The talk draws on Faye Driscoll's choreography Weathering (2023), which stages an intense maelstrom of motions and scents amid late capitalist excess or collapse. In doing so, the performance generates a contradictory field of sensorial perception — at once an escape from the Capitalocen's violence and subtly entangled with its exploitation of the senses.

January 15, 2026, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building H-1120 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

Julia Ostwald

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In this talk, Daniel Kish offers a perception-based paradigm and framework for understanding the achievement and practice of self-determined freedom for blind people.

January 16, 2026, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

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Daniel Kish

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A Reading of Brandom’s Theory of Objectivity in "Making It Explicit"

January 16, 2026, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

SGW campus MB - Pavillon John-Molson 14.250 (1450 Guy St.)

Raphaël Tossings, University of Ottawa and Sorbonne-Université

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This talk draws on research examining Section 141 of the Indian Act (1927-1951), a little-known provision that made it an offence for Indigenous peoples to raise funds or hire lawyers to advance claims without government permission.

January 23, 2026, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building 1120 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

Amy Swiffen

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Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, invites you to the conference, The Future of Canada/US Trade Agreements.

January 29, 2026, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

SGW campus MB - John Molson Building ABCD (1450 Guy St.)

Ian Lee

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This paper traces the user experience of disabled audience members as they attend a Kinetic Light performance. Focusing on touch and sight as types of sensory encounter, Lawson and Sheppard draw in sensory studies to analyze how audiences experience dance.

January 30, 2026, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

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Alice Sheppard, Laurel Lawson

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Join the Department of Economics in welcoming Senators Leo Housakos and Tony Loffreda for an armchair conversation hosted by Anthony A. Noce, senior lecturer and course coordinator for ECON 318 Canadian Economic Policy and ECON 319 International Economic Policy.

February 6, 2026, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building (1450 Guy St.)

Senator Leo Housakos, Senator Tony Loffreda, Dr. Anthony A. Noce

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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Michael Goodhart.

February 27, 2026, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

SGW campus H - Henry F. Hall Building 1220 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

Michael Goodhart, Professor of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh

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This lecture presents insights from the international research project Beyond Seeing (2017–2018), initiated by the Goethe-Institut Paris in collaboration with ESMOD Berlin, Institut Français de la Mode (Paris), La Cambre (Brussels), and the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås, together with organizations for the blind and visually impaired.

March 6, 2026, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

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Irma Jokštytė-Stanevičienė, Vidmina Stasiulytė

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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Devin Curry Sanchez.

March 13, 2026, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

SGW campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building 362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

Devin Sanchez Curry, Associate Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University

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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Sean Kelsey.

March 27, 2026, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

SGW campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building 362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

Sean Kelsey, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago

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