BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Milieux - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Milieux X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Milieux REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260409T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260409T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260323T222510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T175609Z UID:10001282-1775739600-1775754000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Bio-Inspired Folding Techniques Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bio-inspired Folding Techniques\, the first workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n  \n \n\n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nHosted by Lucie Leroux (Laboratoire Textile\, Montreal)\, in collaboration with Alice Jarry and Miranda Smitheram\, this four-hour workshop introduces bio-inspired folding as a research-creation methodology at the intersection of design\, engineering\, and living systems. Moving beyond the representation of natural phenomena\, participants will explore folding as a performative\, speculative\, and relational process that translates principles of growth\, locomotion\, deployability\, adaptation\, and responsiveness into material form. Through hands-on experimentation and an introduction to accessible techniques\, participants will prototype paper and fabric structures\, foregrounding folding as a medium for developing soft and adaptive applications. \n  \nPhoto Credits: Lucie Leroux\n  \nABOUT LUCIE LEROUX: \nTrained in design and architecture in France\, Lucie Leroux began her career in architectural lighting before moving to Montreal\, where she discovered textile printing. It was while working on large-scale projects such as the Shanghai World Expo that she began to take an interest in light and patterns. After working on costumes for Cirque du Soleil\, she collaborated on several projects ranging from fashion to documentary\, presented throughout Quebec at venues such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City. In 2012\, she launched Laboratoire Textile\, a creative space where she explores textile design through various research and creative projects. She has also been a lecturer at the Atelier Textile since 2014 and at the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal since 2024. \n\n  \n\n  \n  \nThis workshop is part of the NFRF project Origami-inspired Deployable Sensoriactuator Soft Robots\, co-directed by Hamid Akbarzadeh\, Alice Jarry\, Miranda Smitheram\, Marta Cerruti\, and David Meger. The event is supported by Hexagram: Research-creation network in arts\, culture\, and technology. \n  \n April 9\, 2026 \n 1 – 5 PM \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.455 \n💡Questions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n  \n  \n                            URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-bio-inspired-folding-techniques/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Untitled-11-Event-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T190000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260309T183948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T183948Z UID:10001278-1775149200-1775156400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Celebrating Ten Years of Milieux! DESCRIPTION:On April 30th\, the Milieux Institute officially turns ten! \nA decade of research-creation is a milestone worth celebrating — and what better way than by returning to where it all began? In this spirit\, we’ve invited each cluster to respond to a list of keywords\, concepts\, names (some very abstract) that came out the early days of naming the institute\, and to answer that provocation in any form they chose. \nWe invite all members (faculty\, students and staff) to join us for an evening of celebration of a decade of research-creation\, as we collectively discover what our clusters have been working on for the past weeks. \n🥂 We’ll have light refreshments and food! \n🎟️ If you haven’t already\, please make sure you RSVP for this event as spots are limited! \n  \nThis event will officially kick off the celebrations as we’re planning a bigger event in the upcoming fall. \n  \n📅 April 2\, 2026 \n⏱️ 5–7 PM \n📍 Milieux Institute \n  \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/celebrating-ten-years-of-milieux/ LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor) CATEGORIES:Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Milieux-10-year-anniversary-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260402T140000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260312T195715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T202242Z UID:10001279-1775127600-1775138400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Cocooning: Dreaming Adaptation DESCRIPTION:Cocooning is a 3-hour workshop dreaming (climate) adaptation through embodied methods. \n  \n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nIn a time of ecological instability\, climate adaptation is often organized through techno-economic solutions that map protection onto some geographies while leaving others exposed. These approaches frequently reproduce colonial cartographies and patterns of environmental racism. \nThis gathering opens space to question those limits. Together\, we will dream adaptation as a relational\, embodied\, and collective practice — a process of re-membering frayed relations and re-mapping how we live with one another across borders and boundaries\, between human and more-than-human worlds. \n  \n\nWHAT TO BRING: \n\nParticipants are asked to bring one item they are willing to part with\, to be woven into the installation: \n\nA small meaningful object (e.g.\, a shell\, old necklace\, small keepsake)\, or\nAn old natural fibre in neutral tones (fabric scrap\, clothing\, lace\, sheet\, etc.) to contribute to the collective cocoon\n\nObjects will become part of the installation. \n\n\nNo prior artistic experience is required. Light snacks and coffee will be provided. \n\nThis workshop is organized by the Concordia Ethnography Lab in collaboration with the Youth Climate Lab. \n  \n\n  April 2\, 2026 \n 11 -2 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot \n  \n\n                URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ccooning-dreaming-adaptation/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Cocooning_Poster-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T180000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260203T195103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T195103Z UID:10001262-1774542600-1774548000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Stephen Monteiro: How Tech Got Needy: Episodes in Device Intimacy DESCRIPTION:Networked personal media devices construct an animated intimacy\, fostering user trust and emotional dependence. Viewing this development through a historical eye\, this talk explores examples of object-oriented digital intimacy that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing from Needy Media (recently published by McGill-Queens University Press)\, it will consider how user-device closeness was baked into consumer electronics from 1995 to 2005 through a range of hardware and software cues. These elements collectively tapped psychological vulnerabilities toward affective impact\, situating the device as a lively\, but needy\, presence in the life of users. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nStephen Monteiro is a faculty member in Communication Studies at Concordia University. In addition to Needy Media\, he is the author of The Fabric of Interface (The MIT Press) and Screen Presence (Edinburgh University Press)\, and the editor of The Screen Media Reader (Bloomsbury). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n March 26\, 2026 \n 4:30 – 6 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stephen-monteiro-how-tech-got-needy-episodes-in-device-intimacy/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Sans-titre-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260319T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260319T163000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260303T173956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T155635Z UID:10001272-1773932400-1773937800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:t3rkko Game Collective Networking Event DESCRIPTION:On March 19th\, TAG will host a networking event with the  t3rkko game collective. \nFounded in 2021\, t3rkko is a local game collective composed of six developers from diverse professional horizons and backgrounds. \nOver the past five years\, the collective has produced five games and is now preparing to work on their most ambitious project to date: a third-person\, rhythm-based Action-RPG. \nTo bring this vision to life\, t3rkko is partnering with TAG\, as they are currently looking to recruit artists\, programmers\, UI and UX devs who would be willing to join their team. \n March 19\, 2025\n 3- 4:30 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/t3rkko-game-collective-networking-event/ LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-12.09.27-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260318T190000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260303T180830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T180830Z UID:10001273-1773849600-1773860400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Video Game Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop with Lídia Pereira DESCRIPTION:Videogames create worlds. Often\, those worlds mirror our own\, reproducing certain ideals and values as norm through their narrative\, game play\, design\, etc. This session begins with an invitation to the participants to critically consider those worlds\, identifying the key points and elements through which specific videogames circulate political\, cultural and social values. How do the games we play every day vehiculate ideology? Using this knowledge\, participants are then invited to intervene upon these videogame worlds through the writing\, drawing\, collaging\, etc. of fan fictions\, using the original text to re-construct these worlds or reveal crucial aspects they might be hiding in plain sight. At the end of the session\, participants will have begun to create a narrative with their interventions upon these universes and the results may be as diverse as creative writing\, the generation of new games in the form of text-based adventures\, comics\, mini-graphic novels\, etc. \nABOUT LÍDIA PEREIRA: \nLídia Pereira (PT) studied at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA Media Design and Communication) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (BA Communication Design). Her practice bridges the fields of graphic design\, art\, digital media and infrastructure\, critical theory\, and publishing. In 2015\, she founded the Pervasive Labour Union zine\, a semi-regular publication in which contributors reflect on topics relating to labour on corporate social networks\, algorithmic governance\, and alternative digital infrastructures. Currently\, she is a PhD candidate at the PhDArts programme\, a collaboration between the Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague\, where she is investigating videogames in the context of art education as a site of struggle against hegemonic discourse. \n  \nRequirements: Please choose a videogame you know well ahead of the session. To participate please send an email to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca with the subject line ‘Fanfiction Creative Writing Workshop.’ \n\n March 18\, 2025\n 4- 7 PM\nTag Lab EV 11.435 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/video-game-fanfiction-creative-writing-workshop-with-lidia-pereira/ LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435) CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-1.01.19-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260309T180211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T184045Z UID:10001277-1773792000-1773878399@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Weird Words Day at Milieux! DESCRIPTION:Weird Words Day! Join us for a fun community project in celebration of Milieux Institute’s 10-year anniversary! \nFor the occasion\, we decided to have some fun with a list of keywords\, concepts\, names (some very abstract) that came out the early days of naming the institute (and most of them are weird!) \nOn March 18\, Marc will drop by the clusters spaces to ask members to record a few words from that list. The recording will be played during our celebratory event. \nIf you are only passing by that day\, just swing by the nerve centre to get your voice recorded! \n  \n🎟️ If you haven’t already\, please make sure you RSVP for this event as spots are limited! \n  \n📅 March 18\, 2026 \n⏱️ All Day \n📍 Milieux Institute \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/weird-words-day-at-milieux/ LOCATION:milieux institute ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sans-titre-2-11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260316T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260316T160000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260303T193644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T193644Z UID:10001275-1773666000-1773676800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Merit of Making DESCRIPTION:Embroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally\, functioning as symbols of status\, achievement\, and identity within communities. In this workshop\, we invite you to consider what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible\, unseen\, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge? \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics\, required to embroider different shapes\, textures\, and images\, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \nParticipants are encouraged to bring design ideas to the workshop. \nLimited space available. Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. \n  \n March 16\, 2025\n 1- 4 PM\nTextiles and Materiality Cluster Room EV 10.730 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/merit-of-making-2/ LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730) CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Workshops-TM-7-Drawing-with-Thread_1920-1080.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260303T160731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T160731Z UID:10001270-1773415800-1773421200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:“Mass” Media: Cinematic Narratives and Archaeological Presents in Federal Indian Politics DESCRIPTION:Join the MHRC for their last Montreal Media History Seminar of the year. Assistant Professor Sowparnika Balaswaminathan will talk about how the Tamil Nadu government uses archaeology to create a counter-narrative to Hindu nationalism. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nIn January 2025\, M.K. Stalin\, the Chief Minister of the south Indian state of Tamilnadu\, made a dramatic announcement befitting his cinema-industry lineage: the Iron Age\, hitherto dated to the Fertile Crescent\, in fact\, had its earliest beginnings “on Tamil soil.” This temporal recalibration\, crafted into a “news event” (Cody 2023)\, carries profound implications for contemporary Indian political discourse. Modern statist archaeology in India navigates between neoliberal rationalism and romantic patriotism\, seeking to maintain scientific rigor while constructing narratives of an enchanted past. This tension is further complicated by India’s current Hindu nationalist regime\, which seeks to establish a direct correlation between territory and religion\, such as in the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC)—South Asia’s oldest known state-level society— which needs to be Hindu\, Sanskritic\, and continuous with the Indo-Aryan identity claimed by contemporary (caste) Hindus. Stalin’s announcement directly challenges this narrative by foregrounding southern archaeological sites that suggest a non-Hindu proto-Dravidian history\, with potential links to the IVC itself. \nThis paper examines the orchestration of media events related to archaeology by the Tamilnadu state apparatus in recent years and analyzes the cinematic stylizations used in their construction. Balaswaminathan argues that the deployment of melodramatic excess in support of the government as a “mass” hero must be read against the coimbricated histories of cinema\, oration\, and politics in Tamilnadu . \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSowparnika Balaswaminathan is an Assistant Professor in Religions and Cultures at Concordia University\, Montreal. She researches the politics of art and craft\, artisanal identity and labor\, and the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. Her methods include ethnography\, collections and archival research\, and arts and media analysis. She is currently working on her monograph based on her dissertation research\, Casting Craft: Ethics\, Aesthetics\, and Sensible Labor in South Indian Bronzecasting. She was the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021) at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History\, Washington DC\, where she researched the role of Smithsonian museums as diplomatic agents during the Cold war and the politics of culture-area representation of newly independent Asian nations. She is currently starting a new project on the mediascape and political mobilization around archaeology and antiquities in India. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  March 13\, 2026 \n 3:30 -5 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Make sure to reserve your spot\, seating is limited!  \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mass-media-cinematic-narratives-and-archaeological-presents-in-federal-indian-politics/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Untitled-2-21-2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260303T190239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T190239Z UID:10001274-1773406800-1773417600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Haptic Images Workshop DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, you will be introduced to the Pointcarré Textile CAD software for the Jacquard loom. You will learn the first steps of transforming an image into an intricately woven piece of cloth and how to turn your digital file into a haptic piece of art\, an image that you can touch and feel. You will explore the art of making an image by using the structures of crossed yarns in patterns that will shape its highlights and shadows\, hence simulating a fabric in which the raised design is incorporated into the weave instead of being printed or dyed on. \nFor this workshop\, you are invited to bring an image to work with. Please consider the following criteria when selecting an image: \n\nContrast: High contrast images are most successful. Please note that the final image will be converted to a grayscale\, but you are welcome to bring in colour images and convert them using Photoshop.\nResolution: Not too much detail—single objects\, portraits\, or simple landscapes work best. The resolution of the image will be brought down to 40 dpi\, so even a screen capture is acceptable.\nDimensions: Square format (but we can crop using Photoshop).\n\nThere are no prerequisites for this workshop. \nLimited space available. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nPlease e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register! \n  \n March 13\, 2025\n 1- 4 PM\nTextiles and Materiality \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/haptic-images-workshop-4/ LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Workshops-TM-5-Drawing-with-Thread_1920-1080.