Roundtable – “The importance of the improbable”
Channel: Laboratoire CinéMédias
Date: 23/02/2022

KILLAM INITIATIVE ON RHYTHM
https://killam-initiative.ca/

UdeM's intersectoral meetings on rhythm, designed jointly by the CinéMédias Laboratory and the Vice-Rector's Office for Research, Discovery, Creation and Innovation, offer multiple highlights where the winners of the 2018 Killam Prize, major institutional players, researchers, students and the general public can exchange and broaden their visions on this fundamental theme in an unprecedented way. Major conferences by the five laureates, round tables, poster sessions, film screenings, opening cocktails are just some of the events that punctuate these days. This formula thus offers opportunities to discuss in a formal or more intimate way the major methodological and structural issues in terms of research, pedagogy and funding that intersectorality represents, in all its relevance and difficulties.

DESCRIPTION

André Gaudreault, Vladimir Hachinski, Walter Herzog and Janet Werker recount the unlikely origin of the collaboration that led them to win the Killam Prize in 2018. Amongst other things, they talk about their interest in rhythm, the place held by improbability in their profession and the advice they received throughout their careers. Then, this roundtable focuses on the laureates’ personal experiences with funding agencies and academic institutions as these organizations are facing challenges such as over-specialization in knowledge production and overemphasis on dominant paradigms in many fields. The laureates highlight that a good way to create environments of “comfortable improbability” for the next generation of students would be by allowing researchers to move across disciplines.

DATE: December 5th, 2019
Second Intersectoral Meetings on Rhythm Hosted by Université de Montréal : Sources of Rhythm

PARTICIPANTS 

André Gaudreault
Vladimir Hachinski
Walter Herzog
Janet Werker
Marie-Josée Hébert (moderator)