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SUMMARY:Abundant Imaginaries: Virtual Student Symposium on Indigenous AI Futures
DESCRIPTION:The future of artificial intelligence remains unclear. But one thing is certain: the technology is bound to fail if it’s not shaped by an abundance of knowledges and imaginaries. \nThe Abundant Intelligences research program – which advances methods of developing culturally-grounded AI systems to support Indigenous ways of knowing – aims to contribute to such abundance through its Student Symposium on Indigenous AI Futures! \nJoin us for Abundant Imaginaries\, a student symposium on Indigenous AI Futures\, to learn how artificial intelligence is being imagined – and built – anew through Indigenous Protocols and Knowledge Systems. \nWith six thematic panels spread across two days\, students from around the world will share their research-creation projects and future imaginaries of AI rooted in Indigenous Knowledges\, protocols\, epistemologies\, and arts. \n  \n  \nSCHEDULE:\n  \nDAY 1 – Wednesday May 13\, 2026 \n2 PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks. \n2:15 PM: Panel 1: Countering ongoing colonialism and biases in Western technologies and institutions. \n3:30 PM: Break \n3:45 PM: Panel 2: Language Models & Indigenous Knowledges: Rethinking mainstream approaches. \n5 PM: Panel 3: Emerging AI Futures from Aotearoa. \n  \nDAY 2- Thursday May 14\, 2026\n2 PM: Panel 4: Towards epistemic justice in research and creation methodologies. \n3:15 PM: Break \n3:30 PM: Panel 5 Decolonizing the AI Stack: Approaches to Indigenous data and Infrastructural Sovereignty. \n4:45PM: Panel 6: Indigenous Design Futures. \n  \nPresentation Abstract can be found here.\n  \n May 13 & 14\, 2026\n 2 -6:30 PM\n Online\n🌐 Zoom Link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/89025544771\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/abundant-imaginaries-virtual-student-symposium-on-indigenous-ai-futures/
LOCATION:Online
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T133000
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SUMMARY:The DIY Cloud: Self-Hosting Digital projects with Coolify
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual workshop\, Machine Agencies member Luciano Frizzera will guide you on how to self-host your own digital projects using Coolify. Learn to deploy apps\, websites\, databases\, and creative tools on your own infrastructure\, giving you autonomy and control over your data. Whether you’re prototyping a research project\, building interactive art\, or experimenting with new software\, this session will equip you with practical skills to bring your ideas to life. No deep DevOps knowledge required—just curiosity\, creativity\, and the drive to get your work online! \n  \n📅 October 3\, 2025 \n⏱️ 12-1:30 PM \n📍 Online \n🔗 Link to join online \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-diy-cloud-self-hosting-digital-projects-with-coolify/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250929T190000
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SUMMARY:Curatorial Talk by Samantha Lance: "Stitching Ancestral Histories and Diasporic Stories: New Reflections on Curating Textiles"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster for a special virtual talk with curator and writer Samantha Lance as she shares reflections on curating textile practices. This session will explore ancestral\, diasporic\, and contemporary contexts\, and will be especially relevant for anyone interested in material culture\, embodied histories\, and textiles as vessels of memory and community. \nSamantha will give an in-depth walkthrough of her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains\, which was on display at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She’ll also discuss her experience at the Textile Society of America’s 2024 symposium\, “Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles”. \nAs the current Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington\, Samantha will also touch on the exhibition To Our Reunited Future by Moroccan-Canadian artist Rihab Essayh. \nAfter the talk\, you’re invited to participate in a story-sharing circle to reflect on textile practices as expressions of love\, ancestral rituals\, and intergenerational connection. \n  \nABOUT SAMANTHA LANCE: \nSamantha Lance is a Canadian curator and writer whose work fosters meaningful connections between artists and communities. She holds a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto and a BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. She is currently Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington. \nLance has worked with institutions including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery\, C Magazine\, the Art Gallery of Algoma\, Onsite Gallery\, and Latitude Gallery New York. Her graduating exhibition\, The Love that Remains (Art Museum at the University of Toronto\, 2024)\, brought together Toronto-based artists whose textile practices recover matrilineal histories of displacement and belonging. She continues to research and collaborate with artists and curators advocating for women’s labour\, textile practices\, and ancestral techniques\, with a particular interest in experimental\, multisensory exhibition strategies that expand accessibility and dialogue. \n  \n📅 September 29\, 2025 \n⏱️ 5-7 PM \n📍 Online \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/curatorial-talk-by-samantha-lance-stitching-ancestral-histories-and-diasporic-stories-new-reflections-on-curating-textiles/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250514T140000
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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/
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SUMMARY:Disrupting Computing History with Dr. Mar Hicks
