Dear Participants in Recent Impossible Projects Symposia,
We are thrilled to invite you to the 6th biennial Impossible Projects symposium, "Building the Possible: From Local Wins to Structural Change," to be held at the University of Toronto Mississauga from March 19-21, 2027. A symposium overview is attached and can also be found on the Impossible Projects website: https://impossibleprojects.clarkson.edu.
We encourage people to contribute as creatively or traditionally as they like. We welcome submissions using diverse formats: papers, art workshops, facilitated discussions, contemplative and pedagogical walks, direct action strategy sessions, writing workshops, multimodal storytelling, community-based and experiential learning opportunities, and more! We hope to host wide-ranging explorations of creative experimentation as a strategy for building the possible. Our intention is to create space both for critical reflection and for collaborative creative interventions.
Registration & presentations: If you’d like to participate in the symposium, please register online at this registration link by June 30, 2027 and include a presentation/activity title, brief description, and preferred format. You can also register to attend without giving a presentation. There is no registration fee for the symposium.
Accommodation: There are a number of hotels in Mississauga within a few miles of the UTM campus; the UTM website provides a helpful list.
Funding needs:If you are in need of funds to attend the symposium, please e-mail and let us know. We have some funding available to defray travel costs, and we will do our best to provide support.
Feel free to write to the organizing committee at impossibleprojects with any questions you may have or any ideas you’d like to talk through.
With best wishes,
The 2027 steering committee:
- Sheila Batacharya, Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP), University of Toronto Mississauga
- Julia Boyd, Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Megan Janssen-McBride, Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Steven Pedersen, Department of Arts, Culture, and Technology, Clarkson University
- Lisa Propst, Department of Arts, Culture, and Technology, Clarkson University
- Alison Rowley, Department of History, Concordia University
- Tia Sager, Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS), University of Toronto Mississauga
- T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, University of Toronto
- Anna Sheftel, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University
- Hana Sherafati, Department of Political Science, McGill University