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For more than a quarter-century, including the past twenty years at Concordia University, my career has been devoted to understanding the cultural context of emotions, thoughts, and behaviour, especially pertaining to suffering and healing.

When
September 12, 2024, 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where
Loyola Campus Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre 120 (7141 Sherbrooke W.)
Speaker(s)
Andrew G. Ryder, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology and Centre for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University; Affiliated Researcher, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital

Join us for an insightful evening as the Institute for Research on Migration and Society hosts a documentary screening and discussion featuring director Ky Vy Le Duc and Sarah Champagne, screenwriter and journalist at Le Devoir.

When
September 12, 2024, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus VA - Visual Arts Building VA-114 Cinema (1395 René Lévesque W.)
Speaker(s)
Ky Vy Le Duc, Sarah Champagne

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

When
September 19, 2024, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building 362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Kilian Jörg

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

When
September 19, 2024, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus VA - Visual Arts Building VA114 (1395 René Lévesque W.)
Speaker(s)
Jasmin Zine

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!

When
September 24, 2024, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building H - 1225.12 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

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).

When
September 27, 2024, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus RR Annex 02 (2040 Mackay)
Speaker(s)
Mathieu Lajante

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.

When
September 27, 2024, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Sharrona Pearl

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.

When
October 3, 2024, 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex 11.705 (1515 St. Catherine W.)
Speaker(s)
A public lecture by Prof. Katrin Solhdju, University of Mons

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!

When
October 8, 2024, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building H-1225.12 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

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.

When
October 8, 2024, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building H 1220 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Arun Kundnani

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!

When
October 29, 2024, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building H-1225.12 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

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.

When
October 30, 2024
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building ABCD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
The Honorable L. Yves Fortier, Martin J. Valasek

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!

When
November 26, 2024, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building H-1225.12 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)






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