Contested Imaginaries

Organized by students in the Humanities PhD program, Contested Imaginaries is a conference where students, artists, performers, and community members from Concordia and abroad can share knowledge, thoughts, art, and questions. Our theme centers on a sensibility of justice and the creation of alternative futures.

Day 1: Archives and Afterlives of the Anthropocene
June 17th, 2021

Panel 1: Decolonial and More-than-human Ecologies (9 – 10:30 am EST)
[9:00 – 9:15 am] – The Dark Posthuman: Social Reproduction, Social Justice, and EcologicalCare paper with video component presented by Dr. Stephanie Polsky (Goldsmiths, University of London).
[9:15 – 9:30 am] – Black Speculative Fiction as a Praxis of Moten’s “Nothingness”: Visions, Hallucinations, and Other Unpackings of Material Freedoms paper presented by Paige Grant (MA student, University of Toronto).
[9:30- 9:45 am] – ¡Co-existimos! A Multi-species Inquiry into Morpho butterflies as Urban Companion Species paper and photo-walk presented by Melina Campos Ortiz (PhD candidate, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)

Workshop 1 (10:30 – 12:00 EST)
Glimmering in the Gloom: Integrating Narrative Therapy and Speculative Fiction workshop facilitated by Tiffany Sostar (Community Scholar).
(Long break) 60 min

Panel 2: Unlikely Archives, Counter Discourses, Dissident Memories (1:00 – 2:30 pm EST)
[1:00- 1:15 pm] – A Creek Story: The Demise and Re-emergence of a Creek and Community paper presented by Dr. Grant Corbishley (Te Haapori i Haewai).
[1:15- 1:30 pm] – Cemeteries as Social Archives: Reflecting on mixed-method Fieldwork in South Lebanon paper presented by Sabah Fatima Haider (PhD Candidate, CISSC, Concordia
University, Montréal and Department of Social Anthropology and Ethnology, EHESS, Paris).
[1:30-1:45 pm] – Collage as Counter-Discourse to the ‘Here’ and ‘Now’ in Ali Smith’s Autumn paper presented by Leah Chochinov (MA student, Department of English, McMaster University).
[1:45 – 2:00 pm] – Memes as Anarchives: The Unlikely Variations of the Visconti Tarot paper presented by Albertine Thunier (PhD candidate, Communication Studies, Université de Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)

Workshop 2 (2:45-4:00 pm EST)
Connection through Drawing #2: Experimental Participatory Drawing
Q + I (Oliver Cloke and Patrick Loan).

End of Day 1: Gather.town Party & Video Screening

 

Day 2: Sensory Imaginaries, Contested Phenomenologies
June 18th, 2021

Panel 1: Sounds and Movements of Resistance (9 – 10:30 am EST)
[9:00- 9:15 am] – Dance, Racism, and Anthropological Knowledge paper presented by Claire Vionnet (Visiting Postdoc Fellow, University Paris 8, Dance Department; Associate Junior Fellow,
Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern).
[9:15- 9:30 am] – Silencing an Acoustic Community: Gentrification as a Silencing Mechanism in the Context of Sarıgöl Romani Neighborhood paper with dance component presented by Burcu
Yaşin (PhD candidate, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
[9:30 – 9:45 am] – Walking With: An Aural Essay About Collective Feminism sound-walk presented by Amanda Gutierrez (PhD candidate, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society
and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)

Workshop 1 (10:30-12:00 EST)
Globalizing Hope: Co-Creating an Interactive Arts Kit for Emergencies, Resilience and Joy workshop facilitated by Hilal Demir, Gesa Bent, and Julia Kramer
(Long break) (60 min)

Panel 2: Embodiment & Affect (1:00 – 2:30 pm EST)
[1:00-1:15 pm] – In the Midst of Childhood: Representations of the “Problem Body” and the “Normative Body” in Children’s Lives paper presented by Madeleine DeWelles (University of
Toronto, Social Justice Education, OISE).
[1:15-1:30 pm] – ‘No Future’ for Queers: An Investigation into Pregnancy and Queer Joy as Utopia paper presented by Cathrin Fischer (University College Dublin).
[1:30-1:45 pm] – Stories of Cuts and Care paper presented by Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin, Joëlle Dubé, Laura Magnusson (PhD candidates, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and
Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
[1:45 – 2:00 pm] – Have a Wobble: Fat, Movement, and Unstable Identities screening and participatory performance talk by Magdalena Hutter (PhD candidate, Centre for Interdisciplinary
Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
Q&A: 30 min
(Short break) (15 min)

Workshop 2 (2:45-4:00 pm EST)
Moving-with: Movement, Sensation, and (Re) discovery workshop facilitated by Keven Lee (PhD Candidate, McGill University, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy).

End of Day 2: Gather.town Party & Video Screening

 

Day 3: Poetic Imaginaries, Nocturnal Creativities
June 19th, 2021

Poetry Night (5 pm-6 pm EST)
Selection from Extraordinary Renditions by Niki Lambros
(Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal).
The 22 Weird Ellipses by Miles Forrester
(Department of English alumnus, Concordia University, Montréal)
Poetry Reading by Michael Shaw
(Department of English, Concordia University, Montréal)
Poetry Reading by Alexei Perri Cox
(Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montréal)
(Short break) (15 min)

Workshop (6:15-7:30 pm EST)
Allison Wist (Part-time Faculty, NYU Food Studies)

End of Day 3: Closing party on Gather.town