DESCRIPTION:Join the DIGS Lab (Digital Intimacy\, Gender\, and Sexuality Lab) on September 18 for an online lecture by Dr. Mar Hicks. The DIGS Lab is co-hosting the talk as part of the 7th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. \nDr. Hicks will discuss about Disrupting Computing History to Align Technology’s Past and Present.  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nMar Hicks is an author\, historian\, and professor doing research on hidden histories of computing\, as well as the history of labor and technology. Hicks is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Virginia’s School of Data Science\, in Charlottesville\, teaching courses on the history of technology\, computing and society\, and the larger implications of powerful and widespread digital infrastructures. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light\, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Hicks’s multiple award-winning book\, Programmed Inequality\, looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers\, and what this cautionary tale tells us about current issues in high tech. Their new work looks at resistance and queerness in the history of technology. Hicks is also co-editor of the book Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press\, 2021)\, a volume of essays about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures. \n  \nOther writing and more information can be found at: marhicks.com. \n  \n: September 18\, 2024 | 6-7:30 pm \n: Online \n🌐: Sign up for the event here to receive the zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/disrupting-computing-history-with-dr-mar-hicks/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240614T160000
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SUMMARY:[Online lecture] Dr. Carlo Handy Charles: Queer Transnational Space
DESCRIPTION:How Dating Apps Shape Romantic Connections and Intimate Cross-border Relationships among Haitian Queer Migrants and Nonmigrants?\nJoin us on June 14th (2-4 pm)\, for a lecture followed by a Q&A featuring Dr. Carlo Handy Charles. Visiting Scholar in the Digital Intimacy Gender and Sexuality Lab (DIGS Lab)\, will discuss the intersection of LGBTQ+ migration and digital intimacy. More specifically\, the talk will aim to show how dating apps like Grindr\, Tinder\, and Facebook Dating influence the romantic connections and intimate relationships of LGBTQ+ migrants and non-migrants across borders. Drawing on his research and book project\, Dr. Charles will explain how these digital platforms play a pivotal role in shaping transnational connections and fostering same-sex relationships among individuals from similar ethnic or national backgrounds. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDr. Carlo Handy Charles (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor and a Visiting Scholar in the Digital Intimacy Gender and Sexuality Lab at Concordia University. He is also a former Vanier Scholar Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and a Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations at the CNRS and Collège de France in Paris. His current book project with the University of Chicago Press examines how socio-economic inequalities sexuality and space shape transnational same-sex intimate relationships among Haitian men in Haiti the United States Canada France Brazil Chile and the Dominican Republic. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology at McMaster University and a Ph.D. in Geography at the Université des Antilles in 2023. Prior to joining the University of Windsor he taught Sociology at McMaster University and French at L’Alliance Française de Toronto and L’Alliance Française de Caracas (Venezuela). Beyond academia he is an award-winning essayist and the co-author of the critically acclaimed Kap O Mond a play focusing on Haitian migration in France. He is also a public policy advisor currently working on the Toronto Francophone Affairs Advisory Committee. His publications have appeared in over two dozen academic journals and news media in Canada and internationally. \nFor more information about him and his research please visit: www.uwindsor.ca/sociology/CarloCharles. \n📅: June 14\, 2024 | 2-4 pm \n📍: Online \n🎟️: Register here! If you decide to attend online you’ll receive an email with a zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-carlo-handy-charles-queer-transnational-space/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230913T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230913T193000
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SUMMARY:[Talk] Danielle Boyer on Indigenous Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Ojibwe\, queer robotics inventor Danielle Boyer will speak about her work\, including the invention of the SkoBot and more! \nOjibwe\, queer robotics inventor Danielle Boyer will speak about her work\, including the invention of the SkoBot\, a robot that teaches the Indigenous languages Navajo\, Ojibwemowin\, and Taino. The robot\, aimed at middle school children\, is customizable and easily programmable for youth. This virtual event is part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum\, and co-hosted by The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC). \nRESERVE A SPOT\nDanielle Boyer is a 22-year-old Indigenous (Ojibwe) and Queer robotics inventor and advocate for youth who has been teaching kids since she was ten. Driven by her families own inability to afford science and technology education\, she is passionate about making education accessible and representative for her community so that no child is left behind. Danielle creates equitable and innovative learning solutions for Indigenous youths with robots that she designs\, manufactures\, and gives away for free. In 2019 at age eighteen\, she created The STEAM Connection\, a minority and youth-led charity that has reached hundreds of thousands of children worldwide with technical education with an emphasis on language revitalization. The STEAM Connection focuses on the future: ushering in a new age of education via personal and wearable robotics\, artificial intelligence\, and augmented reality. Informed by the past and present\, The STEAM Connection utilizes traditional knowledge to uplift and protect Indigenous communities with an emphasis on language. Her goal is not necessarily to get youth into STEM careers but rather to equip them with the skills to solve the problems that they see in their communities now. \n*There is no fee required to attend this event. Captions in english will be provided.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/danielle-boyer-on-indigenous-robotics/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230602T120000
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SUMMARY:Data Justice Hub Skills Development Webinar With Imani Jacqueline Brown
