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We invite you to experience Shaping Grief: Quilt and Book, an exhibition featuring the work of Abby Maxwell. Through textiles and books, Maxwell explores grief as a material and structural presence — unbound by language yet deeply embedded in memory and decay.

When
May 1, 2025 – August 1, 2025 (all day)
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB-2 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)




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This 5th conference in the biennial Uncommon Senses conference series is hosted by the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. It features 4 keynote addresses, 22 panels, 8 roundtables, over 200 individual papers, 26 workshops and much more.

When
May 7, 2025 – May 10, 2025, 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building (1450 Guy)

2026 will mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of The Senses and Society and coining of the term 'sensory studies.' In this presentation, the editors reflect on their stewardship of the journal and ever-evolving meaning and scope of 'sensory studies' as a term of art.

When
May 7, 2025, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex EV-1.605 (1515 St. Catherine W.)
Speaker(s)
Michael Bull (University of Sussex), David Howes (Concordia University)

This keynote address investigates the aesthetic, cultural, and scientific discourses of synaesthesia that inspired the flourishing exchanges among the modern arts.

When
May 8, 2025, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building MB-9.CD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Polina Dimona (University of Denver)

When
May 8, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Where
TBD

In this talk, the keynote speaker will explore some ideas on the ontology of the social and relate it to the metaphysics of the senses in order to make the argument that cultural practices are not only based on an implicit ontology of the social but also on the belief that the social is sensorially accessible.

When
May 9, 2025, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building MB-9.CD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Sundar Sarukkai

The keynote speaker argues that sensing entails positioning oneself at the very edge of a phenomenon – inhabiting the liminal – in order to observe a field of rapidly morphing forces. Drawing examples from landscape archaeology to glaciology and environmentally-informed art, she will explore environmental sensing as rhythms, vibrations, bandwidths, resonances, and frequencies that create fluid and liminal sense-impressions of an unresolved natural process, and through it, opportunities for remapping and rephrasing the criss-crossing umwelts of the planetary sensorium.

When
May 10, 2025, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building MB-9.CD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Saadia Mirza

Impact of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions on sleep and cognition in older adults with insomnia

When
May 26, 2025, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where
Loyola Campus Richard J. Renaud Science Complex 165-22 (7141 Sherbrooke W.)

Security Auditing for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Microservices

When
May 28, 2025, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online

When
May 29, 2025 – May 30, 2025 (all day)
Where
SGW campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building Conference room (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
TBD

As international trade dynamics shift daily and the race to decarbonize intensifies, Canada's energy economy stands at a pivotal crossroads. The Walrus Talks Power Economy brings together seven leading voices to explore how Canada's path to a sustainable future is increasingly tied to electrification and reindustrialization.

When
May 29, 2025, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Where
Isabel Bader Theatre
Speaker(s)
Faye Diamantoudi, Chris Henderson, Moe Kabbara, Rick Smith, Emily Whetung-MacInnes and more....

String: A novel programming language with applications to genetic programming and protocell model simulation

When
May 30, 2025, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex 3.309 (1515 St. Catherine W.)

Join us for an interactive workshop based on the new book Beyond Molotovs. A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies. The workshop will include an exhibition and discussion of how — using images, songs, memes, poems, occupation of spaces, symbols, graffiti, murals, and stickers — people craft aesthetics of resistance that can be used to confront authoritarian tendencies.

When
May 30, 2025, 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex 10.625 (1515 St. Catherine W.)
Speaker(s)
Inés Durán Matute

Resonant Atmospheres: The Techno-Performance of Affection

When
June 2, 2025, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where
Online

Thesis Title: Being a Dawoodi Bohra Woman: Community, Religious Agency, and Social Media

When
June 2, 2025, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building 362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

In(Visible) Sex: A History of Pornhub

When
June 5, 2025, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex 2.776 (1515 St. Catherine W.)




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