The full schedule and (free) ticket reservation will be available on June 1st. If you plan on attending and require ASL interpretation or live transcription services, please notify the organizers (witch.institute@queensu.ca) by July 15th.
Talks
- Chiron Armand: Post-Colonial Spiritwork, or Where No Being Has Gone Before
- Podcast
- Silvia Federici: State Violence and Witch-hunting in the Colonization and Globalization Process
- Queer Witches and Magical Enbies Adan Jerreat-Poole in conversation with Tamara de Szegheo Lang Presented by KFPL
- Rachel True in conversation with Dani Bethea
- The Witch and Speculative Worlds: modes of opposition to the normative figure of the white Western cis hetero woman as witch
Roundtables
- Arising from the Underground: Ciphers, Spirits, and Prophecies
- Black and Indigenous Witchcraft as Decolonial Praxis
- Decolonial Praxis in Personal Spiritual Practice
- Early Modern Covens and Contemporary Representations of the Witch
- Entanglements of Magic, Technology, and the Body
- Esotericism and Art
- Film Representation: Generations and Genealogies
- Media, Activism and Politics
- Media Representations of Magic, Witchcraft, and Mythology Through the Lens of Asian/Asian Diasporic Identities
- Queer Witcheries: Sex Magicks and Networked Hexes
- Remembering Witchcraft and Witch Hunts: Archives, Museums, and History
- Representing Witches in the Speculative Turn: Decolonial and Feminist Readings of SF
- Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Graduate Student Panel
- The Witch Beyond Essentialism: A Reflection Circle
- The “Witch” in Relationality with the More-than-Human: Mutually Shaping Experiences
- The “Witch” in Relationality with the More-than-Human: On Plants and Water
- The Witch, Labour, and Capital
- Witchcare
workshops
- A Lammas Celebration
- Brooms Behind Bars: witches practicing + resisting in Canadian prisons
- Design Workshop for the Socioeconomic Membrane that Enfolds her Casserole Dish
- Magick: tools of dismantling, resisting, and thriving
- Navigating “Lost” Lineages: Power Loss, Ancestral Gifts, and Reclamation through Trance
- Re-enacting Han
- Remote Divination and Trancework by Chiron Armand (Impact Shamanism)
- Spellbound (expanded): Rosemary In Allyship with Afro-Diasporic Communities
- The Algorithm of Spells, Incantations & Bad Magic
- Vibratory Models of Care
- Weaving Hypersigils: Hacking the Source Code of Reality
- What is a Witch? Exploring the Image of the Witch in the Media in Contrast to the Pagan Community
- Witches’ Cabaret – Creating Community and Change through Live and Streaming Performance
- Witch Centred Art and Design: An Introduction to the International Museum of Mystical Arts