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SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Research Horror Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC for the Halloween edition of Research Bites! \nResearch can be scary sometimes. From the nerve-wracking moment of submitting your thesis\, to late night citation nightmares\, to the haunting feeling of discovering a missing source right before a deadline.\nBring your lunch to the IFRC HQ and join us for a lighthearted discussion about research. \nThis informal lunchtime event is your chance to share your own spooky tales from the trenches of academia. \nWe’ll provide Halloween candy to sweeten the mood! \n  \n🗓 October  31\, 2025\n🕒 12:30 PM\n📍IFRC HQ EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-research-horror-stories/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251030T170000
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SUMMARY:TAG General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for their Annual General Meeting. This is your chance to meet other TAG members\, learn about all of TAG’s happenings this year\, and to make yourself known to the TAG community! \n  \n🗓 October  30\, 2025\n🕒 4-5 PM\n📍TAG LAB EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-general-meeting/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T190000
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SUMMARY:Milieux x Montreal Connect / Showcase\, 5 à 7\, Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:Milieux is excited to partner with Printemps numérique for the 7th edition of MTL connect. This annual international event brings together entrepreneurs\, researchers\, industry professionals and artists to explore the evolving challenges and issues of the digital revolution. \nOn October 29th\, Milieux will host a delegation of international curators and industry professionals for a tour of the Institute followed by a 5 à 7 in the atrium on the 11th floor.  \nThis event is a fantastic opportunity for members to showcase their research and creative work with professionals and peers in an informal setting. It’s also an amazing chance to connect with other members\, so even if you can’t present a project\, we invite you to join us to celebrate the research-creation at the institute. \n  \n \n  \nHere some pictures of last year’s event (Credits: Ana Isabel Duque): \n  \n                                                     \n  \nABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION: \n  \nJack Thomas Taylor is the Curator of Art\, Media and Technology at the media majlis museum (mm:museum) located within the school of Northwestern Qatar. He is one of the founding curators and has worked across multiple areas of the museum since its inception. In 2021 he was a key member of the team that helped the museum receive its accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (awarded in 2022). \nTaylor holds a Master of Arts in Culture\, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins (CSM) at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and a Master of Business Administration in Culture and Enterprise\, jointly awarded by Birkbeck Business School and his alma mater CSM. Taylor also has a diploma in Intellectual Property and Collections from the Institute of Art & Law at Queen Mary University\, London. \nHis current research interests include the exploration of the cultural and creative industries in Doha\, Qatar. This research is being supervised by King’s College London where he is also currently obtaining his PhD within the culture\, media\, and creative industries faculty. \n  \n  \nJens Hauser is a Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology\, trans-genre and hybrid aesthetics. He’s currently a researcher at University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion\, following a dual post-doctoral research position at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences\, and coordinates the (OU)VERT network for Greenness Studies. He is also a senior postdoc researcher at the Medical University Vienna\, a distinguished affiliated faculty member of the Department of Art\, Art History and Design at Michigan State University\, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist in residency program\, an affiliated faculty member at the Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems\, a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the University of Innsbruck\, a guest professor at the Department of Arts and Sciences of Art at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne\, and a researcher affiliated with École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay. Hauser has been the chair of the European Society for Literature\, Science and the Arts’ 2018 conference in Copenhagen. At the intersection of media studies\, art history and epistemology\, he has developed an aesthetic and epistemological theory of biomediality as part of his PhD at Ruhr University Bochum\, and also holds a degree in science and technology journalism from Université François Rabelais in Tours. \n  \n  \nMohumagadi Moruti is an emerging curator and researcher with a background in computing and an M.A. in Media Arts Cultures at Aalborg University\, her research focuses on the ontology of technology\, culture\, memory\, and geocultural-international curating. She has been actively involved in curatorial and collaborative projects through the Botswana National Gallery\, Aalborg University\, Siggraph 2023\, 2024\, 2025 as well as International Program Committee (ICP) member for ISEA 2025.\n \n  \n  \n Georges-Emmanuel ARNAUD is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work transcends traditional art boundaries to create pieces that explore and challenge our relationship with body\, time and memory. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMarine Haverland is the co-founder of fomo.scene\, a Brussels-based company established in 2021 that curates and produces immersive installations and digital exhibitions for cultural venues. Her projects include Reset Immersive (Brussels\, 2023). Previously\, she worked in audiovisual production at Versus Production\, founded Aura Films—a consulting agency specializing in new media and production—and co-founded the Liège Web Fest (2013-2016)\, a festival dedicated to emerging digital formats including transmedia\, web series\, and virtual reality. Marine actively participates in professional events related to immersive technologies and digital culture\, with a particular interest in access to immersive art and the challenges of scenography\, technology\, and audience mediation. \n  \n  \nCarol Giordano is Associate Director of Chroniques (Biennale of Digital Imaginaries) in Marseille\, France.\nFounded in 2018\, the Biennale of Digital Imaginaries is the major event for digital arts and culture in Southern France. It showcases visual arts\, sound arts\, and live performance that explore new technologies\, activates public spaces\, and provides a platform for national and international artists from diverse backgrounds.\nCarol Giordano is also affiliated with Seconde Nature and ZINC\, key organizations in the digital arts scene of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Giordano also served as Associate Director Seconde Nature and ZINC from January 2020 to November 2023\, where he coordinated innovative cultural and artistic projects. \n  \n  \n🗓 October 29\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5 – 7 PM \n📍Milieux Institute\, EV Building 11th floor
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/11341/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute Atrium (11th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251028T160000
