Panel Discussion: Public Intimacy

**Which visual, mental, or historical markers may help us to make the
distinction between public and private?**

In response to our ongoing exhibition, _Public Intimacy_ by Berlin-based
artists Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger, we will be hosting a panel
discussion with several artists and scholars from an array of fields,
including visual arts, literature, media, religious studies, advocacy, and
more. Moderated by Dr. Miranda Crowdus, Director of the Institute for Canadian
Jewish Studies at Concordia University, our guest panelists will untangle the
multivalent themes that are brought forward in _Public Intimacy_ , including
geopolitical and social movements, material practices, and much more.

**Admission is free.** Guests are invited to view _Public Intimacy_ following
the panel. (https://museemontrealjuif.ca/public-intimacy/)

Presented in partnership with Goethe-Institut Montréal and the Institute for
Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University. Presented with support by the
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Montreal and the Conseil
des arts de Montréal.

**OUR PANELISTS: **

**Heidi Barkun** is a chronically ill and disabled transdisciplinary artist
from Tiohtià:ke – Mooniyang – Montreal. She has a Master of Arts in Visual &
Media Arts and Feminist Studies (UQAM, 2020), a Bachelor of Fine Arts
(Concordia, 1999) and a Bachelor of Science (McGill, 1995). Her projects have
been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, and Conseil des arts et des
lettres du Québec. She is the 2020 laureate of the Claudine and Stephen
Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.

**Michael Blum** is an artist, author, and professor at the École des arts
visuels et médiatiques, UQAM, Canada. In his artistic work as well as his
writings, he deals with people, stories and places between everyday life and
politics. He is the author of Oranienstraße. Ausgrabungen. Eine Verschronik
(KLAK Verlag, Berlin, 2019) and Domaine Lilium, his first novel (Héliotrope,
Montréal, to be released March 2023).

**Miranda Crowdus** is an assistant professor at the Department of Religions
and Cultures and the director for the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies
and holds the Research Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies. Crowdus’ research
interests lie at the intersection of ethnomusicology and Jewish Studies. She
earned her doctorate at City University London in 2016. Prior to her move to
Canada, she spent five years in Hanover, Germany, as a research associate at
the European Centre for Jewish Music.

**Neal Santamaria **serves as the Quebec Regional Director for the Canadian
Race Relations Foundation. Neal holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology and
did doctoral studies in Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales in Paris. Prior to moving to Canada, Neal worked on immigration
issues in France and in the Dominican Republic. Neal worked as the Associate
Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) at
Concordia University.

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