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SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Malcom Ferdinand: Loving Ourselves the Earth: Undoing the Colonial Inhabitation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series!\nThis new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics from Caribbean narratives and environmental justice and history to the intersections of colonialism and ecology. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nThe pesticide contamination of the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe has become known as one of the most important environmental scandals of the current French Republic. The historic use of the chlordecone (or Kepone) in particular has caused significant damage to both human and non-human while no one has been held accountable. Based on 15 years of interdisciplinary research as well as a sustained political involvement in the case\, Dr Malcom Ferdinand will present a radical narrative of that scandal\, one that moves away from the technicist perspectives of the French government and many scientists. Loving Ourselves the Earth: Undoing the Colonial Inhabitation\, his recently published book (Seuil 2024)\, tells the story of an ongoing decolonial resistance and\, with a poetic gesture\, offers a conceptual proposition for inhabiting the Earth and engaging the world in the ruins of modern colonization. \n  \nABOUT MALCOM FERDINAND: \nMalcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London and doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He is currently researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). At the crossroads of political philosophy\, postcolonial theory and political ecology\, his research focuses on the Black Atlantic and particularly the Caribbean. He explores the relations between current ecological crises and the colonial history of modernity. His work has been featured in numerous academic journals and includes the award winning book Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (Seuil\, 2019 & Polity\, 2021). He recently published a comprehensive study on the pesticides contamination of Martinique and Guadeloupe in a book called S’aimer la Terre: défaire l’habiter colonial (Seuil\, 2024). \n  \n  \n🗓: April 11\, 2025 |3:30-5:30 PM\n📍: Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot here \n  \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n           
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-malcolm-ferdinand-loving-ourselves-the-earth-undoing-the-colonial-inhabitation/
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Oral History in the Ruins of Industry
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media & Materiality Cluster for the second-to-last talk in our series of public talks and discussions on recent media history. In this presentation\, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia\, Steven High\, will reflect on how visual approaches have shaped his oral history practice over the past 35 years. Focusing on his ongoing research into the structural violence of deindustrialization\, High will explore the profound impact on working-class communities since the 1970s\, and how industrial ruins are often aestheticized during gentrification. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSteven High is an award-winning historian whose research on the structural violence of deindustrialization has put Canada at the centre of important global conversations about what a “just transition” might look like after past failures. His use of oral history ensures that his interpretation is grounded in the lives of working people. He has published many books and articles on this topic\, including Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race\, Residence and Class (2022) and Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (2003). His next book\, The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class\, to be released in February 2025\, considers how social democrats responded to the unfolding industrial crisis. He is currently leading a large transnational project investigating the politics of deindustrialization (see the website: deindustrialization.org). \n  \n🗓: February 14\, 2025\n🕒: 3 – 4:30 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 Register here
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/visualizing-oral-history-in-the-ruins-of-industry/
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SUMMARY:Fourth Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Join us Monday\, December 2\, 2024 for the 4th Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture. Hosted by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en humanités numériques (CRIHN) this conference will feature a keynote delivered by Dr. Isabel Pedersen.  \nEntitled “Create Me\, Break Me\, Remember Me: Art and AI in an Age of Reinvention” this talk will focus on embodied computing\, algorithmic culture\, augmented reality\, emergent media\, and AI ethics. \nThe talk will be followed by a round-table chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell with three graduate students. \n  \nABOUT ISABEL PEDERSEN: \nDr. Isabel Pedersen\, Professor of Communication Studies\, is an expert in the field of emergent embodied technologies. She is the founding Director of the Digital Life Institute (www.digitallife.org) at Ontario Tech University. She investigates emergent and future digital technologies. She concentrates on social\, ethical\, and cultural implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, social implications of extended reality (XR)\, AI ethics\, standards\, and policy related to AI technologies. As an entrepreneur and co-owner\, she has built and sold two successful software start-up companies. \n  \n  \nABOUT GEOFFREY ROCKWELL: \nDr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta\, Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College\, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and worked at the University of Toronto as a Senior Instructional Technology Specialist. From 1994 to 2008 he was at McMaster University where he was the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre (1994 – 2004) and he led the development of an undergraduate Multimedia program funded through the Ontario Access To Opportunities Program. He has published and presented papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and ethics\, philosophical dialogue\, textual visualization and analysis\, humanities computing\, instructional technology\, computer games and multimedia. He was the project leader for the CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) funded project TAPoR\, a Text Analysis Portal for Research\, which has developed a text tool discovery portal at tapor.ca. He has published a book Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet with Humanity Books and a book titled Hermeneutica (with Stéfan Sinclair) with MIT Press. This book is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant\, an award winning suite of analytical tools. \n  \n📅: December 2\, 2024 | 9-11 AM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room | EV 11. 705 \n🌐 The event will be streamed here ( advance registration required) \n 
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SUMMARY:Alternative Medicine and Infernal Alternatives: On the Modern Fear of Being Duped
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 3rd for a captivating lecture about of complexities of alternative medicine where belief and skepticism often clash. This discussion invites us to critically examines the implications of alternative therapeutic practices and explore the consequences of navigating a world filled with misinformation and inadequate knowledge. \n\nABOUT THE EVENT: \n\nWhen it comes to alternative medicine\, we are called upon to make clear decisions: Either you believe (in them)\, or you know (better). Either you adhere to evidence-based science or you let yourself be seduced by the mere placebo effects of quackery. This talk starts from the hypothesis that such alternatives must be taken for what they are: infernal\, in the sense that they are all too often unable to inform good practices. Going back to the debates around charlatanism in the USA around the end of the 19th century\, Solhdju will re-examine legal efforts to restrict therapeutic practices to those holding medical degrees\, focusing especially on testimony provided by the psychologist and philosopher\, William James. Following in James’ footsteps\, Katrin Solhdju will explore some of the contexts in which the “horror of being duped” is able\, not only to produce ignorance\, inaccurate knowledge\, or inadequate therapeutic practices but worse\, to generate a “thinning out” of reality itself. The question then is the following: What might the antidote to this multilayered modernist nightmare look like and what might it be made of? \n  \n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n\n\nKatrin Solhdju is a Senior Researcher at the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) and a professor at the Institute for Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mons in Belgium. She is a member of the Groupe d’études constructivistes (GeCo) at Université Libre de Bruxelles\, as well as a co-founder of the collective Dingdingdong. Institute for the co-production of knowledge on Huntington’s Disease. She is the author of two monographs: Testing Knowledge. Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis (2021) and Selbstexperimente. Die Suche nach der Innenperspektive und ihre epistemologischen Folgen (2011). \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Concordia’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC)\, the Media History Research Centre\, the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology\, and McGill University’s Department of Social Studies of Medicine. \n  \n\n: October 3\, 2024 \n: Speculative Life Cluster Research EV 10.625 \n For inquires\, please contact: jeremy.stolow@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/alternative-medicine-and-infernal-alternatives-on-the-modern-fear-of-being-duped/
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SUMMARY:Disrupting Computing History with Dr. Mar Hicks
DESCRIPTION:Join the DIGS Lab (Digital Intimacy\, Gender\, and Sexuality Lab) on September 18 for an online lecture by Dr. Mar Hicks. The DIGS Lab is co-hosting the talk as part of the 7th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. \nDr. Hicks will discuss about Disrupting Computing History to Align Technology’s Past and Present.  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nMar Hicks is an author\, historian\, and professor doing research on hidden histories of computing\, as well as the history of labor and technology. Hicks is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Virginia’s School of Data Science\, in Charlottesville\, teaching courses on the history of technology\, computing and society\, and the larger implications of powerful and widespread digital infrastructures. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light\, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Hicks’s multiple award-winning book\, Programmed Inequality\, looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers\, and what this cautionary tale tells us about current issues in high tech. Their new work looks at resistance and queerness in the history of technology. Hicks is also co-editor of the book Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press\, 2021)\, a volume of essays about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures. \n  \nOther writing and more information can be found at: marhicks.com. \n  \n: September 18\, 2024 | 6-7:30 pm \n: Online \n🌐: Sign up for the event here to receive the zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/disrupting-computing-history-with-dr-mar-hicks/
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SUMMARY:[Online lecture] Dr. Carlo Handy Charles: Queer Transnational Space
DESCRIPTION:How Dating Apps Shape Romantic Connections and Intimate Cross-border Relationships among Haitian Queer Migrants and Nonmigrants?\nJoin us on June 14th (2-4 pm)\, for a lecture followed by a Q&A featuring Dr. Carlo Handy Charles. Visiting Scholar in the Digital Intimacy Gender and Sexuality Lab (DIGS Lab)\, will discuss the intersection of LGBTQ+ migration and digital intimacy. More specifically\, the talk will aim to show how dating apps like Grindr\, Tinder\, and Facebook Dating influence the romantic connections and intimate relationships of LGBTQ+ migrants and non-migrants across borders. Drawing on his research and book project\, Dr. Charles will explain how these digital platforms play a pivotal role in shaping transnational connections and fostering same-sex relationships among individuals from similar ethnic or national backgrounds. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDr. Carlo Handy Charles (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor and a Visiting Scholar in the Digital Intimacy Gender and Sexuality Lab at Concordia University. He is also a former Vanier Scholar Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and a Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations at the CNRS and Collège de France in Paris. His current book project with the University of Chicago Press examines how socio-economic inequalities sexuality and space shape transnational same-sex intimate relationships among Haitian men in Haiti the United States Canada France Brazil Chile and the Dominican Republic. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology at McMaster University and a Ph.D. in Geography at the Université des Antilles in 2023. Prior to joining the University of Windsor he taught Sociology at McMaster University and French at L’Alliance Française de Toronto and L’Alliance Française de Caracas (Venezuela). Beyond academia he is an award-winning essayist and the co-author of the critically acclaimed Kap O Mond a play focusing on Haitian migration in France. He is also a public policy advisor currently working on the Toronto Francophone Affairs Advisory Committee. His publications have appeared in over two dozen academic journals and news media in Canada and internationally. \nFor more information about him and his research please visit: www.uwindsor.ca/sociology/CarloCharles. \n📅: June 14\, 2024 | 2-4 pm \n📍: Online \n🎟️: Register here! If you decide to attend online you’ll receive an email with a zoom link.
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