How do we ‘articulate’ worlds that haven't already been expressed when language or text fail us? How do we attune our knowledge-seeking practices more ethically towards a world-in-transit? 

In order to collectively speculate upon such insurgencies, Concordia University’s 2nd year MA Media Studies cohort presents (art)iculating worlds, a graduate symposium organized to foster community and encourage knowledge dissemination among early scholars. (art)iculating worlds encourages and elevates nascent, incomplete, or ‘unruly’ thought that aligns with multi-disciplinary orientation, and we are inviting MA and PhD students to (art)iculate their own work. This 2-day event will first showcase some of the cohort’s on-going research, followed by a mix of oral presentations, workshops, storytellers, and any other mixed media projects that demonstrate a reimagining of articulating knowledge or meaning.

 To (art)iculate, in the context of our symposium, we propose ‘uniting’ the parts to which prevailing notions of difference have been inscribed:

• What research or stories can language not express?

• What forms of being, knowing, and thinking have been academically, culturally, or socially valorized?

• Whose voices have been missing?

• What are alternative (art)iculations of knowledge-production?

• How do we enter worlds that honour differences without separation?

Our objective is to further delve into the intersections between distinctions of expert and non-expert, knowing and unknowing, for more diffuse and democratic processes of knowledge production and dissemination. (art)ticulating worlds hopes to be as accessible, inclusive, and sustainable as possible; our goal is to create a free conference that will allow for diverse scholars and research topics to be examined through decolonial and democratic means. We invite speakers to submit proposals on their own ways of knowing.

Proposals are to be submitted to articulatingworlds@gmail.com via this Google form by November 10, 2025. Presenters will be notified by the end of November.

We will host two keynote speakers (TBA), one scholar, and one local artist/storyteller.