Lectures & conferences
The Centre sponsors innovative interdisciplinary scholarship in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts through public events including conferences, symposia, artist talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions given by internationally recognized scholars and artists.
Concordia faculty and researchers may propose an event of interdisciplinary interest at CISSC Calls.
If you are interested in past events, you can watch a playlist of selected videos documenting previous CISSC events held at Concordia's 4th Space, on the 4th Space Youtube channel.
Upcoming CISSC events
No upcoming events at this time.
Past events
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JUNE3Reading Nature: An Evening of Queer EcopoetryPast, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
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MAR28Digital Power and its UndoingPast, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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MAR21Motivating response/ability towards the ecological emergencyPast, 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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MAR7Alison Donnell - Who cares? Public humanities methods and building impactPast, 1:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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MAR7Postcolonial Hauntologies: Art in the Presence – Absence of the PastPast, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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MAR7Behind the magic of AI - The Mirage of Total Automation and its Hidden WorkersPast, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
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MAR6
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MAR5Alison Donnell - Mapping missing Caribbean women narratives in MontrealPast, 1:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
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JAN30Workshop: from Human to Artificial Intelligence — A transdisciplinary perspectivePast, 4:15 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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NOV19Drawing and EthnographyPast, 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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OCT29Exploring Visual Methods Across the Disciplines: An Introductory WorkshopPast, 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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OCT24Guest Lecture: Northern Lights and Silicon Dreams - AI Governance in Canada (2011-2022)Past, 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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OCT24Kristeva Circle 10th Annual MeetingPast, All day
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OCT10Book launch - The Automatic Fetish by Dr. Beverley BestPast, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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OCT3Alternative Medicine and Infernal Alternatives: On the Modern Fear of Being DupedPast, 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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OCT1Templates of Care (In)HumanitiesPast, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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SEP26
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SEP19"The Car As Everyday Catastrophe"Past, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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MAY30The Museum of TransformationPast, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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APR30Teaching Disinformation in the ClassroomPast, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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APR30Whole Body / DancePast, 3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
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APR30Bridging Borders and Uniting PracticesPast, 10 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
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APR29Mis- and Disinformation in Media and Journalism in the Canadian ContextPast, 3:45 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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APR29Relation entre la désinformation et le radicalisme et l'extrémisme politiquesPast, 2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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APR29Creation and Dissemination of Disinformation in Social and Traditional MediaPast, 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
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APR29DisinformationPast, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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APR29How to Combat the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation?Past, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
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APR27PONCILI CREACIÓN: Performance, 'BRAIN OF GRANDMA, SKIN OF STONE'Past, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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APR25PONCILI CREACIÓN - an artist talk and conversationPast, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
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APR16
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APR12WRITING AS SEDITION: a symposiumPast, 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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APR9The Hologram: An Anti-Capitalist Care Practice That Anyone Can UsePast, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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MAR27Writing urban life: stories of waste and citiesPast, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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MAR25Expanded PracticesPast, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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MAR1Symbiontics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of EarthlingsPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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FEB22Performing AI: Labor and Complexity on the Contemporary StagePast, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
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FEB21
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FEB8Forcings and Felt-Virtualities: Do Climate Models Have Affects?Past, 5 p.m. – 6:40 p.m.
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FEB2The Fugitive Hands and Feet in Algorithmic WorkPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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JAN19Making Sense of Algorithms Virtual Lecture SeriesPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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JAN19After Free Speech: #datapolitik and the Failures of LiberalismPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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DEC7The Informal Cities Working Group - Informal gatheringPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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DEC7Abolition and the University: A conversation with Dr. Dan BergerPast, 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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DEC1
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NOV10Artistic Positions and Entanglements: A Dialogue about Global Souths in Global NorthsPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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NOV10
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OCT30Free Lunchtime Zoom Talk "Sprucing Up Leftovers: American Discourse on Japanese Cuisine, 1945-1992"Past, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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OCT27Seed > RootPast, 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
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OCT20
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OCT17The Tipping Point: Workshops - What Can Be Done?Past, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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OCT16The Tipping PointPast, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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SEP22
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SEP22The Ambivalence of Rootedness: Oppressive and Liberatory PotentialsPast, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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MAY19Glissant and Levinas - Thinking the RelationPast, All day
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MAY5Data Activism - Mobilizing Data for JusticePast, All day
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APR28Keep Performing: a movement workshop + talkPast, 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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APR21Virtual Panel: Why (Not) Eat Beef?Past, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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APR20Rehab Nazzal "Driving in Palestine" Book LaunchPast, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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APR3Fire and Light: Interdisciplinary Artist-ProducersPast, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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APR3Fat Politics: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Activism, Identities, and Health DiscoursePast, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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MAR31re* : imagining / créer / building / faire / mapping / connaissancePast, 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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MAR28Sous mes paupières, Vers les abeilles: a film screening + talkPast, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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MAR23More-than-Human Entanglements in the Plantation NexusPast, 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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MAR16A World Historical Situation: Mediating the Fall of QuebecPast, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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FEB23Informal Cities Speaker Series: Kathleen MillarPast, 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
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FEB10Postcolonial Nature with Philip AghoghovwiaPast, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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FEB10Dance Pedagogy as Legacy and Knowledge ProductionPast, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
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FEB6Fire and Light: Interdisciplinary Artist-ProducersPast, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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FEB3What Can Grenada Teach Us?Past, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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JAN20Biocharmed: (Affective) Value Forms in Emerging Carbon Removal MarketsPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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JAN20Mental Disorders: Homo Sacer and Human RightsPast, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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JAN16Fire and Light: Interdisciplinary Artist-ProducersPast, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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DEC15Ground ProvisionsPast, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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DEC2Feeling Alive with the Far Right: Fight Club Culture and Fascist VitalismPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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NOV25Breathing Aesthetics : with Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Dr. Alice JarryPast, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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NOV24Cripping Storytelling: Disability, Accessibility, and the SensesPast, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
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NOV24Informal Cities Working Group Speaker SeriesPast, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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NOV18Learning to Smell: a pragmatist view on perceptionPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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NOV17South-South CISSC Working Group, Research-Sharing EventPast, 3 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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NOV13Epicenter Revolutions: Transgender Performance HappeningsPast, 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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NOV7Scenographies of Site-Writing & Critical Spatial Practices Across the AmericasPast, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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NOV4Webinar: Acceptability of insects as a sustainable alternative source of proteinPast, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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NOV4Sensation Lecture SeriesPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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NOV4Sensitivity TrainingPast, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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OCT28Mental Illness and the World OrderPast, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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OCT28Informal Cities Reading Group MeetingPast, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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OCT27Chocolate SoiréePast, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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OCT24Astrida Neimanis and the Weathering Collective workshop: BETTER WEATHERINGPast, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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OCT21Astrida Neimanis talk: CARE FOR THE STRANDEDPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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AUG1Seeing Thousands – film screening, discussion and receptionPast, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m.
