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: