CUAG Lunchtime Lecture: Representation of collages as mediation for a fragmented story : a conversation on the media and the October Crisis

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Each semester, we showcase a Carleton faculty member whose academic interests complements one of our current exhibitions, and invite them to give a talk on their research.
Inspired by Dennis Tourbin’s series of paintings depicting the events of the October Crisis through newspaper clippings in Dennis Tourbin: The Language of Visual Poetry, this special Lunchtime Lecture will feature a conversation on the media and the October Crisis between Anne Trépanier (Assistant Professor in the School of Canadian Studies) and Darren Pacione (PhD candidate in the Law and Legal Studies Department).

Bring your lunch, the gallery will provide coffee and tea, and we’ll all learn something new!

Anne Trépanier is a tenured professor in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Her teaching and research interests comprise national representations and moments of re-foundation; redefinition of collective identity at various points in history as a result of the tensions between a group’s political self-concept and historical reality.

Darren’s recent work in the Law and Legal Studies Department involves considering how memory, history, and the law fall into interdisciplinary conversation with one another in the contexts of political trials. His most recently published essay focused on judicial responses to Front de Libération du Quebec (FLQ) criminal trials, which resulted from acute episodes of political violence, particularly in Quebec during October 1970. In this paper, the political trials of the FLQ are used to show how principles of judicial independence and the separation of powers, which underlie the rule of law, are often strained in times of crisis.