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SUMMARY:Altered Perceptions: An introduction to the Biolab through Microscopy
DESCRIPTION:After an introduction to the Biolab\, Alex Bachmayer will guide participants through the exploration a variety of tools that can be used for imaging tiny worlds: DIY macro-lenses that can be easily mounted to a cellphone camera\, small-scale magnifiers\, portable lab microscopes\, as well as polarization\, dark-field and fluorescence on the main lab microscope! This workshop covers both technical skills and playful approaches to working with microscopic structures\, patterns\, and scale. \n \n  \n🗓 October 28\, 2025 \n🕒1-4PM\n📍Milieux BioLab EV 10.835 \nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/altered-perceptions-an-introduction-to-the-biolab-through-microscopy/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T180000
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SUMMARY:A Glitch: House9 x Dark Opacities Lab in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Post Image cluster for a discussion between Farah Khan\, Balbir K. Singh moderated by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo . This event will explore the tension\, challenge\, and possibilities of considering opacity as a framework in which to devise and create a research lab. As a portal to the lab\, House9 created such a site for Dark Opacities Lab at Concordia University\, with the demands of considering what opacity could look like\, and where that overlaps with the concept of a glitch. In addition\, they will speak to the work of design and justice-centered projects in building solidarity and networks for communities of colour\, especially at a time of intensifying crises locally and globally. \nEvent starts at 6 PM but doors open at 5:30 PM. Light snacks and beverages will be served. \n  \n🗓 October  27\, 2025\n🕒 6 PM\n📍EV 11.705 \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-glitch-house9-x-dark-opacities-lab-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251024T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251024T140000
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SUMMARY:Immersive Storytelling Studio Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 24 for an Open House of the Immersive Storytelling Studio! \nMeet the team\, learn more about the ongoing projects at the lab and discover how to get involved. \nNow located on the first floor of the EV Building\, the Immersive Storytelling Studio (ISS) is home to cross-disciplinary research-creation experiments for undertaking hands-on\, collaborative\, and critical explorations in crafting and designing XR environments with 3D technologies. \n  \n🗓 October 24\, 1-2 PM\n📍Immersive Storytelling Studio EV1.631 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/immersive-storytelling-studio-open-house/
LOCATION:Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631
CATEGORIES:Open Studio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T210000
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SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] TouchDesigner as Research-Creation: An introductory Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies and LePARC invite you to a practical workshop led by creative technologist Michel Didier. \nOver the course of this hand-on workshop\, participants will learn how utilize TouchDesigner to generate real-time visual projections\, synchronize visual effects with music\, and create electrifying artistic experiences at the intersection of researching creation. \n  \nNo prior experience with TouchDesigner needed. Participants should bring a laptop\, a computer mouse\, sign up for free non-commercial TouchDesigner license beforehand\, and ensure that their laptop meets TouchDesigner’s minimum requirements. \nSpots are limited\, make sure to register to secure your spot! \n  \nABOUT MICHEL DIDIER: \nMichel is a Montreal-based artist and a seasoned multimedia developer. A graduate in Computer Arts from Concordia University\, he is eager to realize innovative projects using cutting-edge technologies. TouchDesigner developer and former creative developer at Moment Factory\, he is currently a tools developer and creative developer at Derivative. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓 October  23\, 2025\n🕒 5-9 PM\n📍EV 11.705 \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/touchdesigner-as-research-creation-an-introductory-workshop/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251023T183000
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SUMMARY:DIGS Reading Group: Queer Interfaces
DESCRIPTION:After a successful reading group pilot during the Winter 2025 semester\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab’s reading group is back! \nDIGS Reading group is an initiative led by the lab’s graduate student members\, envisioned as an academic “third place” in which we discuss scholarship related to \ndigital intimacy\, gender and sexuality in a semi-formal setting. This time\, we are setting out to explore the topic of Queer Interfaces. \nInterface\, a concept originating in physics\, has spread across various disciplines to denote “any communicative interchange that takes place in a specific space” (Scolari\, p.215). The interface refers to a dialectical site of interplay\, in which media technologies and users/consumers negotiate their participation and actualization within this shared space. According to media theorists Brandon Hookway (2014) and Alexander Galloway (2012)\, the interface can be understood as a relation that emerges between the user and the technical object\, or an effect that emerges from that relation rather than simply being an object that is designed and prepared for use. Both Hookway and Galloway insist that an interface is a boundary\, or a threshold condition that opens up gateways to new conditions. In that sense\, the interfaces of social media do not only concern the features of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) the users interact with\, but are a whole network of relations\, effects and possibilities that arise from those interactions. The interface\, as a site that delimits the conditions of agency and participation\, doesn’t only \nserve to bring disparate agents into an act of exchange\, but additionally produces forms of subjectivity that make communication between those agents possible (Hookway\, 2014). Given that no “technology is single use” (Lingel\, 2014)\, we are asking\, how do interfaces of digital archiving\, social media and dating platforms help shape queer subjectivity\, connectivity\, culture and history? And on the other side\, how does queerness complicate\, subvert or otherwise intervene in norms and conditions of digital interfaces? \nThis reading group is imagined as a space for discussion\, inquiry and experimentation with three meetings planned until the end of the fall semester. In order to keep track of participation\, please RSVP with your name and email on this spreadsheet. \nTo facilitate a focused discussion\, we set a cap of 12 participants per meeting (with a waiting list in case of increased interest). \nThis  session will be led by Alex Chartrand. \nReading:\nSzulc\, L. (2019). Profiles\, identities\, data: Making abundant and anchored \nselves in a platform society. Communication Theory \, 29 (3)\, 257-276. \n  \nThese meetings are intended to be in-person\, but there is a hybrid option available; if you require this accommodation\, please let us know. For that and other inquiries\, write to the DIGS Lab coordinator Dunja Nešović. \n  \n🗓 October  23\, 2025\n🕒 5-6:30 PM\n📍EV 10.775
