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Winter 2021 Update
Jill Didur will present her paper “Unearthing the Plantationocene in the Indian Novel in English” as part of the Postcolonial Anthropocene Working Group at the upcoming MLA Convention Jan. 7-10 2021.
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New Nature’s Virtual Listening Party: Hearing Beyond the Human
Check out Dave Shaw’s (PhD English, Concordia) overviewof the New Nature‘s Virtual Listening Party: “New Nature, an immersive Media and Climate Science Exchange between Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the United States, has transitioned to a virtual mode of delivery in response to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the entirety of the exchange…
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Ecotones 2019, “Post/Colonial Ports : Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone,” Conference Programme Now Posted
The schedule for the Post/Colonial Ports conference, to be held at Concordia University, Montreal on October 24-26, 2019, is now posted. Check out the schedule of events here.
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Cities as Playground Programme Now Posted
The schedule for the Cities as Playground workshop, to be held at RMIT University as a part of the Barcelona Design Week, is now posted. Check out the schedule of events below:
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‘Thinking the Anthropocene’ Reader Series Begins Friday, January 25
Join us this Friday, January 25 to kick off the first meeting of the Thinking the Anthropocene reading series this Friday, January 25, 10:00-12:00. We will begin the series with a discussion of two essays: Margret Grebowicz’s “Glacial Time and Lonely Crowds: The Social Effects of Climate Change as Internet Spectacle” and Nicholas de Pencier…
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Jill Didur & Lai-Tze Fan: Between Landscape and the Screen
From Media Theory’s special issue, “Geospatial Memory” (Media Theory 2/1), Jill Didur and Lai-Tze Fan explore the entanglement of locative media, settler culture, and embodied learning in neighbourhood-enhancing “urban wilds”. Abstract: In what ways can the everyday citizen encourage sustainability and promote biodiversity in spaces that are as fragmented, industrial, and toxic as the city?…
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Listening as Ethic; Walking as Method: Daily Practice and Art/Life Intervention
Dr. Natalie Loveless will be wrapping up her lecture series “Sensing the Anthropocene” at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) this Thursday, January 17, 2019. Dr. Loveless, associate professor at the University of Alberta and visiting scholar to Concordia, will focus on artistic practices in the context of the Anthropocene,…
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Sensing the Anthropocene, featuring Dr. Natalie Loveless and Stephanie Loveless
Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) are hosting a series of presentations titled “Sensing the Anthropocene” on November 27 and 28, 2019, featuring Dr. Natalie S. Lovelness, associate professor at the University of Alberta and visiting scholar at the CISSC, and Stephanie Loveless, a sound and media artist whose work…
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