Continuing our previous Lunchtime Lecture series, with a twist: Carleton academics Dr. Emilie Cameron and Rana Abughannam will be speaking about their current research in relation to the exhibitions at CUAG. Hear two separate talks and then join the discussion to bring out convergences across new and exciting research in order create a conversation between the exhibitions.

Dr. Emilie Cameron will be reflecting on the anti-colonial critique in the work of Alootook Ipellie in Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border, and how this intersected with broader anti-colonial and northern Indigenous self-determination movements beginning in the 1970s. She will also reflect on audience and the different ways in which Inuit claims, knowledges and movements have been legible (and not) to Qallunaat.

In Here Be Dragons, Gisele Amantea’s site specific installation questions the political efficacy of photography from conflict zones, but more specifically the steady stream of images from the Syrian Civil War. For her talk, Rana Abughannam will discuss the primacy of the image and of the destructed object over human narrative, arguing that documentation of conflict zones has become purely focused on the physical objects, which limits the process of reconstruction and recovery, falling short to recognize human agency and the role of the witnesses impacted by the events in re-building the city.

What can occur when two scholars explore unexpected intersections between their research? Join us to find out! Coffee and tea will be provided.

Rana Abughannam began her PhD studies at Carleton University’s School of Architecture and Urbanism in 2017. Prior to joining Carleton, Rana taught at the Canadian University Dubai as a visiting lecturer at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and an adjunct lecturer at the School of Architecture and Interior Design. Her research interests revolve around architecture in relation to memory, meaning and identity while focusing on the conflict condition.

Emilie Cameron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. She studies past and present resource extraction in Nunavut and its articulation with processes of colonization, Inuit self-determination movements, and capital accumulation, as well as the politics of knowledge production in the Canadian Arctic.

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