Public scholar: Felicity T.C. Hamer
Felicity T.C. Hamer
What role does the imagination play in remembrance?
Felicity Tsering Chödron Hamer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Studies. She has a background in photography (Dawson Institute of Photography DEC) and holds both a BFA and MA in Art History from Concordia University. She is a Montreal-born recording and performing vocalist, songwriter and mother of two.
Felicity explores the relationship between photography-based media and remembrance. Her doctoral research has been supported by scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC) and Concordia University. In 2020 she was awarded both Concordia’s Stand-Out Graduate Research Award and FRQSC’s Relève étoile Paul-Gerin-Lajoie Award for her book "Parental Grief and Photographic Remembrance: A Historical Account of Undying Love." Bingley: UK, Emerald Publishing.
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Felicity Hamer: Imaginative remembrance through photographic media
Felicity's blog posts
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Public Scholar Felicity T. C. Hamer reflects on the challenges and potential benefits of breaking through academic solitude and sharing your ideas. Read more -
Public Scholars Louis Lazure and Felicity T. C. Hamer explore the unique challenges of parenting through grad school. Read more -
Public Scholar Felicity T. C. Hamer considers the relationship between photographic portraits and memory, and their influence on her own personal and academic trajectory. Read more -
Public Scholar Felicity T. C. Hamer reflects on her experience with stage fright and shares her coping strategies. Read more -
Public Scholar Felicity T. C. Hamer stresses the importance of mini victories when working towards a larger goal. Read more
Recent activity
- June 21 - Op-Ed in the Gazette: Opinion: The pandemic may have changed funerals forever
- September 29 - The Conversation: Spirit photography: 19th-century innovation in bereavement rituals was likely invented by a woman
- October 23 - Featured in Le Devoir "Dans le cadre notre cahier Relève en recherche" : Le rôle des photographies dans le deuil
- October 26 - Article in The Conversation: Spirit photography captured love, loss and longing
- October 29 - Article in La Conversation: Photographie spirite : un rituel de deuil novateur du XIXᵉ siècle où les femmes ont joué un grand rôle
- November 12 - Spotlight story: Felicity T.C. Hamer explores remembrance through photography
- November 23 - Hauntography: a discussion of the remembered experience through absent photographs
- November 19 - Friday Reads: Friday Reads w/ Felicity Hamer: Keeper of the Hearth, edited by Odette England (2020)
- December 21 - Article in La Conversation: La photographie spirite capte à la fois l'amour, le deuil et la nostalgie