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Conferences and Symposia

Upcoming symposia

Symposium – Costume Balls

March 20 and 21, 2025
The McCord Stewart Museum Team invites you to a two-day event bringing together a wide range of approaches to the unparalleled material and visual legacy featured in the exhibition Costume Balls: Dressing Up History, 1870-1927 The symposium will share new learning derived from the full spectrum of the process of creating the exhibition, from the slow curatorial process of identification and analysis of the extant garments and visual culture, through the subsequent rethinking of our objectives for conservation interventions through a series of talks*, exhibition tours and behind-the-scenes. 

Registration opens on February 4, 2025.  Detailed schedule coming soon.

*Presentations in French or in English (simultaneous translation online) 

Past symposia

McCord Stewart Discoveries

Half-Day Conference | Friday, March 22, 2024

The Museum’s experts present the research projects they’ve been working on and share their recent discoveries related to the Museum’s collections and archives.
The event is geared towards an academic audience as well as anyone interested in history and archives, museum studies, or material culture.

International Symposium – Around Wampum: Histories and Perspectives

Wednesday, February 22 and Friday, February 23, 2024
Capitalizing on the unprecedented interest generated by Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy, the Museum organized a symposium devoted to these unique cultural objects, bringing together a dozen Indigenous, Quebecois, Canadian and international specialists. 

Detailed programming: Around Wampum: Histories and Perspectives

  • Watch day 1
    This recording includes the talks and the three panels from February 22, 2024.
  • Watch day 2
    This recording includes the talks and the three panels from February 23, 2024.

Past conferences, colloquia and symposia

2020 - 2023

  • McCord Stewart Discoveries | Half-Day Conference
    March 2023

    • Wampum Belts at the McCord Stewart Museum: History, Meaning, Identification
    • Weaving Art into Function: Northern Northwest Coast Basketry
    • The Photographer’s Vacation: Brian Merrett’s Europe 72 Series
    • Women’s Tailoring in Montreal in the Late 19th Century

Watch the conference recording

 

2010 - 2019

2003 - 2009

 

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