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Écotones: Urban Laboratory

DATE: From October 14th to October 28thLOCATION: Champ des Possibles, 5605 Av. de Gaspé, Montréal Speculative Life members Brice Ammar-Khodja and Philippe Vandal are happy to invite you to Écotones, an urban laboratory combining artistic interventions and a round table to articulate an aesthetic, critical and social reflection on soil pollution in Montreal. Through two experimental artistic installations on the Champ des Possibles site, Écotones explores urban soil […]

Martin Akwiranoron Loft: Artist Talk And Reception

Post Image presents the first installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which will take place from September 2022 until May 2023. The first speaker in the series will be Martin Akwiranoron Loft, photographer, printmaker, and craftsperson from Kahnawá:ke. This speaker series is built from a shared ambition […]

MHRC Book Salon and talk by Armond R. Towns

The Media History Research Centre is running a Book Salon on September 22nd, showcasing and celebrating recent local publications. There has been a considerable amount of local scholarly output over the last couple of years but pandemic conditions have prevented some of our more traditional ways of honouring those contributions. We invite you to gather […]

Solarities – Thinking with the Sun

The Solar Media research group is excited to invite you to join them on September 21st, 2022 for a critical engagement with the possibilities and potentials of solar energy. "What might a world look like if our societies, communications technologies, and economies were organized around energy from the sun rather than from fossil fuels? What […]

An Afternoon with Michael Century

Milieux presents: An Afternoon with Michael Century Come spend an afternoon with Michael Century, in conversation about his new book Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age.   Wednesday, September 14, 1:30 - 4:00 pm in the Milieux Institute Resource room (EV 11.705) at Concordia University. […]

Samuel Bianchini: ‘Attempts at explementation’ Talk at Milieux

Attempts at explementation:Combining material and symbolic operations in art and design research In computer science, implementation designates that human activity which consists in translating a set of specifications initially expressed in “natural” language into a program a computer can execute. Predicated on the notion that verbalization exercises control over the material world, implementation and its increasingly widespread […]

Michelle Murphy Talk: What is Chemical Violence?

Join us for the sixth in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM, CARG, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World, with Michelle Murphy presenting What is Chemical Violence? Is a chemical pollutant a molecule, or something else? This talk considers the ways chemical pollution contributes to land and atmosphere […]

Dr. Sophie Bishop discusses Influencer Culture

Dr. Sophie Bishop will discuss her research on influencer culture in the UK. Dr. Bishop researches how creative work and promotional cultures are increasingly shaped by social media platforms, and the implications for labour, representation and discrimination. She is the Specialist Advisor for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into influencer culture. On 21 March 2021, The United […]

Neel Ahuja Talk: Animal Death as National Debility

Please join us for the latest talk in the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World, with Neel Ahuja, presenting Animal Death as National Debility: Climate, Agriculture, and Syrian War Narrative. This talk is co-sponsored by Society, Politics, Animals and Materialities (SPAM), the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG), and […]

Rafico Ruiz Talk: ‘Slow Disturbance: Infrastructure and Ice’

In this talk presented by the Speculative Life cluster, Rafico Ruiz will share his work on 'slow disturbance' as a research method that can capture the lasting effects of settler colonialism on land and the built environment. He will also make connections to his current book project on post-global warming ice and the creation of […]

The Undergraduate Fellows’ Introductory Presentations!

As many of you already know, we have recently announced this years' Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now that we have made our introductions, it's time for the fellows to speak about themselves, their research, what they like or dislike, and anything in between and around! The 'PechaKucha-style' presentations will be taking place online via Zoom (link […]

Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series

The new year is already flying by at a rapid pace! The Speculative Life Cluster has already begun an incredibly compelling online project, the Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series. Read on to find out about the final three events, following the first that happened on January 21st, and click here for the full post on […]