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/11034/
LOCATION:EV 10.775
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251008T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
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SUMMARY:Body of Nothing: A Counter-Defence
DESCRIPTION:In Counter-Defence\, Pauline Batamu Kasiwa. Lomami (Po B. K. Lomami) proposes to reimagine the thesis defence as a process of positionality-sharing and relation-building rather than a demonstration of mastery. Decentering clarity\, justification\, and proof\, this conversation will question the demand to render all aspects of artistic research transparent for institutional recognition and will include a guided tour of Lomami’s thesis exhibition. The Counter-Defence is an encounter for co-implication rather than evaluation\, inviting us all to pay attention to how we participate in the politics of interpretations\, the process of meaning-making\, and the mechanisms of validation. \n  \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION: \n \n  \nThe Nothing series is an ongoing body of work composed of entangled projects that together disclose a mental and socio-political infrastructure of collapse\, taking the shape of the exhibition Body of Nothing: Silence\, Avoidance\, Compartmentalization. The concept of nothing is deceptively simple\, often conceptualized as void\, lack\, or absence — a negation of being\, an empty category that holds meaning only in relation to what it negates. Yet\, when Po B. K. Lomami looked at the marks of colonialism\, genocide\, ecocide\, displacement\, and madness\, nothing is not absence but presence: the charged residue of loss\, silence\, refusal\, and survival. Nothing is daily negotiation. It appears in the silence of archives\, in interrupted testimonies\, in refusals to perform trauma for outsiders. Nothing is not emptiness but a critical resource: a mode of opacity\, an affective surplus\, and a necropolitical scar. \nExhibition hours:\nOctober 1 | 5 to 9 p.m.\nOctober 2\, 3\, 4\, 6\, 7 | 1 to 6 p.m.\nOctober 8 | 5 to 9 p.m. \nLocation:\nBlack Box – EV S3. 855 (basement S3)\nConcordia University – EV Building\n1515 Saint-Catherine Street West\, Montreal \n  \n🗓 October  8\, 2025\n🕒 4-6 PM\n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/body-of-nothing-a-counter-defence/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T160000
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SUMMARY:The Educational Power of Zines: A Zine 101 Workshop  With an Overview on Zines in Education and Research
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio and the Concordia Ethnography Lab for an interactive workshop about zines led by Sage Pantony! In this workshop\, we will: \n\nReview what zines are and discuss their history\nReview various examples of zines\nExplore using zines in and outside of classrooms (zines in formal\, non-formal\, and informal education)\nExplore using zines to conduct research and disseminate research results\nDiscuss our experiences with and questions about zines\, their benefits and limitations\, and different ways to create them\nMake zines together (instructions will be provided)\n\nThis workshop will also provide resources for learning about\, teaching with\, and making zines. \n  \nABOUT ZINES: \n“Zines are independently published booklets. They can be on a variety of topics like music\, feminism\, gender\, art\, spirituality or mental health. They tend to be composed of mixed media like text\, illustrations\, comics\, collages\, photographs\, and more… The language they use is usually accessible to a general audience. They come from a do-it-yourself (DIY) culture\, which emphasizes that anyone should be able to make a zine” (Pantony\, 2024\, p. 13). \n“Zines are self-published or published by a small\, independent publisher. Self-publishing allows marginalized voices to express themselves beyond the constraints of mainstream media\, and also lets authors take control of the process of publishing. Zines also present an alternative to the hierarchical and commodified world of mainstream media… Zines provide a vehicle for ideas\, expression\, and art” (Van Leuven\, 2017\, para. 2). \n  \nABOUT SAGE PANTONY: \nSage Pantony is a writer\, poet\, and zinester. They have been making zines since 2019 that have been featured in stores\, libraries\, and fairs across North America. They are currently completing an MA in Educational Studies at Concordia University. The focus of their research is on zines as empowering\, community-building popular education tools for social change. \n  \n🗓 October  3\, 2025\n🕒 2-4 PM\n📍Speculative Life EV 10.625 \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-educational-power-of-zines-a-zine-101-workshop-with-an-overview-on-zines-in-education-and-research/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T133000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
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SUMMARY:The DIY Cloud: Self-Hosting Digital projects with Coolify
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual workshop\, Machine Agencies member Luciano Frizzera will guide you on how to self-host your own digital projects using Coolify. Learn to deploy apps\, websites\, databases\, and creative tools on your own infrastructure\, giving you autonomy and control over your data. Whether you’re prototyping a research project\, building interactive art\, or experimenting with new software\, this session will equip you with practical skills to bring your ideas to life. No deep DevOps knowledge required—just curiosity\, creativity\, and the drive to get your work online! \n  \n📅 October 3\, 2025 \n⏱️ 12-1:30 PM \n📍 Online \n🔗 Link to join online \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-diy-cloud-self-hosting-digital-projects-with-coolify/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Artistic Research
DESCRIPTION:Join the Milieux Institute’s Post Image research cluster and MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain for a day-long reflection on artistic research. This event builds on the Biennale’s theme\, “In Praise of the Missing Images\,” which explores the complex narratives and contemporary issues surrounding images today. \n\n\n\nThis conference brings together artists\, curators\, and scholars to explore the distinct nature of research within art. Beyond academic conventions\, artistic inquiry unfolds through materials\, gestures\, and embodied memory. This conference invites you to ask: What makes artistic research unique\, and how can curiosity\, imagination\, and embodied knowledge shape new ways of knowing?   \n  \nSCHEDULE: \n\n \n10 AM: Raven Chacon in conversation with Martín Rodríguez \n\n\n\n11:30 AM: Panel | Mallory Lowe Mpoka\, Lou Sheppard\, Sanaz Sohrabi moderated by Alice Ming Wai Jim. \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: Panel | Caroline Mauxion\, OK Pedersen\, Anouk Verviers moderated by Alanna Thain. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Keynote: Lucy Cotter \n\n\n\n3 PM: Keynote: Nathalie Loveless \n  \n📅 October 3\, 2025 \n⏱️ 10-6 PM \n📍 Milieux Institute\, Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ This event is free but spots are limited\, Please Reserve your seat here \n  \n\n \nThis event is supported by the Hexagram Network\, the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Post Image research cluster\, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain\, Conversations in Contemporary Art (CiCA)\, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery and Concordia University.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/reflections-on-artistic-research/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251002T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
