Events

Where Art and Boxing Create Community

• Date: March 12, 2026 from 5-7pm
• Location: CSLP, 1211 St-Mathieu St., room GA 2.221

Where Art and Boxing Create Community is a student-led series grounded in the belief that art and sport are not only practices, but spaces we build—spaces that can hold, shape, and connect us.

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Bringing together Maggie Hébert (PhD student at UQAM) and Taw’ama El Kaddouri (MA student at Université Laval, CSLP-affiliated), the series explores boxing, photography, and linoprinting as languages of resilience, care, and belonging. Through three sessions combining discussion, visual storytelling, documentary screening, and hands-on creation, participants are invited to reflect on how bodies, images, and collective effort can become ways of witnessing, empowering and existing together. No prior experience is required.

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Yap about your research!

Co-hosted and organized by Britney Vu and Erika O'Hara, Yap about your Research is the continuation of the original event workshop Interrogating Our Own Work: The Art of Debating Your Research Project. Happening every Monday at the CSLP, room GA 1.202, starting Monday, March 9, 2026, until April 13, 2026.

It is designed to foster open, supportive, and critical engagement with ongoing research. Too often, students work in isolation, and while conferences and symposiums offer spaces to present ideas, meaningful feedback is frequently limited by time constraints. 

This event aims to fill that gap by creating a safe and constructive environment for students to share their work-in-progress, receive thoughtful critique, and practice articulating and defending their research decisions. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their methodologies, assumptions, and findings as they learn from the perspectives of others. 

Whether presenting an outline or a literature review, refining a dissertation chapter, preparing for a defense, or testing a new idea, this session offers a unique opportunity to interrogate one’s work in dialogue with a supportive scholarly community. It is open to all graduate students at Concordia and other schools, as well as open to all programs of study.

Identification of Verb Complements by Secondary II Students Following an Integrated Language Instruction Approach

• Presented by Isabelle Gauvin (in French)
• March 19, 4:00–5:00 p.m. (online)
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This study examines the effects of integrated instruction in French as the language of schooling (FLens) and English as a second language (ESL) in Quebec, focusing on the concept of verb complements. More specifically, a teaching strategy was implemented in six Secondary II classrooms aimed at helping students discover both the shared and differing syntactic properties of verb complements—first in French language instruction classes and then in ESL classes. For example, students explored how some verbs share the same transitive structure in both languages (e.g., manger quelque chose / to eat something), while others do not (e.g., téléphoner à quelqu’un / to phone someone).

Pre- and post-tests were administered before and after implementation of the teaching strategy by the research team: three classes received instruction in French only, while three received instruction in French followed by ESL. The data collected include (1) students’ identification of direct and indirect objects in sentences, as well as (2) grammatical reasoning observed during paired discussions.

This presentation will share both quantitative and qualitative findings to describe the effects of integrated instruction on students’ success—or difficulty—in identifying verb complements. The relevance of this type of integrated language instruction will also be discussed.

Stories on the Table – Reading Migration Histories Together

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This reading series will explore migration as a multifaceted theoretical, historical, political, and lived experience. It will engage with a range of interconnected themes, including migration as personal experience, often articulated through memoirs, oral histories, and narrative accounts, as well as the entanglements of colonialism and migration, from forced displacement to labor migration. The series will also address processes of borderization and questions of belonging, alongside gendered dimensions of migration such as care work, family separation, and the marginalization of women’s migration histories.

The series will be held at the CSLP (1211 St-Mathieu, room GA 2.221) from 5-7pm, and will consist of five meetings, each centered on a different theme related to migration, shaped by the participants' interests, backgrounds, and experiences.

• February 25, 2026
• March 04, 2026
• March 25, 2026
• April 08, 2026
• April 22, 2026

Organized by Students for Students. Please contact Neslihan Sriram-Uzundal if you would like to attend.

Japanese Language and Cultural Exchange

During the Winter 2026 semester, the Center for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) is inviting the Concordia and Montréal communities to take part in a Japanese Language and Cultural Exchange, led by CSLP Student Affiliates (Ryuichi Suzuki & Vitor Yano) and the Concordia Japanese Language and Culture Community.

The weekly sessions run from January 20 to April 14, taking place every Tuesday from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the CSLP (Grey Nuns Annex (GA), Room 1.210, 1211 Saint-Mathieu St., Montreal, QC H3H 2S2). (There will be no session on March 3.)

The initiative is open to everyone, whether participants are beginners, advanced learners, or simply curious about Japanese language and culture. Participation is not limited to Concordia students, and no registration is required.

The gatherings are designed as a welcoming and inclusive space where participants can practice Japanese, explore cultural topics, and connect with others in a friendly setting. Conversations take place in pairs or small groups. While the focus is on Japanese, the use of other languages, such as English and French, is also welcome.

Anyone with questions about the exchange is encouraged to contact the organizers at concordia.jlcc@gmail.com or follow the initiative on Instagram (@jlcc.official).

Readers are also invited to check out previous Japanese language and cultural exchange initiatives supported by CSLP.

• CSLP supports student-led Japanese language group
• New student initiative: Japanese Language & Cultural Exchange
• Fostering a sense of community and belonging for students and community members