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Conferences and Symposia
Next conferences
Half-Day Conference
- Friday, March 22, 2024, from 1 to 6 p.m.
Paid activity at the Museum + Free online | Reservation required
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.
Last conferences
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 is organizing a symposium devoted to these unique cultural objects, bringing together a dozen Indigenous, Quebecois, Canadian and international specialists.
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 symposium
2020 - 2023
- Half-Day Conference
March 2023
Learn more
2010 - 2019
- Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum Collections
November 2013
See the event page - From New France to the Province of Quebec (1754-1776)
September 2010
Download the program - Montreal Jewish Life: The Thirties and Forties
April 2010
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2003 - 2009
- Bodies on Display
November 2008
Download the program - The Golden Mountain: Canada and China, Interconnected
November 2007
Download the program - Images of Society, Variable Trajectories
September 2007
Download the program - Trading Places: Commerce and the Evolution of the City
November 2006
Download the program - Antoine Plamondon: The Full Portrait
November 2006
Download the program - The Abstract Edge
Robert Davidson and Contemporary Aboriginal Arts Practice
May 2006
Download the program - Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood
December 2005
Download the program - What’s for Dinner? The Daily Meal Through History
November 2005
Download the program - Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Child Health in the 20th Century
October 2004
Download the program - The Sixties – Style and Substance
November 2003
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