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SUMMARY:An Esoteric TTRPG History With Leonardo Abate\, Michael Iantorno\, and Marc Lajeunesse
DESCRIPTION:Join Leonardo Abate\, Michael Iantorno\, and Marc Lajeunesse for a discussion about tabletop roleplaying games. \nWe’ll look at exciting moments in the development of TTRPGs across time and place. Starting with a general overview of how TTRPGs developed in America\, we’ll venture across the sea to look at the beautiful TTRPG coastline of Italy where in the 80s and 90s small but imaginative subcultures of TTRPG gaming developed independently\, with games that were never translated to English. We’ll also discuss the development of the Open Gaming License and how it spawned subcultures of homebrew practices. \n  \n🗓 October 2\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4 – 5 PM \n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-esoteric-ttrpg-history-with-leonardo-abate-michael-iantorno-and-marc-lajeunesse/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250929T190000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250922T161412Z
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SUMMARY:Curatorial Talk by Samantha Lance: "Stitching Ancestral Histories and Diasporic Stories: New Reflections on Curating Textiles"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster for a special virtual talk with curator and writer Samantha Lance as she shares reflections on curating textile practices. This session will explore ancestral\, diasporic\, and contemporary contexts\, and will be especially relevant for anyone interested in material culture\, embodied histories\, and textiles as vessels of memory and community. \nSamantha will give an in-depth walkthrough of her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains\, which was on display at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She’ll also discuss her experience at the Textile Society of America’s 2024 symposium\, “Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles”. \nAs the current Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington\, Samantha will also touch on the exhibition To Our Reunited Future by Moroccan-Canadian artist Rihab Essayh. \nAfter the talk\, you’re invited to participate in a story-sharing circle to reflect on textile practices as expressions of love\, ancestral rituals\, and intergenerational connection. \n  \nABOUT SAMANTHA LANCE: \nSamantha Lance is a Canadian curator and writer whose work fosters meaningful connections between artists and communities. She holds a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto and a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. She is currently Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington. \nLance has worked with institutions including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery\, C Magazine\, the Art Gallery of Algoma\, Onsite Gallery\, and Latitude Gallery New York. Her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains (Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, 2024)\, brought together Toronto-based artists whose textile practices recover matrilineal histories of displacement and belonging. She continues to research and collaborate with artists and curators advocating for women’s labour\, textile practices\, and ancestral techniques\, with a particular interest in experimental\, multisensory exhibition strategies that expand accessibility and dialogue. \n  \n📅 September 29\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5-7 PM \n📍 Online \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/curatorial-talk-by-samantha-lance-stitching-ancestral-histories-and-diasporic-stories-new-reflections-on-curating-textiles/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T133000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250924T141809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T165551Z
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SUMMARY:Seeds\, Samplers and Schedules: An Introduction to Image Generation
DESCRIPTION:In Machine Agencies’s first skill share of the school year\, new media artist and Machine Agencies member\, Rowena Chadkowski\, will move beyond the hype of AI Image generation to think about what it means to create “AI Art”. \nThroughout the workshop\, participants will gain hands-on experience using the Stable Diffusion model with the Automatic1111 interface to experiment with the ways seeds\, samplers and schedules shape the image generation process.\nThis introductory workshop is perfect for those who are curious as to how AI models can be used to explore new possibilities in artistic creation.\n \nTo participate please bring your personal laptop!  \n  \n🗓 September  26\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/seeds-samplers-and-schedules-an-introduction-to-image-generation/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T120000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250911T194447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T194447Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar with Cait McKinney
DESCRIPTION:Join the DIGS Lab  for a graduate seminar with Cait McKinney. This conversation-based session will be a great opportunity to engage directly with the author while discussing the chapter “Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone Hotlines” from their book Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies. The chapter will be shared with participants in advance. \nParticipation is limited to 20 people. If the seminar reaches capacity\, you will receive an email confirming your spot on the waitlist\, and another message if a space becomes available. \n📩 Please contact hannah.schallert@gmail.com for any questions and additional information. \n  \nABOUT CAIT MCKINNEY: \nCait McKinney is an associate professor in the School Communication at Simon Fraser Universityspecializing in sexuality studies\, media history\, and activist media. Their research focuses on the mediated conditions in which queer people\, especially activists\, have taken up new computing and information technologies to serve their communities and movements. This work surfaces queer modes of technological use that show us alternative ways of understanding technologies and their politics\, and offers new media theories and methodologies that emerge from and can account for the knowledges of queer people. Cait McKinney is the author of I Know You Are\, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman (Minnesota 2024) and Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke 2020). \n  \n  \n  \n📅  September 26\, 2025 \n⏱️ 10 AM-12 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please register your attendance here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/graduate-seminar-with-cait-mckinney/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T203000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250911T184950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T211602Z
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SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] Tron Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for the first screening of the year with Tron: Legacy. Have you wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a game when your dad is already trapped inside of that game? Of course you have! Tron: Legacy has answers to that age old question. \nJoin us for a screening of the film and a subsequent discussion on the themes\, form\, and legacy of Tron…..legacy. \n  \n \n  \n📅  September 25\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5:30-8:30 PM \n📍Screening Room EV 10.525 \n* This event is fully booked 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-tron-legacy/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250911T193009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T194949Z
