The biodiversity fresque explores the causes of the biodiversity loss crisis and actions which can be taken (including in our gardens!). Fresques are three-hour participatory workshops, aimed at raising awareness about the environment, decreasing anxiety and supporting action in a non-judgemental way.
This workshop introduces participants to the concept of microaggressions, how they appear in academic and campus life, and their impact on individuals. By learning to recognize subtle forms of exclusion or harm, participants will be better equipped to reflect on their own practices, support colleagues and peers, and contribute to a more inclusive campus community.
During the Centraide Campaign that runs from October 21 to November, there will be a Frip open Tuesdays and Wednesdays at lunch time between 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. with the exception of November 5. We will also be selling baked goods.
Concordia's Centraide Campaign committee invites you to join us in EV lobby outside the FOFA Gallery (EV 1.490) as we kick off the 2025 campaign in support of Centraide of Greater Montreal.
Ongoing events
This international, interdisciplinary conference brings scholars into conversation on the nature and role of heroes in popular culture in all its media expressions, and on the influence of hero stories in contemporary society.
The Webster Library presents Exuberant Botanica by Aaron McIntosh, associate professor in the Department of Studio Arts, and in collaboration with the artist's exhibition Hot House/Maison chaude at the FOFA Gallery.
I Knew This Place Before is a diaristic short film by Adam Mbowe presented as a series of vignettes unfolding across the wall of the gallery's Black Box. Projected into picture frames like a family photo arrangement, the film tells the story of the rapid transformation of the Gambia.
Aaron McIntosh's exhibition Hot House / Maison chaude is both an evolving queer ecology network and a series of related artworks, as well as a structural and theoretical container for both.
To Be Held by the Femme Island / To Be Known by the Trans Body is an interdisciplinary exhibition by Kama La Mackerel that weaves together textile installation, self-portrait photography, sound, and video into a meditation on gender, lineage, and the afterlives of colonialism.
Upcoming events
As part of Campus Sustainability Month, the Concordia Greenhouse presents a performance lecture from an extinct Irish wolf. Wolf is less than pleased about her extinction. She wants to be alive again. Come to leafy surrounds of the Greenhouse, and listen as Wolf rips apart arguments against her reintroduction with her pointy teeth.
As part of Campus Sustainability Month, our goal is to continue to teach the Concordia community about the process of vermicomposting as well as the benefits that it can serve our planet and other people!
Join the Black Perspectives Office for an engaging conversation with Jacqueline Beckles, Concordia alumna and Deputy Director General (acting) and General Counsel with the Department of Justice Canada. She will provide Concordia students and community members with personal insights on goal setting, trusting your instincts, being fearless and careers in the legal profession.
Martin Deron, AT&S working group coordinator and INDI doctoral student, will present his recent article featured at the Computing Within Limits 20205 conference.
Air pollution from diesel engines remains a critical challenge due to the release of harmful pollutants during combustion that affect both the environment and human health. Addressing these issues requires advances in emission control technologies alongside the adoption of cleaner, sustainable fuels.
Get ready to immerse yourself in the enchanting world of fungi at Fungi Fest Concordia!
Join us for an interactive session where we explore the idea of leisure, what it means to us personally, how it has evolved, and how it connects to broader ideas of sustainability and social justice.
This interactive workshop is designed for students, staff, and faculty to deepen their understanding of anti-racism and its role in creating meaningful change within their spheres of influence. Participants will explore key concepts related to racism and anti-racism, challenging mainstream narratives that perpetuate systems of oppression. The session will cover how systemic racism shapes both interpersonal and institutional experiences, while providing practical strategies for implementing anti-racist practices in daily life and the workplace. The workshop will also explore intersectionality, offering tools to integrate anti-racist actions into decision-making and promote equitable, context-specific interventions.
Do you want to carve pumpkins for Halloween? Do you want to help us compost the leftover food waste? We have the workshop just for you! ABCompost is hosting two sustainable pumpkin carving workshops at the Concordia Greenhouse Project.
The site of Tiwanaku, located on the edge of Lake Titicaca in the high plains or "altiplano" of the Bolivian Andes, has intrigued archaeologists for over a century. In recent years, however, we have seen an explosion of research at both Tiwanaku (475-1100 AD), and neighbouring earlier Late Formative (300 BC-475 AD) sites.
This case study reports on a fruitful recent foray into the film archive. It explains the description and arrangement of a series of Ukrainian documentaries from the 1970s and 1980s, leading up to and during Perestroika.
Writers Read welcomes Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Booker Prize Nominee Rachel Kushner to read her work.
Please join us on Portfolio Day and receive one-on-one constructive feedback, discuss your creative artworks and aspirations from a Design or a Computation Arts faculty member.
In this interactive performance-workshop, Brett Davidson explores listening not just as a personal practice, but as a vital political act. Combining elements of storytelling, theory, dialogue, audio, and visual imagery, the session invites participants to reflect on the ways listening shapes democracy, public life, and our collective ability to imagine change.
The seminar explores how Guatemalan institutions develop and use climate services to support adaptation to climate change and improve food security among small farmers and Maya communities.
This walking tour invites guests to learn about and engage in discussion on the expropriation photos of Little Burgundy.
Open House is a unique opportunity to see for yourself what it’s like to be a Concordian. Discover our two vibrant campuses, tour our state-of-the-art facilities, and get advice from faculty, staff and current students.
This session will introduce you to the basics of a software tool called QualCoder, which is useful for qualitative analysis. Tag your research data with meaningful codes and apply comments to improve collaboration with your research partners. QualCoder helps you identify themes in your research while managing the codes and their meanings along with the text, images, or videos that you apply your codes to. This interactive session will introduce you to this free tool and give you a chance to try it out.
Open to all members of an active Department Hiring Committee (DHC). All DHCs involved in the search process are required to participate in this session before starting the hiring process. Members would ideally attend the session prior to their first in-person DHC meeting and prior to the review of applications.
Do you want to carve pumpkins for Halloween? Do you want to help us compost the leftover food waste? We have the workshop just for you! ABCompost is hosting two sustainable pumpkin carving workshops at the Concordia Greenhouse Project.
Thinking about art school? Bring your portfolio to National Portfolio Day and get feedback directly from Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts and nine other institutions.
MTL Connect takes place October 28 to 31, 2025, with the theme (R)evolutions, highlighting what is shaping digital change now.
Open to all members of an active Department Hiring Committee (DHC). All DHCs involved in the search process are required to participate in this session before starting the hiring process. Members would ideally attend the session prior to their first in-person DHC meeting and prior to the review of applications.
This workshop will provide you with some of the fundamentals in the interdisciplinary field of oral history. Participants will learn about an oral history approach to interviewing, ethics in research, and the many ways that oral histories are shared with the public.
Open to all members of an active Department Hiring Committee (DHC). All DHCs involved in the search process are required to participate in this session before starting the hiring process. Members would ideally attend the session prior to their first in-person DHC meeting and prior to the review of applications.
Join us for the Equity Office and Friends Meet & Greet, where members of Concordia’s student, staff, and faculty community are invited to come together and learn about the work we do around campus.
When hackers strike, will your team be ready? For answers to this and other pressing questions and fresh insights based on recent real-world cyber attacks, join Concordia’s Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, as he hosts an expert panel for a live, practical discussion on cyber crisis response in today’s high-stakes digital world.
Open to all members of an active Department Hiring Committee (DHC). All DHCs involved in the search process are required to participate in this session before starting the hiring process. Members would ideally attend the session prior to their first in-person DHC meeting and prior to the review of applications.
Want to know more about worms? Do we have the workshop for you! A comparative overview of worm biology between flatworms (Platyhelminthes), segmented worms (Annelida), and roundworms (Nematoda). And the importance of biodiversity in relation to conservation and sustainability of our earth dwelling friends.
Interested in Film Animation? Submit your creative portfolio for review via Slideroom and receive feedback on your work directly from faculty before applying to the BFA Film Animation program at the Mel hoppenheim School of Cinema.
Join us for a poetry book launch.
In this session we will engage in open dialogue with the intention of deepening skills to manage relationships specifically with colleagues. We will identify behaviours in the academic context, interpersonal and systemic, that are damaging to collegial spaces as well as some ways forward. Using scenarios, we will explore a range of approaches which contribute to a healthy work environment.
