Today's events
Virtual lecture series ATMOSPHERES, featuring Kari Norgaard (Sociology, University of Oregon, US).
The Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies is proud to present a seminar with Simeon Ehrlich. Archaeological excavation at Ashkelon in the '80s and '90s yielded a series of scandalous discoveries: a late Roman bathhouse filled with suggestive inscriptions and erotic lamps; the bones of 100 infants in the sewer beneath.
Indigenous spirituality is not an abstract construct – it is embodied and personal. Spiritual practices are based on an understanding that transformation is central to health and well-being, and that the natural world provides the lessons that lead us to change. Stories of land are stories of connection, which leads us to know what it means to be “in relation.” As such, Indigenous spirituality is a prescription for the malaise of colonialism and a how-to manual for the process of reconciliation and decolonization. Drawing on trauma theory, epistemology, and education for social justice, this lecture describes how Indigenous spirituality moves us from woundedness to interrelatedness – and how that process becomes a healing story. The Cartesian emphasis on thinking leads us to an individual, alone with their thoughts. Living a spiritual life requires us to look outward, to the world and our place within it. Canada needs a healing story.
Upcoming events
Join us for a lecture and Q&A with Professor Ute Tellmann, who will be presenting a recent paper that sets out to theorize the temporalities of finance.
Carol C. Gould's research addresses hard questions in social and political philosophy, with particular attention to the relationship between theory and practice. Her interests range across democratic theory, the philosophy of human rights, problems of global justice, feminist philosophy, and critical social theory. Gould is the author and editor of many books, most recently of "Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice," published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.
Dr. Rachida Yassine, Lillian Robinson Scholar, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, presents her lecture, "The Politics of Gendered Embodiment in the Maghreb." Dr. Yassine is the 2020-2021 Lillian Robinson Scholar in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. The Lillian Robinson Scholars Program is designed to attract distinguished visiting scholars working on a range of feminist research topics to the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. The program supports stays of varying lengths for scholars with a PhD.
This film merges rare archival footage shown for the first time, as well as current interviews with key figures during Menachem Begin's time as Prime Minister. This film was produced in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
This event will explore refugee protection in relation to the future of the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States. Speakers: Janet Dench (Canadian Council for Refugees) Fedora Mathieu (Lawyer and immigration law professor) Adèle Garnier (Professor, Université Laval) Event in French, registration mandatory: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/inscription-lavenir-de-lentente-sur-les-tiers-pays-surs-124175589531
In this presentation, Louise Bernice Halfe (Sky Dancer) will read a selection of her work and discuss the ways in which spirituality operates in her own writing as well as how it manifests in Indigenous poetry more generally.
Join us for a talk by Jonathan Flatley, professor of English at Wayne State University. His talk is part of a book project called "Black Leninism: How Revolutionary Counter-Moods are Made."
join the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) for a high-level discussion on the persecution of the Uyghur.
Virtual lecture series ATMOSPHERES, featuring Alberto Pérez-Gómez (School of Architecture, McGill University).
This talk will explore the politics of the international convergence and how it illuminates how Hawaiian sovereignty is subject to another convergence in the context of U.S. imperialism – an illegal military occupation and settler colonialism.
Presented by journalist-in-residence Francine Pelletier, this workshop looks at how investigative documentaries are made with guest Julian Sher, one of Canada’s leading investigative journalists and documentarians. An initiative of the Department of Journalism.
Virtual lecture series ATMOSPHERES, featuring Derek P. McCormack (Cultural Geography, Oxford University, UK).
This talk will explore the politics of the international convergence and how it illuminates how Hawaiian sovereignty is subject to another convergence in the context of U.S. imperialism — an illegal military occupation and settler colonialism.
Virtual lecture series ATMOSPHERES, featuring Gernot Böhme, (Institute for Practical Philosophy, Darmstadt, Germany).
Learn about the main stages and processes in the development of the Western Wall Plaza as a Jewish and Israeli symbol.
Concordia's journalist-in-residence Francine Pelletier presents the third workshop in her documentary journalism workshop series. Pelletier and guest David Gutnick, a veteran documentarian who spent 35 years with the CBC, explore the significance of podcasting.
