BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Milieux - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T183000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250912T183356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T183515Z UID:10001227-1757955600-1757961000@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2536963052_efc864cec6_b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T183000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250912T181708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T181708Z UID:10001225-1757955600-1757961000@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2536963052_efc864cec6_b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250912T174933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T174933Z UID:10001224-1757953800-1757953800@milieux.concordia.ca 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) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Untitled-35.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T150000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250910T171650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T175911Z UID:10001217-1757948400-1757948400@milieux.concordia.ca 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) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Untitled-31.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250911T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250911T190000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250909T200713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T200713Z UID:10001216-1757610000-1757617200@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-09-at-3.38.12-PM-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250909T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250909T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250821T195130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T165724Z UID:10001215-1757422800-1757437200@milieux.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Untitled-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250807T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250807T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250708T195236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T162314Z UID:10001214-1754589600-1754596800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Crafting Indigiqueer Futures: Zine Making Workshop 2 DESCRIPTION:This summer\, the IFRC is inviting you to attend a series of events on the theme of Indigiqueer Joy! In the context of queer and Indigenous communities\, joy is not merely an emotion but an act of resistance\, survival\, and a framework for building liberatory futures. In this series\, you will explore: What is revealed when we tell our own stories? How can we reclaim and craft our own narratives collectively? And how can speculative fiction allow us to envision alternative futures? Drawing from both his experience in comics-making and the themes explored by the screened animated shorts\, IFRC Communications Coordinator Milo Puge will be leading two zine-making workshops exploring the nuances of joy. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nParticipants will be invited to create their very own zines using collage\, drawing\, and/or writing with a collection of art supplies. They will be given open prompts to interpret joy and future in reflection\, collective conversation\, and making. \n  \nThese workshops are free and intended for Indigenous and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ people. \n  \n🗓: August 7\, 2025\n🕒: 6-8 PM\n📍: IFRC HQ EV 10.705 \n🎟️ Please register here. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/crafting-indigiqueer-futures-zine-making-workshop-2/ LOCATION:EV 10.705 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250718T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250718T150000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250708T193943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T195350Z UID:10001213-1752843600-1752850800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Crafting Indigiqueer Futures: Zine Making Workshop 1 DESCRIPTION:This summer\, the IFRC is inviting you to attend a series of events on the theme of Indigiqueer Joy! In the context of queer and Indigenous communities\, joy is not merely an emotion but an act of resistance\, survival\, and a framework for building liberatory futures. In this series\, you will explore: What is revealed when we tell our own stories? How can we reclaim and craft our own narratives collectively? And how can speculative fiction allow us to envision alternative futures? Drawing from both his experience in comics-making and the themes explored by the screened animated shorts\, IFRC Communications Coordinator Milo Puge will be leading two zine-making workshops exploring the nuances of joy. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \n Participants will be invited to create their very own zines using collage\, drawing\, and/or writing with a collection of art supplies. They will be given open prompts to interpret joy and future in reflection\, collective conversation\, and making. \n  \nThese workshops are free and intended for Indigenous and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ people. \n  \n🗓: July 18\, 2025\n🕒: 1-3 PM\n📍: IFRC HQ EV 10.705 \n🎟️ Please register here. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/crafting-indigiqueer-futures-zine-making-workshop/ LOCATION:EV 10.705 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250715T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250715T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250708T192506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T192506Z UID:10001212-1752602400-1752602400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Animating Indiqueer Futures DESCRIPTION:This summer\, the IFRC is inviting you to attend a series of events on the theme of Indigiqueer Joy! In the context of queer and Indigenous communities\, joy is not merely an emotion but an act of resistance\, survival\, and a framework for building liberatory futures. In this series\, you will explore: What is revealed when we tell our own stories? How can we reclaim and craft our own narratives collectively? And how can speculative fiction allow us to envision alternative futures? \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT: \nThis first event of the series will be a screening of five contemporary Indigiqueer directed/produced animated shorts\, followed by a hybrid panel with filmmakers Caeleigh and Keara Lightning (Studio Ekosi) and Glenn Gear on their respective films\, Kimotiwin: The Act of Stealing (2023) and Katinngak (Together) (2020). This conversation will be moderated by Milo Puge and IFRC Research Coordinator Hanss Lujan Torres. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and open to everyone! \n  \n🗓: July 15\, 2025\n🕒: 6 PM\n📍: York Amphitheâtre EV-1.615 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/animating-indiqueer-futures/ LOCATION:York Amphitheatre EV-1.615 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250703T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250703T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250623T144914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250623T144914Z UID:10001211-1751565600-1751565600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nadia Myre and Skawennati DESCRIPTION:Join IFRC for a special artist talk featuring artists Skawennati and Nadia Myre\, two leading figures in contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. This event celebrates their landmark solo exhibitions currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada: Welcome to the Dreamhouse and Waves of Want. These exhibitions offer a rich look at each artist’s evolving practice and their influential contributions to Indigenous visual culture\, digital media\, and storytelling. \nModerated by artists and Studio Arts Professor\, Hannah Claus\, this conversation will bring the two artists in dialogue\, offering insights into their respective creative journeys\, conceptual frameworks\, and shared commitments to community\, memory\, and futurity. \nABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS: \nWelcome to the Dreamhouse tells the story of Skawennati’s dynamic artistic trajectory as she envisions Indigenous people in the future. Rooted in Haudenosaunee storytelling\, her avatars\, costumes\, machinimas and prints playfully imagine and create a place where Indigenous people thrive. \nWaves of Want looks at Nadia Myre’s artistic and critical process over the past two decades\, including exciting new works recently created in France. Navigating complex histories of nationhood and memory\, her work fosters profound dialogues on collective identity\, resilience\, and the politics of belonging. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nSkawennati creates art from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman\, and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her machinimas and machinimagraphs (movies and still images made in virtual environments)\, textiles and sculpture question our relationships with technology\, and highlight Indigenous people of the future. Recipient of a 2022 Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions Grant and an Honorary Doctorate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design\, Skawennati co-directs Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC)\, a research-creation studio-lab at Concordia University in Montreal. She is also on the boards of Rhizome\, and of daphne: Montreal’s first Indigenous artist-run centre\, which she-co-founded. Originally from Kahnawà:ke\, Skawennati resides in Montreal. \n  \nContemporary artist Nadia Myre is an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation\, who lives and works in Montreal. For more than two decades\, her multi-disciplinary practice has included stitchwork\, photography\, video\, sculpture\, textiles and installation – inspired by community participation and relations\, while also exploring themes such as resilience\, language\, memory and longing. Myre’s art examines what is misunderstood\, unseen\, or lost in transformation and translation\, and reflects shared experiences of nationhood\, belonging\, and isolation. \n  \nHannah Claus is a transdisciplinary artist of Kanien’kehá:ka / English heritage who engages Onkwehon:we epistemology to highlight ways of understanding and being in relation with the world. A 2019 Eiteljorg Fellow and 2020 recipient of the Prix Giverny\, recent group exhibitions include: Wheturangitia at The Dowse\, in Aotearoa\, the touring exhibition Radical Stitch at the McKenzie Art Gallery in Regina\, and Plastic Heart at the University of Toronto Art Gallery and the Centre Culturelle Canadien in Paris\, France. She is an Associate Professor\, Frameworks and Interventions of Indigenous Art Practice in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University\, and Research Chair\, Onkwehonwené:ha. She is a member of Kenhtèke. \n  \n  \n🗓: July 3\, 2025\n🕒: 6 PM\n📍: York Amphitheâtre EV-1.615 \n🔗 : Zoom link URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-conversation-nadia-myre-and-skawennati/ LOCATION:York Amphitheatre EV-1.615 CATEGORIES:Conversation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-12-at-12.04.10 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250619T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250620T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250528T184231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T184600Z UID:10001210-1750341600-1750438800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Augmented Reality Soundwalking Workshop DESCRIPTION:Discover a new way to experience the city.\nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nLed by PhD Candidate Amanda Gutiérrez\, this workshop invites you to immerse yourself in Montreal’s urban environment\, focusing on its soundscapes and the architectural echoes that define its character. In this workshop\, we will stroll through the streets and listen to urban architecture\, soundscapes\, and their socio-cultural layers. Through counter-mapping we will identify the sonic landmarks that contrast and amplify our spatial meanings. This activity will help us plan a score and a walking itinerary. We will map and trace these spatial relations to develop an Augmented Reality (AR) soundwalk informed by our situated meanings\, creatively sense and discuss the location’s visible\, audible\, and symbolic layers to co-create its sound design. We will learn to use the custom-made AR platform ECHOES\, which gives users access to its web-based interface. The workshop will focus on how AR technology operates through geolocation and movement\, while the sound design will extend into the spatial dimension. \nWe aim to create a group AR soundwalk to highlight the participants’ experiences and their designs. This intuitive relationship will help foster group dynamics by offering sound grounding exercises in listening positionality. The AR walk developed during the workshop will be presented to the public and collectively amplified. \nNo previous experience is needed in sound or web development. \n  \nABOUT AMANDA GUTIERREZ: \nAmanda Gutiérrez (she/her) was initially trained as a stage designer\, studying at The National School of Theater in Mexico. Presently\, Gutiérrez uses a range of media\, such as sound and performance art\, to investigate the aural culture of everyday life. Gutierrez is actively advocating for listening practices while being one of the board of directors of the World Listening Project\, formerly working with The Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology\, and currently as the scientific comitée of the Red Ecología Acústica México. Currently\, she is a Ph.D. student at Concordia University and a research assistant at lab PULSE and Acts of Listening Lab. \n  \n  \n🗓 June 19-20\, 2025\n⏱️ 2-5 PM\n📍LePARC Performance Lab\n🎟️  Reserve your spot here URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/augmented-reality-soundwalking-workshop/ LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/7e628727-d081-ee9f-665e-6766f9729bae.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250604T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250604T190000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250512T161742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T161742Z UID:10001209-1749058200-1749063600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation 08 DESCRIPTION:Join Abundant Intelligences for Epistemological Foundations #08. This session will focus on policy and governance of AI\, addressing how decision-making structures\, regulatory frameworks\, and governance models shape the development and deployment of AI technologies. Our experienced panelists will consider how their work contributes to uncovering and shaping the conditions under which AI operates. \nIn this discussion\, we will consider how Indigenous epistemologies can inform AI governance\, moving beyond dominant paradigms to embrace relational\, land-based\, and community-centered approaches. What does it mean to govern AI in ways that uphold Indigenous sovereignty\, data governance\, and self-determination? How can policy frameworks integrate principles of relational accountability\, respect for more-than-human intelligence\, and collective consent? \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team sharing how the knowledge frameworks in their field are constructed\, validated\, and employed. This session will provide an opportunity to dive deeper into what it means to bring together Data Sovereignty and AI. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nFenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He studies digital politics and policy\, appearing frequently as an expert commentator in the media and intervening in media regulatory hearings. He is the author of Internet Daemons (University of Minnesota Press\, 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is a member of the Educational Review Committee of the Walrus Magazine. \n  \nKamuela Enos is the director of the Office of Indigenous Innovation at the University of Hawai’i. Enos is a mixed-race Native Hawaiian\, cis male\, raised in the community of Wai’anae within the context of the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s—an Indigenous rights movement that continues today. He holds degrees in Hawaiian studies and urban and regional planning from the University of Hawai’i. \n  \n\n\n\n\nMaroussia Lévesque is a CIGI senior fellow\, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School\, an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Research Center\, and a member of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence working group. Building on previous work on artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights at Global Affairs Canada\, she currently researches AI governance. \nShe previously worked for Quebec’s public inquiry commission on electronic surveillance and clerked for the Chief Justice at the Quebec Court of Appeal\, and holds degrees from Harvard\, McGill and Concordia University. \n\nÉliane Ubalijoro\, PhD is Chief Executive Officer of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Director General of ICRAF. An accomplished leader with a background in agriculture and molecular genetics\, she serves on several boards and has been recognized for outstanding contributions to innovation\, gender equity and sustainable prosperity creation. \nDr Ubalijoro has been a Professor of Practice for public-private sector partnerships at McGill University since 2008. From 2021 to March 2023\, she was the Executive Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and the Canada Hub Director for Future Earth. She is a member of Rwanda’s National Science and Technology Council and Presidential Advisory Council\, the Impact Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet\, the Science for Africa Foundation\, the Capitals Coalition Supervisory Board\, the External Advisory Committee to the Chief Statistician of Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada on Canada’s first Census of Environment\, Digital Green and