This talk explores how the labor of assembly, when framed through game engine speculation is subsumed not as production but potential — where value lies in the experimental exercise of future capabilities.
Join us at our community-building chili lunch: $17 for a bowl of chili with meat or vegan sauce, salad, beverage and dessert. Proceeds go to Concordia's annual Centraide campaign.
A series of events where Concordians can come together to share loss, support one another through change, and build caring community in a non-judgemental space.
In this lecture, I demonstrate the emotional basis of polarization, as well as its international influences and effects, and argue that understanding and engaging with the affective dimensions of citizenship is central to developing strategies to reduce polarization in Canada and beyond.
Join us for lively discussions of new scholarship on gender and sexuality! Hosted by the Feminist Governance in Times of Crisis Working Group, the reading group brings together interdisciplinary research to encourage thoughtful exchange, collaboration, and fresh perspectives on emerging topics in the field.
Bring a $2 twoonie and your own bag to get textbooks, mysteries, fiction, classics and cookbooks -- and more! Prices at $3 and up!
Choisissez parmi des centaines de titres, allant de la littérature aux récits de voyage, en passant par des biographies, des ouvrages à succès et bien plus encore.
Bring a $2 twoonie and your own bag to get textbooks, mysteries, fiction, classics and cookbooks -- and more! Prices at $3 and up!
Choisissez parmi des centaines de titres, allant de la littérature aux récits de voyage, en passant par des biographies, des ouvrages à succès et bien plus encore.
Through facilitated discussion, this session invites participants to explore the unspoken norms and expectations in higher education that can influence students’ learning experiences and success. It also invites learners to question how implicit biases shape the hidden curriculum and discuss strategies to recognize and navigate it. Join us for a collaborative discussion designed to empower students to uncover and address it effectively.
Join us at our community-building lunches: $17 for a bowl of chili with meat or vegan sauce, salad, beverage and dessert. Proceeds go to Concordia's annual Centraide campaign.
Please join us in the JOYLab for a community-centred workshop where participants create hand-stitched patches and embroidery that imagine futures beyond extraction, domination, and erasure.
This talk will explore the power of community engaged design processes to create space for embedded, embodied, and emergent thinking. This approach and its results will be illustrated with projects about data literacy, environmental education, and digital sovereignty.
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A series of events where Concordians can come together to share loss, support one another through change, and build caring community in a non-judgemental space.
Concordia's Centraide Campaign committee invites you to join us at the SHIFT Centre (LB 145) as we announce this year's total funds raised in support of Centraide of Greater Montreal. Lucky winners will be announced, as well as the top three pets from the Pet Photo Album!
As part of the first edition of Canada Climate Week Xchange, Porte Parole, in partnership with Concordia University's Faculty of Fine Arts, presents The Assembly – Energy in Canada, its acclaimed documentary play tackling the polarization around our energy transition.
Join us for lively discussions of new scholarship on gender and sexuality! Hosted by the Feminist Governance in Times of Crisis Working Group, the reading group brings together interdisciplinary research to encourage thoughtful exchange, collaboration, and fresh perspectives on emerging topics in the field.
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The workshop “Recognizing and Disrupting Microaggressions in the Workplace” equips faculty and staff with the tools to identify, understand, and address subtle but harmful behaviors that affect colleagues' wellbeing and sense of belonging. Participants will explore the impact of microaggressions, reflect on their own practices, and practice strategies to intervene effectively and foster inclusive workspace.
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The workshop “Facilitating Difficult Conversations on Race and Racism” aims to give faculty and staff the skills, awareness, and confidence to engage in respectful, constructive dialogue about race. By exploring why these conversations are often challenging and practicing strategies for listening, empathy, and response, participants will learn how to create more inclusive spaces at Concordia and beyond.
The workshop “Black Identity and Belonging in Higher Education” is designed to help faculty and staff understand Black students' identity within the university context. Its purpose is to: - Provide a space for faculty and staff to reflect on experiences, challenges, and strengths of Black students, faculty and staff in higher education. - Highlight barriers to belonging, such as microaggressions, underrepresentation, and institutional bias. - Foster strategies for empowerment, well-being, and community-building among faculty and staff. - Encourage faculty and staff to recognize their role in creating inclusive spaces
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