Events

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.

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.

Interested in pursuing further studies and/or research in Mathematics, Statistics or Actuarial Science? Unsure which graduate program would be the best fit for you? Join the Graduate Program Director for an overview and discussion about the research opportunities, the program options and how to apply.

Graduate Program Director Nathan Brown and Creative Writing Coordinator Kate Sterns will discuss the exciting opportunities the English Literature and Creative Writing MA program offers.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This workshop, which will be held in English, will be moderated by Antoine Bilodeau, Director of the Immigration Research Initiative (IRI) and Professor at Concordia University's Department of Political Science.

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.