Friday, November 20, 2009
Update September 21, 2009: Ongoing work on Quartier Concordia will temporarily disrupt access to certain Concordia building entrances over the next few months. Find out more.
Lempertz auction house in Dusseldorf, Germany is holding a sale Saturday, November 21, which will include the painting “Fish still life, shellfish, perch, pike, oyster and cat” by Alexander Adriaenssen (1587-1661), being claimed by the Estate of the late art dealer and collector Max Stern.
Read more on the Media Relations website.
The university has issued H1N1 guidelines for students, faculty and staff and measures to allow for vaccination time for staff and to report H1N1 illness among staff. There are also Frequently Asked Questions for students, faculty, staff and parents of students. You will find all this material on the H1N1 website. There is also a university H1N1 Hotline, which is available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday at: 514-848-2424 ext. 4161 (H1N1).
Please consult Concordia’s H1N1 website regularly for updates.
Concordia professor Françoise Sullivan, Faculty of Fine Arts, has been appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada. Sullivan is considered a leading figure in contemporary art in Canada. This multidisciplinary artist has been creating works for over 60 years her work has been shown in many exhibitions and retrospectives at various galleries, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Find out more.
Concordia is proud to announce that a member of the Concordia community, student Siena Anstis, has won the Forces Avenir 2009 prize in the undergraduate category. This prestigious honor rewards students for their social commitment and involvement in projects that contribute to the greater good.
Find out more, or watch the video about Anstis on the Forces Avenir website.
Concordia celebrated the inauguration of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise on Monday, November 16, 2009. The Centre was inaugurated in the presence of David O’Brien, Chancellor of Concordia University and Paul Shrivastava, distinguished professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the Centre, as well as President Judith Woodsworth, members of the O’Brien family and centre stakeholders from the student body, community, and industry.
Concordia University held its fall convocation ceremonies on November 13. Graduating students and their families filled Salle Wilfrid Pelletier in Place des Arts for the three ceremonies, where Concordia also bestowed four honorary doctorates. The recipients were Robert Walsh, AA Bronson, Elizabeth Comper and Tony Comper. Find out more, or see photos from the day.
If you missed the live webcasts of the ceremonies on the day, the archives are now available.
In honour of the memory of Norman Bethune, and to mark the 70th anniversary of his death, Concordia University, in partnership with members of the Montreal Chinese Community and the City of Montreal, laid a wreath of flowers at the foot of the Bethune statue on the corner of De Maisonneuve and Guy.
This issue of the Concordia Journal gives a run down of the second President’s conference, held on Nov. 4, and talks to Yasmin Jiwani, who presented at the evening session titled I’ll Be Watching You: Can We Reconcile Privacy and Security? People have their say about the Conference in the Input section, and you can too: leave a comment and join the discussion. There are articles on this year’s Open House, a trip to the cemetery for El Día de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead), as well as the new Media Gallery in the CJ building, and much, much more.
Read the latest issue of the Concordia Journal.
You can help Facilities Management evaluate their property-management and customer-service performance, and win a $200 gift certificate from the Concordia Bookstore at the same time. Just take just a few short minutes to answer their questionnaire, and be in the running for the certificate.
The second President’s Conference titled Every Breath You Take: Surveillance, Security and the End of Privacy, was a huge success, with challenging, fascinating presentations and lively discussions. All three sessions were filled to capacity and the questions came thick and fast. If you missed the live webcasts you can watch videos from each of the sessions on the President’s Conference website.
Find out more, or see photos from the day’s events.
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Visit the Concordia events page to discover what's on in the coming days.
• Maurice Bric, The Green Atlantic: Ireland and America in the Age of Revolutions, Nov. 20
• Cinema Politica screening of Burma VJ, Nov. 20
• Theatre peformance: Till We Meet Again, Nov. 21 and 22
• Café Scientifique: How much is too much worry and anxiety? Nov. 24
• Under the Loupe: Contact Sheets and the Creative Process, Nov. 26
• FOFA exhibitions: River and The Darkling Sea, Nov. 16 - Dec. 4
• Alumni Book Club: Mister Pip, Dec. 3
• Concordia professor Jane Stewart to receive award from her alma mater
• The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture Faculty Orientation Session, Nov. 20
• Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Achievement by Faculty and Staff
• 3 Stingers on men’s rugby all-star team
• Linebacker Greenwood named Quebec MVP defence
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Concordia finishes 4th at rugby nationals
Concordia made things interesting with a second-half try and some late pressure, but the Guelph Gryphons managed to hang on for a 15-10 win in the CIS bronze medal game Sunday at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver.
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Study in Action: Callout for Submissions
Deadline is Dec. 10
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Be a part of the Acfas’ 78th Congress
Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2009
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Design the logo for the ‘Ask Me’ campaign and win a 2GB iPod Shuffle
Deadline is Dec. 4
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Alumnus reaches Europe’s highest peak on mission to climb the Seven Summits
Mountaineer and Canadian Forces pilot Antoine Labranche, BA 09, is on a mission to climb the seven summits, the highest mountains on the Earth’s seven continents.
