Events
Drawing together figures of the body in J.G. Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, and Gisela Pankow, this talk inquires into the “therapeutic” potentialities of Kleist’s 1810 essay On the Marionette Theatre.
*Note that this entire event will now take place on Saturday, April 4.
To attend in person, RSVP expandedpoetics@gmail.com
To attend online, see Zoom link on the following page
Drawing on ethnography and critical theory, this talk approaches money as an object of practice, yet one that renders possible generative abstractions.
Join us for the Monreal launch of Miranda Schreiber’s debut novel, Iris and the Dead, with a reading and conversation with Nicky Taylor, who will also read from Once I Swam in Lakes,
Join us for the second of the 2025-2026 Occasional Talks.
A public lecture by Ross Wilson, Professor of the History and Theory of Criticism in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
A symposium featuring Professor Pier-Pascale Boulanger (Études françaises, Concordia) and Professor Stephen Ross (English, Concordia)
The hole needs something to be in or on; it perforates a cohesive pattern, structure or figure…Lost histories, legacies of violence, the fissures in erotic experience—all provide openings to engage with the stories and images, the ideas and political projects, that emerge when we try to discern the vanishing points of the familiar world.
Join us for the first event in the 2025-2026 Occasional Talks series.
Join us at Concordia for two events with artist Cheyney Thompson, represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery and Lisson Gallery in New York City.
Helena Hunter will join us to discuss her recent project, Algae Ecologies, which investigates the creative and aesthetic possibilities of poetic practice to explore the multiple scales, temporalities, and perspectives that algae ecologies elicit.
A lecture-performance by Stephanie Creaghan
The Urdu ghazal, famously understood as a form comprised of disparate couplets, has hitherto been discussed as either a unity or a site of pure difference. This talk seeks to advance this debate to locate how the ghazal, both in form and content, reconciles fragmentation and totality, in-line with Sufi conceptions of the 'oneness of Being'.
A talk by Brennan McCracken, PhD Candidate in English, Concordia University
Concluding his course on Lacan’s 11th seminar, Haider Ali offers a synthetic lecture on Lacanian metapsychology and a presentation of Lacan’s graph of desire.
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A talk by Matthias Domingo Mushinski, Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University
Please join us for a lecture by Pietro Bianchi on the politics of the unconscious in the work of Jacques Lacan
Join us on Friday October 11 for a talk by CEP collaborator Petar Milat, of MaMa Multimedia Insitute in Zagreb.
Join us for two talks by Daniel Sacilotto on Latin American Marxism and the epistemology of respresentation
A bi-weekly series of informal workshop talks by graduate students and faculty, each focusing on an exemplary problem or object of study in their research
A public lecture and seminar with Eugenie Brinkema, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at MIT
The Centre for Expanded Poetics invites you to an online book presentation by Greg Ellermann, Lecturer at Yale University and author of Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature (Stanford University Press, 2022).
Untimely Imagination is the ninth symposium in the Conjuncture series, co-organized by Nathan Brown and Petar Milat since 2008.
Join us on April 29th at 2PM for the final installment of this semester’s Occasional Talks series, featuring Cordelia Belton, on “Value's Judgments and Communist Practical Reason.”
On Thursday, April 27th, at 1PM, the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University will host a reading by the Palestinian poet Olivia Elias for the launch the English translation of her recent book Chaos, Crossing. This event will be facilitated by Montréal-based artists and writers Hoda Adra and Alexei Perry Cox, who will introduce and open a conversation on her work.
On Monday, April 17th, at 5PM, the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University will host a reading by the American poet, essayist and playwright Carla Harryman, in collaboration with Montréal-based author Gail Scott, who will introduce and open a conversation on her work.
Precarities, Pastorals and Poetics is a creative-writing workshop which asks how precarity can queer our relationship with the natural world, crafting new understandings of pastoral poetry. We draw together a range of pastoral traditions: 18th &19th century labouring class poets, urban pastorals of precariously employed workers, and the necropastoral which binds together technology, death and the anthropocene.
Please join us for two talks drawn from the current book project of Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously.
Join us at the Centre for Expanded Poetics for a launch of David Swartz’s translation of Orpheu Literary Quarterly and a screening of his film based on Pessoa’s The Seafarer.
Please join us for a presentation of CEP Affiliate Megan Stein’s MFA Graduating Thesis, titled Tending, showcasing book works, stone lithography, letterpress / moveable type, handmade paper, screen printing, and soundscapes of field recordings and words translated as tone.
