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SUMMARY:Film Night: Suspensión
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Concordia Ethnography Lab for the screening of Suspensión (2019) by Simón Uribe\, who will be joining us for a virtual q+a after live from Bogotá. \nDeep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia\, between treacherously steep mountain slopes\, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly. Once intended as a link in the new “bypass” that was supposed to replace the perilous old road from Pasto to Mocoa\, it’s now a bizarre attraction for day trippers taking selfies and kids doing motorcycle stunts. \nWhen? March 15th\, 2023\, 6:oo pm\nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705)
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/film-night-suspension/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T133000
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SUMMARY:Lunch Time Seminar with Luke Stark
DESCRIPTION:Machine Agencies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Luke Stark for the talk “Laws of Inference: Conceptual Limits for Automated Decision-Making”: \nRegulation via the epistemological structure of an application space is one potential mechanism to address the social impact of rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods used for automated decision-making. Drawing on Carlo Ginzburg’s distinction between conjectural (abductive/inductive) and empirical (deductive) science\, I argue that ML systems should be assessed for their conceptual assumptions as well as their proposed use cases. This assessment should be grounded both in the forms of inferential reasoning (inductive\, deductive\, and or abductive) involved in a particular automated analysis\, as well as the domain in which the analysis is being performed. In the paper\, I sketch out a matrix of inferential types and use case categories that serves as a first step towards a more granular AI governance regime. Given the shaky epistemological foundations and social toxicity of much automated conjecture about human activities and behavior\, such use cases deserve heightened legal\, technical\, and social scrutiny. \nWhen? Wednesday\, February 15 TH\, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nRESERVE A SPOT HERE\n\n\nLuke Stark is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His work interrogates the historical\, social\, and ethical impacts of computing and artificial intelligence technologies\, particularly those mediating social and emotional expression. His scholarship highlights the asymmetries of power\, access and justice that are emerging as these systems are deployed in the world\, and the social and political challenges that technologists\, policymakers\, and the wider public face as a result. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is hosted at the Milieux Institute at Concordia University by the Machine Agencies Research Group.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/lunch-time-seminar-with-luke-stark/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230215T120000
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SUMMARY:Digital Text as Data – A Computational Approach
DESCRIPTION:The DIGS Lab is hosting a talk with Dr. Zhifan Luo on a computational approach to collecting\, analyzing\, and visualizing digital text as data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA deeply digitalized social world has brought studies of media to an “Age of Data Abundance\,” which comes with its own opportunities and challenges. For a new generation of scholars\, proper methodological tools are indispensable if they want to harvest the opportunities while facing up to the challenges of the digital age. In this workshop\, participants will be introduced to a computational approach to collect\, analyze\, and visualize digital text as data. In the first part of the workshop\, they will learn about how computational methods may complement\, advance\, and transcend traditional ways of studying media through cases. In the second part\, they will get a chance to do hands-on exercises and play with R\, a programming language widely used by social scientists\, to collect and/or analyze some social media data. \nWhen? February 15th\, 10:00-12:00 PM EST \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11.705) \nDr. Zhifan Luo is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University. She obtained a doctoral degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Albany\, the U.S. Her research and teaching integrate computer-assisted content analysis with traditional qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the dynamics of power and resistance in the authoritarian and democratic contexts. Her work has appeared in New Media & Society\, Information\, Communication & Society\, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2nd edition)\, and others.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-text-as-data-a-computational-approach/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:How We Live with Data Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Aging in Data project is hosting the workshop How We Live with Data – in a collaboration with the Atwater Library – with researchers Nicole Dalmer\, Cal Biruk\, and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis. The workshop will be happening on February 10th\, from 1:00-5:00 PM\, at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) \nThe aim of this interactive workshop is to explore and challenge understandings of the relationship between older people\, data\, and digital technologies. Participants are encouraged to bring a data-object (e.g.\, Fitbit\, journal\, smartphone) that is important to them and engage in data mapping activities and critical reflection to collaboratively work out what data are\, and how\, why\, and where we interact with them. \nAt this event we will: \n\nStart a conversation about data\, which often seem too big or overwhelming to wrap our heads around\nDemystify the word ‘data’ and come away with a better sense of what data are and why\, where\, and how we interact with them \nThink critically about data and appreciate both the pleasurable and the strange aspects of data \nUnderstand how we live with data (where they are  coming from and going to\, how we use data to tell stories about ourselves\, and what anxieties we have about data) by mapping out forms of data that circulate around us\nChallenge common stereotypes and media representations of older adults and their interactions with digital technologies and data \nHave a chance to meet other people and work together with other people /community building \n\nFor more info and to register and get the Zoom link: eric@atwaterlibrary.ca. \nPart of the Atwater Library’s Safe Online Engagement Project funded by the New Horizons for Seniors Program\, in collaboration with Concordia University’s Aging in Data project funded by SSHRC.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-we-live-with-data/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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SUMMARY:How to Stay a Human When You Dance With a Machine
DESCRIPTION:When we use a computer\, do we have to think in the language of the computer? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with digital interactive artist Tim Murray-Browne. \nI’ll talk about my artistic practice of building embodied interactive systems. Particularly with dancers\, I’ve found code introduces abstractions of the body\, which can be more limiting than enabling. Recently\, I’ve been using unsupervised AI to devise rather than design interaction between human and system. I’ve found the results refreshing and captivating\, but it requires a rethink of how we relate to machines: a shift away from the instrumental back towards that of belonging. \nWhen? February 7 TH\, 4:00-5:30 PM \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11.705) \nAbout Tim \nI am a digital interactive artist. My work explores the parts of being human that get left behind when we interact with technology. I create interactive installations and performances that connect the moving body\, image\, sound and light but my primary medium is the interaction itself. My work aims to tap into the non-intellectual\, yet intelligent\, embodied mind. I graduated with a first in Maths and Computer Science from Oxford University and completed a PhD on interactive art and music at Queen Mary University of London. I code bespoke software for much of my work. \nTim is currently artist-in-residence at LePARC and Speculative Life.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/how-to-stay-a-human-when-you-dance-with-a-machine/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230206T140000
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SUMMARY:UG Fellows Introductory Presentations with Pizza!
