un-histories: art and the unconcluded is the 2018 CADN graduate student conference held annually at OCAD University Within the term “history” lies a conceptual confinement—the presumption that the topics being written about remain consigned to the past. This conference seeks to counter history’s containment and to foreground its continuing relevance in the present. Through the notion of “un-histories,” conventional limits can be unsettled by prompting critical inquiries into how history functions: by re-organizing the composition of the past, by re-constructing methods of transmitting narratives, and by destabilizing the seeming linearity of events. Un-histories reimagine history as a practice for addressing the “unconcluded”—subjectivities and narratives previously considered spectral, disparaged, marginalized, erased, shamed, abashed, or localized. |
Made possible by:
Office of Graduate Studies The President's Office Faculty of Art Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies |
OCAD University
100 McCaul Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada OCADU is an accessible venue [email protected] |