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SUMMARY:IFRC Research Bites: Van Racine
DESCRIPTION:Bring your lunch and join IFRC for its next Research Bites session featuring Van Racine. Van will share their research exploring the relationship between linguistic theory and new media through Zaagi’idiwin\, an Anishinaabe understanding of love as a practice of relation\, care\, and responsability. \n  \nABOUT VAN RACINE: \nPhoto credit: Ana Isabel Duque\nVan (they/them) is a 2Spirit French/Anishinaabe artist with a multidisciplinary focus on video game development\, linguistics\, and beadwork. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n February 12\, 2026 \n 12:30 PM \nIFRC HQ EV 10.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ifrc-research-bites-van-racine/
LOCATION:IFRC HQ EV 10.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:Lecture-performance: Jeroen Peeters
DESCRIPTION:Join LePARC for a lecture-performance of La Table (1967-1973) by Jeroen Peeters. Written by French poet Francis Ponge\, La Table is the last of his notebook works\, dedicated to his immediate environment\, la table. \nIn this lecture-performance\, essayist Jeroen Peeters takes up the invitation to do the reading of this notebook and the tables it evokes. Seated at a wooden table\, he activates Ponge’s book by way of reading (in English translation)\, gestures as well as visual and textual annotations that are projected live. \n  \nABOUT JEROEN PEETERS: \nJeroen Peeters (1976) is an essayist\, dramaturg and performer based in Brussels. His experimental writing practice translates itself in essays\, artist books\, lecture-performances and installations. As a dramaturg\, performer\, editor and curator\, he has collaborated with a great number of people in the field of contemporary dance and beyond. As a critic and researcher\, he has published widely on contemporary dance and performance as well on matters such as spectatorship\, ecologies of attention\, readership\, dramaturgy\, embodied knowledge\, material literacy and sustainable development\, \nIn March 2025\, Peters defended his PhD in the arts at Hasselt University\, Faculty of Architecture and Arts\, And PXL-MAD School of Arts\, on ” Conceptual Landscapes: Readership in the Expanded Field”. \n  \nFebruary 12\, 2026 \n 5 PM \nLePARC Performance Lab EV 10.785
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lecture-performance-jeroen-peeters/
LOCATION:Performance Lab EV 10.785
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T160000
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SUMMARY:Drawing with Threads
DESCRIPTION:What does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop\, Textiles and Materiality invites you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads or yarns using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \nThe workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \n  \n\n\n February 13\, 2026\n⏱️ 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\nFirst come first serve
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/12157/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T170000
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SUMMARY:Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairyland by Will Straw
DESCRIPTION:Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairyland\, the latest publication by Will Straw. \nIn its time (the 1920s and 1930s)\, the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison in 1925. In recent years\, interest in Broadway Brevities has focused instead on its relentless exposure of the places of Queer nightlife in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. \nThe fourteen episodes of the “Nights in Fairyland” series saw Brevities’ editor venture into the queer gathering places of Manhattan\, denouncing the people he found there even as he revelled in the rich details of their lives. This talk will deal with the historical usefulness of these accounts\, and with the problem of researching magazines which were rarely preserved in libraries and\, until very recently\, ignored by historians. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nWill Straw is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (Andrew Roth Gallery\, 2006) and the new Nights in Fairyland: Gossip\, Blackmail\, and the Many Lives of Broadway Brevities. Will Straw is also the co-editor of numerous books\, including Formes Urbaines (with Anouk Bélanger and Annie Gérin\, 2014)\, Night Studies : Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit (with Luc Gwiazdzinski and Marco Maggioli\, 2020) and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Night Time Economy(with Jess Reia and Alessio Koliulis). Dr. Straw has published more than 200 articles on cinema\, music popular culture and the urban night. \n  \n  \n  \nFebruary 13\, 2026 \n 3:30-5 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure your register for this event \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-and-book-launch-nights-in-fairland-by-will-straw/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Talk