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260312T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260312T203000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260217T163649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T163649Z UID:10001269-1773334800-1773347400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Speculations in the PARC DESCRIPTION:Following the success of its first edition\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster and the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) are teaming up once again to host a second mixer event\, Speculations in the PARC on March 12th\, from 5pm to 8:30pm\, in Spec Life (EV. 10.625) and LePARC Performance Lab (EV. 10.785). \nOpen to Milieux members and the wider public\, this gathering offers an opportunity to discover ongoing research from both clusters. \n  \n  March 12\, 2026 \n 5 -8:30 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625 / Performance Lab EV 10.785 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculations-in-the-parc-2/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-11.14.19-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260310T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260310T163000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260303T164538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T211157Z UID:10001271-1773154800-1773160200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Ingrid Jones in conversation with Gabrielle Moser DESCRIPTION:In the context of her exhibition at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery on view until April\, 25\, Milieux is hosting a conversation between curator and creative director Ingrid Jones and Associate Professor Gabrielle Moser\, in collaboration with the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. \nIn this lecture\, Ingrid Jones reflects on the conceptualization of the exhibition “Labour” and the challenge of rendering visible that which is routinely unseen. Drawing on both professional and lived experience\, she considers the necessity of naming our labour; the cumulative toll of microaggressions and their embodied consequences; the persistent misreadings of Black rage; and the increasingly politicized terrain of rest as practice. In doing so\, Jones situates her curatorial approach alongside that of Tina Campt\, advancing discomfort not as a byproduct but as a deliberate and necessary condition of her praxis. Jones’s presentation will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Gabby Moser\, Research Chair and Director of the Jarislowsky Institute.\n\nThis event will be followed by a reception at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery to celebrate the opening of her curated exhibition “Labour” and the launch of its accompanying publication.\n\n\nABOUT INGRID JONES:\nToronto-based curator and creative director\, Ingrid Jones examines the intersections of decolonial curatorial practice\, transnational solidarities\, and the politics of museum representation. Her research engages themes of marginalization and refusal through installation\, media\, and collaborative projects. Recent initiatives address liberatory practices of the African diaspora (“Liberation in Four Movements\,” 2024)\, the unseen labour of BIPOC artists and cultural workers (“Labour\,” 2024-25)\, and nostalgia for racialized communities framed through white supremacy (“Nostalgia Interrupted\,” 2022). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  March 10\, 2026 \n 3 -4:30 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n  \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ingrid-jones-en-conversation-avec-gabrielle-moser/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/202502_labour_promo-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260205T153147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T153147Z UID:10001264-1772128800-1772132400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Redefining Digital Inclusion from Peru to the World DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce an upcoming talk from a newcomer to the Abundant Intelligences network! \nMathias Becerra Sanchez is a student from Peru currently pursuing a major in Symbolic Systems in the Concentration of Human-Centered AI and Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University. His work focuses on using technology to empower Indigenous and other digitally disadvantaged languages both in Peru and Latin America. In this talk\, he’ll be presenting his research on STEM education\, linguistics\, and policy in globally disadvantaged language communities. \nThis presentation will be moderated by Hanss Lujan Torres\, Research Coordinator at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC). Hanss is a writer\, curator\, and researcher from Cusco\, Peru\, whose work focuses on collective time-making\, alternative understandings of time\, and dissident futures. \n  \nThis event is fully virtual\, please register here \n  \n February 26\, 2026 \n 6-7 PM \nOnline \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/redefining-digital-inclusion-from-peru-to-the-world/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Conversation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Sans-titre-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T160000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260203T193635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T193635Z UID:10001261-1772029800-1772035200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Dr. Jennifer Pybus: Auditing Extractive Infrastructures of Datafication in Mobile Applications DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces an infrastructural mixed method for auditing how health apps embed third-party software development kits (SDKs) and access both personal and health-related data from mobile devices. \nThe method includes: \n\nAn app selection based on relevant criteria\nAn assisted manifest data audit using a large language model (LLM)\nA qualitative examination of corresponding privacy policies and data safety agreements\nA walkthrough method\, established by Light et al. (2018)\, to account for the different kinds of health and personal data that can be input in the apps’ interface.\n\nRather than focusing primarily on user behaviour or consent\, the method centres on qualitative analysis of Android manifest files\, since any personal data an application seeks to access from a user’s device\, or share with third parties\, should be declared there. Participants will also be introduced to the role app events play in personal data tracking\, and to how health-related data are structured in manifest files in ways that make them legible and reusable across a range of actors\, including large platforms. \nBy the end of the session\, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to conduct a static audit of mobile tracking infrastructures and compare back-end findings with front-end privacy policies in order to better infer how personal and health data are extracted\, shared\, and monetised through third-party SDKs\, and how these practices are\, or are not\, communicated to end users. \n  \n🚨 Important: Participants must pre-install software tools in advance of the workshop. Please register early to obtain the installation instructions and recommended pre-reading. Places are limited. \n🎟️ Register for the workshop by sending an email to digslab@concordia.ca with your name\, department\, and level of study. \n  \nABOUT JENNIFER PYBUS: \nJennifer Pybus is a globally recognized scholar whose interdisciplinary research intersects digital and algorithmic cultures and explores the capture and processing of personal data. Her work focuses on the political economy of social media platforms\, display ad economies\, and the rise of third parties embedded in the mobile ecosystem which are facilitating algorithmic profiling\, monetisation\, polarization and bias. Her research contributes to an emerging field\, mapping out datafication\, a process that is rendering our social\, cultural and political lives into productive data for machine learning and algorithmic decision-making. Pybus has cultivated strong European links with public organizations and will use her chair to engage Canadians with innovative tools\, resources and pedagogy for increasing critical data literacy and democratic debate about artificial intelligence. \n  \nThis event is supported by the Canada Research Chair in Data\, Democracy and AI\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality Lab\, and the Speculative Life cluster at Milieux. \n  \n  \nFebruary 25\, 2026 \n 2:30 – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-jennifer-pybus-auditing-extractive-infrastructures-of-datafication-in-mobile-applications/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/8c1598d3-6219-a046-4ae2-41ca79fb2c7f.