Events

Join us for a panel discussion featuring Concordia faculty members Kregg Hetherington, VK Preston, Joanna Berzowska, and Rilla Khaled.

For the past fifteen years, France has experienced what some media have described as an epidemic of paediatric cancer clusters. Despite the growing number of reported cases, none of these clusters has led to the identification of environmental causes associated with these diseases.

In this panel discussion, we invite members to highlight three collaborative projects made possible by Milieux's model: the Montreal Waterway Collective, the NOSTAGAIN Network, and, more recently, the Orange Shirt Day Workshop hosted by IFRC in collaboration with Textiles and Materiality and the MaSH Lab.

This roundtable explores how a hands-on approach plays out in student leadership and translates beyond the university.

Join us for an engaging roundtable bringing together PhD candidate Richy Srirachanikorn, Dr. Scott DeJong, Dr, Hilary Bergen and Dr. Aurélie Petit to share experiences, discuss how creative forms drive public engagement, and explore the evolving landscape of research dissemination.

Dark Opacities Lab presents its first research symposium.NAZAR: A THEORY OF THE EVIL EYE: A FALL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM, convening over two days, featuring scholars, students, artists, and organizers from all over the world.

As part of our 10th anniversary extravaganza, we are bringing together former Milieux members for an informal roundtable discussion to chat about life after Milieux and how their time at the Institute shaped their professional paths.

Dr. Anthony A. Noce will be hosting an armchair conversation in-person and live online with Samuel Berridge, High Commissioner of St. Kitts and Nevis to Canada, and Don Stephenson, Former Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Join us at the IFRC for a lunchtime conversation with Julia Therrien, Van Racine, and Arijit Debnath to learn about the research and research-creation initiatives at Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC).

Co-Learning Score for Artistic Research takes place at the intersection of criticality and research-creation, creating a space where theory and practice enter into sustained and generative dialogue.

Join us for the second session of Milieux Mixer, a new series where Milieux members shed light on their creative process through short, 10-minute presentations hosted across different lab and cluster spaces throughout the Institute.

This talk considers the Milieux Institute in terms of the Extended Lab Model in Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson's THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (U of Minnesota Press, 2022).

Machine Agencies is pleased to welcome Dr. Richard Lachman to speak about his recently published book Digital Wisdom: Searching for Agency in the Age of AI.

A panel discussion on emerging trends shaping the accounting industry and practice.

Join us for a discussion with Ruth Kaplan about her photo book Crossing.

Go beyond the headlines in a panel exploring lived experiences of immigration, settlement, belonging, identity and encounters with Canadian institutions.

Recipes and stories come together to work as partners in storytelling, evoking the places, people, and emotions behind them. What histories do our recipes tell? How do they function as vehicles of memory and transmission of knowledge? What more can we learn from these recipes and community members, beyond the kitchen and the plate?

Dr. Dilara Baysal explores how managers shape creativity, autonomy, and worker identity in Canadian tech startups through everyday managerial practices.

Lunch & Learn on The Trudeau-Lévesque Constitutional Debate: Competing Visions of Multiculturalism in 1982 Canada

How does radiation affect the electronics used in spacecraft, aircraft and critical systems on Earth? Join SERESSA 2026 at Concordia from November 23 to 27 to explore these effects and learn techniques to make embedded systems more resilient.

Explore how hardware-assisted security can help verify AI system compliance without exposing sensitive information. As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used, governments are introducing regulations to ensure AI systems are fair, trustworthy and accountable. But how can we verify that these systems meet those requirements? Join us for the Gina Cody School Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring N. Asokan, University Professor at the University of Waterloo. Asokan will explore new methods for verifying properties of AI systems that can help assess regulatory compliance while protecting sensitive information.

Explore how colonialism shapes stories, bodies, places and futures in a community dialogue centring lived experience, memory, resistance and belonging.

Join Karina Kesserwan to explore the impact of AI on society and the environment. Artificial intelligence may seem intangible, but the systems powering it depend on data centres, land and resources. Their development raises questions about who benefits, who bears the consequences and whose voices are heard when decisions are made. Join Concordia's jurist-in-residence, Morton S. Minc, as he welcomes lawyer and strategic advisor Karina Kesserwan for a lecture entitled The Cloud is Built on Land: Virtual AI, Real-World Consequences. Who Gets to Decide? Kesserwan will explore the relationship between technological innovation, the physical world and the people affected by the choices shaping AI's future.

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Lunch & Learn on Navigating Health and Social Services: Experiences of English-Speaking Older Adults

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Manish Oza, Assistant Professor at Western Law, whose research currently focuses on voluntary associations and the state.

Lunch & Learn on Anti-Black Racism and the Labour Market Integration of English-Speaking African Immigrants

Lunch & Learn on Language Loss, Variation, and the Role of English within Montreal’s Italian-Speaking Community

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Nicholas Smyth, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, whose research focusses on ethics and moral psychology.

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Ariel Zylberman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany.