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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Collaborative & Interdisciplinary Projects at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:For the past 10 years\, the Milieux Institute has served as a hub for creative experimentation. Drawing members from across Concordia University\, Milieux fosters interdisciplinary work through both its programming and its infrastructure. While research clusters regularly host their own activities (workshops\, book launches\, guest talks\, roundtables\, etc.)\, the Institute’s broader mandate is to support and initiate cross-cluster activities and organize institute-wide events that connect our research community. This vision extends to the infrastructure itself: working and common spaces are designed to encourage and facilitate these connections. At Milieux\, cluster spaces and research labs are open and designed to bring together researchers from different backgrounds. \nIn this panel discussion\, we invite members to highlight three collaborative projects made possible by Milieux’s model: the Montreal Waterway Collective\, the NOSTAGAIN Network\, and\, more recently\, the Orange Shirt Day Workshop hosted by IFRC in collaboration with Textiles and Materiality and the MaSH Lab. \nThis conversation will be moderated by Dr. Bart Simon. \n  \nABOUT THE PROJECTS: \nPolina Shubina and Patrizio McLelland* will present the Montreal Waterways Collective\, an ethnographic research-creation group based in the Concordia Ethnography Lab within Milieux’s Speculative Life Cluster. The Montreal Waterways project aims to reconnect Montréal with its surrounding waters\, treating water as a dynamic thread connecting past and future\, environment and infrastructure. In bringing ethnography closer to home\, the group conducts research into the various “water objects” that shape the city’s past\, present\, and future. \nDerek Pasborg\, Richy Srirachanikorn*\, and Zo Makivna will discuss the NOSTAGAIN Network\, a student-led research collective formed at the Technoculture\, Art and Games (TAG) Research Centre in 2022. Since its inception\, the collective has brought together artists\, writers\, designers\, and researchers to explore and reflect on the generative potentials of nostalgia. \nHanss Lujan Torres\, curator of The Earth We Carry (currently on view at the FOFA Gallery)\, will talk about the Orange Shirt Day Workshop\, a collaborative initiative that was developed in partnership with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC)\, the Textiles and Materiality Cluster\, and the MaSH Lab. \n*Hexagram members \n November 4\, 2026  \n 3:30-4:30 PM  \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 
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SUMMARY:Learning by Doing: Student Leadership at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:In higher education\, internships are often seen as the sole pathway to building professional skills. However\, being involved in a dynamic research community can open up a much wider range of hands-on professional experiences. \nThis roundtable explores how this hands-on approach plays out in student leadership and translates beyond the university. From coordinating large-scale events and managing budgets to hiring\, promoting events\, and leading workshops\, community leadership cultivates versatile skills that employers value well beyond academia. \nTo explore these dynamics\, we are bringing together members with diverse backgrounds and leadership experiences to share their journeys\, insights\, and lessons learned: Shahrom Ali\, Marc Lajeunesse\, Brennan McCracken and Geneviève Moisan. \n\n November 5\, 2026  \n 10:30 AM-12 PM  \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/learning-by-doing-student-leadership-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:Public Engagement and Impact in Research-Creation
DESCRIPTION:Driven by a growing institutional focus on outreach and impact\, researchers must navigate the dual challenge of producing meaningful work and communicating its significance beyond academia. Within the context of research-creation\, where outputs can take various forms (exhibitions\, performances\, podcasts\, public-facing activities\, etc.)\, these questions of research dissemination and community engagement are approached in unique ways. In fact\, the nature of the creative output shapes the research-creation process itself\, making research communication an integral part of the inquiry. This roundtable will bring together researchers from diverse fields and backgrounds to explore these dynamics and share experiences from their own practices. \nJoin us for an engaging roundtable bringing together PhD candidate Richy Srirachanikorn*\, Dr. Scott DeJong*\, Dr\, Hilary Bergen and Dr. Aurélie Petit to share experiences\, discuss how creative forms drive public engagement\, and explore the evolving landscape of research dissemination. \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTERS: \nRichy Srirachanikorn (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Social and Cultural Analysis program. \nRather than studying nostalgia as a historical concept or as a backwards-looking emotion\, Richy looks at how people use technologies to recompose the past not for the way it was\, but the way it could have been. Can we remind ourselves of the futures we had hoped for\, but never came to be\, in the past? What do these “lost futures” mean for the present? \nRichy is a founding member of the Nostagain Network\, the first student-led research collective in North America exploring the generative uses of nostalgia. Founded at the Milieux Institute in 2022\, the network meets annually at the 4TH SPACE for its symposia and research-creation expo. \nAurélie Petit is a Montreal-based researcher of animation and technology\, working between the National Film Board of Canada’s Innovation Lab and the Chaire de recherche du Québec sur l’intelligence artificielle et le numérique francophones (IANF) where she is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the (Re)Generative AI for Culture project. She has held positions at the Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation in Work and Life\, the AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa\, and the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research\, building a body of work that moves fluidly between critical inquiry and creative practice. Her intermedia research-creation projects have been presented at MUTEK Forum 2024\, MUTEK Forum 2025\, and HTMlles 2026. \nHilary Bergen is currently on faculty in the English department at Dawson College. Her research\, which is influenced by her professional dance training\, is on the historical intersection between dance and emergent media. She recently held an FRQSC postdoctoral fellowship at the New School in New York City\, and she is the organizer of the international Dance and/as Technology conference\, held most recently at UQAM in Montréal in 2024. She is a 2022 graduate of Concordia’s Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program. Her first book\, titled Dance Anima: Techniques of Vitality\, was published with Oxford University Press earlier this year.  \nScott DeJong holds a PhD in Communication studies from Concordia University where his research examined the relationship between playfulness and disinformation. His work bridges research and design to explore how alt communities use playful devices like memes to spread false content\, how games are being used to teach the public about disinformation\, and how interventions can incorporate play to re-evaluate critical thinking. This work has led to large-scale analysis of fake news games\, various studies on political memes and content within Canadian social media\, and the design of media literacy boardgames. In addition to his dissertation research\, Scott actively studies class precarity and videogames\, digital labour markets\, relationships between humour and games\, tabletop community cultures\, and simulation design. \n*Hexagram members \n  \n  November  5\, 2026 \n 1:30-3 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Where Are They Now? A Milieux Alumni Reunion Chat
DESCRIPTION:As part of our 10th anniversary extravaganza\, we are bringing together former Milieux members for an informal roundtable discussion to chat about life after Milieux and how their time at the Institute shaped their professional paths. \nJoin us on November 6 as Allison Moore\, Sandra Huber\, Ida Toft\, Ceyda Yolgörmez*\, Gina Hara\, and Will Robinson share stories from their time at Milieux and discuss their current endeavors. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:  \nAllison Moore is new media artist working with immersive and expanded cinema based in Montréal. She studied interdisciplinary arts and film production at Concordia University. For the past years\, she has crafted an independent practice participating in residencies\, workshops\, and exhibitions internationally. Her work has been programmed at Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan)\, 39art (Japan)\, OBORO Gallery (Montreal)\, Traverse Video (France)\, Museu de Arte de Belem (Brazil)\, Festival of Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal)\, FIFA Experimental (Montréal)\, and the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides. Her series of multi-screen video panoramas depict improbable landscapes referencing scenic dioramas. Her latest work Wunderkammer\, a 35-screen video wall can be seen in Place-Des-Arts (Québec). Moore works as a freelance editor\, compositor and animator as well as teaching workshops in New Media practices.  \nSandra Huber is a writer\, researcher\, and educator based on unceded Indigenous land in Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang (currently called Monteal\, Quebec). She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University and is a Lecturer and Area Head of Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices in Fine Arts at Concordia. \nIn her work\, Sandra Huber approaches questions concerning esoteric\, occulted\, or underrepresented ways of knowing and being through embodied research in the areas of interdisciplinary (in)humanities\, feminist material culture\, witchy pedagogies\, ritual and performance\, occult media studies\, disability studies\, and poetics. \nShe works especially with theories and practices of night knowledge (including witchcraft\, sleep\, dreams\, scent\, spirit worlds)\, alter-abilities (including spellcasting\, divination\, ritual practice)\, and wild writing (including sleep writing\, spirit writing\, spider writing\, collective writing\, new media writing).  \nIda Toft is an organizer\, curator\, cultural worker\, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. They hold a PhD from Concordia University\, researching digital art and experimental games. Since 2010\, their curatorial practice has focused on digital art\, with a particular interest in video games and sculptural forms. Before moving into curating and organizing full-time\, they developed experimental video games that were presented in galleries\, festivals\, and game events across Europe and North America. They are currently Curator and Production Director at ELEKTRA\, where they develop exhibitions and professional initiatives. Their work also includes developing the ELEKTRA Virtual Museum (EVM)\, curating professional programming—including talks and panel discussions—and developing international collaborations between artists\, institutions\, and cultural partners. \nCeyda Yolgörmez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre at Concordia University\, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies to create a framework for considering how our conceptions of the social are changing through human-machine relations. She works with quirky robots\, old machines\, broken technologies\, and others that do not conform to common sense\, to form a rich conception of agency and play. Often thinking through the art and technology intersection\, Yolgörmez hopes to create more vocabulary around the kinds of machinic relations that contemporary moment potentiates.  \nGina Hara is a Hungarian-Canadian filmmaker and artist. She holds an MA in intermedia\, an MFA in film production and has worked in different media with regard to film\, video\, new media\, gaming and design. Her research focuses on marginalized narratives in the context of technology\, specifically social media and games culture. Hara’s artworks have been featured by different institutions including the New Museum in New York\, Budapest Kunsthalle and the City of Montréal. Waning (2011)\, her first fiction film\, was nominated for Best Canadian Short at the Toronto International Film Festival. Your Place or Minecraft? (2016) is her machinima docu web series about game studies and is available on YouTube. Hara’s feature length documentary\, Geek Girls (2017)\, explores nerd culture from women’s perspective and was in theatres in Canada and Australia in 2018. Geek Girls is currently available on the website of the National Film Board of Canada\, while it is distributed by Women Make Movies in the USA and South-America. Her most recent work\, Sidings of the Afternoon won the Critics’ Choice Award at the Milan Machinima Film Festival 2021. Hara lives in Montréal\, where she is the creative director of the Technoculture\, Art and Games Research Centre.  \nWill Robinson is Partner and Head of Capital Formation at Alliance\, a crypto and fintech accelerator. He completed his PhD in Humanities at Concordia University in 2018\, studying how game rules communicate ideas and produce unexpected meanings. At Milieux and TAG\, he combined research with game-making\, including Cabinet Shuffle\, a card game about political representation developed with David Waddington. Before joining Alliance\, he worked in blockchain risk management at Grant Thornton. His career connects game design\, emerging technologies\, and the people and institutions building around them.  \n *Hexagram member \n  \n📅  November 6\, 2026  \n⏱️ 10-11:30 AM  \n📍 Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 
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