Category: Conferences & lectures
While questions of deception and trickery have been a mainstay in discussions about digital media since its inception, the explosion of synthetic images in the wake of generative AI has accentuated the problems of managing online veracity. This talk examines media provenance and authentication standards, above all the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). Taking the “visual risk intelligence” company Truepic as a case study, it argues that the standard’s automated verification does not secure an image’s bond with reality but institutionally fixes its use. Drawing on Peirce, Lefebvre and Farocki, the talk shows how provenance technologies operationalize indexicality as a trust relation before putting it into circulation. It then turns to Article 50 of the EU AI Act, whose genAI labeling obligations took effect in August 2026. The Act institutionalizes C2PA alongside digital watermarking and fingerprinting, converting a private industry-led standard into a global quasi-regulatory infrastructure. Read as a single visual authentication regime, the three layers place the truth claim alongside, inside and outside the image, the consequence of which will be traced in my coming article. Authenticity is thus settled by a private consortium (C2PA), verified by marks no viewer can perceive (digital watermarks), and confirmed by models few viewers can interrogate (digital fingerprinting).
Category: Conferences & lectures
Upcoming events
Category: Conferences & lectures
Join us for a panel discussion featuring Concordia faculty members Kregg Hetherington, VK Preston, Joanna Berzowska, and Rilla Khaled.
For the past fifteen years, France has experienced what some media have described as an epidemic of paediatric cancer clusters. Despite the growing number of reported cases, none of these clusters has led to the identification of environmental causes associated with these diseases.
In this panel discussion, we invite members to highlight three collaborative projects made possible by Milieux's model: the Montreal Waterway Collective, the NOSTAGAIN Network, and, more recently, the Orange Shirt Day Workshop hosted by IFRC in collaboration with Textiles and Materiality and the MaSH Lab.
This roundtable explores how a hands-on approach plays out in student leadership and translates beyond the university.
Join us for an engaging roundtable bringing together PhD candidate Richy Srirachanikorn, Dr. Scott DeJong, Dr, Hilary Bergen and Dr. Aurélie Petit to share experiences, discuss how creative forms drive public engagement, and explore the evolving landscape of research dissemination.
As part of our 10th anniversary extravaganza, we are bringing together former Milieux members for an informal roundtable discussion to chat about life after Milieux and how their time at the Institute shaped their professional paths.
Dr. Anthony A. Noce will be hosting an armchair conversation in-person and live online with Samuel Berridge, High Commissioner of St. Kitts and Nevis to Canada, and Don Stephenson, Former Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Join us at the IFRC for a lunchtime conversation with Julia Therrien, Van Racine, and Arijit Debnath to learn about the research and research-creation initiatives at Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC).
Co-Learning Score for Artistic Research takes place at the intersection of criticality and research-creation, creating a space where theory and practice enter into sustained and generative dialogue.
Join us for the second session of Milieux Mixer, a new series where Milieux members shed light on their creative process through short, 10-minute presentations hosted across different lab and cluster spaces throughout the Institute.
This talk considers the Milieux Institute in terms of the Extended Lab Model in Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson's THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (U of Minnesota Press, 2022).
Machine Agencies is pleased to welcome Dr. Richard Lachman to speak about his recently published book Digital Wisdom: Searching for Agency in the Age of AI.
A panel discussion on emerging trends shaping the accounting industry and practice.
Join us for a discussion with Ruth Kaplan about her photo book Crossing.
Go beyond the headlines in a panel exploring lived experiences of immigration, settlement, belonging, identity and encounters with Canadian institutions.
Recipes and stories come together to work as partners in storytelling, evoking the places, people, and emotions behind them. What histories do our recipes tell? How do they function as vehicles of memory and transmission of knowledge? What more can we learn from these recipes and community members, beyond the kitchen and the plate?
Dr. Dilara Baysal explores how managers shape creativity, autonomy, and worker identity in Canadian tech startups through everyday managerial practices.
Lunch & Learn on The Trudeau-Lévesque Constitutional Debate: Competing Visions of Multiculturalism in 1982 Canada
How does radiation affect the electronics used in spacecraft, aircraft and critical systems on Earth? Join SERESSA 2026 at Concordia from November 23 to 27 to explore these effects and learn techniques to make embedded systems more resilient.
Explore how hardware-assisted security can help verify AI system compliance without exposing sensitive information. As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used, governments are introducing regulations to ensure AI systems are fair, trustworthy and accountable. But how can we verify that these systems meet those requirements? Join us for the Gina Cody School Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring N. Asokan, University Professor at the University of Waterloo. Asokan will explore new methods for verifying properties of AI systems that can help assess regulatory compliance while protecting sensitive information.
Explore how colonialism shapes stories, bodies, places and futures in a community dialogue centring lived experience, memory, resistance and belonging.
Join Karina Kesserwan to explore the impact of AI on society and the environment. Artificial intelligence may seem intangible, but the systems powering it depend on data centres, land and resources. Their development raises questions about who benefits, who bears the consequences and whose voices are heard when decisions are made. Join Concordia's jurist-in-residence, Morton S. Minc, as he welcomes lawyer and strategic advisor Karina Kesserwan for a lecture entitled The Cloud is Built on Land: Virtual AI, Real-World Consequences. Who Gets to Decide? Kesserwan will explore the relationship between technological innovation, the physical world and the people affected by the choices shaping AI's future.
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Lunch & Learn on Navigating Health and Social Services: Experiences of English-Speaking Older Adults
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Manish Oza, Assistant Professor at Western Law, whose research currently focuses on voluntary associations and the state.
Lunch & Learn on Anti-Black Racism and the Labour Market Integration of English-Speaking African Immigrants
Lunch & Learn on Language Loss, Variation, and the Role of English within Montreal’s Italian-Speaking Community
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Nicholas Smyth, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, whose research focusses on ethics and moral psychology.
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome invited guest lecturer Ariel Zylberman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany.
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