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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OCT21Astrida Neimanis talk: CARE FOR THE STRANDEDFriday, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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OCT24Astrida Neimanis and the Weathering Collective workshop: BETTER WEATHERINGMonday, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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OCT27Chocolate SoiréeThursday, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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OCT28Mental Illness and the World OrderFriday, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Past events
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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) |
A song about SāmoaPast, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. -
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:
A Talk by Sharon McIvorPast, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. -
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.
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DEC10The sound of the sky being torn: Three experiments in an anthropology of noise in JapanPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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DEC10PhD Oral Exam - Trevor Mowchun, HumanitiesPast, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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NOV22Blackness and the BorderPast, 1:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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OCT19Screening/Discussion of the Most Talked About Stand-Up Show of 2018Past, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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SEP27The Women and Homelessness: Vectors of InvisibilityPast, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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MAY25Lecture by Alexander García Düttmann: ELLIPSES OF GRAMMATOLOGYPast, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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MAY3Uncommon Senses II Plenary Address: Sensing Symbiontics, Or, Being With Archaeo-BacteriaPast, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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MAY2
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APR6
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MAR23Punishing disease: HIV and the criminalization of sicknessPast, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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MAR16Oliver Davis: "The bureaucracies of neoliberal governance vs. the customary rights of the poor"Past, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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MAR14Spies, Informers and Fenians: The Origins of the Secret Police in CanadaPast, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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NOV24PhD Oral Exam - Ronald Rose-Antoinette, HumanitiesPast, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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NOV17Exploring Venice's 'Garden of Eden': An ongoing feminist, sensory, collaborative art projectPast, 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
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NOV16Murder and Mattering in Harambe's HousePast, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
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NOV3Conversations in Contemporary Art Presents Hajra WaheedPast, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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NOV3Cementing Neoliberal Modernization: The Contemporary Developmental Paradigm in TurkeyPast, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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OCT20Conversations in Contemporary Art Presents Heather DavisPast, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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OCT6Free Public Transport: We Don't Pay For ElevatorsPast, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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OCT6Grad Seminar: Sensory Histories of Natural DisastersPast, 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
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OCT5Public lecture: A Sensory History ManifestoPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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OCT5Exhibition: « Re-Politiser Borduas » by Oli SorensonPast, 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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SEP21Intangible memories of the sensesPast, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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SEP20Imagining IcelandPast, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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AUG11Media Sociology PreconferencePast, 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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APR7PhD Oral Exam - Ardath J. Whynacht, HumanitiesPast, 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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MAR16PhD Oral Exam - Mark Gaspar, HumanitiesPast, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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MAR10Feminism and Controversial Humour Public TalksPast, 9:45 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
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MAR9hysterical: A Comedy ShowPast, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
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FEB18HEALTH GAME JAMPast, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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FEB9Narrative, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Hannah Arendt (Dr. Ewa Ziarek)Past, 2:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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FEB2Surveillance Studies and Blackness: A Field GuidePast, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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JAN27ON THE EVENT OF FREEDOM: For the Love of the Finite AnimalPast, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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JAN11In/Visible CityPast, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.