Events

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

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.

Michael Pelias (Long Island University, Brooklyn, and founder of the Institute for Radical Imagination) will be speaking on the relationships between Nietzsche and Marx, both historically and conceptually, and their contemporary influence in social theory and practice. The event is presented by the Students of Philosophy Association (SoPhiA).

Join Concordia Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, as he welcomes guest speaker Jean-Nicolas Delage, partner in the Emerging and High Growth Companies Group at Osler, who will discuss the topic of intellectual property. Me Delage will explore the following topics: - What is Intellectual Property? (Copyright, Trademarks, Patents, Trade secrets) - Chain of Title issues (IP ownership issues with founders; IP ownership issues with consultants, subcontractors, employees and interns) - Licensing vs Assignments - Governmental grant with respect to intellectual property - The importance of patents for start ups Students in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, lawyers, and the general public are invited to attend.

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

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.

Jane Malcolm is an associate professor at the Université de Montréal. She is the co-editor of A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertude Stein 1927-1930 (UNM Press) and a scholarly edition of Laura Riding's 1928 treatise, Contemporaries and Snobs (UAlabama Press), as well as essays and articles on the work of Muriel Rukeyser, Alice Notley, Yoko Ono, and Gail Scott, among others.

Rebecca Todd is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain Health at UBC. The event will be in person and on Zoom. No registration is required if attending in person.

Voting rights for non-citizens have been extended at the municipal level in some contexts, and recently there have been discussions about extending the franchise in Canadian local elections. Despite the interest in migrant voting rights in Western, immigrant-receiving societies, there is little research into Canadians’ attitudes and opinions on the issue.

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.