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SUMMARY:Writing Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Every Wednesday\, join LePARC members and beyond for their weekly Writing Wednesdays: \n\n\n\n“A focused three hours every week: write with people in the same boat as you and with a structure that includes stretching/dancing breaks. Bring whatever it is you need to do\, be it writing your thesis\, a literature review\, a proposal or application\, emails\, etc.” \n\n\n\nThe sessions are from 9:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST every Wednesday up until and including April 20th\, and are strictly on Zoom for the moment\, with the sessions moving into a hybrid structure following securing of safe spaces that abide by COVID-19 regulations. \n\n\n\nBenefit from the energy\, structure and support of the group for the creation and fruition of any and all projects\, texts\, and beyond! Please email leparcmilieux@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/writing-wednesdays/
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SUMMARY:Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:The new year is already flying by at a rapid pace! The Speculative Life Cluster has already begun an incredibly compelling online project\, the Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series. Read on to find out about the final three events\, following the first that happened on January 21st\, and click here for the full post on the Speculative Life website! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n2. Friday\, February 4\, 2:00 PM ESTWorkshop — Alia Nurmohamed\, Futureproofing: Real Options as a Conceptual Tool in the Financialization of Everyday LifeZoom Link \n\n\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted uncertainty in people’s lives and a desire to “futureproof”: anticipate\, plan\, and mitigate unexpected future shocks. Originating in financial derivatives modelling\, real options have gained traction over the last two decades as a decision-making tool that captures the flexibility embedded in projects across various industries such as real estate\, pharmaceutical R&D\, and natural resources. This workshop aims to start a conversation about mobilizing real options – options that are not traded on financial markets – as a conceptual tool to understanding how financialized thinking seeps into everyday life. \n\n\n\nAlia Nurmohamed is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. Alia’s research focuses on how conflicting and intersecting responsibilities can lead to feelings of grief in motherhood. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology & Anthropology\, Alia worked for 10 years in real estate private equity and consulting. She holds a B.Com in Finance from McGill University\, an MBA from the University of Warwick\, and BA in Sociology from Concordia University. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n3. Friday\, February 18\, 1:00 PM ESTKathryn Furlong\, Trickle-down debt: Infrastructure\, development\, and financialisation\, Medellín 1960-2013Zoom Link \n\n\n\nIn many Latin American cities\, infrastructure was largely financed through development lending over the second half of the 20th century. Exacerbated by debt crises and currency devaluations\, public utilities became holders of significant levels of negative value. This encouraged public debt financialisation in order to mitigate the effects of shifting interest rates and devaluation. For David Harvey\, negative value is the hallmark of contemporary capitalism whereby one must produce\, not for profit\, but to retire debt. This paper examines these issues through a case study of urban infrastructure financing\, debt\, and tariffs in Medellín\, Colombia from 1960 to 2013. \n\n\n\nKathryn Furlong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the Université de Montréal and former Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization. She holds a doctorate in human geography (UBC). Her research focuses on the social and environmental consequences of political-economic restructuring for water management and governance\, particularly in the context of cities. Her research  brings together the disciplines of economic and urban geography and political ecology while addressing  issues related to the provision of municipal services\, socio-technical networks\, consumption and the links between practice and ethics. Her book Leaky Governance: Alternative service delivery and the myth of water utility independence (UBC\, 2016) addresses these issues in the Canadian Context. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n4. Friday\, March 18\, 1:00 PM ESTHannah Appel (UCLA)\, From Debtors Prisons to Debtors UnionsZoom Link \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need.  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/financializing-infrastructures-winter-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Hypo//Hyper Presence Workshop N˚ 2: Livestream Tech — You Can Do It! With Mind of a Snail
DESCRIPTION:Hypo//Hyper Presence N˚ 2: Livestream Tech — You Can Do It! is An online workshop on how to Livestream with Chloe Ziner Mind of a Snail— \n\n\n\nHow do we translate a feeling of connection and LIVEness to an online format? We want to get you excited about the possibilities of live streaming! Chloe Ziner from Mind of a Snail will share their DIY approach to designing an engaging live stream using mostly free or low-cost tools. You’ll get an overview of the basics as well as a taste of some interactive and experimental possibilities. We hope you’ll leave this workshop with lots of inspiration and ideas\, and the tools to start moving forward to make your own online performances\, presentations\, or interactive live streams.Mind of a Snail is a shadow theatre duo from Vancouver BC\, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh Nations. Since 2003\, Chloé Ziner and Jessica Gabriel have been developing a multilayered style of visual storytelling and projection design. They have won multiple awards for innovation and excellence at theatre festivals across North America. During COVID \, they quickly pivoted to an interactive online format and have performed live virtually for a number of festivals across Canada & internationally\, including Festival Internacional de Teatro de Sombras in Brazil\, Red Pearl Clown Festival in Finland and PrimeTime Festival in Toronto. Another recent project “Improv in 5 Dimensions” is a hybrid improv theatre show with a team of remote international performers\, for in-person and online audiences. They also do weekly interactive live streams at https://twitch.tv/mindofasnail. \n\n\n\nHypo//Hyper Presence is a workshop series over the period of two semesters with guest lecturers that’s designed to give people skills to explore and create around the idea of telepresence. These technologies have been accelerated with COVID and increased hybrid interactions. Telepresence technologies can be perceived as “hyper” or “hypo” present\, either always there to mediate communication or minimally present to facilitate asynchronous interaction. Now that the dust has settled around which technologies will prevail\, this workshop series allows participants to explore these technologies tangibly.  \n\n\n\nEach session is divided into two parts\, an introduction and an advanced learning session. People can sign up for one or both sessions depending on their level /interest. All sessions will be remote\, except when specified.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/hypo-hyper-presence-workshop-n%cb%9a-2-livestream-tech-you-can-do-it-with-mind-of-a-snail/
