Accolades for the week of June 4
Donald Boisvert, assistant professor and undergraduate advisor in the Department of Religion, has been quite busy. Aside from launching his most recent book, a two-volume collection co-edited with Jay Emerson Johnson titled Queer Religion (Praeger), the assistant curate at the Christ Church Cathedral was recently ordained as a transitional deacon for the Diocese of Montreal of the Anglican Church of Canada. "Transitional" means he is expected to be ordained as a priest within a year.
At the Congress of Humanities held this year in Waterloo, Ont., two Concordians presented research papers. Sima Aprahamian (Simone de Beauvoir Institute) presented a paper entitled The Denial of the Armenian Genocide and Social Death. Based on narratives of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1922, this is a re-examination of the scholarship on Genocide and its denial from a feminist perspective and searches for its traumatic impact on the survivors and their descendants. Karin Doerr (Simone de Beauvoir Institute) presented Construction and Transmission of History: Holocaust Memorial Culture in Germany, that, with a feminist approach, illuminates practices of commemoration in art, literature and culture in today's Germany.
The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is Canada's largest multidisciplinary annual conference. Other presenters included Kim Thy, whose story of leaving Vietnam as a boat person when she was 10 years old won the Governor General's Literary Award and others; the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, who spoke about the significance of scholarship and collaboration; and Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood.
Ann McLaughlin (Counselling and Development) congratulates the Concordia community for raising $2,300 for the CURE Foundation in support of Denim Day on May 15.
Special thanks go to the bakers who contributed to the Loyola bake sale: Donna and Marvin Cooper; Sandy Grossman; Elaine Ransom and Roberto Chen-Rangel; as well as to Louise Carline, who graciously assisted the collection of funds on the Sir George Williams Campus.
Alumnus Mark Weightman was named chief operating officer of the Montreal Alouettes on May 25. Weightman, who has been with the Als since the team returned to the Canadian Football League in 1996, retains his position as the team's vice-president of operations and events. He is the only non-American with a Grey Cup ring from the Stallions' championship.
Karine Lalonde, PhD student supervised by Yves Gélinas in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded a Prix d'excellence from the Chapitre Saint-Laurent, a group that brings together specialists and stakeholders in biology, toxicology, ecotoxicology, health, environmental chemistry and risk assessment. The $2,000 prize will be awarded on June 8 at their 16th annual workshop.