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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">THE CITY TALKS</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Spring 2024</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Museums in the City: Rethinking Colonial Urban Pasts</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organized by the UVic Committee for Urban Studies</span></em><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Civilizing the (Civic) Museum: Decolonial Work at the Museum of Vancouver</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Viviane Gosselin, Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of Vancouver<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For decades, marginalized communities, public intellectuals and academic scholars have called out museums for their role in reinforcing – wittingly or unwittingly – colonial
attitudes, racial and social inequality, environmental disconnect and excessive consumption. In response to these criticisms and accompanied by much soul searching, (many) museums are deliberately leveraging their power as cultural influencers to make space
for stories that challenge dominant narratives of progress and belonging (and not belonging). The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) has adopted models of co-creation and prioritizes community-led initiatives to pursue this goal. These practices support broader and
more inclusive ways of conceiving the city’s past, present and future. This presentation will draw on examples of work at MOV to discuss how valuing and representing diverse knowledge, histories and experiences of the city in the museum space can help build
more resilient communities.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Viviane Gosselin is the <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director of Collections & Exhibitions, and Curator of Contemporary Culture</span></em> at the Museum
of Vancouver. Her work on historical and environmental literacy seeks to make the museum a more responsive, empathetic, and democratic public space that prompts people to recognize their own capacity to effect positive social change. Viviane has led and co-curated
several exhibitions that have been recognized nationally and internationally. She has authored several articles on participatory museology and intercultural curation and is co-editor of
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness</span></em> (UBC Press). Viviane is currently involved in developing sustainable exhibition design practices with a team of city staff, architects and
designers committed to creating a no-waste city. Rather than talking about radical innovation, she prefers to focus on the power of small wins as a mean of furthering the social work of museums.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
Viviane is a member of the advisory group of the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Advisory Group for the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. Viviane earned her PhD at the University of British Columbia.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Run by the Committee for Urban Studies at the University of Victoria, The City Talks is a free public lecture series featuring distinguished scholars drawn from the University of Victoria,
across Canada, and beyond.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information, see</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2862c5"> <a href="https://citytalks.ca" title="https://citytalks.ca/" target="_blank">https://citytalks.ca</a><span class="m_-3490924656622122106apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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