BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Milieux - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Milieux X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Milieux REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250519 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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:20260609T072317 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250326T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250326T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250219T204915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T204915Z UID:10001182-1743010200-1743021000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[TAG Critical Watch Series] Jumanji (1995) DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a screening and discussion of 1995’s Jumanji\, featuring Robin Williams\, roll to move mechanics\, and CGI jungle animals. \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion\, which is then followed by a podcast recording with select members of the audience and/or our guests. March’s film is the original Jumanji (1995). \nIf you would like to reserve a place on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact the TAG coordinator at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca. \n  \n📅 March 26\, 2024 | 5:30-8:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ Jumanji (1995) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-jumanji-1995/ LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/jumanji-netflix.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250321T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250321T140000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250224T160439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T151820Z UID:10001186-1742558400-1742565600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Ethnolab Manuscript Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab on March 21st 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 session will focus on Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum’s upcoming book\, The Art of Political Imagination: Shaping Palestinian Epistemologies Amidst Political Uncertainty. \nThis work examines the world of contemporary Palestinian visual artists living in the central cities of the West Bank. It focuses on their utilization of art as a tool for liberation and a craft of insurgent political imagination against settler colonialism. A central argument of the book is that art forms a vital thread within a wider web of Palestinian epistemology. \nThrough their work\, artists create\, retell\, and archive knowledge and shape Palestinian ontology and worldmaking—past\, present and future. They are creators of images and imaginaries that gather communities and contribute to national and political discourses. By highlighting the resilience of Palestinian creativity in the face of colonial oppression and erasure\, the book underscores the importance of rearticulating the role of art in the Palestinian struggle\, by focusing on artists who came of age politically and artistically after the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000. \nSowparnika Balasingham\, Balbir Singh\, and Lisa Stevenson will lead the discussion. This is a brown bag lunch format\, so please bring something to eat if you would like to. \n  \n📅:March 21\, 2025 | 12-2 PM \n📍: Speculative Life room EV 10.625 \n🎟️ To sign up\, please email the Concordia Ethnography Lab by March 7. \nAttendance is limited in order to ensure a good discussion. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ethnolab-manuscript-workshop/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Untitled-26.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250321T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250321T133000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250313T142915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T142939Z UID:10001190-1742558400-1742563800@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Sampling with AudioStellar: New Frontiers in Music and Machine Learning DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies and Kamyar Karimi for an Introduction to AudioStellar workshop to discover how this AI-powered experimental sampler transforms your audio samples into an interactive\, real-time visual and sonic experience. Learn to load your own dataset and extract the features/turn to samples\, navigate the latent space\, and integrate machine learning concepts into live performance and sequencing. \n🚨 To participate\, make sure you come with : \n\nYour own laptop\nA sample pack with at least 20 minutes of sound\nAudioStellar installed from audiostellar.xyz\n\n  \nABOUT KAMYAR KARIMI: \nKamyar ‘Noak’ Karimi is a digital storyteller who believes that within the dynamic human global network\, the interwebs of human stories are recursively retold within different media. His perspective on storytelling is reflected in his diverse career\, which spans roles as a programmer\, game designer\, and sound designer. In his work\, Karimi primarily uses code and sound to explore and expand the possibilities of storytelling in the realm of new media. This multi-disciplinary approach enables him to weave intricate narratives that resonate across various platforms\, underpinning his philosophy that stories are a universal medium\, continually evolving and reshaping themselves in the digital age. \n  \n  \n📅 March 21\, 2025 | 12-1:30 PM\n📍:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/sampling-with-audiostellar-new-frontiers-in-music-and-machine-learning/ LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/16x9-Skill-Share-3.21-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250321T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250321T113000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250319T193721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T193721Z UID:10001195-1742551200-1742556600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series]: Reading Joni Adamson & Marco Armiero DESCRIPTION:As Speculative Life research cluster prepares for its upcoming lectures\, be sure to join the reading group this Friday\, March 21st! \nOn March 28\, Joni Adamson will give a talk about the role of climate fiction in shaping environmental discourse followed by Marco Armiero on March 31st who will introduce participants to the “Toxic Narrative Infrastructure”\, a framework which invisibilizes\, normalizes and naturalizes environmental injustices. \nDuring this session\, participants will be invited to read and discuss selected texts by both Joni Adamson and Marco Armiero: \nAdamson\, 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  \n🗓: March 21\, 2025 |10-11:30 PM\n📍: Speculative Life Room EV 10.625 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculative-life-speaker-series-reading-joni-adamson-marco-armiero/ LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625 CATEGORIES:Conversation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Untitled-1-8.