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T160000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260210T172145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T172145Z UID:10001267-1771592400-1771603200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Texting on Tajima DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? \nJoin Textiles & Materiality for their upcoming Texting on Tajima workshop! \nIn this workshop\, you will learn design techniques and software basics required to embroider different text formats\, fonts\, and textures. You will have the opportunity to embroider your own quote using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.  The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time (approximately 20 minutes per person) reserved for participants to embroider their text. \n  \n February 20\, 2026\n 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\n🎟️ Register by emailing textiles.materiality@concordia.ca URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/texting-on-tajima/ LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730) CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Workshops-TM-1-Texting-on-Tajima_1920-1080.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260219T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260219T150000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260204T191519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T141602Z UID:10001263-1771513200-1771513200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Many\, many Machine Agencies DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us in launching our publishing project “Many\, Many Machine Agencies”!\n.\nThis edited collection will be a cookbook for engaging critically with machines\, and it gathers hybrid maker-thinkers who dabble in different theories of machinic agency including artificial life\, digital games\, interaction design\, robotics\, ubiquitous computing\, expert systems\, virtual life\, simulation\, and neural networks.\n.\nCome along to learn more about our book project\, and connect with others!\n\n.\nThis project is supported by Hexagram’s AI Chantier.\n\n.\n.\n\n February 19\, 2026 \n 3 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n\n  \n  \n\n                                                                                                                                           \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/many-many-machine-agencies/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Sans-titre-2-19.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T193000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260213T161839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T162715Z UID:10001268-1771435800-1771443000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:'Making art with other people's live': a workshop on the violence of visual representation DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio for a workshop led by HUMA Ph.D Candidate Magdalena Hutter. \nThis workshop invites members of the community who work with documentary photography and/or film to come together and ask questions around how we address the violence of visual representation. How can we work with the lives of real people without being extractive or exposing our protagonists to harm\, particularly when working with groups who have historically been victimized – either in the name of science or art – by film and other visual media? How can we work with visual methods in ways that break down hierarchies\, rather than reinforce colonialist structures that equate seeing with knowing? What can protocols of ongoing consent look like? And what artistic approaches can help us to make our work more relational and accountable? \nAn experiment in thinking together\, this is a space to bring our own work and experiences\, ask some uncomfortable questions\, and support each other in committing to intentional\, responsible uses of visual documentary forms. \nMasking is encouraged at this event. Please do not attend if you are feeling poorly or have cold symptoms. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nVMS coordinator and HUMA PhD candidate Magdalena Hutter has been making documentary films for 20 years\, both as a director and a camera woman. In her research-creation dissertation project she uses oral history and documentary film to explore fatness as method in dance and movement art. \n  \n  \n February 18\, 2026\n 5:30-7:30 PM\n Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/making-art-with-other-peoples-live-a-workshop-on-the-violence-of-visual-representation/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-11.22.04-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T183000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260122T190942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T190942Z UID:10001258-1771435800-1771439400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series: The Warcraft Movie DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a new screening as part of the TAG Critical Watch Series. This time\, participants will be screening Warcraft. As always\, the screening will be followed by a discussion. \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nWarcraft is a 2016 American action fantasy movie based on the video game series of the same name. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war\, as the warlock Gul’dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together\, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace. \n  \n  February 18\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-warcraft-movie/ LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525 CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Untitled-12.