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SUMMARY:The Undergraduate Fellows' Introductory Presentations!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you already know\, we have recently announced this years’ Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now that we have made our introductions\, it’s time for the fellows to speak about themselves\, their research\, what they like or dislike\, and anything in between and around! The ‘PechaKucha-style’ presentations will be taking place online via Zoom (link accessible via the button in the left-hand column) on Monday\, February 21st at 11:00 AM EST\, and Wednesday\, February 23rd at 3:00 PM EST. The presenters are as follows (if you’d like to know a bit more about them before their presentations\, please consult our preliminary announcement!): \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMONDAY:Alanna Mitchell | Genevieve Lamarche | Nadine Abdel LatifWEDNESDAY:Malte Leander | Sophie Dummett | Christine White | Maxime Gordon \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you in attendance\, and to hearing more about our Fellows’ projects\, interests\, and about themselves!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-undergraduate-fellows-introductory-presentations/
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SUMMARY:A Walk in LePARC with Frederik de Bleser: Performance and AI
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Cyber Sensuality. Created during LAbO Summer School 2021 by Nikola Scheibe\, Alexandra Fraser\, Madina Mahomedova\, Mazarine Haarscheer and David Bello Arcos. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMembers across clusters are welcome to join this discussion and workshop with Frederik de Bleser.  \n\n\n\nDuring the LAbO 2021 summer school in Antwerp\, participants created a virtual dancer driven by artificial intelligence. After training the algorithm on different gendered bodies and private intuitive acts\, it eventually responded with its own forms of virtual sensuality through gesture\, movement and sound. Out of this training emerged a gender-fluid avatar. \n\n\n\nDuring this workshop\, we want to show a video of the performance and talk about the implications of capturing virtual bodies into an algorithm. As part of this discussion\, we’ll create our own AI dancer that is a combination of real dancers\, being able to be controlled by our own movements. \n\n\n\nSCHEDULE10:00 AM — 12:00 PM | Discussion around performance + AI\, LAbO Summer School1:00 PM — 5:00 PM | Recording session with dancersWe ask participants to please bring a white shirt or tank top and clothes they are comfortable moving in for the recording. However\, you can attend as an observer should you choose not to perform! \n\n\n\nLOCATION \n\n\n\nVideo Production Studio (EV 10.760)Participants must wear masks and maintain physical distancing. \n\n\n\nFor the Thursday and Friday workshops on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Figment with Frederik de Bleser\, register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creative-machine-learning-using-figment-tickets-254585962467 \n\n\n\nChampdAction.LAbO is an annual and international 10-day laboratory for artistic creators of all disciplines\, ethnicity and gender with an openness and curiosity for transdisciplinary work. Every summer since 2019 (with one exception)\, LePARC has attended with a small cohort and cluster co-director Angélique Willkie to participate in the creation lab at the deSingel School in Antwerp. We’re excited to once again bring a Milieux presence to the summer 2022 LAbO and encourage students across clusters to come learn more at Frederik de Bleser‘s discussion Wednesday February 23.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/a-walk-in-leparc-with-frederik-de-bleser-performance-and-ai/
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SUMMARY:Rafico Ruiz Talk: 'Slow Disturbance: Infrastructure and Ice'
DESCRIPTION:In this talk presented by the Speculative Life cluster\, Rafico Ruiz will share his work on ‘slow disturbance’ as a research method that can capture the lasting effects of settler colonialism on land and the built environment. He will also make connections to his current book project on post-global warming ice and the creation of a ‘drift path theory’ to apprehend environmental phenomena through their dissolution. \n\n\n\nFrom the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century\, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador\, Canada\, created a network of hospitals\, schools\, orphanages\, stores\, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador’s coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation—the ways in which colonial lifeworlds\, subjectivities\, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents\, maps\, interviews with municipal officials\, teachers\, and residents\, as well as his field photography\, Ruiz shows how the mission’s infrastructural mediation—from its attempts to restructure the local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the coastline—responded to the colony’s environmental conditions in ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing the mission’s history and the mechanisms that enabled its functioning\, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler colonialism and extractive capitalism. \n\n\n\nRafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (DUP\, 2021)\, and the co-editor\, with Melody Jue\, of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (DUP\, 2021). He is completing a manuscript\, Phase State Earth: The End Media of Ice\, on the disrupted phase transitions of ice under the conditions of global warming.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/rafico-ruiz-talk-slow-disturbance-infrastructure-and-ice/
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