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250317T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250306T200627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T153947Z UID:10001189-1742227200-1742234400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:An Evening of Output with Nick Montfort DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 17 for a reading and panel discussion of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953-2023 edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. \nWe’re thrilled to welcome authors Sofian Audry\, Bill Kennedy\, Erín Moure\, and Darren Wershler for a conversation about the book and the fascinating world of computer-generated writing. \nCopies of OUTPUT will be available for purchase\, and there will be free giveaways of other books featuring computer-generated writing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nNick Montfort uses computation to develop literary art. His work includes ten computer-generated books (in print from seven presses)\, the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between\, and Memory Slam: Batch-Era Text Generation. Among his MIT Press books are The Future and two co-edited volumes\, The New Media Reader and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953–2023. He’s professor of digital media at MIT and principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative. Montfort directs a lab/studio\, The Trope Tank\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nAn anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems\, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. \nThe discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation\, as it happens\, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology\, Output\, thoughtfully selected\, introduced\, and edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort\, aims to correct that omission by gathering seven decades of English-language texts produced by generation systems and software. The outputs span many different types of creative writing and include text generated by research systems\, along with reports and utilitarian texts\, representing many general advances and experiments in text generation. \nOutput is first and foremost a collection of outputs to be encountered by readers. In addition to an overall introduction\, each of the excerpts is introduced individually and organized by fine-grain genre including conversations\, humor\, letters\, poetry\, prose\, and sentences. Bibliographic references allow readers to learn more about outputs and systems that intrigue them. Although Output could serve as a reference book\, it is designed to be readable and to be read. Purposefully excluded are human–computer collaborations that were conceptually defined but not implemented as a computer system. \n🔗 More about the book here \n  \nThis event is supported by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) https://www.crihn.org/ \n  \n🗓 March 17\, 2025 \n⏱️ 4 – 6 PM \n📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n  URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/an-evening-of-output-with-nick-montfort/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Nick-Monfort-Book-Concordia-Event-Page.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250314T160000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250220T193515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T205853Z UID:10001183-1741964400-1741968000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Guest Talk: Extreme Design with Evgeni Puzankov DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on March 14th for a talk on extreme design and game narrative with Evgeni Puzankov. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nExtreme Design Spaces are wonderful. These are design contexts and tools\, not necessarily physical environments. This practice is an exercise in failure to approach every interactive project as its own medium in an industry that’s constantly in chaos. Playing with explorations of extremes is useful for your game development practice\, general creativity\, and it’s simply so much fun. It’s a wonderful response to an industry that loves telling you “you can’t do it” or “you have to do it this way”. The talk will cover creative constraints\, semantics\, dead genres\,  and artificial exceptionality. It will also include quite a bit of spite\, ideological and not. The talk will feature practical advice as well as a general overview. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nEvgeni “Zhenia” Puzankov is an award-winning narrative designer and game developer (as All Worms) with 17+ years of experience in the industry and 70+ released titles.  He is also a teacher\, curator of a microfund Briefs\, and a PhD candidate at York University.\n \nhttps://linktr.ee/all_worms \n  \n  \n  \n📅:March 14\, 2025 | 3-4 PM \n📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-extreme-design-with-evgeni-puzankov/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Untitled-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250314T133000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250305T180935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T180955Z UID:10001188-1741953600-1741959000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Chatting with Ollama - Build your own AI Bot DESCRIPTION:join Machine Agencies‘s Gen AI Studio for a creative workshop: Chatting with Ollama – Build your own AI Bot!