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SUMMARY:"A Queer History of Blackouts" by Dr. Cait McKinney
DESCRIPTION:Media History Research Center (MHRC)\, DIGS Lab and Archive/Counter Archive (A/CA) are delighted to invite you to Dr Cait McKinney’s talk “A Queer History of Blackouts.”\n  \nIn this talk\, McKinney offers a media history of the online blackout as a digital tactic grounded in 1990s AIDS activism. “Blackout” protests evoke power grid failures\, temporarily shutting down online systems by removing content\, blocking access\, or replacing content with black imagery. This lasting tactic began with New York-based Visual AIDS and Creative Time’s Day Without Art online blackout (1995–2000)\, which drew attention to the AIDS crisis as a systemic failure to care for minoritized people. The protest asked participating sites to adopt a small banner graphic and redact their websites for the day. McKinney argues that an AIDS-informed perspective on infrastructure collapse and systemic exclusion shaped blackouts. This history helps us understand how and why blackouts trade in feelings of frustration with broken systems. The author situates this historical analysis of the online blackout in a wider queer media theory of blackouts as impasses in which affective life abruptly shifts in generative ways.\nThe public talk will be followed by a graduate seminar on Friday\, September 26 from 10am to 12pm. \n  \nABOUT CAIT MCKINNEY: \nCait McKinney is an associate professor in the School Communication at Simon Fraser Universityspecializing in sexuality studies\, media history\, and activist media. Their research focuses on the mediated conditions in which queer people\, especially activists\, have taken up new computing and information technologies to serve their communities and movements. This work surfaces queer modes of technological use that show us alternative ways of understanding technologies and their politics\, and offers new media theories and methodologies that emerge from and can account for the knowledges of queer people. Cait McKinney is the author of I Know You Are\, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman (Minnesota 2024) and Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke 2020). \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n📅  September 25\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4:30-6 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please register your attendance here. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-queer-history-of-blackouts-by-dr-cait-mckinney/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250925T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
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SUMMARY:Arts Pessimism and the Role of Dance in Time of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation investigating the potential of choreographic thinking for an understanding of systems of relations. Dr. Susan Leigh Foster\, Dr. André Lepecki\, Dr. Erin Manning\, Dr. Jens R. Giersdorf\, Lilia Mestre\, and Dr. Angélique Willkie will discuss how dance and choreography can function as mediating forces within social and political structures. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nDr. Susan Leigh Foster\, choreographer and scholar\, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She is author of Reading Dancing\, Choreographing Narrative\, Dances that Describe Themselves\, Choreographing Empathy\, and\, most recently\, Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion. Three of her danced lectures can be found at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage website. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. André Lepecki works and researches at the intersection of critical dance studies\, curatorial practice\, performance theory\, contemporary dance and visual arts performance. Selected curatorial work includes Chief Curator of the festival IN TRANSIT (2008 and 2009 editions) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin. Co-curator of the archive Dance and Visual Arts since 1960s for the exhibition MOVE: choreographing you\, Hayward Gallery (2010). Curator of the lecture series Points of Convergence: performance and visual arts (2014) and Off-Hinge Off Center: alternative histories of performance\, for the Museum of Modern Art of Warsaw (2014 and 2015). Also for MoMA-Warsaw he curated the series Performance in the Museum (2015). He also curated the project “The Future of Disappearance” for Sydney Biennial 2016\, and co-curated with Adrian Heathfield the symposium Afterlives of Performance\, at FiAFF and MoMA 2015. \nIn 2008 he received the AICA Award for Best Performance as co-curator and director of the authorized re-doing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (commissioned by Haus der Kunst\, Munich 2006; presented at Performa 07). \nSelected lectures include Museo Reina Sofia\, MoMA-NY\, Museu de Arte Moderna\, Rio\, MACBA\, Para Site\, Hong Kong\, Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin\, WIELS\, The Gauss Seminars at Princeton University\, Freie Universität\, Berlin\, Brown University\, UC-Berkeley\, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro\, École Superiore des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, Paris. In 2009 he was Resident Fellow at Institute Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie Universität\, Berlin. In 2015 he was Artistic Professor at Stockholm University of the Arts\, where he helped develop the research profile area on Concept and Composition. \nHe is the editor of the anthologies Points of Convergence: alternative views on performance (MoMA-Warsaw and Chicago Univ. Press 2016\, with Marta Dziewanska)\, Dance (Whitechapel\, 2012)\, Planes of Composition: dance\, theory and the global (Seagull press\, 2009\, with Jenn Joy)\, The Senses in Performance (Routledge 2007\, with Sally Banes)\, and Of the Presence of the Body (Wesleyan University Press\, 2004). His single authored books are Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (Routledge 2006)\, currently translated in 13 languages\, and Singularities: dance in the age of performance (Routledge 2016). \n  \nDr. Erin Manning studies in the interstices of philosophy\, aesthetics and politics\, concerned\, always\, about alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. Pedagogical experiments are central to her work\, some of which occur at Concordia University in Montreal where she is a research chair in Speculative Pragmatism\, Art and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Recent monographs include The Minor Gesture (Duke 2016)\, For a Pragmatics of the Useless (2020) and Out of the Clear (forthcoming\, minor compositions). Her artwork is textile-based and relationally-oriented\, often participatory. She is interested in the detail of material complexity\, in what reveals itself to perception sideways\, in the quality of a textural engagement with life. Her work often plays synesthetically with touch\, of recent in acknowledgement and experimentation with the ProTactile movement for DeafBlind culture and language. Tactile propositions include large-scale hangings produced with a diversity of tools including tufting\, hooking\, knotting\, weaving. 