Genome Canada\, among others. She is also a fellow of the International Science Council. \nPrior to returning to academia\, she was a scientific director in a Montreal-based biotechnology company in charge of molecular diagnostic and bioinformatics discovery programs. This work led Dr Ubalijoro to undertake consulting work in Haiti and in Africa related to sustainable climate-resilient economic growth. \n\n\n\n  \n🗓: June 4\, 2025\n🕒: 5:30- 7 PM\n📍: Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 \n🔗 : Zoom link \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend this event in-person\, please make sure you RSVP by emailing: abint-activities@concordia.ca URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation-08/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image001-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250519 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250429T180334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T175341Z UID:10001207-1747440000-1747612799@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions: Ruminations on Plurality DESCRIPTION:Embodied Interventions\, LePARC’s signature event\, is coming back for its 6th edition on May 17 & 18! \nCurated by Esteban Donoso and Michele Fiedler\, this year’s program\, titled Ruminations on Plurality\, will consist of a series of exchanges\, workshops and performances where participants can act as an intruder’s eye on each other’s proposals in order to signal towards questions\, concerns and opacities and to provide different perspectives. We will approach performance through ruminating\, as in deploying repetitive ways of relating to our environments and processing information. By attending to the plurality of identities that dwell within our hybrid bodies\, we aim to get in touch with movements and voices that display multiple influences.  \n​ \nOn May 17 and May 18\, public presentations of these processes will be shown at 4 different venues around the downtown Concordia University campus. These presentations are free\, and open to the public. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOPS: \nHannah Schallert – “Improvisation and Creation Workshop: Talking and Moving With Animation Software” \n \nThis workshop will introduce participants to a methodology for improvisation and choreographic creation inspired by the movement concepts and tools of computer animation software. Drawing on close embodied study and iterative group discussion\, we will attend to the language and imagery of specific video excerpts from online software tutorials and interviews with animators as the jumping off point for generating choreographic gestures\, phrases\, and states. The workshop will include small group exploration as well as collective sharing and discussion of our experiences and findings.\n\nThis workshop requires you to sign up in advance by emailing hannah.schallert@gmail.com\nMore information about the workshop can be found here.\n.\n.\n.\nAybüke Özel + Yuki Kéké Tam – “Gestures of Care Workshop”\nOur workshop has two parts: discussion and movement. We will start with a common gesture of care—the sharing of food. While participants snack and drink tea\, we will begin by discussing care and its meanings. What does it look like? Is it big or small or in-between? What does it mean to each of us\, personally? We will investigate the definition\, spectrum\, limitations\, and embodied gestures of care we all carry through conversation. While theoretical language and ideas are encouraged\, this is meant to establish camaraderie\, comfort\, and trust between participants. The second part of this workshop will be movement-based. Participants will be led in bodily explorations rooted in vocabularies of dance and the everyday.\n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n🗓May 17-18\, 2025\n📍Video Production Studio\, LePARC Performance Lab\, Black Box\, Mini Box\n  \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/embodied-interventions-ruminations-on-plurality/ LOCATION:milieux institute CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-05-06-at-10.37.49 AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250515T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250515T230000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250423T202014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T202217Z UID:10001206-1747314000-1747350000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:LUDODROME DESCRIPTION:Let’s get together! Everyone is busy but it’s time to renew connections – to share what we’ve been making\, and to hang out together. \nLUDODROME proposes to bring together an inspiring collection of 40 experimental games in the SAT’s downstairs space on May 15th for an evening of conversation and PLAY. \nWhile Montréal has a solid ecosystem to support games as an industry (MIGS\, La Guilde\, Zone Indie\, etc.) we are missing venues that highlight games for their artistic\, innovative and critical approaches (whether commercial or not). In 2018 the Mount-Royal Games Society closed its doors after almost eight years of inspiring meet-ups\, and FLOP suspended its activities in 2020. Since then\, other than a small number of art game exhibitions such as the one organized by Sporobole in 2022\, there have been a (very) few opportunities to celebrate experimental games. What happened to the energy? What’s happening with experimental games now in Montreal? What even are experimental games now? \nWe want to find exciting games wherever they can be found – solo work\, indie and artists’ studio work\, and\, of course\, university research-creation initiatives; local games that beat with the experimental impulse\, that explore new\, wonderful\, and eccentric mechanics\, narratives\, aesthetics and formats. \nSchedule: \n\n13h – 18h: Come play our games!\n18h – 23h: Evening expo (with cash bar service / refreshments)\n\n  \nThis event is open to ALL and FREE! \n  \n🗓 May 15\, 2025\n⏱️ 1-11 PM\n📍SAT\, 1201\, Boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\n🎟️  Reserve your spot here\n\n\nThis event is supported by Hexagram Research Centre (Concordia)\, the Behaviour Interactive Research Chair in Game Design (Concordia)\, the Chaire de Recherche en Économie Créative et mieux-être FRQSC (Axe créativiténumérique\, NAD-UQAC) and Milieux (Concordia). URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/10390/ LOCATION:SAT CATEGORIES:Conference / Festival,Game - Maker Jam ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ludodrome_logo_on_black_bg.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250514T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250514T140000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250502T135403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250502T141549Z UID:10001208-1747227600-1747231200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Abstracted! - How to write a Conference Proposal DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 14th from 1-2pm join Machine Agencies for Abstracted! a virtual workshop on how to write the perfect conference proposal.\nDuring this workshop\, Aurélie Petit will guide participants on how to best craft their abstract/proposals to submit to academic conferences and CFPs. This event will be completely virtual.\n.\n\n.\nABOUT AURÉLIE PETIT:\nAurélie Petit is a PhD Candidate in the Film Studies department at Concordia University\, Montréal. She specializes in the intersection of technology and animation\, with a focus on gender and sexuality. Her thesis examines the role that U.S.-based Japanese animation online communities played in shaping toxic technocultures on social media. During the Summer 2023\, she was a PhD Intern at Microsoft Research where she worked on the limits of applying live-action governance frameworks to animated pornographic media. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow in AI and Inclusion at the AI + Society Initiative (University of Ottawa)\, working with Professor Jason Millar and the CRAiEDL on the ethics of Generative AI pornography. Her research has been published in English and French in various publications\, including Porn Studies\, Internet Histories\, and Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication.\n.\n.\nMachine Agencies Description\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\n🗓 May 14\, 2025\n⏱️ 1-2 PM\n📍Online: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/82703421271 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/abstracted-how-to-write-a-conference-proposal/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/16x9-Skill-Share-3.21-Poster-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250509T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250509T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250327T164117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T164117Z UID:10001200-1746802800-1746808200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:The Disco Elysium Roundtable DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on May 9th for a roundtable discussion on Disco Elysium with Dr. Carl Therrien\, Dr. Mia Consalvo\, Nathanaël Roussy\, and Elizabeth Eraña. Dark play\, detective stories\, and the inner reaches and turmoils of the human mind are all on the table for this discussion! Attendees are encouraged to play Disco Elysium ahead of time and are welcome to contribute to the QA/Open Discussion portion of the event following the main roundtable. \n  \n🗓 May 9 \, 2025 \n⏱️ 3 – 4:30 PM \n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-disco-elysium-roundtable/ LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435) CATEGORIES:Q&A,Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DiscoKaraoke.