Lectures & conferences
The Centre sponsors innovative interdisciplinary scholarship across the Humanities and Fine Arts through regular public events and happenings, including conferences, symposia, exhibitions and a Speaker Series that brings internationally recognized scholars to Concordia to give talks and lead workshops.
If you would like to propose an event, please see CISSC Calls.
Upcoming CISSC Events
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JAN21Workshop: Investigating Fossil Capitalism – Challenges, Reflections, StrategiesFriday, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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JAN28Conversations on Community Health #1: Narrative and Representational Practices of the Body and HealthFriday, 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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FEB16Conversations on Community Health #2: Environment, Infrastructure, & Public HealthWednesday, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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APR14Conversations on Community Health #3: Biopolitics & Social JusticeThursday, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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APR28Conversations on Community Health #4: Lived Experiences of the Body & Practices of CareThursday, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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MAY19Conversations on Community Health #5: Review and Wrap-up SessionThursday, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Past events
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MAY6Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses ConferencePast, 9:15 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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APR21The Role of the State in the post-COVID 21st CenturyPast, All day
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APR16Robyn Maynard: Abolition and/as World-BuildingPast, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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MAR25GEMlab Talk on Thursday, March 25th 2021: Producing Whiteness Through Format AdaptationPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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MAR12Concluding Conversation, with Pablo GershanikPast, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
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MAR9Opening Conversation: Situating Residency and Responding to Pablo’s MetaphorPast, 9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
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MAR8Metaphor as a Possibility of Resilience, with Pablo GershanikPast, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
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FEB25Life in Ink: How comics make medical and sociological research accessiblePast, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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FEB19Seeking the ‘Real’ – Theatre Has Left the BuildingPast, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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FEB15Racial capitalism and geological violence in the wake of the plantationPast, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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NOV26ATMOSPHERES: A Question of Taste? On the Meaning of Taste Judgments in the Sphere Of MoralityPast, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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NOV20ATMOSPHERES: Atmosphere and CircumstancePast, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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NOV12ATMOSPHERES: Stimmung: Atmosphere and its Origins in Western Architectural TheoryPast, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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NOV6"Our Friend Angela Davis: The Communist Star," a talk by Jonathan FlatleyPast, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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OCT30Beyond Performativity: Material Futures of FinancePast, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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OCT29ATMOSPHERES: Imaging the Air We Breathe - Developing sociological and ecological imaginationsPast, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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OCT23ATMOSPHERES: Conspiracies: an ethereal/etymological Zoom performance for uncertain times (and plants)Past, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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OCT15
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SEP25ATMOSPHERES: Atmospheric Pressures: On Race and AffectPast, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