3e is the main direction her current research takes – an exploration of the transversality of the three ecologies\, the social\, the environmental and the conceptual (3ecologies.org). An iteration of 3e is a land-based project north of Montreal where living and learning is experimented. Legacies of SenseLab infuse the project\, particularly the question of how collectivity is crafted in a more-than human encounter with worlds in the making. \n  \nABOUT THE MODERATORS: \n  \nDr. Jens Richard Giersdorf is an international dance scholar whose research focuses on choreographies of politics in a global context as well as epistemological concerns in dance studies. He received a Magister Theater\, Dance and Music Theater Studies from the University of Leipzig\, Germany\, and a Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory from the University of California\, Riverside\, USA. He taught at the University of Surrey\, UK\, Marymount Manhattan College\, and the University of California\, Riverside\, both USA. His writing has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals as well as translated and anthologized internationally. Giersdorf is regularly invited by key national and international institutions to speak on his work. His monograph The Body of the People: East Germany Dance since 1945 (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2013) is the first study on dance in East Germany\, it was named “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2013 by Choice magazine. The German translation Volkseigene Körper: Ostdeutscher Tanz seit 1945 (transcript Verlag\, 2014) was supported by the Swedish Lilian Karina Foundation. Giersdorf edited Choreographies of 21st Century Wars (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Series\, Oxford University Press\, 2016) in co-authorship with Gay Morris and the third edition of the Routledge Dance Studies Reader (2019) with Yutian Wong. In his professional affiliations\, Giersdorf is a member of Dance Studies Association\, where he also served as the Vice President for Publication and Research and the International Federation of Theater Research. \n  \nLília Mestre (she\, her) is a performing artist\, dramaturge and researcher working in collaborative formats mainly in the fields of contemporary dance and choreography. She is interested in forms of organisation created by and for artistic practice as alternative study processes for social-political reflection. She has been working on the concept of ‘artificial friendship’ which has been the source for the creation of methodological structures (scores) for exchange and collaboration in artistic research settings\, which have been documented in various publications. She was artistic coordinator of a.pass (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies) in Brussels and is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Dance and Co-director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) within the MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She was granted the The Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award 2023 for her research on expanded choreography “Through Materialities\, Movement and Description”. \n  \nA multidisciplinary artist\, Angélique Willkie began her dance training after completing a Master’s degree in Economics at McGill University. A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre\, she subsequently pursued a career in Europe where\, over 25 years\, she performed with dance companies and independent projects throughout Europe\, most notably Alain Platel/Les Ballets C. de la B.\, Jan Lauwers/Needcompany\, Sidi LarbiCherkaoui\, Helena Waldmann and as a singer with the Belgian world-music group Zap Mama\, bands Arno\, dEUS\, 7Dub\, DAAU\, Ez3kiel\, and Zita Swoon Group\, with jazz vocalist David Linx and contemporary composers Walter Hus\, Kaat De Windt and Fabrizio Cassol. \nPerformer\, singer\, dramaturge and pedagogue\, Angélique has been among the more sought-after contemporary technique teachers on the European professional circuit\, teaching companies\, schools and festivals including ImpulsTanz (Vienna)\, Henny Jurriens Stichting(Amsterdam)\, SEAD (Salzburg)\, Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez (Brussels)\,Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (Montreal) among others. \nSince resettling in Montreal in 2014\, Angélique has continued to be active in Montreal’s professional community as teacher\, creator and dramaturge. Her current research interests have three main axes: approaches to interdisciplinary artistic creation (i.e. that sits“between” disciplinary boundaries); European circus aesthetics and dramaturgy; and the notion of a personal dramaturgy\, inspired by the trajectories of performer Josephine Baker and French transgender circus artist Phia Ménard. An underlying interest in her work remains the use of the voice as a creative tool and performance instrument. \n  \n🗓 September  25\, 2025\n🕒 2-4 PM\n📍4TH SPACE \n🔗 Join this event online.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/arts-pessimism-and-the-role-of-dance-in-time-of-crisis/
LOCATION:4th Space
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250924T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250924T150000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
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SUMMARY:Post Image Lab Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Post-Image Cluster Open House on September 24! \nThis is a great chance to meet other members\, hear about our upcoming activities\, and share your ideas. \nIf you’re new to the space\, a guided tour will start at 12:30 PM. \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/post-image-lab-open-house/
LOCATION:Post Image Lab EV 5.615
CATEGORIES:Open Studio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250923T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250923T170000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250919T150424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250919T150424Z
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SUMMARY:Orange Shirt Draw & Design Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC and Textiles & Materiality Research Center on September 23\, 2025\, for part two of their Orange Shirt Day workshop as we prepare for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. \nThe orange shirt is a symbol of the experiences of Indigenous children\, families\, and communities harmed by the residential school system\, and a reminder that Every Child Matters. Ahead of Orange Shirt Day (September 30)\, the IFRC and the Textiles and Materialities Research Cluster invite the Concordia community to come together to learn\, reflect\, and create. \nLed by multidisciplinary Inuk artist Jason Sikoak\, this workshop will introduce participants to drawing practices while also opening space for discussion about the history and significance of Orange Shirt Day. Participants from the Orange Shirt Dyeing Workshop (Friday\, September 19) are encouraged to embellish their newly dyed garments! We will also have patches available on site for new folks who wish to participate. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, though donations are encouraged. All proceeds will go to the Indigenous Health Centre of Tiohtià:ke. \nSpace is limited so registration is required. \n  \n📅 September 23\, 2025 \n⏱️ 3-5 PM \n📍 IFRC HQ EV 10.705 \n🎟️ This event is free but spots are limited\, Please Reserve your seat here
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/orange-shirt-draw-design-workshop/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250919T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250919T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250911T175936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T180150Z
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SUMMARY:[Machine Agencies Kick-Off Event] Patchwork Agencies
