SAGSA Conference 2024 Violence // Care: Territories and Imaginaries

During this conference we will come together to interrogate discourses of violence and care. Violence, in the forms of witnessing, censorship and escalating geopolitical conflicts; and Care, in the form of solidarity, togetherness and self-/collective-care.

Both construct our lived experiences and epistemological frameworks, punctuating everyday life, contextualising our histories and painting our futurities.

With Violence // Care: Territories and Imaginaries, we seek to open and unpack the relationship between the two phenomena in engaged, creative and radical ways. By framing the two in this // way, we seek to break open the causal link between violence and care.

This event is co-hosted by the Concordia Ethnography Lab, a part of the Milieux Institute.

Programme

Saturday, 22nd March 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

9-9:30 a.m.

• Coffee and breakfast

9:30-10:45 a.m.

• Panel 1: Conflict, Violence and Resistance moderated by Associate Professor Bev Best
• Public relations, repression and counter-insurgency: an investigation of police and mixed squads in Montreal with Orlando Nicoletti
• Careful Methods: Reflections on studying a 40-year-old massacre of vulnerable citizens in India with Leki Thungon

11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

• Keynote Presentation: Desirable Abject: Queer Affect and Urban Planning in North Paris by Khalil Habrih

12:30-1:30 p.m.

• Lunch

1:30-3 p.m.

• Round table discussion, "Ethics Beyond Bureaucracy" with Javiera Araya, Jonathan Ward, Brett Richardson and discussion lead John Neufeld

3-4:30 p.m.

• Panel 2: Undergraduate Honours Thesis Panel hosted by Associate Professor Mark Watson

Sunday, 23rd March 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

8:30-9 a.m.

• Coffee and breakfast

9-10:45 a.m.

• Film Screening: "Stitching Palestine" presented by filmmaker Carol Mansour and Dr Muna Khalidi

11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

• Panel 3: Critical Perspectives on Health and Care moderated By Assistant Professor Deniz Duruiz
• Disordered Bodies // Solidarities: building new worlds through care and violence in a therapeutic community for eating disorders with Megan Blanche
• Situating Stress: networks of care in Montreal’s transcultural psychiatry with Nathan Ferguson
• Escaping Toxicity: health and care in a Cluj full of chemicals with Diana Baciu

12:45-1:30 p.m.

• Lunch

1:30-3 p.m.
Collaborative workshop

• Pit Stop: On composite ethnography, zine-making and our encounter with the Francon Quarry at Saint-Michel with the EMERGE Collective

3:15-4:45 p.m.

• Panel 4: Environment, Place and Futurity moderated By Assistant Professor Sheila Rao
• No more Eldorado! (Re)presenting situated hope through collaborative ruins with Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis
• Conserving Futures: the care of the Black and Coulonge protected area, in Quebec with Manuel Charrette
• Heritage in conflict: contesting the meanings of the past for a politics of the future at the Lachine Canal with Maya Lamoth-Katrapani

4:45-5 p.m.

• Closing remarks and thank-yous