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Workshops & seminars, Arts & culture

Home/Making Symposium


Date & time
Saturday, May 13, 2023
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Cost

This event is free.

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room 361 and 362

Accessible location

Yes - See details

Conversations at the intersection of research and creation, craft and home.

Time Event
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Panel 4 (hybrid): Craft on the move: migrating and translating practices

  • D Wood (Independent Scholar)
  • Liliana Morais (Rikkyo University)
  • Ksenia Golovina (Toyo University)
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10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15  – 11:45 a.m.

Panel 5 (in-person): Agency, Identity and Unheimlich making

  • Sandra Huber (Concordia University)
  • Julia Skelly (Concordia University)
  • Skot Deeming (PhD Candidate, Concordia University)
  • Anna Hoddé (PhD Candidate, Concordia University)
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11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Lunch

Catered by Nilufar

12:45 – 2:15 p.m.

Panel 6 (hybrid): Making Place and Community through Craft Pedagogy

  • Kelley Totten (Memorial University)
  • Danielle Burke (PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Marina Moskowitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Nicola Miles (PhD Candidate, University of Brighton)
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2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

Kitchen Table Session: Family Fiber: Foundation, Fabric, Freedom

  • Christine Beckett (Concordia University)
Coffee break
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2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Panel 7 (hybrid): Craft and kinship

  • Rebecca Strzelec (Penn State Altoona)
  • Mylène Boisvert (MFA Candidate, Concordia University)
  • Rachel Lobo (University of Toronto)
  • Punita Kapoor (PhD Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
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4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Panel 8 (hybrid): Crafting the domestic

  • Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi (PhD Candidate, University of Galway)
  • Johanna Amos (Queen's University)
  • Elizabeth Newton Jackson (PhD Candidate, University of Auckland) 
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5:30 p.m. Closing remarks

This event is part of:

Home/Making Project

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