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies for Patchwork Agencies\, the exciting kick-off event for the new year with the Milieux Institute’s AI Research Group! \nOn Friday September 19th from 2-4pm come on down to the Milieux Resource Centre and learn about Machine Agencies\, an exciting research community at the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, cultures\, and creations. \nDuring the event\, Machine Agencies researcher Aurélie Petit will lead Black Pudding: Collaborative Speculation Workshop. Through collage and generative video\, this workshop asks what AI might look like if we slowed it down\, made it smaller\, and used it to make art together! \n  \nPhoto credits: Felix Bonnevie \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. 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📅  September 19\, 2025 \n⏱️ 2-4 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/machine-agencies-kick-off-event-patchwork-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Info Session,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250919T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250919T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250911T182935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T171517Z
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SUMMARY:Orange Shirt Dyeing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join the Indigenous Futures research Centre (IFRC) and the Textiles and Materiality cluster on Friday\, September 19\, for a hands-on dyeing workshop as we prepare for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. \nThe orange shirt is a symbol of the experiences of Indigenous children\, families\, and communities harmed by the residential school system\, and a reminder that Every Child Matters. Ahead of Orange Shirt Day (September 30)\, the IFRC and the Textiles and Materialities Research Cluster invite the Concordia community to come together to learn\, reflect\, and create. \nLed by Geneviève Moisan\, this workshop will introduce participants to the process of fabric dyeing while also opening space for discussion about the history and significance of Orange Shirt Day. \nParticipants are encouraged to bring a natural-fiber shirt to dye\, or purchase one provided by us (limited sizes and quantities available). All proceeds from this event will go towards the Indigenous Health Centre of Tiohtià:ke. \nThis event is free and open to the Concordia community\, but space is limited and registration is required. \n  \n📅  September 19\, 2025 \n⏱️ 1-4 PM \n📍VA Building Courtyard \n🎟️  Make sure to register here. \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/orange-shirt-dyeing-workshop/
LOCATION:VA Building Courtyard
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250918T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250918T133000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250911T181300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T181300Z
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SUMMARY:Research Bites: Meet the IFRC
DESCRIPTION:Research Bites is a new lunchtime initiative hosted by the IFRC. This ongoing series is designed to share IFRC members’ work with the greater Concordia community in a casual environment to connect\, learn\, and exchange ideas! \nOur first session will feature IFRC Research Coordinator\, Hanss Lujan Torres\, who will offer a brief overview of the IFRC\, its initiatives\, and upcoming activities. \nBring your lunch and questions to our new space at EV10.705\, meet fellow researchers\, and join the conversation about projects unfolding across the university! \n  \n🗓 September  18\, 2025\n🕒 12:30-13:30 PM\n📍IFRC HQ EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/research-bites-meet-the-ifrc/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Info Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T183000
DTSTAMP:20260608T205526
CREATED:20250912T183356Z
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SUMMARY:DIGS Reading Group: Queer Interfaces
DESCRIPTION:After a successful reading group pilot during the Winter 2025 semester\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab’s reading group is back! \nDIGS Reading group is an initiative led by the lab’s graduate student members\, envisioned as an academic “third place” in which we discuss scholarship related to \ndigital intimacy\, gender and sexuality in a semi-formal setting. This time\, we are setting out to explore the topic of Queer Interfaces. \nInterface\, a concept originating in physics\, has spread across various disciplines to denote “any communicative interchange that takes place in a specific space” (Scolari\, p.215). The interface refers to a dialectical site of interplay\, in which media technologies and users/consumers negotiate their participation and actualization within this shared space. According to media theorists Brandon Hookway (2014) and Alexander Galloway (2012)\, the interface can be understood as a relation that emerges between the user and the technical object\, or an effect that emerges from that relation rather than simply being an object that is designed and prepared for use. Both Hookway and Galloway insist that an interface is a boundary\, or a threshold condition that opens up gateways to new conditions. In that sense\, the interfaces of social media do not only concern the features of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) the users interact with\, but are a whole network of relations\, effects and possibilities that arise from those interactions. The interface\, as a site that delimits the conditions of agency and participation\, doesn’t only \nserve to bring disparate agents into an act of exchange\, but additionally produces forms of subjectivity that make communication between those agents possible (Hookway\, 2014). Given that no “technology is single use” (Lingel\, 2014)\, we are asking\, how do interfaces of digital archiving\, social media and dating platforms help shape queer subjectivity\, connectivity\, culture and history? And on the other side\, how does queerness complicate\, subvert or otherwise intervene in norms and conditions of digital interfaces? \nThis reading group is imagined as a space for discussion\, inquiry and experimentation with three meetings planned until the end of the fall semester. In order to keep track of participation\, please RSVP with your name and email on this spreadsheet. \nTo facilitate a focused discussion\, we set a cap of 12 participants per meeting (with a waiting list in case of increased interest). \nThe last session of the term will be led by Shawn Yi-Jones. \nReading: \nSzulc\, L. (2019). Profiles\, identities\, data: Making abundant and anchored \nselves in a platform society. Communication Theory \, 29 (3)\, 257-276. \n  \nThese meetings are intended to be in-person\, but there is a hybrid option available; if you require this accommodation\, please let us know. For that and other inquiries\, write to the DIGS Lab coordinator Dunja Nešović. \n  \n🗓 November  20\, 2025\n🕒 5-6:30 PM\n📍EV 10.775
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/11037/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:DIGS Reading Group: Queer Interfaces