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SUMMARY:2025-2026 UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you know\, we recently announced our 2025-2026 Undergraduate Fellows cohort. Now\, it’s their turn to take the floor! We’re excited to hear them share their projects and the topics that drive their research. \nTo welcome these remarkable individuals to the broader Milieux community\, we invite all faculty\, students\, and staff to join us for a special gathering on February 17th\, 2026\, in the Resource Room (EV 11.705). \n\nJoin us for an informal gathering and presentations from these outstanding emerging researchers—plus\, enjoy some pizza! \n  \n  \n⏱️ 12:30 PM: Come grab a slice of pizza! \n⏱️ 1 PM: The Fellows will briefly introduce themselves and tell us more about their research interest and projects. \nFor those who are interested\, the afternoon will conclude with a guided tour led by Marc Beaulieu\, who will share stories of the Institute’s research spaces and reveal some of the “hidden corners” of our institute. \n  \n  \nIn the meantime\, get to know this year’s talented cohort: \nAnnouncing Milieux Institute’s 2025-26 Undergraduate Fellows \n \n  \nWe can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n: February 17\, 2026 | 12:30 PM \n: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/2025-2026-ug-fellows-introductory-presentations-with-pizza/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:TAG Critical Watch Series: The Warcraft Movie
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG for a new screening as part of the TAG Critical Watch Series. This time\, participants will be screening Warcraft. As always\, the screening will be followed by a discussion. \n  \nABOUT THE MOVIE: \nWarcraft is a 2016 American action fantasy movie based on the video game series of the same name. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war\, as the warlock Gul’dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together\, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace. \n  \n  February 18\, 2026 \n 5:30-8:30 PM \nScreening Room EV 10.525 \nSeating is very limited\, so if you wish to attend\, please RSVP by sending an email directly to tag.coordinator@concordia.ca or by messaging Marc on the TAG Discord.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tag-critical-watch-series-the-warcraft-movie/
LOCATION:Screening Room EV 10.525
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260218T193000
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SUMMARY:'Making art with other people's live': a workshop on the violence of visual representation
DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Methods Studio for a workshop led by HUMA Ph.D Candidate Magdalena Hutter. \nThis workshop invites members of the community who work with documentary photography and/or film to come together and ask questions around how we address the violence of visual representation. How can we work with the lives of real people without being extractive or exposing our protagonists to harm\, particularly when working with groups who have historically been victimized – either in the name of science or art – by film and other visual media? How can we work with visual methods in ways that break down hierarchies\, rather than reinforce colonialist structures that equate seeing with knowing? What can protocols of ongoing consent look like? And what artistic approaches can help us to make our work more relational and accountable? \nAn experiment in thinking together\, this is a space to bring our own work and experiences\, ask some uncomfortable questions\, and support each other in committing to intentional\, responsible uses of visual documentary forms. \nMasking is encouraged at this event. Please do not attend if you are feeling poorly or have cold symptoms. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nVMS coordinator and HUMA PhD candidate Magdalena Hutter has been making documentary films for 20 years\, both as a director and a camera woman. In her research-creation dissertation project she uses oral history and documentary film to explore fatness as method in dance and movement art. \n  \n  \n February 18\, 2026\n 5:30-7:30 PM\n Speculative Life Research Cluster EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/making-art-with-other-peoples-live-a-workshop-on-the-violence-of-visual-representation/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260219T150000
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SUMMARY:Many\, many Machine Agencies
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us in launching our publishing project “Many\, Many Machine Agencies”!\n.\nThis edited collection will be a cookbook for engaging critically with machines\, and it gathers hybrid maker-thinkers who dabble in different theories of machinic agency including artificial life\, digital games\, interaction design\, robotics\, ubiquitous computing\, expert systems\, virtual life\, simulation\, and neural networks.\n.\nCome along to learn more about our book project\, and connect with others!\n\n.\nThis project is supported by Hexagram’s AI Chantier.\n\n.\n.\n\n February 19\, 2026 \n 3 PM \nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n\n  \n  \n\n                                                                                                                                           \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/many-many-machine-agencies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T160000
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SUMMARY:Texting on Tajima
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? \nJoin Textiles & Materiality for their upcoming Texting on Tajima workshop! \nIn this workshop\, you will learn design techniques and software basics required to embroider different text formats\, fonts\, and textures. You will have the opportunity to embroider your own quote using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.  The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time (approximately 20 minutes per person) reserved for participants to embroider their text. \n  \n February 20\, 2026\n 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\n🎟️ Register by emailing textiles.materiality@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/texting-on-tajima/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T160000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jennifer Pybus: Auditing Extractive Infrastructures of Datafication in Mobile Applications
DESCRIPTION:This workshop introduces an infrastructural mixed method for auditing how health apps embed third-party software development kits (SDKs) and access both personal and health-related data from mobile devices. \nThe method includes: \n\nAn app selection based on relevant criteria\nAn assisted manifest data audit using a large language model (LLM)\nA qualitative examination of corresponding privacy policies and data safety agreements\nA walkthrough method\, established by Light et al. (2018)\, to account for the different kinds of health and personal data that can be input in the apps’ interface.\n\nRather than focusing primarily on user behaviour or consent\, the method centres on qualitative analysis of Android manifest files\, since any personal data an application seeks to access from a user’s device\, or share with third parties\, should be declared there. Participants will also be introduced to the role app events play in personal data tracking\, and to how health-related data are structured in manifest files in ways that make them legible and reusable across a range of actors\, including large platforms. \nBy the end of the session\, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to conduct a static audit of mobile tracking infrastructures and compare back-end findings with front-end privacy policies in order to better infer how personal and health data are extracted\, shared\, and monetised through third-party SDKs\, and how these practices are\, or are not\, communicated to end users. \n  \n🚨 Important: Participants must pre-install software tools in advance of the workshop. Please register early to obtain the installation instructions and recommended pre-reading. Places are limited. \n🎟️ Register for the workshop by sending an email to digslab@concordia.ca with your name\, department\, and level of study. \n  \nABOUT JENNIFER PYBUS: \nJennifer Pybus is a globally recognized scholar whose interdisciplinary research intersects digital and algorithmic cultures and explores the capture and processing of personal data. Her work focuses on the political economy of social media platforms\, display ad economies\, and the rise of third parties embedded in the mobile ecosystem which are facilitating algorithmic profiling\, monetisation\, polarization and bias. Her research contributes to an emerging field\, mapping out datafication\, a process that is rendering our social\, cultural and political lives into productive data for machine learning and algorithmic decision-making. Pybus has cultivated strong European links with public organizations and will use her chair to engage Canadians with innovative tools\, resources and pedagogy for increasing critical data literacy and democratic debate about artificial intelligence. \n  \nThis event is supported by the Canada Research Chair in Data\, Democracy and AI\, the Digital Intimacy\, Gender and Sexuality Lab\, and the Speculative Life cluster at Milieux. \n  \n  \nFebruary 25\, 2026 \n 2:30 – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life Cluster Room EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-jennifer-pybus-auditing-extractive-infrastructures-of-datafication-in-mobile-applications/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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SUMMARY:Redefining Digital Inclusion from Peru to the World
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce an upcoming talk from a newcomer to the Abundant Intelligences network! \nMathias Becerra Sanchez is a student from Peru currently pursuing a major in Symbolic Systems in the Concentration of Human-Centered AI and Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University. His work focuses on using technology to empower Indigenous and other digitally disadvantaged languages both in Peru and Latin America. In this talk\, he’ll be presenting his research on STEM education\, linguistics\, and policy in globally disadvantaged language communities. \nThis presentation will be moderated by Hanss Lujan Torres\, Research Coordinator at the Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC). Hanss is a writer\, curator\, and researcher from Cusco\, Peru\, whose work focuses on collective time-making\, alternative understandings of time\, and dissident futures. \n  \nThis event is fully virtual\, please register here \n  \n February 26\, 2026 \n 6-7 PM \nOnline \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/redefining-digital-inclusion-from-peru-to-the-world/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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