FEMeeting Plenary Event
When: June 23rd, 4:30 pm—6:30 pm EST
Doors Open at 4:00pm EST
Where: Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave W, Windsor, ON
Limit: 600 guests
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Join us on Sunday, June 23, at the Capitol Theatre for a FEMeeting Plenary Event from 4:30 to 6:30. FEMeeting: Women in Art Science and Technology 2024 is an international conference presenting cutting-edge interdisciplinary research across the arts and sciences while advancing the role of women in art, science and technology.
The Plenary will feature three outstanding speakers: Nina Czegledy, an independent artist and curator; Dr. Catherine Febria, a Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor and Director of the Healthy Head Waters Lab at the University of Windsor; and Dr Zainub Verjee, C.M., the Executive Director of Galeries Ontario-Ontario Galleries.
Host Partners:
Dr. Jennifer Willet, INCUBATOR Art Lab, SoCA, UWindsor
Mireille Bourgeois, IOTA Institute, Halifax, NS
Marta de Menezes, Ectopia Experimental Art Laboratory, and Cultivamos Cultura Portugal
Dr. Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
ASL interpretation will available during the event.
Do you require ASL interpretation?
Do you have any access needs you’d like to let us know about?
If ASL interpretation is needed beyond what is available Please email mbourgeois@iotainstitute.com.
Each venue is wheelchair accessible. If you require any assistance please contact jwillet@uwindsor.ca, OR Domenica.Mediati@uwindsor.ca.
Theatre Accessibility The Capitol Theatre main entry (University Ave) is located at ground level and is equipped with ramps and inclined floors. The Pentastar Theatre can accommodate standard-sized manual and electric wheelchairs on the main floor (in the back of the center section, the left and right side of the theatre).
Special Thanks to our Funders and Supporters University of Windsor, School of Creative Arts, SMArt Communications, Humanities Research Group, and the Capitol Theatre.
Meet the Speakers
Nina Czegledy
Nina Czegledy, artist, independent curator, researcher, educator, works internationally on collaborative art, science and technology projects. Paradigm shifts in the arts, science, educational issues and contemporary technologies inform her projects.
She has exhibited and published widely, won awards for her artwork and has initiated, lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide.
Image Credit
Nina Czegledy, https://www.fronda.mx/simbiosis, 2016.
Catherine M. Febria, PhD
she/her/siya
Dr. Febria is a Pinay/Filipina immigrant settler to Turtle Island who conceptualized and launched the Healthy Headwaters Lab at the University of Windsor in 2019. Driven by the mission to restore freshwater ecosystems to full health for the benefit of future generations, she has brought together individuals with diverse gifts to work together in pursuit of research excellence, benefits to local to global communities, all in a holistic, women-led and partnership-focused way. The work of her team focuses on relationships with freshwater through biodiversity and water quality science-based approaches, with the inclusion of storytellers and artists to help communicate and mobilize a message that it is the responsibility of all people to care for and heal freshwater ecosystems. Her research has generated more than $7.5M in research-based funding in support of place-based local to global research on freshwater restoration and the training and empowerment of future generations.
www.healthyheadwaterslab.ca/catherine-febria
Image Credit
Image credit: Shayenna Nolan, www.healthyheadwaterslab.ca
Dr. Zainub Verjee, C.M.
Dr. Zainub Verjee is an artist, scholar, writer, arts administrator and cultural diplomat. Informed by Third World decolonization, the international contestations on the political economy of art and evolving technological driven global order, Zainub’s work is integral to the understanding of relationship between Art, technology, gender and culture. Currently, she is Executive Director of Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries in Toronto.
More on Zainub Verjee: https://galeries-ontario-galleries.ca/about/who-we-are//
Image Credit
Zainub Verjee, https://www.zainubverjee.com/, 2022.
