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Home/Making Symposium


Date & time
Saturday, May 13, 2023
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room 361 and 362

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Conversations at the intersection of research and creation, craft and home.

Time Event
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Panel 4 (hybrid): Craft on the move: migrating and translating practices

  • D Wood (Independent Scholar)
  • Liliana Morais (Rikkyo University)
  • Ksenia Golovina (Toyo University)
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10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15  – 11:45 a.m.

Panel 5 (in-person): Agency, Identity and Unheimlich making

  • Sandra Huber (Concordia University)
  • Julia Skelly (Concordia University)
  • Skot Deeming (PhD Candidate, Concordia University)
  • Anna Hoddé (PhD Candidate, Concordia University)
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11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Lunch

Catered by Nilufar

12:45 – 2:15 p.m.

Panel 6 (hybrid): Making Place and Community through Craft Pedagogy

  • Kelley Totten (Memorial University)
  • Danielle Burke (PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Marina Moskowitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Nicola Miles (PhD Candidate, University of Brighton)
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2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

Kitchen Table Session: Family Fiber: Foundation, Fabric, Freedom

  • Christine Beckett (Concordia University)
Coffee break
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2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Panel 7 (hybrid): Craft and kinship

  • Rebecca Strzelec (Penn State Altoona)
  • Mylène Boisvert (MFA Candidate, Concordia University)
  • Rachel Lobo (University of Toronto)
  • Punita Kapoor (PhD Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
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4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Panel 8 (hybrid): Crafting the domestic

  • Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi (PhD Candidate, University of Galway)
  • Johanna Amos (Queen's University)
  • Elizabeth Newton Jackson (PhD Candidate, University of Auckland) 
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5:30 p.m. Closing remarks

This event is part of:

Home/Making Project

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