\n\nFrançois Lespinasse will be showing us how to implement RAGs using Ollama\, a tool designed to simplify the process of running open-source large language models (LLMs) like Deepseek and Llama directly on your laptop.\nDuring this  brief workshop\, participants will implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that can do things like answer questions about a pdf etc.\n\n\n\nABOUT FRANÇOIS LESPINASSE:\n\nFrançois Lespinasse\, a transdisciplinary artist based in Montréal\, integrates his expertise in neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) into his creative practice. He crafts human-computer interfaces (HCI) that blend procedurally generated musical\, visual\, and textual compositions\, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven creativity. His artistic endeavors are deeply informed by his research into the somatic states underpinning emotions and intersubjectivity. By incorporating biosignals into his work\, he creates immersive experiences that explore the convergence of brain-body dynamics and phenomenology\, offering a rich sensory symphony of visual\, auditory\, poetic\, and tactile stimuli. \nLespinasse develops immersive interfaces that weave intricate narratives of consciousness\, offering retrospectives on its evolution as a cultural construct and forecasting potential transhumanistic progressions. These artistic explorations serve as a medium for communicating complex ideas about the interplay between technology and consciousness\, inviting audiences to engage with these concepts on a visceral and experiential level. \nHis commitment to open-source learning and collaboration extends to his artistic practice\, as he shares his creative processes and insights through his Github portfolio\, fostering a community of artists and researchers working at the intersection of art\, science\, and technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n📅 March 14 \, 2025 | 12-1:30 PM\n📍:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425\n🚨 To participate bring your own laptop and please download Ollama beforehand 👉 https://ollama.com/download URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/9809/ LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/16x9_Skill-Share-Event-3.14-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250304T144149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T173422Z UID:10001187-1741888800-1741896000@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Screening and discussion with Sarra El Abed DESCRIPTION:Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab and Maya Lamothe-Katrapani for another ethnographic film screening\, on March 13th. This time\, the screening is organized with fellow anthropology graduate student Clare Walker. Sarra El Abed’s Ain’t No Time For Women (2021\, 19 minutes) will be followed by the screening of Uncle Yanco\, a short film by Agnès Varda\, a seminal filmmaker within the French New Wave. \nA virtual Q&A with Sarra El Abed will follow to discuss both her work and Varda’s influence on her creative practice.\n\n \n\nABOUT THE FILMS: \n \nAin’t No Time For Women: Tunis\, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s\, the hairdresser\, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square\, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary\, we get an intimate look at the county’s teenage democracy.\n\n\n \nUncle Yanco: Agnès Varda travels to a Californian houseboat community to meet Jean Varda (known affectionately as Uncle Yanco)\, a Greek emigrant relative whom Varda has never met. In her characteristic cinematic style\, Varda brings herself into the countercultural beat scene of 1960s San Francisco\, finding resonances with Uncle Yanco in conversations of dreams\, art\, and living.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER: \n\nSarra El Abed\, born in Tunisia and raised in Montreal\, explores the intersection of both cultures in her work. Her short documentary AIN’T NO TIME FOR WOMEN (filmed in Tunisia\, available on The New Yorker) screened at Clermont-Ferrand\, Dok Leipzig\, and Slamdance\, earning nominations and awards\, including Best Canadian Short at Hot Docs. This success led to LES COLLECTIONNEURS\, filmed in Cairo and available on Tou.Tv. Blending fiction and documentary\, she highlights the beauty of the mundane with flamboyant\, often feminine characters and a touch of humor. She is currently developing two feature films\, ADIEU MINETTE\, GOODBYE PARTY and GENS QUI RIENT\, GENS QUI PLEURENT. With ADIEU MINETTE\, she participated in the TIFF Filmmaker Lab\, TIFF Talent Accelerator\, and won the FNC X Netflix Pitch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n🗓 March 13\, 2025\n⏱️ 6-8 PM\n📍Screening Room EV 10.525\n🎟️ Make sure to reserve your spot\, If you can’t make it anymore please let Maya know so she can give your seat to someone else.\n.\nThis screening received generous support from the Concordia Council on Student Life\n.\n. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/screening-and-discussion-with-sarra-el-abed/ LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525 CATEGORIES:Q&A,Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-04-at-9.34.09 AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250310T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250310T130000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250224T150252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T152637Z UID:10001185-1741608000-1741611600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:A Byte-Sized Welcome with Machine Agencies DESCRIPTION:Join us for A Byte-Sized Welcome\, the exciting kick-off event for the new semester with Machine Agencies! \nCome on down\, grab some lunch\, and learn about Machine Agencies\, an exciting research community at the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, cultures\, and creations.  \n This is your chance to learn about our ongoing projects and hear about the upcoming activities and events we’re hosting! \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  \nMachine Agencies is part of the Speculative Life Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Machine Agencies draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-byte-sized-welcome-with-machine-agencies-2/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Info Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Untitled-1-6.