Join us as we seek to centre ways of knowing that emerge through alternative senses, including touch, taste, smell, and sound, as well as tacit or unconscious knowing, oral storytelling, social imagination and more.

SCHEDULE

Nehal El-Hadi

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Nehal El-Hadi (Ph.D, U of Toronto) is a writer, researcher, and editor whose work explores the relationships between the body (racialised, gendered), place (urban, virtual), and technology (internet, health). Currently, she is researching sand as a material through which to understand social, cultural, environmental, and geographical issues. Nehal is the Science+Technology Editor at The Conversation Canada.

Hannah Star Rogers

Hannah Star Rogers (Ph.D, Cornell U) is an Art and Science Studies scholar, curator, and poet. Her research is situated at the intersection of art and science, particularly critiques of science in contemporary art. Hannah is the author of Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (2022) and lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science and Technology Studies (2021).

Presentations

Multi-Sensory Re-worldings - Discussant TBC

Re-worlding the Aesthetics of Everyday Life: How Expressions of Neurological Queerness Actualize Political Potentials - Griffin Martel, York U

Messing Around - Em Panetta, York U

Looking for Missing Masses in Urban Planning - Artem Pankin, City U New York, USA

The Green Nature of Indigenous Religious Beliefs and Practices - Ethel Siamena, Chinhoyi U of Tech, Zimbabwe

The Embodied Experience - Discussant: Dr. Shital Desai

Teeth, Bodies, and Affects in Dental Education - Jorge Daza, York U

Exploring and Enacting Xonacatlán Coca Worldings through Storytelling - Carlos E Sanchez-Pimienta, U of Toronto

Submersion: Virtual Reality, Embodied Cognition & Anthropocene Futures - Elexis Williams, Cornell U, USA

Art Panel - Discussant: Dr. Leslie A. Korrick

Aftermath: Submerged (Virtual Reality, concept art and audio narrative) - Vipin Dhunnoo, Generative Arts, Mauritius

20: An Ode to Neuro Blockades (audiovisual media) - Jennifer Lindsay, York U

Psych Stories Zine Project - (zine) - Zoë Martin, York U - TBC

risk the open hand - (visual installation) - Evelyn Ramiel, York U

Art and Wastes in Panniqtuuq, Nunavut - (visual installation) - Micky Renders, Queens U

Littered with Life - (visual installation) Katsiaryna Suryna, U for Continuing Education, Austria - TBC

Location

York University

Second Student Center

Convention Centre A 1/3

15 Library Ln, North York, ON M3J 2S5

Conference Centre A1

Location is fully accessible

Date

Thursday May 18th, 2023

Time

8:30 am-5 pm

Registration Opens at 8:00am