Annual Faculty Research Symposium
The Faculty Research Symposium is an interdisciplinary research event; it showcases the research of faculty, adjunct faculty, and sessionals across campus. We choose a broad general theme that will bring together scholars from different disciplines on and off campus. We regularly include guest lecturers via the ORION Lecture Series.
Past Symposiums
Past Symposiums
2012 - 8th Faculty Research Symposium
September 2012
Acts of Intervention: The Arts and Social Change
with ORION Keynote Speakers: Luigi Ferrara & John O'Brian
Organizer(s):
Dr. Erin Campbell
Dr. Carolyn Butler Palmer
Luigi Ferrara
MRAIC, B. Arch., OAA, Hon. ACID O, Senator ICSID
Director, School of Design and the Institute without Boundaries
George Brown College
Learning to Change: A Change Lab in Action
Luigi Ferrara is the Director of the School of Design and the Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College in Canada. His previous accomplishments include Executive Board Member for the International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) from 1997-2003, and then as President in 2003-05, after which he assumed the role of an ICSID Senator. Prior to his time at ICSID, Luigi was the President and CEO of DXNet Inc. between 1999-2002, Founding Director of the Architectural Literacy Forum (ALF) and Honorary Member of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACID O). In addition to his roles as architect, designer, entrepreneur, educator and lecturer, Luigi is a Registered Architect with seal (member of the Ontario Association of Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada). He has curated exhibitions and authored books and catalogues.
Dr. John O’Brian 
PhD (Harvard University)
Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
University of British Columbia
Nuclear Invisibilities: The Man with the Bag on his Head
While finishing his Ph.D. at Harvard, John O’Brian joined the University of British Columbia in 1987. At UBC he is Professor of Art History and Faculty Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He has published extensively on modern art history, theory and criticism, particularly on the institutionalization of modernism in North America, producing more than a dozen books and sixty articles. In 2008, he became the Brenda & David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies for a three-year period. During his tenure, he explored the engagement of photography with the atomic era in Canada. The research forms part of a larger project on nuclear photography in North America and Japan, called “Camera Atomica,” which is being supported by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada. “Camera Atomica” is also the name of an exhibition he is preparing for the Art Gallery of Ontario. A related book, Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War (Intellect Books), co-authored with Jeremy Borsos, was published in 2011.
2011 - 7th Faculty Research Symposium
November 2011
Imaging/Creating/Meaning
with ORION Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christy Anderson
Organizer:
Dr. Catherine Harding
2010 - 5th & 6th Faculty Research Symposium
October 2010
Text & Image
Organizer:
Dr. Marcus Milwright
March 2010
Cultural Fusions/Cultural Fissures
Organizer(s):
Dr. Allan Antliff
Dr. Carolyn Bulter Palmer
2008 - 4th Faculty Researsh Symposium
October 2008
Figure(s) & Focus: The Body Sacred & Secular
Organizer:
2007 - 3rd Faculty Research Symposium
September 2007
Encounters
Organizer:
2005 - 2nd Faculty Research Symposium
March 2005
Art on the Margins
Organizer(s):
Dr. Allan Antliff
Dr. Marcus Milwright
2004 - 1st Faculty Research Symposium
January 2004
Space and Spatiality
Organizer:
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