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250307T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250307T153000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250207T221340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T192945Z UID:10001174-1741354200-1741361400@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[Speculative Life Speaker Series/Workshop] Who cares? Public humanities methods and building impact DESCRIPTION:Alison Donnell\, Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol\, will give a workshop for graduate students titled “Who cares? Public humanities methods and building impact.” This workshop coincides with a graduate course (HUMA 889 – Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies) but is open to all graduate students. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nThe workshop will use Donnell’s Caribbean Literary Heritage and the A-Z project (which started on Facebook) as prompts for greater reflection. To prepare for the workshop\, an annotated bibliography of resources in the public humanities will be shared with participants. In addition\, students will be given a question guide ahead of time to consider their particular projects\, research methods\, and key audiences\, and to share and learn in an interactive format. \n \n  \nABOUT ALISON DONNELL: \nAlison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol. She has been published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature\, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture\, recovery research of women authors\, and Caribbean literary archives. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n🗓: March 7\, 2025 | 1:30 – 3:30 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-workshop-who-cares-public-humanities-methods-and-building-impact/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Untitled-7-3.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250306T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250306T190000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250218T183617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T183638Z UID:10001179-1741282200-1741287600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Epistemological Foundations Conversation 06 DESCRIPTION:Epistemological Foundations returns this Winter to continue the conversation around knowledge practices and their implications. EF06 will bring together Kari Noe\, Jason Leigh\, and Sara Diamond to reflect on their approaches to knowledge-making and elaborate on the implications of data visualization for community governance\, science communication\, and archiving. The session will be moderated by our co-director Hēmi Whaanga\, and hosted by Abundant Intelligences postdoctoral researcher Ceyda Yolgörmez. \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 Visualization to Indigenous Knowledges and AI. \nThis will be a hybrid event. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nKari Noe is a PhD research assistant at Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa\, and co-leads the emerging media lab\, Create(x)\, at the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaiʻi at West Oʻahu. \nHer research includes: Human Computer Interaction\, Extended Reality Technologies\, and video game development for both serious and entertainment games. More specifically\, she is interested in the ways emerging media can support learning. As a mixed Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) scholar\, she focuses on projects that involve Hawaiian cultural heritage. \nHer research has been published in numerous conferences such as ACM CHI and ACM SIGGRAPH\, and her work has been featured in both local and international venues such as the Bishop Museum on Oʻahu or the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) in Montreal. \n  \nJason Leigh is the Director of LAVA: the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & applications\, Co-Director of the Hawaii Data Science Institute\, Director of Create(x) at University of Hawaii at West Oahu\, and Professor of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. \nHe is also Director Emeritus of the Electronic Visualization Lab and the Software Technologies Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, where he was previously Professor of Computer Science and Affiliated Professor of Communications. \nIn addition he was a Fellow of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and has held research appointments at Argonne National Laboratory\, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. \nHis research expertise includes: Big data visualization; virtual reality; high performance networking; and video game design. \nHe is co-inventor of the CAVE2 Hybrid Reality Environment\, and SAGE: Scalable Amplified Group Environment software\, which is the most widely used platform for information-intensive collaboration. \nIn 2010 he initiated a new multi-disciplinary area of research called Human Augmentics – which refers to the study of technologies for expanding the capabilities and characteristics of humans. \nHis research has also received numerous press from News media including: the AP News\, New York Times\, Popular Science’s Future Of\, Nova ScienceNow\, NSF Science Now\, PBS\, and Forbes. \nLeigh also teaches classes in Software Design\, Virtual Reality\, Data Visualization and Video Game Design. In 2010 his video game design class enabled the University of Illinois at Chicago to be ranked among the top 50 video game programs in US and Canada. \nJason Leigh explores the intersections between big data visualization\, virtual reality\, and high-performance networked computing. A UH computer scientist\, he founded LAVA: Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications and Create(x)\, a lab exploring how to harness advanced computational technology to advance Hawaiian cultural practices. He will contribute to harnessing ancestral knowledge-driven AI for immersive visualization. \n  \nDr. Sara Diamond\, President Emerita of OCAD University has led institutional transformation within arts\, digital media/ICT\, and post-secondary institutions for over 30 years. Diamond was President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University from 2005-2020\, leading its