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250430T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250430T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250415T191829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T172839Z UID:10001205-1746036000-1746036000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Chronicle of a Summer\, Screening and Discussion DESCRIPTION:After 2.5 years of enriching and insightful conversations around ethnography and film\, mark your calendars for the last Ethnography Lab Film Night hosted by the wonderful Maya 😢 \nFor the occasion\, the Concordia Ethnography Lab is excited to partner up with Cinéma Public to screen the audacious and touching film Chronicle of a Summer. The film is a vanguard work of cinéma-vérité (cinéma of truth)\, term coined to refer to both the philosophical and ethnographic inquiries of filmmakers like Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. The screening will be followed by a discussion on Cinéma-vérité and Cinéma-direct with Maya Lamothe-Katrapani of the Ethnography Lab and Richard Brouillette\, film producer\, director\, editor and programmer. Tw o other screenings are scheduled on May 4th and May 12th\, but the discussion will only be on April 30th. \n  \nABOUT THE FILM: \nChronicle of a Summer\, 1961 (86 min) \nIn the summer of 1960\, anthropologist filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin set out to chronicle the everyday lives of Parisians using a mixture of intimate interviews\, debates and observations. Beginning with the provocative and eternal question “Are you happy?” and expanding to political issues\, including the ongoing Algerian War\, artists\, factory workers\, office employees\, students and others open up to the camera to share their experiences\, fears and aspirations. The result became one of the decade’s most influential films\, and redefined the documentary form. \n  \n \n\n🗓 April 30\, 2025 ⏱️ 6 PM\nThis session will be followed by a discussion between Maya and Richard Brouillette\n\n🗓 May 4\, 2025 ⏱️ 8 PM\n🗓 May 12\, 2025 ⏱️ 6 PM\n\n📍Cinema Public\, Casa d’Italia\, 505 Jean Talon E (via Berri)\n\n🎟️  Purchase your ticket here\n\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n\n. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/chronicle-of-a-summer-screening-and-discussion/ LOCATION:Cinema Public\, Casa d’Italia CATEGORIES:Conversation,Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-15-at-2.06.00 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250417T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250417T190000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250404T144330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250404T144330Z UID:10001203-1744911000-1744916400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation 07 DESCRIPTION:Epistemological Foundations returns to continue the conversation around Data Sovereignty and AI. EF07 will bring together Ashley Cordes\, Peter-Lucas Jones and Keolu Fox to reflect on their to reflect on their approaches to creating knowledge at this intersection. \nThe Epistemological Foundations Conversations feature members of the Abundant Intelligences research team sharing how the knowledge frameworks in their field are constructed\, validated\, and employed. This session will provide an opportunity to dive deeper into what it means to bring together Data Sovereignty and AI. \nThis will be a hybrid event. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nAshley Cordes is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of Indigenous media\, critical/cultural studies\, environmental storytelling\, and community-based projects. Her recent work in these areas has been published in journals such as Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies\, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication\, and Feminist Media Studies. Her current book project\, From the Gold Rush to Code Rush: Communication of Alternative and Digital Currency in Indigenous Communities is under advance contract with MIT Press. Ashley is an enrolled citizen and Chair of the Culture and Education Committee of the Kōkwel/Coquille Nation. \n  \nPeter-Lucas Jones (Te Aupōuri\, Ngāi Takoto\, Ngāti Kahu) is the Chief Executive Officer of Te Hiku Media and an experienced governor in the Māori media eco-system. He is currently the Chair of Te Whakaruruhau o ngā Reo Irirangi Māori\, Deputy Chair of Māori Television and Chairman of Te Rūnanga Nui o Te Aupōuri\, and board member of Te Pūnaha Matatini\, a Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems. As a trusted kaitiaki of Māori data\, Peter-Lucas negotiates the responsibility of protecting iwi and Māori data while meeting the needs of funders and the expectations of iwi and hapū. Peter-Lucas has terrestrial and digital experience working with kaumātua and marae to record and provide access to te reo ā-iwi\, tikanga ā-iwi\, kōrero tuku iho and iwi history. This experience has seen the development of a Kaitiakitanga License for Te Hiku Media that provides a framework to guide the use of Māori data from a haukāingaperspective. \n  \nKeolu Fox Ph.D.\, Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) is an assistant professor at University of California\, San Diego\, affiliated with the Department of Anthropology\, the Global Health Program\, the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute\, the Climate Action Lab\, and the Indigenous Futures Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Genome Sciences from the University of Washington\, Seattle (2016). Dr. Fox’s multi-disciplinary research interests include genome sequencing\, genome engineering\, computational biology\, evolutionary genetics\, paleogenetics\, and Indigenizing biomedical research. His primary research focuses on questions of functionalizing genomics\, testing theories of natural selection by editing genes and determining the functions of mutations. \nDr. Fox has published numerous articles on human genetics\, biomedicine\, ancient genomics\, and Indigenous data sovereignty\, most recently in the New England Journal of Medicine\, Nature\, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. \nDr. Fox is a recipient of grants from numerous organizations including the National Institutes of Health\, the National Science Foundation\, National Geographic\, the American Association for Physical Anthropology\, Emerson Collective\, the Social Science Research Council and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, SOLVE Initiative. \n  \n🗓: April 17\, 2025\n🕒: 5:30- 7 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🔗 : Zoom link \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend this event in-person\, please make sure you RSVP by emailing: abint-activities@concordia.ca URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/epistemological-foundations-conversation-07/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Conversation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Untitled-10.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250416T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250416T140000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250404T150649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250404T150649Z UID:10001204-1744804800-1744812000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Annual General Meeting on April 16th! \nWe’re delighted to invite you ALL  to meet in person for our AGM. \nCome enjoy some pizza while we showcase the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2023-2024) and give you a look at our newly renovated spaces! 🎉 \n  \n🗓 April 16\, 2025\n⏱️12-2 PM\n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting-and-pizza-lunch-2/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img3-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250411T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250401T142829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250404T144438Z UID:10001201-1744394400-1744401600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Community Dye Pot: Red Amaranth DESCRIPTION:Join Textiles and Materiality and the MaSH Lab for the first in an iterative series of natural dye sessions. \nCommunity Dye Pot is a sensorial and experiential lab-based community activator facilitating collective knowledge creation\, experimentation\, and dialogue through-and-with botanical dyeing processes. \nThis first session will be led by Miranda Smitheram and Geneviève Moisan.  \n🚨 The dye will be provided but you are asked to bring pre-washed natural fibre cloths or small clothes items to experiment with. \n  \n \n\n🗓 April 11\, 2025\n⏱️ 6-8 PM\n📍MaSH Lab EV 10.615\n🎟️Please email textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to confirm your presence.\n  \nHuge thanks to the team at Growing A.R.C. for donating the Red Amaranth for this session! \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/community-dye-pot-red-amaranth/ LOCATION:MaSH LAB (Matter and Sustainable Hybridity Lab) EV 10.615 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Community-Dye-Pot-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250411T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250412T160000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250325T172134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T160143Z UID:10001196-1744390800-1744473600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Shipwreck: UKAI Projects Exhibition at Milieux DESCRIPTION: If you found yourself shipwrecked and washed ashore\, what three things would you most wish to have with you? How would you make a new home where you beached?  \n  \nJoin us on April 11 and April 12 for the public opening of Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. During this residency\, UKAI Projects will invite three Montreal-based artists (see their profiles below) to make a home among remnants brought by their team. \nMore about the project \n  \nEXPERIENCE SHIPWRECK:  \nThis is not a passive exhibition. Shipwreck demands your presence\, your interaction\, and your imagination\, inviting you to actively shape the narrative. Now it’s your turn to engage with the culmination of this 12-day residency and to step into this evolving landscape\, navigate this liminal space\, where devastation meets creative resilience. \n  \n\nJoin us on April 11 -12 to step into this strange world of devastation\, joy\, and reinhabitation.   \nFriday\, April 11\, 5 PM – 7 PM \nOpening Reception (Please RSVP to confirm your attendance). \nSaturday\, April 12:  10 AM – 4 PM \nShipwreck opened to the public \n\n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \n \nGabriel Junqueira (Fortaleza\, Brazil / 1992) is a multimedia artist who explores relations between body\, technology and materiality in media such as digital images\, sculptures and installations. \nHis recent research revolves around the relation between built spaces and nature through the creation of landscapes in 3D architectural visualization software\, commonly used in the real estate development market to simulate structures to be built. \nSeeking inspiration from corporate architecture and landscaping concepts\, the artist creates impossible locations\, where figurative elements are rearranged to the point of abstraction. \nAs an extension of his visual arts research\, since 2018 he has been dedicated to the musical project “Naves Cilíndricas”. In 2020\, he released two albums: “Imagens de Desastres Em High Resolution” on the Meia Vida label and “Névoa” via the Domina Label. \n  \nMeghan Moe Beitiks (she/they) is an artist and designer working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. They analyze perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site\, history\, emotions\, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. \nThey were a Fulbright Student Fellow\, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists\, a MacDowell Colony fellow\, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Their work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada\, among other resources. They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, and their MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \n  \nCredit: Riley Mydansky\nEija Loponen-Stephenson‘s work predominantly concerns the relationship between human movement and urban architectural spaces. Through practice-based artistic inquiry and experimental pedagogy\, she examines how body-building interactions can reveal hidden power structures programmed into the built environment. She holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) and a MA in Art Education at Concordia University. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT UKAI PROJECTS: \nUKAI Projects is a Canadian cultural organization whose mission is “culture for what’s coming”. Through artistic and cultural production\, UKAI provides publics with opportunities to inhabit massive social\, technological\, and ecological volatility and to begin to make a home in a changing world.  We seek and test out modes of cultural production that are in the right relation to the world we are making. \nOur home is a 7\,000 sq-ft abandoned office space in downtown Toronto where we host exhibitions\, residencies\, workshops\, parties\, and more. \nMuch of our work is global\, having recently created or presented work in Merida (MX)\, Geneva (CH)\, Beijing (CN)\, Dzaleka (MW)\, Cairo (EG)\, Berlin (DE)\, London (GB)\, Bristol (GB)\, Milan (IT)\, Reykjavik (IS)\, Helsinki (FI)\, Oslo (NO)\, and numerous locations across the United States and Canada. \nOur work explores algorithmic systems\, rising authoritarianism\, and climate damage through embodied and immersive experiences. We call into question the appropriateness of ossified ideologies and routines to make sense of these changes and invite audiences to undersign themselves to what happens next. \n  \n                                 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/shipwreck-ukai-projects-opening-exhibition-at-milieux/ LOCATION:milieux institute CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UKAI-Exhibition_1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250411T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250411T173000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250318T175410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T190400Z UID:10001194-1744385400-1744392600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Malcom Ferdinand: Loving Ourselves the Earth: Undoing the Colonial Inhabitation DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series!\nThis new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics from Caribbean narratives and environmental justice and history to the intersections of colonialism and ecology. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nThe pesticide contamination of the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe has become known as one of the most important environmental scandals of the current French Republic. The historic use of the chlordecone (or Kepone) in particular has caused significant damage to both human and non-human while no one has been held accountable. Based on 15 years of interdisciplinary research as well as a sustained political involvement in the case\, Dr Malcom Ferdinand will present a radical narrative of that scandal\, one that moves away from the technicist perspectives of the French government and many scientists. Loving Ourselves the Earth: Undoing the Colonial Inhabitation\, his recently published book (Seuil 2024)\, tells the story of an ongoing decolonial resistance and\, with a poetic gesture\, offers a conceptual proposition for inhabiting the Earth and engaging the world in the ruins of modern colonization. \n  \nABOUT MALCOM FERDINAND: \nMalcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London and doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He is currently researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). At the crossroads of political philosophy\, postcolonial theory and political ecology\, his research focuses on the Black Atlantic and particularly the Caribbean. He explores the relations between current ecological crises and the colonial history of modernity. His work has been featured in numerous academic journals and includes the award winning book Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (Seuil\, 2019 & Polity\, 2021). He recently published a comprehensive study on the pesticides contamination of Martinique and Guadeloupe in a book called S’aimer la Terre: défaire l’habiter colonial (Seuil\, 2024). \n  \n  \n🗓: April 11\, 2025 |3:30-5:30 PM\n📍: Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot here \n  \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n            URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-malcolm-ferdinand-loving-ourselves-the-earth-undoing-the-colonial-inhabitation/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Untitled-19-1920-x-1080-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250410T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250313T151456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T202331Z UID:10001191-1744306200-1744311600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Book Launch and Talk with Jeremy Stolow DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre on April 10th for the last event of their Montreal Media History Seminar. \nProfessor Jeremy Stolow will give a lecture about his latest book Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press). \nThe talk will be followed by a reception. \nThe event is free and open to all! \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nJeremy Stolow