Accolades for the week of June 10
The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery won the Award of Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions from the Canadian Museums Association?for their exhibition Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980. Each year the CMA presents awards to celebrate and encourage excellence within the Canadian museum sector. A volunteer jury conducts a peer review of all submissions, and the successful recipients are honoured at the CMA’s annual conference. Congratulations to curators Michèle Thériault and Vincent Bonin (Montreal), Barbara Fischer (Toronto, London, Guelph), Jayne Wark (Halifax), Catherine Crowston (Prairies and Arctic) and Grant Arnold (Vancouver).?
On June 8, Anne-Marie Croteau, associate dean of Recruitment and Awards in the School of Graduate Studies, and Kai Lamertz, associate professor in the Department of Management in the John Molson School of Business, were recognized for being two of the top-cited authors in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences over the past 10 years. Croteau and Lamertz took part in a special panel discussion on what it takes to write an influential paper as part of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 2013 Conference held in Calgary from June 8 to 11.
Louis Patrick Leroux, associate professor in both the Department of English and the Département d’études françaises, has been awarded (ex aequo) the 2013 Richard Plant Award for a Scholarly Article in English for his article “From Langue to Body: the Quest for the ‘Real’ in Québécois Theatre,” part of a book titled New Canadian Realisms: New Essays on Canadian Theatre (Playwrights Canada Press, 2012). The article charts the notion of the “real” in Québécois theatre and drama up to and including experimental dance-theatre (Dave St-Pierre) and extreme performance experiments (Théâtre Momentum) in Quebec.
In a statement announcing the winners of this year’s award, the committee noted that Leroux’s “article offers anglophone readers valuable and engaging evidence of risky, cutting-edge performance practices in contemporary Quebec, and via careful argumentation places them in immediate and larger cultural and intellectual contexts.”
Leroux was also awarded the 2010 Prix Jean Cléo Godin for scholarship on theatre published in French. He is the first scholar to win both the French and English prizes bestowed by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.
Associate Professor in the Department of Education David Waddington is featured in a video on the landing page of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) website. The video was taken at last year’s Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The CFI is a supporter of the Big Thinking lecture series at this year’s Congress, held in Victoria from June 1 to 8.
Assistant Professor Jonathan Lessard (design and computation arts), PhD student Jason Begy (communication studies) and alumna Cindy Poremba (PhD 11, humanities) will be panellists at the first-ever History of Games conference at La Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal, from June 21 to 23. Lessard’s talk, titled “The Casual Revolution of 1987,” will be held June 23 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
VerAvenir, a student business that won first place in its category in the Quebec Entrepreneurship Competition, has won the Dobson Foundation pitch competition on May 24, earning prize money of $5,000. The students behind the VerAvenir are James Bambara, a PhD student in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Justin Moody-Corbett, an undergraduate biology student.
PhD candidate in communication studies Zoë Constantinides was honoured as the 2013 recipient of Gerald Pratley Award at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Victoria.
The Pratley Award is the most prestigious and competitive award of its kind, given annually by the Film Studies Association of Canada. The award goes to the best and most innovative graduate-student work on Canadian/Quebec cinema. In addition to the $1,000 prize, as the Pratley recipient, Constantinides presented her research, “Broadcasting Taste: The Emergence of Popular Film Criticism on English-Canadian Radio,” in a keynote address on June 4.
This is the unprecedented fifth time in 10 years that the Gerald Pratley Award has gone to a Concordia PhD student in communication studies, making it by far the most celebrated venue for new research on Canadian cinema in the country.
Alumna filmmaker Lindsay McIntyre (MFA 10, film production) and contemporary puppeteer Julie Desrosiers (FA attendee 96, art education) are two of the seven recipients of the 2013 Canada Council for the Arts Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards.
The $15,000 annual awards recognize mid-career artists in seven Canada Council-funded disciplines and arts practices: writing and publishing, integrated arts, dance, media arts, theatre, visual arts and music.
Also among the winners are writer Trevor Cole; creative leader, director and choreographer in the field of dance Sandra Laronde; playwright Donna-Michelle St. Bernard; sculptor and installation artist Reece Terris; and jazz musician Ben Wendel.