Immune Nations Panel Discussions: Registration Now Open!
September 29, 2021
As part of the <Immune Nations> exhibition, a series of online panel discussions will take place throughout the fall.
The panels will be hosted on Zoom, and include an audience Q&A. All panels are FREE and open to the public.
Pre-registration for these events is required and capacity is limited.
Register now using the links below!
Ensuring Equitable Access: Life-Saving Vaccines during COVID-19 and Beyond
Thursday, October 14, 2021
12:00—1:30pm ET
A panel exploring the global deployment and lack of access to life-saving vaccines.
Moderator:
Steven Hoffman, Director, Global Strategy Lab
Panelists:
Annemarie Hou, Appointed Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships
Alison Humphrey, Vanier Scholar, York University
Lauren Paremoer, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town
John-Arne Røttingen, Ambassador for Global Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
To learn more about the panelists and to register, click HERE.
Research-Creation and Global Crisis: Interdisciplinarity, Creativity, and Collaboration
Thursday, November 25, 2021
12:00—1:30pm ET
A panel investigating the role of research-creation in tackling pressing social and global problems.
Moderator:
Natalie Loveless, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, University of Alberta
Panelists:
Ted Hewitt, President of Social Sciences and Humanities, Research Council of Canada
Charu Kaushic, Scientific Director of the CIHR-Institute of Infection and Immunity, and Professor in the Department of Medicine, McMaster University
Caitlin Fisher, Professor, Director, Immersive Storytelling Lab, and Professor of Cinema and Media Arts, York University
Patrick Mahon, Artist, Curator, and Visual Arts Professor, Western University
Kim TallBear, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, and Professor of Native Studies, University of Alberta
To learn more about the panelists and to register, click HERE.
Vaccine Confidence, Fear, and Misinformation in an Age of COVID
Thursday, December 9, 2021
12:00—1:30 pm ET
A panel exploring the impact of misinformation on vaccination, as well as ways of countering the negative impacts of misinformation in relation to public health.
Moderator:
Sean Caulfield, Professor, University of Alberta
Panelists:
Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, University of Alberta
Dr. Rachelle Viader Knowles, Head of International for Arts and Humanities, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr. David Price, Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University
Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada
To learn more about the panelists and to register, click HERE.
<Immune Nations> is an evidence-based exhibition about the constructive role that art can play in public discourse around life-saving vaccines.
The project is the first multi-year research-based exhibition to specifically address the issue of vaccination from a collaborative, interdisciplinary perspective, attentive to the arts and its many roles for advocacy and political intervention. The outcome of a multi-year project that was developed prior to the pandemic (2014-2017), co-led by Natalie Loveless with Steven Hoffman and Sean Caulfield, the exhibition explores complex issues related to the use and distribution of vaccines in the world today and the capacity of artistic research to solicit complex forms of affective engagement when dealing with difficult and divisive social and political topics such as vaccination.
To visit, book an appointment.
View the virtual exhibition tour.
<Immune Nations> was funded with support from the Research Council of Norway and the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.
We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Nous remercions le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG) de son soutien.
Feature image: Kaisu Koski, Injection Simulator, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist.
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