is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University\, where he teaches and conducts research on religion and media\, the history of technology\, occultism and science\, and visual culture. In addition to his latest book\, Picturing Aura (MIT Press 2025)\, he is the author of Orthodox By Design (U of California Press 2010) and Deus in Machine: Religion\, Technology\, and the Things in Between (Fordham u press\, 2013). \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nPicturing Aura (MIT Press\, 2025) offers a historical\, anthropological\, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize that hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as our aura. This book chronicles the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques of picturing aura\, from the late nineteenth century to the present day\, exploring how its images are put to work in the diverse realms of psychical research\, esotericism\, art photography\, popular culture\, and the New Age alternative medical and spiritual marketplace. These sometimes complementary\, sometimes conflicting histories – shaped by exchanges among professionals and amateurs\, scientists and occultists\, countercultural artist and entrepreneurs\, metropolitans and hinterland figures – show how the aura operates as a boundary object: something ontologically plural and somehow serviceable to the varying tasks and making art\, healing bodies\, and mapping technologies\, and images migrations\, while also reflecting on the very enterprise of picturing aura and the challenges it poses to settled assumptions about religion\, science and art. \n  \n  \n📅 April 10\, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM\n📍: Now in Speculative Life Room EV. 10.625 (was Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705)\n🔗 Please confirm your attendance here\n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-and-talk/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel Discussion,Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Untitled-25.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250410T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250410T160000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250317T144913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T213522Z UID:10001192-1744290000-1744300800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Intro to Mycelium Art-Making with Amélie Brindamour DESCRIPTION:Join us for an introductory workshop exploring the use of mycelium in bioart & design\, facilitated by Amélie Brindamour. \nMycelium\, the fibrous\, vegetative part of mushrooms\, has been used in recent years to build furniture\, art pieces\, and even small buildings. Come to the Speculative Life Biolab to learn more about mycelium\, how to grow it on burlap in petri dishes\, and get to know techniques to use lab tools in order to avoid contamination. Using a blend of organic matter and mycelium\, participants are invited to design & grow their own mycosculpture! \nImage credit: Amélie Brindamour\, details of growing mycelium\, 2023.  \n  \nABOUT AMÉLIE BRINDAMOUR: \nAmélie Brindamour explores different issues related to the natural environment. Her research includes electronic arts\, biomaterials and installation\, in order to reflect on interspecies relationships\, alternative forms of communication and intelligent systems in nature. Her projects blur the boundaries between art and science\, encourage collaboration and is developed mainly by participating in diverse artist residencies\, such as Est-Nord-Est (2023)\, the Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup (Sociochimie\, 2022)\, the Speculative Life BioLab at Concordia University (residency CQAM/Milieux\, 2019) and the Vermont Studio Centre (Johnson\, United States\, 2018). Her work has been presented in various events and institutions such as the Mois Multi (CAN)\, the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent (CAN)\, the Science Gallery Melbourne (AU) and the McCarthy Art Gallery (US)\, and is currently supported by a Canada Council for the Arts research grant. Amélie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and a Master in Art Education from Concordia University. Originally from Quebec City\, she lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.\n \n  \n  \n🗓 April 10\, 2025 \n⏱️ 1 – 4 PM \n📍Milieux Biolab EV 10.835 \n🎟️ To book your spot\, email biolab.milieux@concordia.ca with the subject ‘MYCOART‘ to reserve a spot. \n  \nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/intro-to-mycelium-art-making-with-amelie-brindamour/ LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835) CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/03.AB_Macro-scaled-e1742506475574.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250409T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250325T200953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250407T164358Z UID:10001197-1744200000-1744304400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[CALL OUT TO THE CONCORDIA & MILIEUX COMMUNITY] Participate in the UKAI Projects Shipwreck Residency DESCRIPTION: If you found yourself shipwrecked and washed ashore\, what three things would you most wish to have with you? How would you make a new home where you beached?  \n  \nJoin us on April 9 and April 10 and engage with Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. \nFrom April 6-9 three Montreal-based artists (see their profiles below) invited by UKAI Projects will be tasked to make a home among remnants brought by their team. Now\, it’s your turn to engage with the work. We call all Milieux members and the broader Concordia community to join us and explore how we can rebuild a future collectively. As the three artists finalize their intervention\, we invite  you all to walkthrough the installation and interact with their work. You’ll have until the next day\, April 10\, 5 PM to intervene. \n  \n \n  \nSHIPWRECK CONCEPTS & THEMES: \nShipwreck refuses nostalgia and embraces the aesthetics of impossibility—an acknowledgment that some ecological realities defy full representation or comprehension. This project borrows from mutual aid\, commoning\, and craft as a survival practice\, understanding that culture is built not in ideal conditions but in adaptive\, emergent responses to crisis.   \nMaking Culture from Ruins  \nShipwreck does not mourn the past or rebuild the future—it works in the already-present\, in the detritus of histories\, technologies\, and ecologies. It takes inspiration from the Already-AI Commons\, the entanglement of human and non-human agencies\, and the latent potential in what has been cast aside. Participants are invited to work with materials that have been displaced or discarded\, to engage with emergent properties rather than fixed intentions.   \nTemporal Collapse  \nThe project layers deep time with contemporary crises. Just as cave drawings in the distant past gesture toward a way of being that is now illegible to us\, Shipwreck asks artists to gesture forward—to create conditions that a future observer might find equally opaque yet strangely compelling.   \nPlay as Agency  \nRather than imposing narratives\, artists will work within constraints\, treating materials and artifacts as quasi-agents in their own right. The work will evolve not as simulation\, but as participation—as an open-ended engagement with a shared cultural and ecological crisis.   \nProcess  \nThree artists from UKAI Projects will collaborate with three Montreal-based artists to create evolving\, participatory scenarios that blur the boundary between creator and audience. The public will be invited to engage with and alter the space\, shaping it in ways that resist the idea of authorship as fixed and complete.  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nMeghan Moe Beitiks (she/they) is an artist and designer working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. They analyze perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site\, history\, emotions\, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. \nThey were a Fulbright Student Fellow\, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists\, a MacDowell Colony fellow\, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Their work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada\, among other resources. They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, and their MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \nCredit: Riley Mydansky\nEija Loponen-Stephenson‘s work predominantly concerns the relationship between human movement and urban architectural spaces. Through practice-based artistic inquiry and experimental pedagogy\, she examines how body-building interactions can reveal hidden power structures programmed into the built environment. She holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) and a MA in Art Education at Concordia University. \n  \n  \n \nGabriel Junqueira (Fortaleza\, Brazil / 1992) is a multimedia artist who explores relations between body\, technology and materiality in media such as digital images\, sculptures and installations. His recent research revolves around the relation between