DESCRIPTION:As many of you already know\, we have recently announced this years’ Undergraduate Fellows cohort! Now it’s time for the fellows to introduce themselves and their research\, or any other topic they care about. Join us for two hours of snappy\, fascinating presentations from a group of standout emerging researchers while indulging in some pizza!  \nThe presentations will be taking place in-person at the Milieux Resource Room on February 6 TH from 12:00-1:00 PM. Come to have lunch with us and meet the fellows! (in the meantime\, if you wish to learn more about the 2022-2023 UG Fellows click here). \nLooking forward to seeing you there! \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ug-fellows-introductory-presentations-with-pizza/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230204T160000
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SUMMARY:NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Come to feel and explore nostalgia with us at the NOSTALGIA/LOSTAGAIN symposium – a student-led symposium that explores creative nostalgia through panel discussions and workshops from experts in the arts and sciences.  \nWhen? February 4th\, from 10:00-4:00 PM EST. \nWhere? Milieux Institute (EV 11.705) and online \nNostalgia reminds us of a past that was and could have been (Boym 2001). In a place of lost possibilities\, of those we’ve lost touch\, and memories of losses… What do we also lose or throw away in the present in order to be nostalgic? What if we could use these tools of forgetting the losses of a past to help us remember how to prevent more of them in the future? Digital tools can evoke a certain feeling of loss; a past that is gone. But given a message of hope\, of possibility\, this loss may inspire us to work towards a future without repeating the same losses of the past. This symposium centres around the use of CREATIVE NOSTALGIA: a kind described by Svetlana Boym (2001) as being able to reveal the “fantasies of an age” – our desires to get away from losses\, regrets\, and pain – but it is in these emotional tools capable of change and hope where “the future is born”. \nYou can check their website for the whole programming here. \nRESERVE A SPOT 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/nostalgia-lostagain/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230130T153000
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SUMMARY:Seminar on anime games by CyberConnect2 Montreal
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there were anime games made in Montreal? Come meet CyberConnect2 (Naruto STORM\, Demon Slayer) VP Taichiro Miyazaki and art director Yohei Ishibashi at an event co-hosted by TAG and the Concordia Game Development Club! CyberConnect2 will introduce their studio\, the artistic ins and outs of anime game development in Japan and Montreal\, and their experience with indie publishing. \nWHAT: Seminar on anime games by CyberConnect2 Montreal\nWHEN: Monday\, January 30th\, 1:45-3:45pm\nWHERE: Milieux Resource Room\, EV11.705 \n*If you have question please email TAG’s coordinator Kalervo Sinervo at tag.coordinator@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/seminar-on-anime-games-by-cyberconnect2-montreal/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230127T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230127T120000
DTSTAMP:20230123T223740Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch by Dr. Heather Igloliorte
DESCRIPTION:This event is presented in conjunction with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre’s inaugural research symposium.  \nJoin editors Dr. Heather Igloliorte and Dr. Carla Tauntion along with local contributing authors for the launch of an exciting publication: The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in The United States and Canada. \nLight refreshments will be served. Come celebrate with us! \nAbout the book: The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America.\n\nThis book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts\, professional curatorial practice\, graduate-level curriculum development\, and academic research. The contributors expand\, create\, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production\, discussion\, and writing of Indigenous art histories.\n\nBringing together scholars\, curators\, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history\, critical museology\, cultural studies\, and curatorial practice\, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based\, embodied\, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration\, consultation\, and mentorship.\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-by-dr-heather-igloliorte/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230125T130000
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SUMMARY:End of Year Exhibition 2023 - Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We have another expo in sight! After the incredible experience we had with In the Middle\, A Chimera last May\, we are eager to start with the planning of this year’s exhibition. The expo 2023 will take place from September 22nd to 29th at the 4th Space with the basic premise of showing off Milieux to the rest of Concordia and helping us better integrate with the larger ecology of the university\, as well as connecting with the public at large. \nFor this edition\, we want students to take the lead! The idea is to put together an interdisciplinary team who will be in charge of collectively curating the exhibition. This planning meeting will be for those who are interested in working on the organizational side and/or be part of the curatorial team to chime in. We will brainstorm ideas for potential themes and discuss paid opportunities to join the planning/curatorial team. \nWhen? Tuesday\, January 25th\, 2023 at noon. \nWhere? Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) AND online. \n*For more information and questions please get in contact with Ariana Seferiades at ariana.seferiadesprece@concordia.ca \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/end-of-year-exhibition-2023-planning-meeting/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230120T160000
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SUMMARY:Biocharmed: A Talk with Dr. Anne Pasek
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second 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). \nThe Critical Anthropocene Speakers Series will feature an in-person and online talk with Dr. Anne Pasek: “Biocharmed: (Affective) Value Forms in Emerging Carbon Removal Markets”\, in which Dr. Pasek will be speaking about her work in Low Carbon Research Methods. Dr. Pasek is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of climate communication\, the environmental humanities\, and science and technology studies. She studies how carbon becomes communicable in different communities and media forms\, to different political and material effects. \nDr. Pasek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment at Trent University\, as well as the Canada Research Chair in Media\, Culture and the Environment. \nRegister for the talk here. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/biocharmed-a-talk-with-dr-anne-pasek/
LOCATION:Milieux Institute\, EV 11. 705\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W
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