Today's events
For as long as cinema has existed, there have been stories with Indigenous themes and characters. But up until recently, very rarely were these stories told from an Indigenous perspective. But more and more, Indigenous storytellers are decolonizing screens and tearing down stereotypes perpetuated for decades through various forms of media. Using her feature film Rustic Oracle as a case study, Sonia Bonspille Boileau will discuss the use of fiction to tell the truth and the importance of reclaiming Indigenous narratives to help reshape our collective memory.
Upcoming events
Elaine Fuchs, professor at Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will present a seminar on her ground-breaking biological research of stem cells and their uses in medicine.
Concordia University’s Jurist-in-residence, Morton S. Minc invites you to a conversation with The Honorable Scott Hughes, Senior Chief Judge, Court of Quebec. Chief Justice Hughes will discuss virtual justice including: • What has been put in place? • What will remain? • What should guide the Courts in the future?
Virtual lecture series ATMOSPHERES, featuring Şifâ Doğuştan, Loup Rivière and Stella Faelli (dance for plants).
Susanne Soederberg will explore how historical and geographical configurations of monetized power, including landlords, employers and inter-scalar state practices, have served to reproduce rental housing insecurity and silence its gendered, class and racialized underpinnings.
Keynote speeches and collaborative workshops, where participants will learn about and share their insights on barriers in career or educational paths, as well as how to overcome these barriers.
Join us as activist, educator and survivor Kalimah Johnson addresses the systemic barriers ingrained within mainstream sexual assault services by centering the needs of Black survivors.
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
