MicroTalk: Equity and Engagement

Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association (CUPFA) is proud to announce the next MicroTalk event, to be held on October 29 during Campus Equity Week 2014. The upcoming MicroTalk, entitled Equity and Engagement follows a successful series of three MicroTalks held last year. Equity and Engagement celebrates part-time faculty members by bringing together socially engaged research, critical discourse and performative based creative practices.

This MicroTalk evening comprises a sequence of ten short, fast paced interdisciplinary talks, highlighting research carried out by part-time faculty from all areas of the university. CUPFA members will present a broad range of subjects that include:

• evidence-based movement strategies for people with verbal and mobility challenges;
• the story of Cinderella revisited by focusing on sexual symbolism traced back to ninth century China;
• cellular research on plants which measure the health of our ecosystems;
• "a face at the window" trope from horror films used as a multifaceted signifier in theoretical discourse.

Equity and Engagement showcases faculty from Creative Arts Therapies, Film Theory, Design and Computation Arts, Geography, Education, Biology, Accounting, Computer Science and Software Engineering, English, and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.