DESCRIPTION:After a successful reading group pilot during the Winter 2025 semester\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab’s reading group is back! \nDIGS Reading group is an initiative led by the lab’s graduate student members\, envisioned as an academic “third place” in which we discuss scholarship related to \ndigital intimacy\, gender and sexuality in a semi-formal setting. This time\, we are setting out to explore the topic of Queer Interfaces. \nInterface\, a concept originating in physics\, has spread across various disciplines to denote “any communicative interchange that takes place in a specific space” (Scolari\, p.215). The interface refers to a dialectical site of interplay\, in which media technologies and users/consumers negotiate their participation and actualization within this shared space. According to media theorists Brandon Hookway (2014) and Alexander Galloway (2012)\, the interface can be understood as a relation that emerges between the user and the technical object\, or an effect that emerges from that relation rather than simply being an object that is designed and prepared for use. Both Hookway and Galloway insist that an interface is a boundary\, or a threshold condition that opens up gateways to new conditions. In that sense\, the interfaces of social media do not only concern the features of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) the users interact with\, but are a whole network of relations\, effects and possibilities that arise from those interactions. The interface\, as a site that delimits the conditions of agency and participation\, doesn’t only \nserve to bring disparate agents into an act of exchange\, but additionally produces forms of subjectivity that make communication between those agents possible (Hookway\, 2014). Given that no “technology is single use” (Lingel\, 2014)\, we are asking\, how do interfaces of digital archiving\, social media and dating platforms help shape queer subjectivity\, connectivity\, culture and history? And on the other side\, how does queerness complicate\, subvert or otherwise intervene in norms and conditions of digital interfaces? \nThis reading group is imagined as a space for discussion\, inquiry and experimentation with three meetings planned until the end of the fall semester. In order to keep track of participation\, please RSVP with your name and email on this spreadsheet.  \nTo facilitate a focused discussion\, we set a cap of 12 participants per meeting (with a waiting list in case of increased interest). \nThe first session will be led by Dunja Nošović.  \nReading:\nMcKinney\, C. (2015). Body\, sex\, interface: Reckoning with images at the \nLesbian Herstory Archives. Radical history review\, 2015(122)\, 115-128. \n  \nThese meetings are intended to be in-person\, but there is a hybrid option available; if you require this accommodation\, please let us know. For that and other inquiries\, write to the DIGS Lab coordinator Dunja Nešović. \n  \n🗓 September  15\, 2025\n🕒 5-6:30 PM\n📍EV 10.775
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digs-reading-group-queer-interfaces/
LOCATION:EV 10.775
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Textiles and Materiality All Cluster Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster for the first meeting of the term! \nThis event will be a great opportunity to connect with the T&M research community\, welcome cluster members both new and returning\, and to hear about cluster research activities\, upcoming workshops\, and important updates in the Fall Semester.\n\nIf you are a new member\, please do stop by and introduce yourself and your research interests. If you are a continuing member\, we would love to see you and hear about what you’ve been up to!\n\nWe will also have student research grant presentations\, research and activity proposals from cluster members\, and light refreshments.\n\n\n🗓 September  15\, 2025\n🕒 4:30 PM\n📍Textiles and Materiality Cluster  EV 10.730 \n🔗 Join the meeting online here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/textiles-and-materiality-all-cluster-meeting/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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SUMMARY:Nostagain Annual-Kick off Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join the Nostagain Network for the 2025-2026 Annual Kick-off Meeting! This event will be a good opportunity to meet the current members\, learn more about nostalgia research and why not get involved in the network’s future projects. This event is hybrid and everyone is welcome students\, alumni\, post docs\, researchers\, artists\, etc. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n🗓 September  15\, 2025\n🕒 3 PM\n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435 \n🔗 RSVP here to get the zoom link
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nostagain-annual-kick-off-meeting/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
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SUMMARY:Welcome back to LePARC!
DESCRIPTION:Join LePARC for the first event of the term! This is a great opportunity to connect with the community in a casual setting. Both new and returning members are welcome to come and chat\, sip some tea\, and see the new upgrades to the Performance Lab! \n  \n🗓 September  11\, 2025\n🕒 5-7 PM\n📍LePARC  EV 10.730 and EV 10.785
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/welcome-back-to-leparc/
LOCATION:EV 10.765
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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SUMMARY:Digital Decay Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a hands-on workshop that explores the generative potential of decay in digital and material images. From corrupted files to faded photocopies\, we will use processes like hacking\, glitching\, scanning and printing. Inspired by Hito Steyerl’s In Defence of the Poor Image and Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism\, we’ll rethink the aesthetics of deterioration. How can the ruin of an imager an archive or document open up new creative pathways? \nThis workshop is hosted by the Textiles & Materiality cluster and organized wit the support from Dr. Miranda Smitheram\, as part of a Milieux Institute Invrestigations micro grant. \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here. \n  \n \n  \nAbout the Workshop Facilitators: \nMorris Fox (he/they) is a queer-gothic artist/writer\, and an Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia (Tiohtiá:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal). Fox’s practice cruises the haunted house for feelings of community. Words and materials become a net that enmeshes\, becoming a necropolis\, a cemetery of desire. He interconnects eco-poetry\, self-performance\, VR\, video\, textiles\, chainmaille\, with queer material research\, rubbing against ruins of memory\, shimmering with apocalyptic imaginaries. His work seeks to “put the fun in funeral.” \nAlexey Lazarev (he/him) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and third year Print MFA student at Concordia\, exploring different facets of queer identities and migration: conflicts between personal and collective memories\, formation and evolution of hybrid identities and the emotional side of belonging to a marginalized community. He investigates these themes using personal and found archives. Fascinated by how centuries-old methods of imagemaking adapt to the needs of contemporary society\, Lazarev examines the interplay between print traditions and emergent technologies\, focusing on the unorthodox application of print media\, such as alternative ways of editioning\, the use of 2D prints to create 3D installations and relief transfer on surfaces such as clay or plaster\, creating his own material ecologies. \n  \n🗓 September  9\, 2025\n🕒 1-5 PM\n📍Textiles and Materiality Cluster EV 10.730 \n🎟️ To register please confirm your spot by emailing T&M Cluster Coordinator
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-decay-workshop/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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