Last month members of the Inuvialuit Living History Project team called in from Inuvik, Vancouver Island, and the Interior of BC to talk about our collaborative development of the Inuvialuit Living History website and our trip to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. This was a fun and productive opportunity for our team to have a […]
On September 14th, the symposium ‘On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community and Creative Practice’ took place at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in the Ames Theatre. I co-organized this with artist John Wynne (University of the Arts, London) and linguistic anthropologist Tyler Peterson (University of Arizona), and curator Karen Duffek (Museum of Anthropology, UBC). For […]
On January 31st, Claude Fortin presented a paper entitled “Between research traditions: negotiating an interdisciplinary research space for urban screens” at Euphoria and Dystopia 2013 at OCAD University. Claude Fortin and Kate Hennessy (2013). “Between research traditions: negotiating an interdisciplinary research space for urban screens”. Euphoria and Dystopia 2013, OCAD University, Toronto, Jan. 31, 2013. […]
On September 26th, 2012, I presented a paper at the UNESCO conference Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation. I was privileged to present my paper ‘Digital Heritage and Local Cultural Property Rights Discourse’ alongside very thought provoking academics and policy makers in a session titled ‘Intellectual property infrastructure initiatives for […]
I was honored to be asked to give a lecture on Sept 18th in the SFU Department of English’s Print Culture Speaker Series. I gave a talk called “Cultural Heritage on the Web: Applied Digital Visual Anthropology and Local Cultural Property Rights Discourse”, which draws on a forthcoming article to be published in the International […]
On April 10th, 2012, graduate and undergraduate students from my classes at SIAT “New Media and the Museum” (IAT888) and my Capstone Undergraduate Research group, will be presenting the results of their work conducted in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver over the last two semesters. Both classes have been doing research and applied projects […]
A paper titled “Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution’s MacFarlane Collection to “Inuvialuit Living History” that I co-authored with Ryan Wallace and Nicholas Jakobsen, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and Charles Arnold, from the University of Calgary, Canada, has just been published on the Museums and […]
Next week I will travel with my Inuvialuit Living History Project colleague and collaborator Mervin Joe to Washington D.C. to participate in an exciting workshop called “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge”. Organized by Kim Christen (Washington State U), Josh Bell (Smithsonian Institution), and Mark Turin (Cambridge and Yale), the […]
In November I presented a paper at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Montréal, QC. Our session was entitled “Digital Anthropology: Projects and Projections”, and was organized by Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This was an exciting session to be a part of, and included: Jason Jackson (Indiana), […]
On Friday, September 30th 2011 I presented a draft version of the Inuvialuit Living History virtual exhibit with Natasha Lyons (Ursus Heritage), Charles Arnold (U Calgary), and Stephen Loring (Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution) at the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) Mid-term conference, held at Simon Fraser University. Our presentation focused on the […]