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T123000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260203T165055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T165055Z UID:10001259-1771331400-1771331400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:2025-2026 UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza! DESCRIPTION:As many of you know\, we recently announced our 2025-2026 Undergraduate Fellows cohort. Now\, it’s their turn to take the floor! We’re excited to hear them share their projects and the topics that drive their research. \nTo welcome these remarkable individuals to the broader Milieux community\, we invite all faculty\, students\, and staff to join us for a special gathering on February 17th\, 2026\, in the Resource Room (EV 11.705). \n\nJoin us for an informal gathering and presentations from these outstanding emerging researchers—plus\, enjoy some pizza! \n  \n  \n⏱️ 12:30 PM: Come grab a slice of pizza! \n⏱️ 1 PM: The Fellows will briefly introduce themselves and tell us more about their research interest and projects. \nFor those who are interested\, the afternoon will conclude with a guided tour led by Marc Beaulieu\, who will share stories of the Institute’s research spaces and reveal some of the “hidden corners” of our institute. \n  \n  \nIn the meantime\, get to know this year’s talented cohort: \nAnnouncing Milieux Institute’s 2025-26 Undergraduate Fellows \n \n  \nWe can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n: February 17\, 2026 | 12:30 PM \n: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2025-2026-ug-fellows-introductory-presentations-with-pizza/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/UG-fellows_19201080_notext.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260202T171013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260214T002046Z UID:10001260-1770996600-1771002000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairyland by Will Straw DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland\, the latest publication by Will Straw. \nIn its time (the 1920s and 1930s)\, the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison in 1925. In recent years\, interest in Broadway Brevities has focused instead on its relentless exposure of the places of Queer nightlife in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. \nThe fourteen episodes of the “Nights in Fairyland” series saw Brevities’ editor venture into the queer gathering places of Manhattan\, denouncing the people he found there even as he revelled in the rich details of their lives. This talk will deal with the historical usefulness of these accounts\, and with the problem of researching magazines which were rarely preserved in libraries and\, until very recently\, ignored by historians. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nWill Straw is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (Andrew Roth Gallery\, 2006) and the new Nights in Fairyland: Gossip\, Blackmail\, and the Many Lives of Broadway Brevities. Will Straw is also the co-editor of numerous books\, including Formes Urbaines (with Anouk Bélanger and Annie Gérin\, 2014)\, Night Studies : Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit (with Luc Gwiazdzinski and Marco Maggioli\, 2020) and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Night Time Economy(with Jess Reia and Alessio Koliulis). Dr. Straw has published more than 200 articles on cinema\, music popular culture and the urban night. \n  \n  \n  \nFebruary 13\, 2026 \n 3:30-5 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure your register for this event \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-and-book-launch-nights-in-fairland-by-will-straw/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-4-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T160000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260210T164437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T164643Z UID:10001266-1770987600-1770998400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Drawing with Threads DESCRIPTION:What does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop\, Textiles and Materiality invites you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads or yarns using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \nThe workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \n  \n\n\n February 13\, 2026\n⏱️ 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\nFirst come first serve URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/12157/ LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730) CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Sans-titre-2-8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260122T162616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T164850Z UID:10001257-1770915600-1770915600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Lecture-performance: Jeroen Peeters DESCRIPTION:Join LePARC for a lecture-performance of La Table (1967-1973) by Jeroen Peeters. Written by French poet Francis Ponge\, La Table is the last of his notebook works\, dedicated to his immediate environment\, la table. \nIn this lecture-performance\, essayist Jeroen Peeters takes up the invitation to do the reading of this notebook and the tables it evokes. Seated at a wooden table\, he activates Ponge’s book by way of reading (in English translation)\, gestures as well as visual and textual annotations that are projected live. \n  \nABOUT JEROEN PEETERS: \nJeroen Peeters (1976) is an essayist\, dramaturg and performer based in Brussels. His experimental writing practice translates itself in essays\, artist books\, lecture-performances and installations. As a dramaturg\, performer\, editor and curator\, he has collaborated with a great number of people in the field of contemporary dance and beyond. As a critic and researcher\, he has published widely on contemporary dance and performance as well on matters such as spectatorship\, ecologies of attention\, readership\, dramaturgy\, embodied knowledge\, material literacy and sustainable development\, \nIn March 2025\, Peters defended his PhD in the arts at Hasselt University\, Faculty of Architecture and Arts\, And PXL-MAD School of Arts\, on ” Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field”. \n  \nFebruary 12\, 2026 \n 5 PM \nLePARC Performance Lab EV 10.785 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lecture-performance-jeroen-peeters/ LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Untitled-11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260212T123000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260209T182212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T182500Z UID:10001265-1770899400-1770899400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Van Racine DESCRIPTION:Bring your lunch and join IFRC for its next Research Bites session featuring Van Racine. Van will share their research exploring the relationship between linguistic theory and new media through Zaagi’idiwin\, an Anishinaabe understanding of love as a practice of relation\, care\, and responsability. \n  \nABOUT VAN RACINE: \nPhoto credit: Ana Isabel Duque\nVan (they/them) is a 2Spirit French/Anishinaabe artist with a multidisciplinary focus on video game development\, linguistics\, and beadwork. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n February 12\, 2026 \n 12:30 PM \nIFRC HQ EV 10.705 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-van-racine/ LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705 CATEGORIES:Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Sans-titre-9.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260129T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260113T160737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T160737Z UID:10001254-1769679900-1769792400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:2026 IFRC Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Futures Research Centre’s (IFRC) annual research symposium returns January 29 and 30 at 4TH SPACE. Now in its fourth year\, this essential gathering brings together faculty\, students\, and alumni to share their work with the Concordia community through panels\, workshops\, performances\, and artist talks. \nGuided by the theme\, “Practicing the Future”\, this year’s symposium considers how Indigenous research and research-creation can actively shape the futures we envision.  It offers a moment to exchange ideas\, imagine new avenues\, and cultivate intergenerational and relational forms of knowledge-sharing. The symposium fosters community-building across disciplines\, creating a space where we not only imagine the future but intentionally practice it. \nDesigned to spark interdisciplinary exchanges and highlight current research\, this gathering reflects on the continued emergence and growth of Indigenous scholarship. It celebrates trailblazing accomplishments while foregrounding new and evolving perspectives on Indigenous methodologies. Now in its fourth iteration\, this symposium has become an essential event where IFRC faculty and student members alike share their work with one another and with the greater Concordia community. \n  \nSCHEDULE:\nThursday\, January 29:\n9:45 – 10 am: Welcome: Ohen:ton Kariwa’te’kwan by Prof. Hannah Claus\n10 – 11 am: Panel with Office of Community Engagement\n12 – 1 pm: Lunch break\n1 – 2:30 pm: Panel on First People Studies\n2:30 – 4 pm: Panel – Indigiqueer\n4 – 5 pm: Keynote with Suzanne Kite\n  \nFriday\, January 30:\n1 – 2:30 pm: Panel on Indigenous Pedagogy\n2:30 – 3 pm: Break\n3 – 5 pm: Workshop with Alicia Ibarra-Lemay and Natasha Blanchet-Cohen\n  \n  January 29-30\, 2026 \n4TH SPACE \n  \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2026-ifrc-research-symposium/ LOCATION:4th Space CATEGORIES:Symposium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Untitled-1-Post-card-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260128T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260112T205953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T211128Z UID:10001251-1769621400-1769632200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series : Tetris DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for the first screening of 2026! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion. January’s film is Tetris (2023). \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nTetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Soviet Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. Directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink\, the film stars Taron Egerton\, Nikita Efremov\, Sofia Lebedeva\, and Anthony Boyle. The plot follows Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software\, who becomes interested in the game Tetris\, created by Alexey Pajitnov\, during an electronics show. Desperate to obtain handheld console rights for Nintendo\, he takes trips between Japan\, the United States\, and Russia to win legal battles over the game’s ownership. \n  \n  \n  January 28\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-tetris/ LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525 CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-12-at-3.32.40-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T180000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260115T181644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T191058Z UID:10001256-1769097600-1769104800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Living Room Revolutions: Black Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and '70s DESCRIPTION:The Media History Research Centre is hosting its first talk of the year as part of the Media History Seminar Series with a presentation by Jennifer Lynn Stoever. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \nQuiet as it’s been kept by music media and academia\, from its start Hip Hop was never solely or even predominantly a masculine art. For so many of hip hop’s originators in 1970s New York City\, it was the women in their lives who loved music\, collected vinyl records\, selected music to play at home and at house parties\, and taught their children how to listen widely across genres and deeply into the new musical worlds being spun around them. Through the revolutions of their living room turntables\, Bronx women used vinyl records as a form of sonic archiving\, worldmaking\, and radical mothering in the 1970s\, bringing revolutionary selves into being along with life-sustaining visions of Black and Brown-centered worlds for their children. The way they curated\, played\, and talked about music in everyday life taught their children to hear cultural connections and family history within the grooves of vinyl records; without question this deeply impacted hip hop’s emergence as a DJ art. In turn\, Black women left a still-audible material imprint on the sound itself: samples from their records have been used and re-used in hip hop songs\, a traceable sonic lineage. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n Jennifer Lynn Stoever is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University and founding Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out! She is author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press\, 2016).  She has published in Social Text\, Social Identities\, Sound Effects\, Modernist Cultures\, American Quarterly\, and Radical History Review among others\, including Oxford Handbooks in both Sound Art and Hip Hop Studies.  Stoever’s  book-in-progress\, Living Room Revolutions: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s\, is supported by National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard Foundation fellowships. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nMedia History Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre engaging with the historical development of media change and communication. The centre focuses on nascent\, yet robust subfields such as media archaeology\, variantology\, new materialism\, circulation theory\, and technology writing. Through their research projects and publications\, MHRC members have been celebrated for their innovative studies of many aspects of media history. \n  \n  January 22\, 2026 \n 4 -6 PM \nEV 2.776 \n🎟️ Reserve your spot URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/living-room-revolutions-black-women-collecting-and-selecting-records-in-the-1960s-and-70s/ LOCATION:EV 2.776 CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1e31d327-438a-4ed5-04da-d86bcb784573.