Tag: 2025
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WORKSHOP: Weaving Stories of Home
What does ‘home’ really feel like…? Come explore this question on a snowy day (hot chocolate provided!), learn to weave burlap with textiles experts, and find a material home for your nostalgia! Workshop Description “Weaving Stories of Home” is a one-day workshop exploring how our nostalgia for home is generative. Basically, can we unweave our memories and…
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Our LIVE webseries “memorabilia.mp4” has launched!
Earth to Generative Nostalgia… Where can you find “generative nostalgia“? Certainly, we can do better than ask AI to make something for us. For NOSTAGAIN, generative nostalgia has a different meaning: it is the creative and communal use of nostalgia that produces things — relationships, reinterpretations, and critiques. We chose the term generative to differentiate…
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PLONGER DANS LA NOSTALGIE / SPRING INTO NOSTALGIA!
NOTE: this is a NOSTAGAIN affiliated event. Our main events are the annual symposia every February. To contact the organizers of this event (Collectif Nostalgia Conco x UQAM), please write to nostalgia.conco.uqam@gmail.com In collaboration with students from the CELAT-UQAM and the mxlab at the L’Université du Québec à Montréal, two of our NOSTAGAIN members are…
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PRECONFERENCE SHOWCASE 2025
One day before the Love & Loss symposium, we will release a prerecorded panel featuring ideas we LOVED too much to LOSE… stay tuned for the 13th February! PRECONFERENCE LINE-UP When we think about the functions that nostalgia for communism has in contemporary media, a set of these stares one in the face. I argue…
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Love & Loss 2025
In 2025, our symposium was set on Friday 14th February at the 4TH SPACE, Concordia University. That year, we offered: All symposium presenters and artists are listed on our Network page. Symposium Line-Up We proudly present the line-up for LOVE & LOSS 2025: Posters designed by Richy Srirachanikorn. Acknowledgements The “Love & Loss” 2025 symposium…
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CfP: Love and Loss 2025
Near… Far… Wherever You Are… We invite you to the third symposium by THENOSTAGAINNETWORK called “LOVE & LOSS”. Paper presentations, performances, and research creation are welcome on the topic of nostalgia that engages/builds on 4 topics of interest. With Generous Support From Topics of Interest The experience of losing something we love Continuing to love…