​Please join us on Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM for a Zoom discussion with Wafi Ghanem. ​About the Speaker Wafi Ghanem is director of the education department in the City of Sachnin, a city of 34,000 Muslims and Christians in Israel's northern district. He is a doctoral candidate at Bar-Ilan University, where his academic research focuses on the impact of volunteering on high school students. He will discuss Sachnin's education system, emphasizing the importance of students' volunteer work in determining their future paths.

The Sensational Museum (TSM) is a two-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In this presentation, the project lead Hannah Thompson will explore how TSM is using what we know about disability to change how museums work for everyone.

This talk explores how our desires, subjectivities and concepts are viscerally embodied and produced as an everyday practice in life-worlds dominated by automobility.

This is the launching of a conference series on Islam in the Americas.

Laura Tomlinson Makin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. She mainly works in ethics, metaethics, and philosophy of action.

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, invites you to the conference Canada is Now a Minor Player on the World Stage. How Can We Get Back into the Game? with The Honourable Thomas J. Mulcair, political commentator and former leader of the NDP - Canada New Democratic Party.

This paper looks at the role of Anishinaabe pipes, opwaaganag, in disrupting museum practices and decolonizing the Manitoba Museum during a period of gallery renewal (Matthews 2021).

​Please join us for a book launch with Professor Ilan Troen. ​Professor Ilan Troen Lopin Professor of Modern History (Emeritus), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ​Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land? Springer Nature, 2024 ​About the Book The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about control of sacred territory that involves local Jews, Muslims, and Christians as well as worldwide faith communities, each with their own interests and stake in what transpires.

The CIRTTC and the CISSC working group "Algorithmic Technology and Society" are inviting you to a participatory research workshop with Dr. Mathieu Lajante (Department of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University).

In this talk, I discuss the long history of biometric surveillance, charting the analogue precursors to today's digital versions, showing the deep biases embedded in the tracking of humankind by their bodies. I explore the experiment that trades privacy for security and offers neither.

Unlock hidden dynamics and reveal new possibilities with Social Presencing Theater. Using arts and contemplative traditions, this transformative practice provides insight into your team or organization, setting the stage for creative collective action. Register now to explore the art of making a true move.

When it comes to alternative medicine, we are called upon to make clear decisions: Either you believe (in them), or you know (better). Either you adhere to evidence-based science or you let yourself be seduced by the mere placebo effects of quackery. This talk starts from the hypothesis that such alternatives must be taken for what they are: infernal, in the sense that they are all too often unable to inform good practices.

Eric Marcus is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. His second book "Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind" was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

In this lecture, Arun Kundnani probes the War on Terror's anti-Muslim racism, and locates its origins in a broader process of neoliberal restructuring.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Time, Technology, and Capitalism (CIRTTC) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) working group "Algorithmic Technology and Society" is inviting you to celebrate the launch of The Automatic Fetish - The Law of Value in Marx's Capital with Dr. Beverley Best.

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, invites you to the conference on International Arbitration on the World Stage with The Honorable L. Yves Fortier, former President of the UN Security Council and former Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Participants are invited to join Yabome Gilpin-Jackson to explore the what, so what, now what, of building anti-oppression and pro-belonging human systems.

Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, invites you to the conference with Michael Sabia, President, CEO of Hydro-Québec.

Jessica Gelber is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her primary area of research is Classical Greek and Roman Philosophy, with particular interests in foundational issues in ancient medicine and science.

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

Daniel Steel is Associate Professor at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia.