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DESCRIPTION: \n\nPolicing the Night: Vice\, Power\, and the Making of Moder
 n Montreal. — Book talk by Matthieu Caron\n\nTuesday 17 March 2026\, 12:30
 -2pm\n\nArts Building\, Room 160. 853 Sherbrooke St W\, Montreal\n\nAccess
 ibility statement: Room 160 is accessible from Dawson Hall or Leacock buil
 ding. Enter via the Dawson Hall entrance and turn left. Or\, enter via the
  Leacock first floor entrance\, turn right and proceed through the ramp co
 nnected to the first floor of the Arts Building. \n\nSponsor: Nighttime De
 sign for/with Marginalized Communities\, RGDST / Lin Centre\, Moving Image
  Research Lab\, Peter Fu School of Architecture\n\nCapacity: Free and open
  to public. Space limited to 35 attendees. (No registration necessary).\n
 \nContact: nighttime-design.architecture [at] mcgill.ca\n\n \n\nDescriptio
 n: \n\nThis presentation offers a glimpse into Montreal After Dark\, a stu
 dy of how struggles over nightlife reshaped Montreal in the second half of
  the twentieth century. Moving from the city’s mid-century reputation for 
 cabarets and open vice to the reform campaigns that followed\, the talk tr
 aces how darkness became a political problem—and a political opportunity. 
 \n\nFocusing in particular on the ambitions of Mayor Jean Drapeau\, it exp
 lores how efforts to regulate sex\, alcohol\, and public space expanded mu
 nicipal authority and recast Montreal’s image in the lead-up to global mom
 ents such as Expo 67 and the 1976 Summer Olympics.\n\n \n\nDr. Matthieu Ca
 ron (Athabasca University)  is a historian of urban governance whose work 
 examines how cities are made—how municipal authorities use law\, policing\
 , and regulation to transform political visions into lived urban landscape
 s. He primarily focuses on the governance of public space\, tracing how ef
 forts to order sex\, consumption\, and the urban environment give material
  form to specific imaginations of safety\, morality\, and economic growth.
 \n\nHis first book\, Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pur
 suit of a Global City (2025)\, analyzes how efforts to position Montreal a
 s an international metropolis reshaped the governance of its streets at ni
 ght. Drawing on municipal archives\, court records\, and the press\, he sh
 ows how debates over nightlife became debates about order\, economy\, and 
 belonging — often resulting in expanded regulatory frameworks and increase
 d police funding. By situating nightlife within broader projects of urban 
 branding and economic development\, the book demonstrates how aspirations 
 to global-city status transformed Montrealers' relationship to the night.
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SUMMARY:RGDST: Matthieu Caron (Athabasca University) - Policing the Night: 
 Vice\, Power\, and the Making of Modern Montreal
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