built spaces and nature through the creation of landscapes in 3D architectural visualization software\, commonly used in the real estate development market to simulate structures to be built. Seeking inspiration from corporate architecture and landscaping concepts\, the artist creates impossible locations\, where figurative elements are rearranged to the point of abstraction. As an extension of his visual arts research\, since 2018 he has been dedicated to the musical project “Naves Cilíndricas”. In 2020\, he released two albums: “Imagens de Desastres Em High Resolution” on the Meia Vida label and “Névoa” via the Domina Label. \n  \n                       URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-out-to-the-concordia-milieux-community-participate-in-the-ukai-project-shipwreck-residency/ LOCATION:milieux institute CATEGORIES:Residency ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Untitled-3-1920x1080-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250409T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250409T140000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250402T214203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T214203Z UID:10001202-1744200000-1744207200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Pizza Lunch Meet & Greet DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 9 for Pizza lunch  engage with Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. \nFrom April 6-9\, Meghan Moe Beitiks\, Eija Loponen-Stephenson and Gabriel Junqueira will be working on Shipwreck\, attempting to make a home among remnants brought by three UKAI Projects artists. \nLet’s discover together their work while grabbing a slice of pizza! This will be an amazing opportunity to get a sense of the project and think about the potential connections between the installation and your own research/work. Come join us! \n  \n📷 Photo credit: Antoine Simard-Legault \n🗓: April 9\, 2025 |12-2 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/shipwreck-pizza-lunch-meet-greet/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Reception,Tour - Visit ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-4.08.19 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250409T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250409T140000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250320T135443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T203737Z UID:10001193-1744200000-1744207200@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Ethnolab Manuscript Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab on April 9th for the second edition of the Manuscript Workshops.\nThe purpose of each workshop is to help the author with a portion of the manuscript for a book they’re working on. The text will be shared two weeks beforehand so that attendees have time to read it and can come to the workshop ready for a constructive and generative discussion of the text. If If you’d like to learn more about writing\, editing and publishing this workshop series is for you! \nThis workshop will focus on Knut Gunnar Nustad‘s latest book: Trout in the post-colony: landscapes\, property and conservation in South Africa. Kregg Hetherington\, Jesse Arsenault\, and Blair Rutherford will lead the discussion. \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nIn the late 19th century\, British settlers released trout into South Africa’s rivers\, seeking to recreate their homeland’s streams and sporting traditions. What seemed a small act of ecological import would ripple across landscapes\, conservation practices\, and cultural imaginations for over a century. Through this seemingly innocuous species\, this book explores how colonial legacies continue to shape environments\, politics\, and landscapes in South Africa and beyond. Trout were spread from their North American and European homes throughout the British Empire in a couple of decades from the mid-1860s. Unlike many other colonial species\, trout were introduced first and foremost for sport and were protected through conservation efforts by colonial authorities. With the turn to biodiversity and concerns over alien species in the 1980s\, many now argue for their eradication. Today\, trout occupy a place in the postcolonial landscape that troubles many of the categories that we use to think about landscapes\, including the distinction between the wild and the domestic\, between science and coloniality\, between politics and nature. The book sets out to critically rethink these categories through a case study of the colonial British transfer of trout to South Africa and what happened to them there. It argues that the story of trout in South Africa offers critical insights into the broader challenges of postcolonial natures. Rather than making an argument for or against trout\, the book shows that to understand how colonial relations continue to shape landscapes in South Africa and elsewhere\, we must take the world-shaping effects of trout seriously. \n  \n📅 April  9\, 2025 | 12-2 PM \n📍: Speculative Life room EV 10.625 \n🎟️ To sign up\, please email the Concordia Ethnography Lab by April 1st. \nAttendance is limited in order to ensure a good discussion. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnolab-manuscript-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Presentation1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250408T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250408T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250327T160401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T173139Z UID:10001198-1744135200-1744142400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Screening of Wind\, Tide & Oar followed by a discussion with Huw Wahl DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab and Maya Lamothe-Katrapani for another ethnographic film screening\, on April 8th. This time\, we’ll watch \nWind\, Tide & Oar: Encounters With Engineless Sailing (2024\, 84 min) by British cineast Huw Wahl.\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with the director moderated by Polina Shubina\, member of the Montreal Waterways boating research group.\n\nABOUT THE FILM: \nWind\, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing\, shot on analogue film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of those who travel solely by harnessing the natural elements alone\, following a diverse array of traditional boats and uncovering the unique rhythms and motivations of engineless navigation. \nJourneying through rivers\, coastlines\, and open seas\, spanning the UK\, the Netherlands\, and France\, Wind\,Tide & Oar creates a contemplative space\, addressing themes of ecology\, heritage\, traditional skills\, and maritime history. Using a 1960s hand-wound camera\, Wahl offers a poetic and intimate perspective on a millennia-old craft\, upended by the invention of mechanised power. \nThrough the film’s reveries\, sailing becomes a means to explore our interaction with and responsibility to the environment. It invites deep reflection on our relationship with nature\, our understanding of and commitment to sustainability\, and our care for the world around us. \n  \nABOUT  THE FILMMAKER: \nWahl‘s work has been screened internationally at film festivals such as CPH:DOX\, Festival du nouveau cinéma and Open City Docs\, in art galleries and museums like Centre Pompidou Metz\, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Whitworth\, as well as in universities like NYU\, documentary art centres like Union Docs\, and by sea onboard an engineless Thamses sailing barge touring the South East coast of England. \nHe has won several international awards with his films\, and they’ve featured in magazines like Sight and Sound and The Wire\, and received funding from organisations such as Arts Council England\, The Henry Moore Foundation\, and the Royal Photographic Society. \nHis writing has been published in magazines\, academic journals and books. He has also curated film programmes\, been part of international film festival juries\, taught film & photography courses in university and community settings in the UK and abroad\, and worked as an AHRC funded research associate for the University of Manchester. \nWind\, Tide & Oar\, his film about the art of engineless sailing\, is distributed by Tull Stories\, and will be released into UK cinemas in spring 2025. \n  \n🗓 April 8\, 2025\n⏱️ 6-8 PM\n📍Screening Room VA-114\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n\n.\n. