RESEARCH-CREATION
Paul Carvalho and Aliki Economides. Une Tour sur la Montagne : l’architecture d’Ernest Cormier et sa vie avec Clorinthe Perron [A Tower on the Mountain: the architecture of Ernest Cormier and his life with Clorinthe Perron]. Directed by Paul Carvalho. Montréal: Perception Films Inc. for ICI Radio-Canada Télé, 2020. DVD (52 mins).
The original French version with English subtitles may be viewed on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/694534097
The original French version on Radio-Canada's DocHumanité site: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/doc-humanite/site/episodes/519907/ernest-cormier-clorinthe-perron
SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
V Congreso Internacional – Cultura y Ciudad: Comida y Arquitectura [Food and Architecture International Conference], Granada, Spain (June 2025)
Conference Paper (with Michael Sirois): “Cultivating Resilience in the Territory of Greater Sudbury, Canada”
Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) 50th Annual Conference, Ottawa (May 2025)
Session Chair: “Contested Ground(s)”
Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) 50th Annual Conference, Ottawa (May 2025)
Conference Paper: “Architectures of Jurisprudence: Imperial Imperatives, Ornamental Skins, and the Tenacity of Precedent”
Ontario Association of Architecture Annual Conference, Sudbury (June 2023)
Continuing Education Session Chair: "MSoA M.Arch Thesis Work: Toward a Healthier Sudbury”
Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) 48th Annual Conference, Calgary, AB (June 2023)
Session Chair: "Cast in (an undesirable) place: socio-spatial inequalities in the built environment"
Film screening + Round Table discussion "A Tower on the Mountain: Interwar Montréal through the lens of Ernest Cormier’s life and work" [virtual - film and discussion in French] (February 2023)
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference [virtual] (April 2021)
Session Chair: “Open Session”
109th Annual Meeting Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) [virtual] (March 2021)
Session Moderator: “Design Process and Methods”
Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM/CIRM), Université McGill [virtual] (March 2021)
Moderator: “Labo F M-R – Patrimoine” [in French]
Third Age Learning - Guelph [virtual] (March 2021)
Invited Lecture: “The Mountain, the Monument, and the Muse”
McEwen School of Architecture Public Lecture Series (January 2020)
Round table discussion panelist: "Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present"
Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), Québec City, QC (October 2019)
Conference Paper (with Kate Morawietz): “Engagements with the Matter of the Berlin Wall”
Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM/CIRM), Université McGill (June 2019)
Speaker-panelist for: "Conférence-Expérience Émouvoir : Aménager – Expérience et Innovation d’un Quartier"
European Association for Urban History (EAUH) International Conference, Rome, Italy (August 2018)
Session Chair: "Cosmopolitanism, Citizenship, and the City (19th to 21st centuries)"
71st Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), St Paul, Minnesota, USA (April 2018)
Conference Paper: “Skin, or, the Enveloping Tactics of Architectural Ornament”
The Wave: Re-imagining the Constitution | La vague : ré-imaginons la constitution
An interdisciplinary colloquium organized by the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada that took place simultaneously in Halifax, Montréal, London, Winnipeg, and Vancouver on October 28, 2017.
Moderator for "world café" format conversations on: "Citizenship and Cultural Diversity" [in French]
Colloque sur le patrimoine immobilier judiciaire [Colloquium on Judicial Built Heritage], Montréal (May 2017)
Conference Paper : "Ernest Cormier et l’édifice qui porte son nom"
85e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas), Montréal (May 2017)
Conference Paper : "L’Autoroute Ville-Marie: entre vision monumentale et exclusion socio-spatiale"
105th College Art Association Annual Conference (CAA), New York (February 2017)
Conference Paper: “The House, the Self, and the ‘Total Work of Art’ ”
13th International Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH), Helsinki, Finland (August 2016)
Conference Paper: “New York City, World Capital”
University of Edinburgh, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), Edinburgh, Scotland (October 2015)
Public Lecture: “On Collective Identity and its Edification”
Buell Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University, New York (May 2015)
Conference Paper: “America is also française: building the Université de Montréal, constructing French-Canadian nationalism”
IDEA@UdeM: International Doctoral Encounters in Architecture @ Université de Montréal Colloquium, Université de Montréal, École d’architecture, Montréal (May 2013)
Opening Keynote: “The Current State and Stakes of the Question of Ornament”
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Member, Greater Sudbury Food Policy Council