transformation to full university status. She was founding director of the Banff New Media Institute (1995 — 2005). As a historian\, media artist and computer scientist\, Diamond brings a deep interest in the relationships of human practices\, culture\, and technologies and a profound commitment to equity and Indigenous rights. She has been co-PI on major research networks such as Am-I-Able (wearable technologies and IoT) and the Centre for Information Visualization and Data Driven Design. She has undertaken NSERC\, SSHRC\, Ontario Research Excellent Fund\, Mitacs\, and foundation funded research in data analytics and visualization\, urban and transportation planning\, public art\, cultural analytics\, and wearable technology to support seniors’ wellbeing. Current funded scholarship includes acting as co-PI for the iCity2.0 project (ORF-E)\, applying AI tools such as generative design to complete community planning (ORF-E\, Mitacs); developing a Machine Learning qualitative analytics framework to understand the impact of screen media on audiences (Mitacs); creating mobile affective computing solutions to support mood analysis and mental health in the workplace (Mitacs); reassessing archives through visualization and metadata analysis (SSHRC)\, and ongoing considerations of human\, animal and machine agency. True to her early training as a social historian she continues to write about the history of media arts and technologies. \nRecognitions include the Order of Canada\, Order of Ontario\, Doctor of Science\, honoris causa\, Simon Fraser University\, 2020; the 2020 Exceptional Women of Excellence from the Women’s Economic Forum and two New Media “Pioneer” awards. She is a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College and Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin and UCLA. Diamond acted as a reviewer for the 2021 mid-term CFREF assessments and for the NFREF competition. \nShe is co-chair of Toronto’s ArtworxTO\, the Year of Public Art and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche; is the chair for the Toronto Arts Foundation and of the new Baycrest Academy for Research and Education. Diamond is an Expert Panelist with the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation and a Thought Leader with Lord Cultural Resources. \n(OC OO RCSA)\, President Emerita OCAD University\, has led collaborative efforts to strengthen equity and diversity and to support Indigenous cultures\, research\, and decolonization in the academy. She contributes expertise in data visualization and wearable technology\, research-creation methodologies\, and integration of Indigenous research methodologies into academic contexts. \n  \nCeyda Yolgormez is a Postdoc at the Indigenous Futures Research Cluster\, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies\, such as large machine learning models or social robots\, to consider how our conceptions of the social are changing. Her PhD dissertation proposes a framework for a sociology of machines that reimagines human-machine relations. Her research looks at playful and creative engagements with machines as a site to explore and experiment with human machine socialities\, and is interested in methodologies that reveal and trouble the common-sensical way in which we understand such relations. \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Hēmi Whaanga is a Professor and Head of Massey University’s School of Te Pūtahi-a-Toi – School of Māori Knowledge. He has worked as a project leader and researcher on a range of projects centred on the revitalization and protection of Māori language and knowledge (including Mātauranga Māori\, digitization of indigenous knowledge\, ICT and indigenous knowledge\, ethics\, traditional ecological knowledge\, language revitalisation\, Māori astronomy\, and linguistics). He affiliates to Ngāti Kahungunu through his father\, and Ngāi Tahu\, Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha through his mother. \nProfessor Whaanga is recognized as a leading scholar researching the revitalization\, protection\, distribution\, and development of Māori knowledge and language\, and incorporating mixed-method approaches\, processes\, and technologies to analyze\, develop\, present\, and protect new and sacred knowledge in different linguistic\, cultural\, ethical\, and digital contexts. His leadership in Māori digital initiatives earned him an invitation from the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge to lead and develop the conceptual framework for ‘Ātea’\, a multi-million-dollar spearhead project to conduct and share impactful research with experts in AI\, VR and AR\, NLP\, ML\, Indigenous and Māori data sovereignty\, and digital repositories \n  \n  \n🗓: March 6\, 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-2/ LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705 CATEGORIES:Conversation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image001-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250305T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250305T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T072317 CREATED:20250219T204348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T204348Z UID:10001181-1741195800-1741206600@milieux.concordia.ca SUMMARY:[TAG critical Watch Series] Assassin's Creed (2016) DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a screening and discussion of 2016’s Assassin’s Creed. No amount of hay can hide this film from our critical eyes! \nThe TAG Critical Watch Series is an opportunity to reflect on how video games are adapted and represented across film. The film screening will be followed by a short discussion\, which is then followed by a podcast recording with select members of the audience and/or our guests. February’s film (which is being screened in March to account for the break!) is Assassin’s Creed (2016). \n If you would like to reserve a place on the podcast for this month’s film ahead of time\, or if you would like to suggest films for future screenings\, please contact the TAG coordinator at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca. \n  \n📅 March 5\, 2024 | 5:30-8:30 pm \n📍Screening Room EV. 10.525 \n📽️ Assassin’s Creed (2016) \n🎟️ Seating is limited! Make sure you book your spot here. 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