SCHEDULE & LOCATION

The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation

Room LB-145
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8



Friday April 4, 2025

8:45am

Coffee and light breakfast

9:00am

Opening remarks and introductions

9:45am

Workshop

Jenn Cole, Trent University
Movement Practices: Territorial Relations Offering (virtual)

10:15am

Break

10:30am

Panel

Care and Creativity in Teaching and Research

Chair: Lisa Propst

Alison Rowley, Concordia University

When a Door is More Than a Door: Using My Office Door as a Space for Pop-Up Installations

Ane Caroline Costa, Utica University

Teaching Fiction by Black Women: Escrevivência, Intersectionality, and Advancing DEI in Challenging Times (virtual)

Monica Patterson, Carleton University

Ethics, Epistemology, and Engaging Children’s Knowledge through Collaborative, Community-Based Curating 

Claudia Hoffman, University of Miami

Navigating Care for Others and Self in the Prison Teaching Environment (virtual)

Kristy Snell, Concordia University

The Power of Care: Rethinking Approaches to Journalism

12:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Discussion

Kate Krueger, Clarkson University

Checking in on Checking out: On Participation, Disappearance, and Relationship-Building in the Classroom

2:15pm

Discussion

T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, University of Toronto

Crowdsourcing the Canon: Reimagining Approaches to Retelling Visual and Performing Arts Histories (Virtual)

3:00pm

Break

3:15pm

Virtual Roundtable

Solidarity, Care and University Governance in Challenging Times

Chair: Anna Sheftel

Paul Ortiz, Cornell University

Sarah Burton, Robert Gordon University

James Martel, San Francisco State University

David Leadbeater, Laurentian University

Dilys Schoorman, Florida Atlantic University

Blanca Maria Missé, San Francisco State University (tentative)

Dinner

(Downtown location)



Saturday April 5, 2025

8:45am

Coffee and light breakfast

9:00am

Workshop

Jill Carter, University of Toronto
What Happens Next is Up to Them: What Happens Now is up to Us

10:30am

Break

10:45am

Workshop

Althea Thompson, Concordia University
Knitting Resistance: Crafting Dissent Beyond the Gauge

11:30am

Discussion

Sheila Batacharya, University of Toronto

Rebel Feelings and “Feminism for the 99%”

12:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm

Panel

Being human in institutions

Chair: Steven Mygind Pedersen

Anna Sheftel, Concordia University

Career Interruptions

Annegret Steiger, Clarkson University

Crossing the River Styx: what it feels like to be a death candidate and then survive

Rachel Berger, Concordia University
Rilla Khaled, Concordia University

Exit through the group chat: building solidarity to facilitate difficult conversations 

Rosemary Reilly, Concordia University

Tea drinking as rest and resistance

2:45pm

Transit to Chinatown

3:30pm

Visit and Discussion

Super Boat People at MEM
(Centre des mémoires montréalaises)

4:45pm

Visit and Discussion

Jia Foundation at Chinatown House

Dinner

(Chinatown location)



Sunday April 6, 2025

8:45am

Coffee and light breakfast

9:00am

Workshop

Stephen Yeager, Concordia University
Building Possible Worlds

9:45am

Workshop

Ann Reading, Millersville University
A Boring New World

10:30am

Break

10:45am

Workshop

Kelly Minerva, Utica University &
Lisa Propst, Clarkson University

Personal Failures Amidst Academic Structures

11:30am

Workshop

Richenda Grazette, Concordia University
(Con)Strained Utopias: Hauntings & the Activist Project

12:30pm

Lunch & goodbye!


This symposium was generously funded by:

Concordia University
Clarkson University Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office
CRIDAQ – Antenne Concordia
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture


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