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MAY24Transgressive Sounds and Atmospheres: Capturing SpacesPast, 7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
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MAY19Conversations on Community Health #5: Review and Wrap-up SessionPast, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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APR28Conversations on Community Health #4: Lived Experiences of the Body & Practices of CarePast, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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APR14Conversations on Community Health #3: Biopolitics & Social JusticePast, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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APR8
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APR7The ABC's of Dramaturgical EcologiesPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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APR1History In The Making 2022 — Pandemic at The DiscoPast, 12:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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MAR30"To Feel Good You Must Feel Bad": Talking with Sarah Mangle about the COVID-19 Art ProjectPast, 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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MAR25Michelle Murphy Talk: "What is Chemical Violence?"Past, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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MAR21Grieving, Mourning, Memory: A ConversationPast, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
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FEB18
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FEB18Trickle-down debt: Infrastructure, development, and financialisationPast, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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FEB17Epicenter Revolutions Artist TalkPast, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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FEB16Conversations on Community Health #2: Environment, Infrastructure, & Public HealthPast, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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FEB9The ABC's of Dramaturgical EcologiesPast, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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FEB4
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JAN28
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JAN24The ABC's of Dramaturgical EcologiesPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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JAN21Workshop: Investigating Fossil Capitalism – Challenges, Reflections, StrategiesPast, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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DEC9Transgressive Sounds and AtmospheresPast, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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DEC3Radhika Govindrajan on Animal IntimaciesPast, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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DEC2Sensing Smart ForestsPast, 11 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
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NOV30Performance and Research Creation: Guest talks with Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa and Sarah E. TrumanPast, 4:30 p.m. – 7:20 p.m.
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NOV19Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday LifePast, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
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NOV18Great Games (Where was 9/11)?Past, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
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NOV12
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NOV10Health Humanities and the Arts: A RoundtablePast, 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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NOV4Animating ArtefactsPast, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
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OCT21Site-responsive Sonic ArtPast, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
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OCT15Angola: Digital Surveillance and NecropoliticsPast, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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OCT15Andil Gosine on Nature′s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the CaribbeanPast, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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OCT15Critical Anthropocene Speaker SeriesPast, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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SEP29Justice Between Generations: Asian, African, Indigenous, and Western PerspectivesPast, 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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SEP23Sentience Lecture SeriesPast, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
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SEP23Animal Sentience from Fishes to FliesPast, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
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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.
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SEP17ATMOSPHERES: Spectacular and Domestic Atmospheres: India, London and 1930s SensesPast, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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SEP10ATMOSPHERES: Outlining a General Theory of Atmosphere: Implications from Everyday LifePast, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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AUG18PhD Oral Exam - Jeremy Valentin Freeman, HumanitiesPast, All day
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MAR14The Black Studies in Translation ConferencePast, 9:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
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DEC9
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NOV15The Political Aesthetics of Public Art in a DemocracyPast, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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NOV14South Africa after the rainbow: aspiration, ambition and social mobilityPast, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
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NOV1Knots and Holes: An essay film on the life of netsPast, 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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OCT24The touch of the presentPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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OCT3Rethinking Africa's Urban Future(s)Past, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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SEP27Making VictimsPast, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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SEP20The flickering torch: blackouts and phatic communication in TanzaniaPast, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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SEP19Sudden death crime and punishment: The case of suicide bombingPast, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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SEP16Journal of Religion and Culture launch partyPast, 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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SEP6Escaping the global eventPast, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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JUNE13サモアについてのうた (Samoa ni tsuite no uta) |
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MAY30A diabolical crimePast, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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MAY24Return Atacama: a labour of lovePast, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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MAY23Writing by makingPast, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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APR29Sudden death crime and punishment: The case of suicide bombingPast, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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APR26Black Studies curriculum reportPast, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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APR12The arts of oil: dis/enchantment and popular culture in Port HarcourtPast, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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APR10Remembering Tomorrow: Archiving Indigenous Digital ArtPast, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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APR5Making modernism globalPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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APR5Why does women-only space matter?Past, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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APR4Indigenous Women's Activism:
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MAR16Living Black Studies: Reimagining Black Canadian StudiesPast, All day
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MAR15Black Writing MattersPast, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
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MAR8Storytelling Workshop: humour & healingPast, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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MAR8Comparisons Confected And Denied: Social Science Understandings Of Political ActsPast, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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MAR7A Socialist Peace: Explaining the Absence of War in Guinea ConakryPast, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
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FEB15Conversations in Contemporary Art Presents Jaret VaderaPast, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.