DESCRIPTION:The Data Justice Hub invites you to a webinar with artist\, activist\, and architechtural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown: Unraveling Industry: Mapping Oil and Gas Infrastructure to Demand Reparations \nUnraveling Industry is a platform to map oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana by company\, supporting local and global demands for corporate accountability and “ecological reparations”. It maps and archives the corporate-colonial guidelines along the continuum of extractivism\, which spans from colonialism and slavery to fossil fuel production\, coastal erosion and climate change. The platform uses a methodology that Brown calls “cartographic unraveling” to disentangle and analyze cartographic lines and points representing antebellum property lines\, as well as permits for oil and gas pipelines\, canals\, and wells––terrestrial inscriptions that make geographies\, unmake communities\, and break Earth’s geologies. Brown notes that\, since 1926\, oil and gas companies have dredged 10\,000 linear miles of canals to drill and access over 90\,000 wells throughout the Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. These wells connect to a region known to industry as the “Petrochemical Corridor\,” formerlly called “Plantation Country\,” and nicknamed “Cancer Alley” by its residents. There\, the nation’s most polluting petrochemical plants and refineries occupy the footprints of former plantations alongside majority-Black communities descended from people historically enslaved on those same grounds. Ultimately\, maps\, data\, histories\, mythologies\, and geographies are archived in an interactive platform that reveals the corporate authors of extractivism and points toward a horizon of justice.\nRegister here\nImani Jacqueline Brown is an artist\, activist\, and architectural researcher from New Orleans\, USA\, based in London. Her work investigates extractive environmental and economic systems to expose the layers of violence and resistance that comprise the foundations of settler-colonial society and imagine paths to ecological reparations. Brown is currently a PhD candidate at Queen Mary\, University of London\, a research fellow with Forensic Architecture\, and an associate lecturer in MA Architecture at the Royal College of Art. She received her MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths\, University of London in 2019.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/data-justice-hub-skills-development-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T183000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sophie Chao: More-than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth instalment in a series of talks planned collaboratively by the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG)\, Colonialism Race and Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE)\, and Society\, Politics\, Animals and Materiality (SPAM). The Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an online talk with Dr. Sophie Chao. \nRecent years have seen a resurgence of anthropological interest in the topic of the plantation–an industrial formation and enduring logic that has been instrumental to the rise of colonial racial capitalism and the construction of modern nations and natures. \nIn this talk\, Chao will draw on long-term fieldwork conducted on the West Papuan oil palm frontier to examine how Indigenous Marind communities experience\, theorize\, and critique the impacts of plantation modernities on their rapidly changing lifeworlds. \nCentral to these experiences and theories\, the talk will illustrate\, are an array of more-than-human actors whose meaning\, mattering\, and morality are shaped by their alternately indexical\, antagonistic\, or ambiguous relationship to Marind themselves. \nSet against the backdrop of West Papua’s regional history of settler-colonial incursion and the plantation’s global history of racializing violence\, the paper will argue that Marind philosophies of more-than-human becoming constitute a form of epistemic resistance to the simplifying\, hierarchizing\, and disciplining logic of plantation regimes past and present. \nAbout the speaker\nSophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity\, ecology\, capitalism\, health\, and justice in the Pacific. \nChao is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua and co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice. She previously worked for the human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in Indonesia\, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to their customary lands\, resources\, and livelihoods. For more information\, please visit www.morethanhumanworlds.com.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-sophie-chao-more-than-human-entanglements-in-the-plantation-nexus/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T133000
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SUMMARY:Postcolonial Nature with Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next installment of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series featuring Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia’s talk ‘Postcolonial Nature’.  \n\n\nIn this talk\, the speaker reflects on three vectors that inscribe the historicity of postcolonial nature as the articulation of a certain kind of lived experience. (1) Land grabbing that renders indigenous inhabitants automatic serfs within their own environments; (2) Arrogant forms of conservation that expel human populations from their ancestral lands; and (3) Destructive extraction of natural resources motivated by seductive but abstract metrics of economic growth that cannot be measured in terms of ecological (or any kind of) well-being of the particular local lifeworld. Engaging directly with nature in postcolonial thought is not possible for it must confront the imperatives of nature’s colonial and imperialist history – a necessary circumlocution that enables us to approach nature as a powerful signifier of being and quotidian experience in the postcolonial context. \nWhen? February 10th\, from 12:00-13:30 PM. \nWhere? Online \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/postcolonial-nature-with-dr-philip-aghoghovwia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk
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