual Culture
All readings are readily available on the web or through the UBC Library system using your CWL; if you are having trouble sourcing any of the articles, email us at belkin.gallery@ubc.ca and we will send you the link.
Join us on Thursdays in January, February and March from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome and admission is always free.
| January 24 | Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History.”
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| January 31 | Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia.”
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| February 7 | Svetlana Boym, “Nostalgia and Its Discontents.”
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| February 14 | Exhibition tour with Naomi Sawada.
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| February 21 | Reading Week / no meeting.
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| February 28 | Shoshana Felman, “Education and Crisis, Or the Vicissitudes of Teaching.”
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| March 7 | Georges Didi-Huberman, “The ‘Blanc Soucis’ of Our History.”
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Image (above): Esther Shalev-Gerz, Between Listening and Telling: Last Witnesses, Auschwitz, 1945-2005, 2005, three-channel video. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Nora Rapp.
Conceived and Developed by Shelly Rosenblum
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Shelly Rosenblum
Shelly Rosenblum is Curator of Academic Programs at the Belkin. Inaugurating this position at the Belkin, Rosenblum’s role is to develop programs that increase myriad forms of civic and academic engagement at UBC, the wider Vancouver community and beyond. Rosenblum received her PhD at Brown University and has taught at Brown, Wesleyan and UBC. Her awards include fellowships from the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University and a multi-year Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of English, UBC. She was selected for the Summer Leadership Institute of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (2014). Her research interests include issues in contemporary art and museum theory, discourses of the Black Atlantic, critical theory, narrative and performativity. Her teaching covers the 17th to the 21st centuries. She remains active in professional associations related to academic museums and cultural studies, attending international conferences and workshops, and recently completing two terms (six years) on the Board of Directors at the Western Front, Vancouver, including serving as Board President. At UBC, Rosenblum is an Affiliate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Esther Shalev-Gerz
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