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260122T153000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260113T203052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T203052Z UID:10001255-1769090400-1769095800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Immersive Spacemaking: Unrealities of Imperfect Worlding by Galit Ariel DESCRIPTION:(art)iculating worlds and Machine Agencies welcome Galit Ariel to discuss how immersive spaces embed and introduce novel frictions and freedoms of techno-relatives and surrealities. \n  \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:  \nGalit Ariel is a TechnoFuturist\, author and creative that explores the wild and imaginative side of emerging technologies and their impact on our cultures\, behaviours and interactions. She is the founder of Future Memory Inc.–a speculative design agency\, a published author of ‘Augmenting Alice-The Future of Identity\, Experience and Reality’ which depicts the way Augmented Reality will shift core paradigms and interactions related to culture\, body\, space and agency. \nHer academic research focuses on the fluid intersection between technology\, culture and body politics and imaginaries. She is also a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology\, a 2021/22 fellow for the Amsterdam ‘Designing Cities for All of Us’ program\, a HASTAC fellow (an alliance of more than 14000 humanists\, artists\, social scientists\, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning)\, and a contributor to several think tanks such as THE150 (that produced the Copenhagen Catalog-150 principles for a new direction in tech). \nGalit is an international keynote speaker that has appeared at notable international conferences\, agencies and institutions\, such as tD\, Bell Labs\, SXSW\, The European Union\, The Next Web\, Slush\, Fifteen Seconds\, FITC\, Pause Fest\, VRARA Global Summit\, Women in Tech Global Summit and many more. \n  \n\nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  January 22\, 2026 \n 2-3:30 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Reserve a spot URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-spacemaking-unrealities-of-imperfect-worlding-by-galit-ariel/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260116T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260116T153000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260113T151709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T151709Z UID:10001253-1768577400-1768577400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Stream Evil Launch Party DESCRIPTION:After captivating a bigger audience than normal when you accidentally kill the wrong character on stream\, you discover an opportune strategy to grow your following: play EVIL to appeal to a wider audience. \nStream Evil is a research-creation project funded by SSHRC and the mLab that investigates tandem play: playing single-player games with multiple people. Research into tandem play shows that players often make different choices\, take bigger risks\, and/or lean into spectacle when playing together. Consequently\, Stream Evil is a game developed to explore how audience feedback can shape moral decision-making during gameplay. \nThe team\, Josh Spatzner\, Jules Maier-Zucchino\, Justin Roberts\, Mia Consalvo\, and Beck de Heuvel\, have been working on this project for two years and are excited to finally share it with fellow TAG members! \nPlease join us for a launch party in which we will finally publish the game and have it available for members at TAG to play it. \n  \n  January 16\, 2026 \n 3:30 PM \nMilieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/stream-evil-launch-party/ LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 CATEGORIES:Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-13-at-10.03.01-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260114T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260114T193000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20260113T145941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T145941Z UID:10001252-1768411800-1768419000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Vectors of Visualization: Troubling the Politics of Seeing DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio to critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions\, engaging “Youth United Will Never Be Defeated” and your projects!\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more about the politics of looking\, join Transform co-investigator Dr. Carolina Cambre at the Vectors of Visualization workshop session. \nCome and engage critically with your own photos and the photos from the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition. Join us for refreshments and an interactive event where we will critically unpack ways of viewing research exhibitions by engaging the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition (part 1) and then engage our own projects and questions (part 2) through sharing and feedback. We will wrestle with discomfort and responsibility (of the viewer to the work and to the producers themselves) while attending to nuance\, complexity\, contradiction and possibility. \nWearing masks is welcomed. \n  \n  January 14\, 2026 \n 5:30-7:30 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/vectors-of-visualization-troubling-the-politics-of-seeing/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-1174495661-2339724480813-1-original.20260110-170552.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260608T143038 CREATED:20251119T214110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T214502Z UID:10001250-1764763200-1764770400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Milieux End-of-Term Pizza Lunch and Headshot Session DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to invite ALL Milieux members—faculty and students alike—to join us on December 3rd to celebrate the end of the term! \nCome enjoy some pizza\, (re)connect with fellow members\, and catch up on the incredible work your peers have been doing this semester. \nYour headshot needs a refresh? \nWe will have a photographer onsite to take free professional headshots! \nPlease note that spots are limited and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n  \nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n  \n🗓 December 3\, 2025\n🕒 12-2 PM\n📍Milieux Kitchen Area \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-end-of-term-pizza-lunch-and-headshot-photoshoot/ LOCATION:Milieux Kitchen CATEGORIES:Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Untitled-2-Post-card-2.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR