Today's events
The Real Friends Are The Machines We Made Along The Way
Learn to press pause on our tendency to be on auto-pilot and drop into the moment.
This session will provide an overview of "prompt engineering": the process of crafting and structuring text to effectively communicate with generative AI models. Core concepts and best practices of prompt engineering, as well as how you can use these tools in all aspects of your life will also be discussed.
Exploration des effets de la traduction des connaissances liées aux premiers contacts de peuples autochtones par des organisations missionnaires. Présentation basée sur les résultats d’un projet de recherche réalisé avec Christina Korak.
Join us for an interactive workshop led by District 3's Zaccary Dyck, where you'll practice intentional networking in a safe, inclusive space.
Join us for the opening reception of the exhibition Fil Conducteur at the FOFA Gallery! The gallery is pleased to present this exhibition of contemporary Indigenous beadwork by artists Carrie Allison, Katherine Boyer, Bev Koski, Jean Marshall, and Nico Williams.
Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, invites you to the conference with The Honourable Thomas Albert Cromwell.
In Praying to the West, Omar Mouallem explores the little-known history of Islam across the Americas, visiting thirteen mosques in search of an answer to the question of how this religion has survived and thrived so far from its place of origin.
Ongoing events
Receive help with sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and citations. Drop by for support from a writing assistant and bring your assignment or rough draft.
Objectives: To enhance our social wellbeing, and build a harmonious relationship with ourselves and others. Together, we share and improve techniques that are Simple, Relatable, and Immediate Applicable to help each other channel negative emotions, in order to feel safer, and improve the quality of life.
Join us for an exciting edition of the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), featuring a series of collaborative events with Concordia University.
Join the Speculative Life Research Cluster at the Milieux Institute for a new lecture series. This series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology.
Hi everyone! My name is Belen Blizzard and I am Concordia's 2SLGBTQ+ Student Support Coordinator. My office will now be open for peer-support every Wednesday from 12 to 4pm. You're welcome to drop in at any time or email me to schedule an appointment at: 2SLGBTQIcoord@concordia.ca. <br><br>What you can expect: a space of non-judgment and active listening where your feelings and experiences will be honoured. I am here to support 2SLGBTQ+ students and hold space for topics ranging from identity, coming out, sexuality, experiences of homophobia and transphobia (and how they interest with race, disability, and more), and how they transpire in and out of the academic space. I am also equipped to redirect you to resources surrounding name and gender marker change, access to hormone and trans affirmative healthcare, and more. Over all, I aim to provide a space in which 2SLGBTQ+ students feel comfortable and safer in sharing their experiences and seeking support.
To celebrate Open Education Month, Concordia Library is pleased to present a new display highlighting open publishing at the Library and Concordia University Press (CUP).
The FOFA Gallery is pleased to present Fil conducteur, an exhibition of contemporary Indigenous beadwork by artists Carrie Allison, Katherine Boyer, Bev Koski, Jean Marshall, and Nico Williams.
PhD Career Connect is comprised of weekly, 2-hour workshops that span 12 weeks from March 11 to May 27. This is followed by a 2-day networking conference on June 2-3 with mentors and employers.
Upcoming events
The ASP Health and Safety on Construction Sites course is a requirement for obtaining a certificate of competence, authorizing the holder to work on a construction site in Quebec. The course is also obligatory for management and control staff working mainly and usually on a construction site. The objective of the course is to develop a general understanding of everything affecting health and safety on construction sites.
We will also explore what are considered normal parameters of the menstrual cycle, allowing us to debunk certain beliefs and myths (menstrual pain, blood color, vaginal discharge, etc.).
Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab on March 21st for the second edition of the Manuscript Workshops. The purpose of each workshop is to help the author with a portion of the manuscript for a book they're working on.
Join Machine Agencies and Kamyar Karimi for an Introduction to AudioStellar workshop to discover how this AI-powered experimental sampler transforms your audio samples into an interactive, real-time visual and sonic experience.
Religiopolitical Echo Chambers on Social Media in Shaping Pakistan’s Violent Extremism Discourse
Come and learn how this ancient, multicultural practice can enhance your learning, concentration, and insight.
Navigating Difference in the Shadow of War: A Local History of Identity Formation after Political Mass Violence in Zvornik County
Join us to hear inspiring stories from students who've led, overcome challenges, and made an impact. Gain insights and find your path to leadership and volunteering.
Learn the methods and processes needed to manage the planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of projects of all sizes, and get the opportunity to apply key concepts by working in teams on a fictitious project.
This presentation discusses what has been achieved with and in the aftermath of the post-2008 movements in four European cities — Athens, Istanbul, Paris, and Berlin — and the contribution these movements continue to make to the development of local and global political youth cultures.
Machine Learning for Anomalies Detection in Real-time Cloud
Why Relational Facts Need to Be at Least as Primitive as Monadic Facts
Low-Power Class-D Amplifier Design for Industry Applications
Receive help with sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and citations. Drop by for support from a writing assistant and bring your assignment or rough draft.
Join Cinema Politica Concordia for THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION followed by a Q&A with directors Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth!
Nonreciprocal Vibration Transmission in Discrete Periodic Systems with Spatiotemporal Modulations
Join this mindfulness drop-in series to engage in a “full body” mindfulness practice, encompassing gentle mindful movement, breathwork exercises and guided meditations.
This training is offered by GradProSkills. It is open to current graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Advance registration is required. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to some of the different kinds of thesis proposals and encouraged to consider how their research fits into these guides. The workshop will provide opportunities to think through research questions, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and all the important sections that make up a thesis. It will also offer suggestions for how to structure and plan your own thesis proposal.
In Part 2, you will learn to identify small group and team dynamic patterns, and how to leverage them to build more resilient and efficient groups in your next project.
Every Tuesday, from 2 to 4 p.m., join us for conversation and connection over beverages and snacks, sometimes with a theme. This event is open to all members of the Concordia community (students, faculty and staff).
Explore creative ways to practice self-care in a supportive art therapy group designed to help you prioritize their well-being.
Forces AVENIR Program recognizes and honours student engagement. Drop by our session to help polish your application.
Join us for our second session of "Casual COHDS," a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting.
Thinking about graduation—now what? An undergraduate degree in Economics opens more doors than you might think.
Dr. Fabrizio Baldassarri will discuss René Descartes's interpretation of plants as a case study of the mechanistic attempt to define plant activities, life, and behaviour.
The Sustainability Ambassadors Program (SAP) provides students with leadership experience, engagement opportunities, skills, and competencies that support a culture of sustainability on campus.
In this politically charged environment academics may exercising their voice to “speak truth to power,” but even a cursory view of research use in policymaking reveals that few are listening. This talk provides a unique perspective of research and policymaking that addresses the problems with research for policy use, the opportune time to build relationships with politicians, how to enlist allies, writing for policy audiences, and what to do once you get in the door. The talk is filled with concrete insights from David R. Garcia (Arizona State University) based on his book (Teach Truth to Power) and policy experiences working as a legislative analyst, top public education official, and 2018 Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate for the state of Arizona.
Get away from your routine and get creative! We will be providing all that you will need paint, canvas, snacks and good vibes!!
Supporting Young Children' Bilingual Development Through Home-based Strategies: Insights from Chinese and Chinese-Canadian Families
Learn about healthy eating, sleep, quitting smoking, stress management, mental health and more.
The purpose is to create a meditative and relaxing environment that can help reduce stress, promote deep relaxation, and foster a sense of well-being.
Joseph Plaster's prize-winning Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (Duke University Press, February 2023) explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway "kids on the street" to survive in central city tenderloin districts across the United States, and San Francisco's Tenderloin in particular, over the past century.
As part of Dark Opacities Lab's 2024-2026 theme, "Nazar: A Theory of the Evil Eye," we will be hosting a speaker series to consider questions central to intellectual, political, and ethical questions integral to the context of global struggles for liberation and indigenous sovereignty.
Jurist-in-Residence at Concordia University, Morton S. Minc, cordially invites you to an evening in conversation with Allen Mendelsohn, a lawyer specializing in Internet law. Students in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, lawyers and the general public are invited to attend.
This panel discussion will address the revitalization and preservation of Indigenous languages on Turtle Island, with strategies from Indigenous leaders, activists, and educators as they share their experiences in promoting, teaching and safeguarding their languages
Indoor Object Localization for Tracking and Progress Reporting in Construction
OER Discovery Minute is an opportunity to discover what your student peers at Concordia are doing to help you find and access free textbooks and learning materials.
Learn to press pause on our tendency to be on auto-pilot and drop into the moment.
Interfacial Conformation of Polymer Chains and Its Impact on Film Properties
Discover job opportunities beyond Montreal! Meet employers from Quebec’s regions, expand your network, and explore exciting career prospects across the province.
In this discussion, Jade will engage Kelechi in a conversation about intergenerational knowledge, healing, and resistance, drawing inspiration from Kelechi’s work and experiences. As Harambec continues to shape spaces for Black women and non-binary people in Montreal, this exchange will explore what can be learned from Kelechi’s multidisciplinary approach to storytelling, movement, and advocacy.
