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This event is meant to offer a space for students to talk about their various dreams and desires in regards to programming for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community at school. What kind of workshops, events, teach-ins do you dream about attending on campus? Come share your ideas, or simply come for the snacks!

When
October 4, 2024, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus ER Building 630 (2155 Guy St.)
Speaker(s)
Belen Blizzard

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.

When
October 4, 2024, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building 362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Eric Marcus, Professor of Philosophy, Auburn University


Ongoing events

Participating in the third annual Student Research Photo Contest is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your innovative research within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Capture a compelling image that encapsulates the essence of your work and illustrate its impact or process.

When
October 2, 2024 – November 7, 2024, 12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m.
Where
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Speaker(s)
n/a

Receive help with sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and citations. Drop by for support from a writing assistant, Billy Gelinas, and bring your assignment or rough draft. Come see us for a 25-minute session, first arrived-first served.

When
September 16, 2024 – December 19, 2024, 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus ER Building ER630 (2155 Guy St.)
Speaker(s)
Billy Gelinas, Isabelle Lamoureux


Upcoming events

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.)

When
October 8, 2024, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Where
SGW campus H - Henry F. Hall Building 7th Floor Greenspace (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

Come see Concordia's student-led space featuring the artistic projects of our interdisciplinary students in the humanities PhD and the individualized MA and PhD programs.

When
October 9, 2024, 3 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Where
Complexe du Canal Lachine

Within this paper I examine bird specimens collected by Lt. Van Wyck in southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea and the wider Pacific during the US North Pacific Expedition (1853-56).

When
October 10, 2024, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Joshua A. Bell

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.

When
October 10, 2024, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Where
Co-op Bar Milton-Parc
Speaker(s)
Beverley Best, Jonathan Martineau

Join us for the second annual Dr. Esmeralda Thornhill Black Feminist Speaker Series, presented by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Harambec. The evening promises rich discussions on Black feminist perspectives and visual storytelling.

When
October 10, 2024, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Where
Afromusée, 533 Rue Ontario E, Montréal
Speaker(s)
Dr. Aida Bueno Sarduy

What does cutting-edge research in philosophy look like? What are pressing and enduring questions it uncovers, and ways of addressing them? This event offers a taste. From enduring questions about the nature of morality and human experience, to urgent questions about how to overcome oppression, research conducted in Concordia’s Department of Philosophy reflects this diversity.

When
October 11, 2024, 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building LB-362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Drs. Emilia Angelova, Matt Barker, Anna Brinkerhoff, Pablo Gilabert, Ulf Hlobil, David Morris

When
October 16, 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Gareth Dale, Brunel University

When
October 17, 2024, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Shannon Bell

When
October 22, 2024, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Where
SGW campus H - Henry F. Hall Building 7th Floor Greenspace (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Philip Szporer

Antoine Bilodeau and Mireille Paquet are pleased to invite you to IRI's Seminar, highlighting the research of its three visiting doctoral fellows for 2024. This is an opportunity to discover research topics related to IRI's mission while contributing to the development of these three doctoral students' projects through your comments, feedback and encouragement.

When
October 23, 2024, 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Henry F. Hall Building Room H-1220 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Alberto M. Burgos-Rivera, Carolina Reyes Marquez, Younghyun Lee

Now that your midterms are over, how did you do? Depending on how you preformed, you may have questions about next steps! If so, this one-hour online zoom session is for you!

When
October 24, 2024, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Shoshana Kalfon

Edmund Snow Carpenter has been marginal to the history of anthropology and yet central to multisensory museology. A colleague of Marshall McLuhan in the 1950s, Carpenter co-edited with McLuhan the journal Explorations and was thus the co- founder of media studies as we know it today.

When
October 24, 2024, 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Richard Cavell

The Kristeva Circle supports research on, or influenced by, philosopher, psychoanalyst and novelist Julia Kristeva. The Circle holds regular gatherings to establish and advance Kristeva scholarship nationally and internationally. During these gatherings, scholars from a variety of fields and disciplines exchange ideas and collaborate on projects related to the work of Julia Kristeva.

When
October 24, 2024 – October 26, 2024 (all day)
Where
SGW campus MB - John Molson Building B, C, D, E, F, G (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Fanny Söderbäck, Euryale Cliche-Laroche, Maggie Hynes, Sarah Lee, Kathleen Ballantyne, Lauren Mitchell, William Magrino, Ewa Ziarek, Nöelle McAfee, Alia Al-Saji, Julia Kristeva, Kelly Oliver, Tjaša Škorjanc, Paria Rahimi, Everet Smith, Lenka Vojtíšková, Gertrude Postl, Shawn Huberdeau, Eleanor Kaufman, Nora Fulton, Athena Colman, Sid Hansen, Perry Zurn, Elaine P. Miller, Beata Stawarska, Steven Dincau, Sujaya Dhanvantari, Daniel Allen, Lilian Phillips and Jennifer Purvis

When
October 25, 2024, 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Where
SGW campus H - Henry F. Hall Building 1220 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Dr Laura Macdonald

When
October 26, 2024, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where
SGW campus H - Henry F. Hall Building 7th Floor Greenspace (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

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.)

This workshop offers to reflect on archives as sites of contested knowledge, and to envision avenues and methodologies to open them to more inclusive decolonial and feminist perspectives.

When
October 29, 2024, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB-1019 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Varda Nisar, Lola Rémy

This interactive workshop will introduce participants to a variety of visual methods suitable for inter-and cross-disciplinary study.

When
October 29, 2024, 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where
Speaker(s)
Laura Krystal Porterfield, PhD

This conference is an in-person event and will be presented in English and French with a bilingual question period.

When
October 30, 2024, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building ABCD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
The Honourable David Lametti, Former Minster of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

From the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Canadian exhibition designer and painter Harley Parker developed a sensory museology by applying Marshall McLuhan's ideas about the sensorium and media to exhibition design.

When
November 1, 2024, 4 p.m. – 5:40 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Gary Genosko

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.

When
November 2, 2024, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Yabome Gilpin-Jackson

The MA in Human Systems Intervention program prepares you to plan change processes, host conversations in complex contexts, and implement whole system interventions. Join Graduate Program Director Cédric Jamet, as well as current and past students to learn more about the program and get your application questions answered.

When
November 6, 2024, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Cédric Jamet, Graduate Program Director

When
November 14, 2024, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Robert Talbot

Digital storytelling (DST) is of growing interest within health care settings to better understand patient experience and translate knowledge between health care professionals and patients. DST is a relational tool that can be used for education, advocacy, creative expression, and therapeutic intervention.

When
November 15, 2024, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB-1019 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
The Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine Project Team

When
November 15, 2024, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Where
SGW campus H - Henry F. Hall Building 1220 (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Dr Marc-André Anzueto

When
November 15, 2024, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Where
SGW campus H - Henry F. Hall Building 1001.01 (McEntee Reading Room), 10th floor (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Dr. Emer O'Toole

Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines! We all have them! But, what happens if we cannot meet them! What other options do students have to successfully complete the term when things happen? This one-hour online zoom session will help you figure things out!

When
November 18, 2024, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Shoshana Kalfon

This event brings together Lea Kabiljo and Kelann Currie-Williams, oral historians and photographers, who rely on the multi-faceted technique of "photo-interviewing" in their respective work. We will invite attendees to reflect on the relationship that exists between images and storytelling in the context of the oral history interview.

When
November 19, 2024, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB-1019 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Kelann Currie-Williams, Lea Kabiljo

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

When
November 21, 2024, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building ABCD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Michael Sabia, President, CEO of Hydro-Québec

Join us in the COHDS Computer Lab for an engaging 2 to 2.5-hour workshop designed to enhance your skills in digital storytelling and interactive exhibit creation. Participants will be asked to develop a mini exhibit concept incorporating edited digital content gathered from a brief exercise in conversational interviewing.

When
November 22, 2024, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB-1042 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Hannah Pinilla

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.

When
November 22, 2024, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Where
SGW campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building 362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Jessica Gelber, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

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.)

A conversation between some of the members of the 1990s Tiohtia:ke/Montreal-based, South Asian-focused LGBTQ+ group the Saathis. As many of the Saathis are artists, performers and activists, they are also invited to reflect on their creative journeys as racialized queer people in Montreal.

When
November 28, 2024, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB-1019 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Saathi Montreal Archive Project

Join us for an evening of dance as students from the Department of Contemporary Dance bring embodied (auto-)biographical narratives to the Acts of Listening Lab.

When
November 29, 2024, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB 1042.03 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
The DANC 202 Cohort

Dr. Luis Sotelo Castro and PhD candidate Sara Lucas from the Acts of Listening Lab and The Listening Choir will discuss how musical interventions, particularly community choral music, can catalyze dialogue in communities that have experienced collective trauma.

When
December 3, 2024, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Sara Lucas, Luis Sotelo

The workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview of a Rwandan genocide survivor recorded as part of the Montreal Life Stories project.

When
December 5, 2024, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus J.W. McConnell Building LB-1019 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Steven High

When
December 12, 2024, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Richard Bourhis

When
January 23, 2025, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Andrea Sander

When
February 6, 2025, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Jane McGaughey

When
March 6, 2025, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Shannon Bell

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.

When
March 14, 2025, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Where
SGW campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building 362 (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
Daniel Steel, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia

When
April 10, 2025, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Where
Online
Speaker(s)
Raphaël Gani, Anthony Di Mascio

When
May 29, 2025 – May 30, 2025 (all day)
Where
SGW campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building Conference room (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
TBD




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