Aleksandra Kaminska

Colloque : « Les arts du sommeil » (The arts of sleep)

Dans le cadre du colloque Les arts du sommeil à Paris les 12–14 octobre, je co-présente une conférence avec Albertine Thunier intitulée : Création automatique et restitution des rêves...

calls, edited journals

Call for Papers: Intermédialités 41: SLEEPING / DORMIR

Edited by Aleks Kaminska, Dayna McLeod and Alanna Thain DEADLINE: June 13, 2022 Publication: Spring 2023 Call on the Intermédialités / Intermediality site CFP in English: Appel à propositions...

events

Paperology Symposium – May 2022

Event website A public event exploring paper in its different forms and permutations. Un évènement public voué à l’exploration du papier dans ses différentes formes et permutations. May 6...

teaching

Paperology seminar: Page Blanche

An intensive summer seminar on paper as media co-taught with my colleague Juliette De Maeyer. For more information. The seminar will be offered again as a summer intensive in...

articles and essays

“‘Don’t Copy That’: Security Printing and the Making of High-Tech Paper”

ABSTRACT Printing is not a new media technology, but it is continuously being renewed. In this sense, it is an example of novelty going largely unnoticed, woven into the...

events, projects

Sleep Salons – Winter 2022

Detailed information for all the salons and speakers on the dedicated page of the Sociability of Sleep website. Eventbrite to register You Tube channel for video recordings of the...

events, projects

Sleep Salons – Fall 2021

Salon no. 1 : The Social Lives of Sleep How might we begin to think the sociability of sleep? Speakers: ✦ Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Anthropology, Binghamton University)✦ Carmela Alcántara (Social...

articles and essays

“The Perfect Cut: Talking with Myriam Dion”

Online “The Perfect Cut: Talking with Myriam Dion,” with Juliette De Maeyer, in collaboration with Ghislain Thibault and Alysse Kushinski, Inscriptions no. 2: 65–72.

projects

The Paperology Reading and Activity Group started over Zoom during the 2020-2021 academic/pandemic year. I co-organized it with my colleauges Juliette De Maeyer and Ghislain Thibault, along with postdoctoral...

projects

The Sociability Project

Website We received the exciting news that our project The Sociability of Sleep has been awarded a New Frontiers for Research Fund grant. This new research is an interdisciplinary...

articles and essays

“Mediating the Tree: Infrastructures of Pulp and Paper Modernity in the Bowater Papers”

Article written with Rafico Ruiz based on a short-lived trade publication produced by the Bowater paper mill in 1950s Newfoundland. Excerpt from the introduction: Thinking of paper via the...

edited journals

Special issue: Materials and Media of Infrastructure

Edited collection with Rafico Ruiz, Canadian Journal of Communication. Vol. 46 No. 2 (2021) From our introduction: “As researchers, we are fortunate that, especially if studying the contemporary moment,...

calls

Call for Postdoctoral Fellow: The Sociability of Sleep

Call for Applications – Postdoctoral Fellowship “The Sociability of Sleep: Careful Design for Collective Conditions” Université de Montréal and McGill University, Montreal, Canada DEADLINE: June 15, 2021 We are...

edited journals

Biometrics: Mediating Bodies

I co-edited a special issue of the journal PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas on Biometrics. This issue maps out some of the ways that bodies have been measured and identified based on...

teaching

Bricoler les médias – maker projects

The annual maker faire for my graduate course on “making and media” had to take place virtually this year, so we zoomed, we blogged, and you can see and...

Aleksandra Kaminska

Associate Professor, Media Studies · Université de Montréal

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