The PERFORM Centre is offering a workshop on ways to develop self-efficacy, the belief in one’s own ability to complete tasks and achieve goals, as a resource to making change and achieving goals.

This third lecture in the Professor T.D. Dwivedi Memorial Lecture Series is possible through a generous contribution from the Dwivedi Family.

Freelance journalist and photographer Diego Cupolo will share personal stories from his time volunteering in a refugee school on the Syrian-Turkish border.

Concordia International is holding information sessions on the international student exchange program every Tuesday and Wednesday from March 11 to May 14, 2014.

Join us for a glass of wine, delicious hors d'oeuvres, and lively conversation as we plan our up coming clanadar of events.

University of the Streets Café creates spaces for lifelong learning, critical thinking, and community engagement in local neighbourhoods.

The timing of this workshop couldn't be better as it follows almost immediately on the heels of a provincial election in Quebec. Managing elections is no easy task. In this one-day workshop, Quebec's directeur général des elections, Jacques Drouin, will walk you through exactly what is involved and cover topics such as political financing, voter turnout, the use of technology, and accessibility.

Learn how to present your skills and accomplishments in the best light and stand out from the crowd.

Dr. Dominique Berteaux will speak on the effects of climate change on Quebec biodiversity

Learn more about the facts and fiction of chocolate’s potential health benefits.

Andrew Roberts to give the Liberal Arts College’s 35th annual Alumni Reunion Weekend keynote lecture.

Learn more about the facts and fiction of chocolate’s potential health benefits.

With all the political scandals of late, the notion of ethical governance would appear to be going out of style. Or is it? In this one-day workshop, Canada’s current Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner will present her perspectives on the matter based on her first-hand experience.

How fair are elections in Canada? Why do young people vote infrequently and what can we do about it? These are very real concerns and this two-day workshop gives you an opportunity to discuss them with British Columbia’s current Chief Electoral Officer, Keith Archer.

Intertwining the elemental cycles of iron and carbon: Iron’s influence on the fate and dynamics of organic carbon in the environment.

Join us for a breakfast discussion on the protection of digital assets with Yuval Elovici, cyber-security expert and director of the Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Jeremy Clark, cryptography expert from the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering.

This workshop will provide you with many inside details on parliamentary process and procedures. It will cover the structure of Parliament, how laws are made, and what potential reform could bring.

Subjective and relative socioeconomic status and adolescent health outcomes.

Concordia International is holding information sessions on the international student exchange program every Tuesday and Wednesday from March 11 to May 14, 2014.

Discuss the prominent Church Fathers in the history of the Early Church.

Learn concrete strategies for conducting your job search.

As a Montrealer, you are surely aware of the welter of municipal corruption allegations that have been circulating. But how well do you know the city of Montreal? What issues must municipal governments contend with? Should certain things be rethought?

In February of 2013, Dr. Flanagan made certain comments about child pornography that were tweeted from an academic event that he was speaking at and almost instantly broadcast worldwide. Within a very short span of time, Dr. Flanagan was cast as a pariah. In this two-day workshop, Dr. Flanagan will detail his experience and its implications for free speech in the Internet age.

Explore alternative spiritual resources for balanced personal growth and life.

Julie Favreau is developing an installation that will showcase several performers who will do solos for the camera. Inventing together movements that tell the story of the video being played in the next room. She reveals this investigation to the spectator via photographic prints displayed in the installation.

L’Université Concordia est fière d’accueillir, du 12 au 16 mai 2014, le 82e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir — Acfas, à Montréal. Il s’agit d’une première dans l’histoire de notre établissement, qui célébrera également son 40e anniversaire l’an prochain.

Three Dimensional Aero-Thermal Optimization of Film Cooling on a High Pressure Turbine.

Examine the features of Patristic exegesis in the history of biblical studies.

Concordia International is holding information sessions on the international student exchange program every Tuesday and Wednesday from March 11 to May 14, 2014.

Join fellow alumni for an eventing of beer tasting in a relaxed atmosphere with Concordia's Recreation and Athletics director, Patrick Boivin. Deputy Provost Lisa Ostiguy will also be on hand for this special event.

Join fellow alumni for a networking event to kick off spring in a relaxed atmosphere in the heart of Tonroto's entertainment district.

What can we do to make the House of Commons a more democratic institution? And how can we make it more representative of our interests? In this one-day workshop, Conservative MP and former Cabinet Minister, Michael Chong, provides his take on these matters.

What can we do to make the House of Commons a more democratic institution? And how can we make it more representative of our interests? Come and join Conservative MP and former Cabinet Minister, Michael Chong as he provides you with his take on these matters.

This two-day workshop will introduce students to some of the most relevant environmental issues and challenges we face both globally and domestically. It will also provide students with a more practical understanding of the politics of the environment, and the realities involved. The timing could not be better, finding the right balance between sustainability and economic development is a critical challenge that faces future generations.

This two-day workshop intends to provide students and researchers with the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to design and conduct focus groups and semi-structured interviews while avoiding the most common problems encountered with qualitative research. This workshop will also provide opportunities for participants to apply their knowledge through practical exercises.

The topic of the talk is Newcomers to Montreal and the Role Universities Play. Tickets are now available for sale.

Excited for the summer season? Come explore some summer side dishes: salads, non-alcoholic cocktails, with an eye towards increasing what is good for you!

What can we do to make the House of Commons a more democratic institution? And how can we make it more representative of our interests? In this one-day workshop, Conservative MP and former Cabinet Minister, Michael Chong, provides his take on these matters.

Excited for the summer season? Come explore some summer side dishes: salads, non-alcoholic cocktails, with an eye towards increasing what is good for you!

In this two-day workshop you will discuss the relevance of natural resources for the Canadian economy, focusing largely on the oil sands in Alberta. This is a very timely topic and this workshop promises to deliver important insights. Stockwell Day has been directly involved in this process and has the inside story.

The grey tsunami is at our doors – the aging population and the projected costs to the health and social service system are seen as a major threat to public finances. This two-day workshop will examine different responses to the question of the responsibility for care to disabled and ill adults.

It's clear that natural resources are a fundamental driver of the Canadian economy. But what happens when natural resource development comes with potential environmental consequences and public opposition?

This three-day workshop aims to introduce students and participants to the basics of social science discourse analysis, starting with an introduction to the theoretical and epistemological bases of discourses analysis, and moving on to practical exercises. Finally, it will consider various “schools” of discourse analysis and discuss the usefulness of discourse analytical work for various disciplines.

In this two-day workshop, Mr. Hughes lays out the primary considerations in framing, shaping, and implementing social welfare policy. In addition, Mr. Hughes will also demonstrate how taking a bipartisan approach can lead to policy success.

Every crisis offers unanticipated surprises and lessons to be learned.

What should we make of all that has transpired of late? Is the Senate doomed? Does it need change? What exactly does this institution do? In this one-day workshop, the current Leader of the Opposition in the Senate covers it all, from scandal to independent Senators.

Senator James Cowan, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, takes you inside the Senate – its politics, culture, troubles, and successes – and the possibilities for its future.

In this two-day workshop, one of Canada's best known pollsters, Bruce Anderson, attempts to make sense of where the polling industry may be going wrong. You don't want to miss this!

In this one-day workshop, Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the Parliaments, Dr. Gary W. O’Brien provides his frontline perspective on the situation at hand. If the Senate scandal’s got you concerned, this is the workshop for you so register today!

This three-day workshop will introduce you to the case study methods, including small-n comparative methods, and within-case analysis using congruence and process-tracing methods. Dr. Beach will discuss their benefits and drawbacks, and how they can be combined to create robust designs that enable strong causal inferences to be made.

This five-day workshop, offered through the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, seeks to introduce participants to bivariate and multiple regression models.

This two-day workshop centers squarely on Canada’s electoral system. The First-Past-The-Post approach to deciding elections has been the subject of much debate in Canada. Is electoral reform in Canada possible? And, would it make a difference?

Indian Residential Schools – assimilation and abuse as education policy. Canada and its Christian churches ran these schools for a century. They led to thousands of lawsuits and the largest settlement of a class action in Canadian history. Part of that settlement created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In this two-day workshop, former watchdog and civil servant, Canada's first Parliamentary Budget Officer, Kevin Page, shares with you his years of oversight on the costing of government policies, federal programs, and proposals.

In this two-day workshop led by Chief Justice Sinclair and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's General Counsel, Tom McMahon, you will be walked through the history of Indian Residential Schools, the lawsuits, the Settlement Agreement and the work of Canada’s only Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In this one-day workshop, students and participants will get the inside scoop on principled leadership and politics from former Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty. What have many years of experience in a major leadership role led Mr. McGuinty to conclude about governing and leadership in the 21st Century?

This five-day workshop, offered through the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, will teach students how to conduct multivariate analyses of social, economic and political data. Several valuable tools for academic researchers in the social sciences and analysts in the public and private sectors will be considered.

This two-day workshop will analyse the policies that impact the delivery of care to seniors, which are of great importance in understanding the influences on the organisation of services for seniors in our province.

This two-day workshop offers a timely and unique opportunity to learn from and interact with one of Canada’s most established and prominent public servants. Mel Cappe, former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet provides his perspectives on the role of government.

Hurricane Sandy. Katrina. The BP oil spill. These were all disaster situations in need of disaster management. Professor Saundra Schneider from Michigan State University will take you beyond the sensationalistic media headlines and address what goes on during and after something has gone terribly wrong.

In this two-day workshop, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, former Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, synthesizes what his experiences have taught him about the current state of Canadian democracy and what he sees as being necessary electoral and democratic reforms. If you think that Canadian democracy and elections require some adjusting, you won’t want to miss this workshop.

In this two-day workshop, Senior Political Writer for the Toronto Star, Susan Delacourt walks you through the fascinating analysis presented in her new book Shopping for Votes. Her take on voting and elections in Canada is well-sourced and the results of her analysis are concerning to say the least, particularly for those who value democracy and the democratic process.

The objective of this two-day workshop is to provide students of social policy with an analytical lens to grasp the impact of territorial identities and institutions on social programs such as Medicare and old-age pensions.

In this two-day workshop, Professor Jacoby from Michigan State University and the ICPSR, will show you how to display your quantitative data analysis and the difference between good and bad graphic presentations for univariate, bivariate and multivariate data analyses.

Puppetry, object theater, mime, mask speak the unspeakable in the production that speaks to human pain and suffering. Inspired from the novel The Notebook by Agota Kristof

In this two-day workshop, Professor Gianni will take you deep into the ongoing controversial debate about the accommodation of minority groups in Europe and North-America.

Environmental initiatives in urban settings are of increasing importance for preserving quality of life for future generations. In this one-day workshop, former Mayor of Toronto, David Miller, focuses on sustainable development in the city, and how the prioritization of green living can benefit urban economies.

In this two-day workshop, Graham Fraser, Canada's current Commissioner of Official Languages will provide you with detailed and fascinating insights about Canada's bilingualism policy.

Havana’s formidable theatre innovators Flora Lauten and Raquel Carrío stage one of the greatest magical realism tales in Latin American literature—Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel Pedro Páramo.

In this two-day workshop, Professor Pippa Norris from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University will share with you some findings from the Electoral Integrity Project. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of Political Science’s most prolific scholars on this crucial subject.