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Cécile Pelaudeix

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Cécile PELAUDEIX

Art historian

Associate Researcher, CHAHR, University Paris X, Nanterre
(Centre for Researches in Art History and History of Representations)
• Member of the International Group of Research
“Anthropology and History of Arts”, Paris
• Member of the Expert Committee, Cercle Polaire, Paris
Member of the Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Grenoble
Member of the Native American Artists Studies Association
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Art history and anthropology, encyclopaedic museums and globalization, culture and geopolitics of the Arctic, Historiography of Native art, art theory and interpretation

 
• EDUCATION - QUALIFICATIONS
2005-06
Post-doctorate, Art History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
French National Council of Universities, qualifications: Section 22  (History of Contemporary World and Art)
French National Council of Universities, qualification in Section 18 (Aesthetics and Architecture)
2005
Ph.D., Art History, Université Laval, Canada, 2005. With the highest honours.
2004
Ph.D., Art History, University of Grenoble, France, 2004. With the highest honours
 
LANGUAGES: French (native language), English, Spanish
 
• SCHOLARSHIPS - GRANTS
Yulgilbar Foundation, Melbourne, 2008.
Université Laval (Council of the Department of History, Québec), 2004
Centre Jacques Cartier, Lyon, 2003
French Ministry of Research, Paris, 2001.
Région Rhône-Alpes (Bourse Eurodoc), (postgraduate scholarship), 2001.
 
• RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Book
Art inuit : Formes de l’âme et représentation de l’être. Histoire de l’art et anthropologie
(Inuit Art: Shapes of Soul and Representation of the Being, Art History and Anthropology), Grenoble, Editions de Pise, 2007.
Chapters
"Contemporaneity in Inuit Art Through the XXth and Early XXIst Centuries", in Jaynie Anderson (ed.), Crossing cultures, Conflict, Migration, Convergence, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2009, pp. 952-956.
"Culture de l’Arctique, identité nationale et enjeux circumpolaires du Canada" ("Arctic Culture, National Identity and Canadian Circumpolar Issues") in La société canadienne en débats. What Holds Canada Together?,
A. Faure and R. Griffiths (ed.), Paris, L’Harmattan, 2008, pp. 161-176.

"La démarche anthropologique d’Aby Warburg et l’étude de l’art de l’Arctique" (Aby Warburg’s Anthropological Approach and the Study of the Art of the Arctic”), Histoire de l’art et anthropologie, INHA, Musée du Quai Branly, 2009. In process.
Articles
"Imaginaire boréal et art de l’Arctique" ("Boreal Imagination and the Art of the Arctic"), Revue des Deux Mondes, special issue on Northern Identity, pp.140-147, Juillet-Août 2009.
"4000 ans d’art en Arctique" ("4000 years of Arctic art"), Le nouvelliste, Fondation Gianadda,
n°16 June to 23 Nov 2008, p. 45.

 
• SCIENTIFIC RADIO BROADCAST
France Inter, National Broadcast, La tête au carré.
Mathieu Vidard’s guest, “Art and Inuit Imaginary” 26 October 2007 Link
 
• TEACHING (CONFERENCES) - ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS

EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris.
Co-direction of the workshop:
Context, Art and Truth, Postgraduate students and PhD candidates, 6-7 June 2007
EHESS, Paris
“Western Myths of the Origin of Art in Inuit Art Historiography”,
Postgraduate students, February 2006
SCIENCES PO, Institute of Political Studies, Grenoble.
“Arctic Culture, National Identity and Canadian Circumpolar Issues”, Postgraduate students, 2005, 2006.

 
• LECTURES (SELECTED)
MELBOURNE, CIHA
"Contemporaneity and Remote Arts : the Case of Inuit art", XXXIInd Congress of the CIHA, Crossing Cultures, Conflict, Migration, Convergence, 13-18 January 2008.
ALASKA, FAIRBANKS
"Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo Art of Canada (Musée de l’Homme, 1969): French Modernism and its Legacy",
Native American Arts Studies Association, Art and Survival in Changing Worlds, Fairbanks, Alaska, 26-30 September 2007.

ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE D’ART (High school of Art), Aix-en-Provence –
"Art and Inuit Imaginary: Between Art History and Anthropology", Undergraduate and Postgraduate students,
12 November 2007.
PARIS, MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY
"A contribution of Warburg’s iconology to the study of Remote Arts : Inuit Art and Shapes of Soul",
International Symposium Art History and Anthropology, Musée du quai Branly, 21-23 juin, 2007.
 
• MUSEUM EMPLOYMENT AND CONSULTANCY, CURATORSHIP

Scientific Curator, exhibition ARCTIC 21, Maison des Jeux Olympiques, Albertville, France, 2009-2010.
Member of the scientific committee of an exhibition of Inuit and Aboriginal arts, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, 2009- 201.
Conference, “Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo Art of Canada (Musée de l’Homme, 1969): French Modernism and its Legacy”, Native American Arts Studies Association, Art and Survival in Changing Worlds, Fairbanks, Alaska, 26-30 September 2007.
Conference: “Western Myths of Origin of Art and Inuit Graphic Art of the XXe century”, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, 2005.
Conference: “Non-Western Art and the Paradoxes of Modernity”,
Museum of Natural History (now Musée des Confluences), Lyon, 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the exhibition Inuit,
(Museum d’Histoire Naturelle of Lyon, Musée de l’Homme, Paris), 2002
.
Collaboration to the writing of the synopsis of the exhibition Inuit of the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Lyon, France, 2002.
Expert’s report: Territoire et Identité à travers la création inuit contemporaine du Canada (Territory and Identity through the Inuit Contemporary Creation of Canada) for the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle of Lyon (now Musée des Confluences), 2001.

 
• FIELDWORK
Baffin Island. Communities of Broughton Island, Pangnirtung, Iqaluit, Cape Dorset, and Remote islets. Crossing of the Cumberland Peninsula
 
• INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Violin player
Literature
Expeditions: Ascents of Mount Everest South summit (8760 m.), Mount Mc Kinley (6200 m.), Alaska