Accolades for the week of September 24
Vice-Provost of Teaching and Learning Ollivier Dyens is a finalist in the Prix de poésie contest, held by Société Radio-Canada, for his poetry. He has also garnered interest in his book of essays titled Enfanter l'inhumain, le refus du vivant, in which he proposes to reformulate the concept of human beings and humanism, inviting readers to take a fresh look at the biological and the technological. He was interviewed by Catherine Perrin on Radio-Canada. Listen to the interview
Zeynep Arsel, assistant professor in the Department of Marketing, is the co-recipient of 2012 Sidney J. Levy Award for her paper Demythologizing Consumption Practices. The award, granted annually, is given to the best dissertation-based paper published in an English-language marketing or consumer journal on the topic of consumer culture theory.
Members of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and the Department of History are pleased to be joined by a Fulbright Research Chair and a Fulbright Student Fellow.
Jill Strauss is a Fulbright Research Chair who will explore how researchers and artists engage with “difficult stories” that arise in the context of mass violence. Strauss intends to work with Montreal-area artists to explore the intersections of oral history and the visual arts. She currently works as an oral history educator at the Museum of African Art in New York City and is an adjunct professor at the City University of New York. She has curated a number of exhibitions, including Voices Envisioned: Memories Made in Northern Ireland.
Kate Duffy, Fulbright Student Fellow, will work on a project exploring industrial ruins and ruination. How do Quebec’s ruins function as unofficial, ephemeral monuments to the past? She intends to develop a digital exhibition during her stay in Montreal. Duffy holds a BA from Swarthmore College (2005) and an MA in history with a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Delaware. She blogs at www.wunderplatz.net.
In the Faculty of Fine Arts, Manon De Pauw, alumna (BFA 97) and part-time faculty member in the Department of Studio Arts, won the prestigious 2012 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in Inter-Arts. Betino Assa and Corri-Lynn Tetz, MFA in Studio Art candidates, have both been chosen as among the 15 finalists of this year’s RBC Painting Competition.
The winners will be announced November 29, 2012. And filmmaker Shane Geddes, (BFA 04), won a Leo prize from the British Columbia film and television industry for Best Cinematography in an Information or Lifestyle Series for the food travel show Eat Street.
Ted Stathopoulos was granted the 2012 International Association of Wind Engineering (IAWE) Senior Award (Davenport Medal), which is the highest distinction in the field of wind engineering.
Stathopoulos, a professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was honoured for his "many contributions for his modelling of wind load effects on structures with applications to building structures," according to the award announcement.
One of the top five most read articles on the British Psychological Society’s popular blog, Research Digest, is a summary of research by Diane Poulin-Dubois, professor in Concordia’s Department of Psychology and member of the Centre for Research on Human Development. The story received more than 11,000 hits and was the second most read of the year.
The story titled “Toddlers won't bother learning from you if you're daft,” focuses on how children as young as 14 months are discerning about whom they learn from and shows that many infant participants didn't bother copying the behaviour of an adult who had previously acted surprised for no reason.
Bonnie Harnden, associate professor in Creative Arts Therapies, will receive an award at the North American Drama Therapy Association national conference in New Haven, Conn. in November for her latest research, a film called You Arrive, which disseminates her research in an unconventional way, providing wider reach to practitioners and parents.