Language Use in Academic Contexts: A Multidimensional Analysis of Business and Engineering Student Writing
Enhancing Hedging Strategies with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Implied Volatility Surfaces
In Pippin Barr’s lecture “It is as if I make games”, he will discuss his game design research over the last decade and a half, showing how it functions to uncover the real and potential relationships between contemporary art, videogame design, and the implications of diverse ways of playing.
An evening of student-directed short plays, each about 10 - 15 minutes long, by published playwrights.
Cyber Resilience Assessment of the Smart Grid
Vision-Based Construction Activity Recognition Using Supervised and Self-Supervised Methods
You will get the opportunity to self-manage your own menstrual products by learning to hand-sew a reusable cloth pad.
In this lecture, I will explain the role of climate fiction in the lead-up to my invitation (as a humanist) to come to the United Nations.
A Safety-Focused-Systems Architecting Framework for Aircraft Conceptual Design
Cryptocurrency's Societal Impact: ESG Compliance, Gaming Economies, and Political Finance
This talk will examine the "Toxic Narrative Infrastructure" — a framework which invisibilizes, normalizes, and naturalizes injustices — and explore how guerrilla narratives seek to disrupt and dismantle it.
The editor-in-chief of The Conversation Canada, Nehal El-Hadi, leads a session explaining how to mobilize your knowledge through this online news platform reserved exclusively for academics.
Receive help with sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and citations. Drop by for support from a writing assistant and bring your assignment or rough draft.
Come explore the projects developed by final-year engineering students at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. The Capstone Poster Presentation is a chance to see how final-year engineering students apply their knowledge to real-world challenges.
The editor-in-chief of The Conversation Canada, Nehal El-Hadi, leads a session explaining how to mobilize your knowledge through this online news platform reserved exclusively for academics.
Drop by the LB atrium for expert tips and resources on time management, study skills, academic writing and exam prep hosted by Student Learning Services.
This training is offered by GradProSkills. It is open to current graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Advance registration is required. If you are a masters or doctoral student in the early or middle stages of drafting your thesis, this workshop is for you.
Every Tuesday, from 2 to 4 p.m., join us for conversation and connection over beverages and snacks, sometimes with a theme. This event is open to all members of the Concordia community (students, faculty and staff).
This session will introduce you to the basics of a software tool called QualCoder, which is useful for qualitative analysis. Tag your research data with meaningful codes and apply comments to improve collaboration with your research partners. QualCoder helps you identify themes in your research while managing the codes and their meanings along with the text, images, or videos that you apply your codes to. This interactive session will introduce you to this free tool and give you a chance to try it out.
Take a break before exams with a free build-your-own brunch! While eating, share your thoughts on meal plans, food affordability and campus food spaces.
The purpose is to create a meditative and relaxing environment that can help reduce stress, promote deep relaxation, and foster a sense of well-being.
This training helps students reflect on their out-of-class experiences and effectively communicate their learning and skill development to peers, teachers, employers, and graduate schools.
In this workshop, a panel of a speakers will share their insights into co-designing and implementing land-based learning opportunities for Concordia students in the local Kanien’kehá:ka community of Kahnawà:ke.
Marwan Bassiouni's images, often presented on a large scale, lie at the intersection of documentary practice, fine art and intercultural mediation. In his photographs, he explores the poetics and aesthetics of documentary photography while focusing on the Western landscape and themes related to identity, spirituality, culture and the politics of representation.
Since January 2018, Marwan Bassiouni has visited mosques in various countries in order to document their presence in the landscape from the inside.
Hear from Liberal Arts College alumna Zoe Salzman, BA 03, partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP in Manhattan, where she specializes in workplace discrimination and civil-rights cases.
Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, invites you to the conference with the Honourable Michelle O'Bonsawin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Conversations in Contemporary Art is pleased to present an artist talk by Kyle Alden Martens, winner of the 2023 Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.
The purpose of this interest group is to support faculty in applying or improving their application of contemplative practices in their classroom to promote well-being and a compassionate classroom, to further course goals, and to support learning.
Jay Bernstein is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.
Receive help with sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and citations. Drop by for support from a writing assistant and bring your assignment or rough draft.
Join us for our monthly "Chai, Coffee & Change" sessions! This informal gathering is open to all members of the Concordia community. Whether you're passionate about EDI or simply curious, you are welcome to join us for coffee, snacks, and dialogue.
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