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
No upcoming events at this time.
Past events
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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.