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-of-wind-tide-oar-wind-tide-oar-encounters-with-engineless-sailing-and-discussion-with-huw-wahl/ LOCATION:Concordia University – VA-114 Cinema\, 1395 Blvd. René-Lévesque Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2M5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/download-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250331T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250331T160000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250207T183813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T165749Z UID:10001171-1743429600-1743436800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Marco Armiero : Guerrilla Narrative in the Wasteocene DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics from Caribbean narratives and environmental justice and history to the intersections of colonialism and ecology. \nWhile the concept of the geological Anthropocene may have diminished in prominence\, it remains vital to scrutinize the narratives it has generated and to foster counter-hegemonic storytelling. Although humanity collectively inhabits the Anthropocene\, its effects are far from uniformly distributed. Instead of seeking its evidence solely in the geosphere\, what if researchers shifted their focus to the organosphere — exploring the intertwined ecologies of humans and their environments? \nToxic layers have not only settled into physical landscapes but have also infiltrated human and more-than-human bodies. Recent epigenetic studies suggest that these toxic imprints are now embedded in genetic memory. By investigating this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity\, we confront not the Anthropocene but the Wasteocene—an era defined by waste. However\, the Wasteocene extends beyond the mere generation of waste; it is fundamentally about the systematic production of wasted lives and degraded places. The enforcement of wasting relationships upon marginalized human and more-than-human communities constructs a toxic ecology made of contaminants and narratives. \nThis talk will examine the “Toxic Narrative Infrastructure” — a framework which invisibilizes\, normalizes\, and naturalizes injustices — and explore how guerrilla narratives seek to disrupt and dismantle it. \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER:\nMarco Armiero is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science\, Autonomous University of Barcelona & Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. A global leader in environmental humanities\, he has held postdoctoral and visiting positions at Yale\, Stanford\, Berkeley\, and Coimvra\, and directed the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, establishing it as a hub for socioecological research and activism. \nHis groundbreaking book\, Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump (Cambridge University Press\, 2021)\, has been widely recognized\, translated into several languages\, and inspired both academic symposia and media coverage. In 2022\, he co-authored the first environmental history of Italian fascism\, published by Einaudi\, translated by MIT Press\, and forthcoming in Spanish. \nA pioneer in his field\, Prof. Armiero is a founding figure in European environmental history and has advanced research on migration\, socioecological crises\, and justice. His influential concepts\, such as the “Wasteocene” and “toxic narrative infrastructure\,” have shaped contemporary scholarship\, blending academic excellence with advocacy for environmental and social equity. \n  \n  \n🗓: March 31\, 2025\n🕒: 2 – 4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n       URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-marco-armiero-guerrilla-narrative-in-the-wasteocene/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Untitled-4-6.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250328T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250328T160000 DTSTAMP:20260609T055011 CREATED:20250213T182542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T165724Z UID:10001178-1743170400-1743177600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Joni Adamson: Beyond Climate Fiction: Visionary Fictions\, Futures Thinking\, and a Cosmovisionary Archive DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second talk of the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! \nThis new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives\, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nIn Fall of 2024\, the United Nations hosted hundreds of global delegates at The Summit of the Future\, a monumental effort to forge a new international consensus on how to safeguard the future.  For the first time\, humanists\, including me\, were an officially-invited part of the delegation\, and at the table for consideration of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ challenge to take specific steps to “make a tangible difference in people’s lives and account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations.” \nIn this lecture\, I will explain the role of climate fiction in the lead-up to my invitation (as a humanist) to come to the United Nations. Then\, I’ll dive into a discussion of Day After Tomorrow (2004)\, the most celebrated “cli-fi” film to date\, and bring Solar Storms (1994)\, an indigenous-authored novel that has only recently been considered part of an emerging climate fiction canon into the discussion.  I connect these two seemingly unrelated pieces because they can both be connected in interesting ways to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)\, the massive Atlantic Ocean current system which affects climate\, sea levels and global weather system. \nMy discussion explores how both film and novel create characters that draw attention to the value of “futures thinking\,” a practice foregrounded at the Summit of the Future and\, for over 20 years\, by environmental humanists interested in impowering individuals\, students\, governments\, societies\, and organizations to imagine and shape alternative\, desirable futures\, particularly in the face of accelerating ecosystemic disruptions associated with climate change (like AMOC).  With Solar Storms as an example not of “cli-fi” per se\, but as an example of a genre Black Studies professor and spoken word artist Walida Imarisha calls ‘visionary fiction\,’ I explore why we might want to go beyond futures thinking to ‘cosmos thinking\,’ a concept linked to cosmovisions\, cosmopolitics and the indigenous-authored Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change (2012). \nBuilding on my previous work around indigenous cosmopolitics and the environmental humanities (Adamson and Davis 2017\, Adamson and Monani 2016)\, I propose a ‘cosmovisionary archive’ that would facilitate cosmos-thinking by gathering together unruly\, mixed genres (ancient oral tradition\, almanacs\, visionary fictions\, blockbuster films) that “account for the livlihoods and resilience of future generations” and acknowledge Earth systems (like AMOC) as ‘persons’ with rights ‘to regenerate biocapacity and continue vital cycles’ (Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change 2012). \nAFFILIATED EVENT: \nOn March 21st\, Speculative lIfe will host a reading session to prepare for Adamson and Armiero’s lectures: \nJoin us at 10-11:30 AM in the Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 to read and discuss the following texts: \n\, J. (2016). Networking Networks and Constellating New Practices in the Environmental Humanities. PMLA\, 131(2)\, 347–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26158816 \nArmiero\, M. (2021). The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History\, 26(3)\, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emab014.003 \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nJoni Adamson is President’s Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Distinguished Global Futures Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL). She is Founding Director of the Flagship Hub of UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition\, the first humanities-led science platform in the world. She is also Director of Humanities for the Environment North America (HFE)\, based in the Global Institute for Sustainability and Innovation at ASU’s Walton Center for Planetary Heath.\n \nAdamson is the author and/or co-editor of nine books and special issues and 90 articles\, chapters\, reviews and blog posts which have been widely cited\, reprinted\, and translated into Mandarin and Spanish. She writes on environmental justice\, the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences\, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies\, the rights of nature movement\, and the food justice movement.  Her research has been supported by many awards and grants\, including the 2019 Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship at the National Humanities Center. She has delivered 90+ keynote and plenary lectures throughout the US and in Australia\, China\, England\, Italy\, France\, Germany\, Hong Kong\, the Netherlands\, Scotland\, South Africa\, Spain\, Sweden\, and Taiwan. \n  \n🗓: March 28\, 2025 |2-4 PM\n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please reserve your spot \nThis event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology\, the Speculative Life Research Cluster\, the Department of English at Concordia University\, the Department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University\, and the CISSC. \n  \n        URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-joni-adamson-beyond-climate-fiction-visionary-fictions-futures-thinking-and-a-cosmovisionary-archive/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Untitled-8-2.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR