Today's events
Ongoing events
Join the SARC to explore various topics related to sexual violence awareness and prevention.
The Golden Square Mile. A project by Deanna Bowen. Organized by Michèle Thériault. Developed specifically for the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, The Golden Square Mile follows the socio-economic connections within the Anglo-Montrealer community further revealed in The Black Canadians (after Cooke), the monumental work on the facade of the National Gallery of Canada until August 2024.
The Concordia University Art Hive (Downtown Campus), welcomes the Concordia community and the general public for free and open art making. No experience required. Join us for self-care, skill-sharing and community building!
Harambec continues its mandate of flame keeping with a second commemorative exhibit to honour the legacy of Black Feminist organizing here in Montreal.
Upcoming events
Drop by our Spirituali-tea for some coffee, tea, and snacks! Meet our team and make new friends.
Exploring Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism is a two-part training program. The first session is theory based and designed to encourage reflection upon contemporary concepts and issues around race as well as racism history. We also pay particular attention to the manifestations and maintenance of racism in the workplace. The second part involves an applied approach, designed to promote, and implement anti-racism best practices through reflection and scenarios. The goal of this program is to foster awareness, understanding, and adoption of anti-racism best practices across the campus community with foundational knowledge and tools. The objectives of Part I are to explore: Race and racism concepts and history How racism manifests in the workplace How racism maintains itself The objectives of Part II are to: Strengthen understanding of anti-racism best practices Explore how to embed anti-racism best practices Share space for conversation and dialogue around these issues You must have completed Part I to participate for Part II. Registration does not guarantee a place in the workshop as there is limited capacity. Session occurrence is dependent on registration numbers. You can mix and match online or in person dates. For any questions or concerns please contact dona.nham@concordia.ca
This presentation will provide staff and faculty with an understanding of visible and invisible disabilities on campus. The common symptoms and characteristics associated with the most prevalent mental health conditions will also be reviewed, as well as how these conditions appear in classrooms, offices, meeting rooms, and on campus. Strategies for barrier reduction will be addressed.
SAY LESS is a monthly co-working space to meet and connect with one another while getting work done! Bring your laptop and drop in any time between 1-5pm on the dates mentioned. Snacks, tea, and coffee will be provided. Please register below.
Join MfSC for a late evening community supper--meet friends, talk about things that matter and share a good vegetarian meal together.
Every year, the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University offers students and emerging scholars an opportunity to present their work at any stage, to exchange ideas, and to connect with other researchers and creators.
Art Volt is excited to welcome Audible Studios!
Do you have questions or situations you'd like feedback on but are not comfortable sharing? Well, this is the space to bring them! Let's come together in a non-judgmental space to ask our awkward questions and work through our awkward experiences in engaging in anti-racist and anti-oppressive work in our respective spaces.
The Anti-Racism Working Group is a dynamic space for those who've completed the two-part Anti-Racism series or the Anti-Racism Concentric Learning Series. This is an informal, less structured space. It is a chance to reconnect, delve deeper into conversations, and provide mutual support for your anti-racism challenges, ideas, and initiatives. The working group is a hub for sustained reflection, dedicated practice, and collective accountability.
Join this mindfulness drop-in series to engage in a “full body” mindfulness practice, encompassing gentle mindful movement, breathwork exercises, and guided meditations.
Join us for a weekly energy-boost at the Drum Circle hosted by the Multi-faith and Spirituality Center and the Mindful Campus Initiative.
Join us at the FOFA Gallery for a vernissage on March 21st, 2024 from 5-8pm, including a discussion with the artists Nancy Barić and Steven J. Yazzie at 6 pm. <br><br>The Nearness of Distance (on view in the Main Space from March 4th to April 12th) brings together films by Nancy Barić and Steven J. Yazzie, centering relationships with land and water. Alternating between documentary style representation and abstract imagery and sound, the two films explore issues of representation, ecology, and stewardship. <br><br>Join us at 6pm for a discussion with artists Nancy Barić and Steven J. Yazzie (introduced by Michelle McGeough). This event is co-presented with the Indigenous Futures Research Centre. <br><br>Dr. Michelle McGeough (Cree Métis/Settler) completed her PhD in Indigenous art history at the University of New Mexico. Prior to returning to school for her advanced degree, she taught Museum Studies at the Institute of American Indian Art and was the Assistant curator at the Wheelwright Museum of The Native American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. McGeough has a Master’s degree from Carleton University as well as a BFA from Emily Carr and an undergraduate degree from the Institute of American Indian Art. She also has a B.Ed. degree from the University of Alberta. Dr. McGeough currently teaches at Concordia University in the Art History department. <br><br>Steven J. Yazzie (Diné/Pueblo of Laguna/European descent) is a multi-disciplinary artist working with video, painting, sculpture, and installation environments. He is the co-founder of Digital Preserve, a video/film production project prioritizing collaborations with Indigenous communities, and arts and cultural institutions. He was a founding member of the Indigenous arts collective, Postcommodity. Yazzie's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of the American Indian, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, and the Heard Museum.<br> <br>Nancy Barić is a filmmaker and a visual artist living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Her films are featured in the collections of The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and La Grande Bibliothèque in Montréal. Her last fiction film, Veronika, was short-listed for Toronto’s International Film Festival’s (TIFF) Best Canadian Shorts Top Ten. Her films have been featured in magazines such as 24 images, no. 131 (Canada, Quebec), Let’s Panic (United States), and Terra Firma, no. 2 (United Kingdom).<br>
Classrooms reflect the world in which we live and represent the diversity within. By implementing inclusive teaching practices, instructors can create learning environments in which all students feel like they belong, can learn at high levels, and reach their true potential. To support instructors in creating inclusive learning environments, this presentation will introduce several inclusive teaching practices that can be immediately used to benefit all students.
Martin Hägglund is Brigit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale University. This talk is sponsored by the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University.
Join fellow students in experiencing a typical Saturday evening at a Sikh gurudwara (also called bunga) in Brossard, on Montreal's South Shore.
In this session we will engage in open dialogue with the intention of deepening skills to manage relationships specifically with faculty colleagues. We will identify behaviors in the academic context, interpersonal and systemic, that are damaging to collegial spaces as well as some ways forward
Exploring Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism is a two-part training program. The first session is theory based and designed to encourage reflection upon contemporary concepts and issues around race as well as racism history. We also pay particular attention to the manifestations and maintenance of racism in the workplace. The second part involves an applied approach, designed to promote, and implement anti-racism best practices through reflection and scenarios. The goal of this program is to foster awareness, understanding, and adoption of anti-racism best practices across the campus community with foundational knowledge and tools. The objectives of Part I are to explore: Race and racism concepts and history How racism manifests in the workplace How racism maintains itself The objectives of Part II are to: Strengthen understanding of anti-racism best practices Explore how to embed anti-racism best practices Share space for conversation and dialogue around these issues You must have completed Part I to participate for Part II. Registration does not guarantee a place in the workshop as there is limited capacity. Session occurrence is dependent on registration numbers. You can mix and match online or in person dates. For any questions or concerns please contact dona.nham@concordia.ca
This workshop builds on the “How to make your documents accessible” presentation. It will cover accessible layouts (tables, columns and text boxes) and how to optimize PDFs in Adobe Acrobat by reviewing reading order and tags. We will discuss strategies for fixing existing PDFs, alternative formats for documents, and options for PDF forms including possibilities with Microsoft Forms and Power Automate.
Join us for Say More’s Sharing Circles, an informal space facilitated by EO, SHIFT, and the OCE. All Indigenous, Black, and racialized faculty, staff, and students are invited to connect and engage with one another in a supportive and collaborative atmosphere. We'll gather questions and prompts as a launchpad for open dialogue and conversation. Come as you are. There will be snacks, light lunch options, teas and coffee provided.
Join and Russ Cooper we explore human nature, who we are as individuals and as a collective, the ways we define our capacity, and the power to understand our purpose.
The panel aims to delve into various dimensions of language politics, with a particular focus on linguistic diversity and language policies in educational contexts within Quebec.
This talk embarks on an explorative journey linking the medieval methods of character creation, as exemplified in Geoffrey Chaucer's works and particularly the Legend of Good Women, with contemporary media and narrative techniques.
Writers Read is part of Concordia University’s Creative Writing program and is supported by the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Writers Read, directed by Professor Sina Queyras since 2011, invites renowned and emerging authors, both Canadian and international, to read from and discuss their work with students and local audiences. In addition to readings, the series includes Master Classes and professional developmental activities spanning the school year.
Join this mindfulness drop-in series to engage in a “full body” mindfulness practice, encompassing gentle mindful movement, breathwork exercises, and guided meditations.
This talk asks, "how can we build sustainable resources at a time of collapse." Rather than bemoan the current situation, the talk proposes that we need to rethink how we fund and maintain the work that we do.
Join us for a weekly energy-boost at the Drum Circle hosted by the Multi-faith and Spirituality Center and the Mindful Campus Initiative.
In 2007, Montreal-based garment manufacturer Lamour prepared to shutter its Canadian production activities, gradually laying off nearly 500 of its employees to circumvent labour legislation that would force the company to pay collective layoff benefits.
In this panel presentation and discussion, writers and scholars working within the disciplines of oral history, sociology, and creative writing share different approaches to "mapping" stories of movement and migration.
Drop by our Spirituali-tea for some coffee, tea, and snacks! Meet our team and make new friends.
Join us for a conversation regarding lives of learning, experiences with oral history, and community archiving. Increasingly, we seek to break down institutional barriers and include participants in the archival process. What are the best practices that can help to achieve this? How can we make community archiving a more inclusive process?
Join us for a weekly energy-boost at the Drum Circle hosted by the Multi-faith and Spirituality Center and the Mindful Campus Initiative.
Cassie Thornton, social artist and the initial Hologram's instigator, will present her practice and strategies for collective transformation through social art.
Drop by our Spirituali-tea for some coffee, tea, and snacks! Meet our team and make new friends.
"… the desire to dream and reflect new contexts for human possibilities has fallen entirely on the intellectual shoulders of artists, we would argue. Or at least the ethical pause to make us think differently about our present and future now lies with artists." -Rinaldo Walcott In this session, we will explore how poetry can be used as an avenue to discuss issues of anti-Black racism, oppression and Black flourishing. We will examine how poetry can be a means of a way forward through providing readers with what Rinaldo Walcott calls an "ethical pause" in order for us to think differently about our world.
Join Dr. Jade-Isis Lefebvre, Counsellor, CU Wellness, and Jen Bourque, Chaplain and Coordinator, Multi-faith and Spirituality Centre, for a contemplative walk. Let's get outside, move our bodies and as winter starts to turn to spring.
This panel discussion delves into the rich crossing of food history and oral history by exploring the connections between migration, the concept of home, and food narratives.
Join us as we explore an outdoor labyrinth, a form of walking meditation found in many traditions.
Join us for a weekly energy-boost at the Drum Circle hosted by the Multi-faith and Spirituality Center and the Mindful Campus Initiative.
This workshop seeks to demystify the process of applying for ethics certification. Four emerging scholars will reflect on their experiences in navigating this process and discuss how they have translated the ethos of "sharing authority" into the formal language of their ethics applications.
This session offers an open and interactive space for student-facing professionals to explore what it means to foster a culture of inclusivity in a variety of educational settings and service delivery contexts. Join us as we explore ways to build equity into our daily work and practice.
Volunteer with us and help us prepare food that will be donated the next day to Resilience Montreal.
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will be signing the Green Chemistry Commitment (GCC) through Beyond Benign. By participating in the GCC, the Department is committed to continuing to integrate Green Chemistry into our teaching (and research) practices.
Drop by our Spirituali-tea for some coffee, tea, and snacks! Meet our team and make new friends.
This lecture will provide a brief overview of the place of bread in modern France and its colonial empire before delving into a discussion of traditional clay bread ovens in Quebec.
Join MfSC for a pre-exam breakfast--meet friends, talk about things that matter and share a good vegetarian meal together to fuel your studies!
This event will give a brief overview of the history of video games and of historical research on this topic. It will then bring in conversation two approaches to oral history as it relates to video games.
Drop by our Spirituali-tea for some coffee, tea, and snacks! Meet our team and make new friends.
SAY LESS is a monthly co-working space to meet and connect with one another while getting work done! Bring your laptop and drop in any time between 1-5pm on the dates mentioned. Snacks, tea, and coffee will be provided. Please register below.
Join us for Say More’s Sharing Circles, an informal space facilitated by EO, SHIFT, and the OCE. All Indigenous, Black, and racialized faculty, staff, and students are invited to connect and engage with one another in a supportive and collaborative atmosphere. We'll gather questions and prompts as a launchpad for open dialogue and conversation. Come as you are. There will be snacks, light lunch options, teas and coffee provided.
Racism, microaggressions and discrimination wear away at the human body and mind, impacting our immune system, memory function & social engagement capacities. Join Parneet for this 1 hour workshop on understanding and practicing how to support the human-animal nervous system through somatic exercises and mindfulness practices when confronted with these realities. Attendees are invited to get curious about how to support their own nervous systems to support body regulation, repair and rest.
engAGE: Centre for Research in Aging invites you to Poetic Justice: justice, inspiration, hope. This is the third event in our series of joyshops, that were launched by the centre during Black History Month.
Drop by our Spirituali-tea for some coffee, tea, and snacks! Meet our team and make new friends.
Join us for Say More’s Sharing Circles, an informal space facilitated by EO, SHIFT, and the OCE. All Indigenous, Black, and racialized faculty, staff, and students are invited to connect and engage with one another in a supportive and collaborative atmosphere. We'll gather questions and prompts as a launchpad for open dialogue and conversation. Come as you are. There will be snacks, light lunch options, teas and coffee provided.
Are you a parent? Register your child, ages 5 and up, for a unique event that offers the opportunity to step into the world of business for a day.
This exhibit features the collaborative MA oral history research of Hannah Pinilla and her interview partners. Her research explores how the narrations, consumption, and preparation of "home foods" facilitates interactive, diasporic "memory work."
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