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Cinema in the Midst of Struggle

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Cinema in the Midst of Struggle is a public education project that aims to raise awareness of historical and contemporary anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist struggles through film screenings, public lectures, workshops, and panel discussions. Each year we develop our programming in an effort to provide the Concordia community and broader Montreal public with an…

Business Beyond Tomorrow

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2018-19 2017-18 John Molson Sustainable Enterprise Committee (JSEC) represents sustainable business within JMSB and Concordia at large. Every year, we organize Business Beyond Tomorrow (BBT), an event designed to facilitate the discussion of ideas and catalyze innovation in sustainable business. BBT is attended by nearly 200 individuals, comprised of Concordia Students, Montreal business leaders, and…

African Development Conference

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The African Student Association of Concordia is collaborating with CEED Concordia and ACSioN to have widely renowned sustainability expert Thione Niang hold a conference in the Hall Building Alumni Auditorium. Thione Niang is the co-founder for Akon Lighting Africa, creator of the Give 1 Project, and was ambassador to the U.S Ministry of Energy under…

Pledge to Lead

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Under the Paris Agreement, the world has pledged to limit global temperature increases with the aim of avoiding the worst potential impacts of unmitigated global warming. This goal will require a major societal transformation, leading to the rapid elimination of greenhouse gas emissions. We, as individuals in the Concordia community, have a key role to…

Sustainable Business Plan Competition

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John Molson’s Sustainable Business Group is a well-organized graduate student organization at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB). Essentially, JMSB graduate students are developing skills which will likely one day put them in a position of power; over business decisions, over the planet, and over people. Our goal is to ensure JMSB graduates…

SHED

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The SHED aims to promote a culture of change around reuse through furniture upcycling, tool literacy and collaborative consumption. In its full form, the SHED will provide an accessible space to transform and repair usable but previously unwanted materials, with a key focus on furniture. Members will be invited to participate in a series of…

SEIZE

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2019-20 2018-19 Following the success of SEIZE’s curriculum series “Fundamentals of the Solidarity Economy” (see below), we are launching into the next phase of our campaign, which is to host a large-scale conference on the solidarity economy at Concordia. This conference will showcase the tremendous work the Concordia community has engaged in through the years…

Women & Homelessness Symposium

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This symposium invites students and faculty members alike to share and to co-create new knowledge by actively engaging in collaborative workshops, panels, and discussions with policy makers, as well as Montreal shelters and organisations that support homeless women. The symposium’s goal is to highlight current gaps in addressing women’s homelessness in Montreal from a gender…

Waste Not, Want Not Compost Project

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“Waste Not, Want Not” is a collaboration between students, faculty (Loyola Sustainability Research Center, LSRC), and administration, to better integrate composting in everything that we do. We propose a 3-track approach to establishing a complete compost cycle at Concordia: a) Access to composters, and qualified operators, within reach (currently Concordia composts at a facility in…

Queer CATs – Speaker Series on Sexual and Gender Diversity in Mental Health Professions

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This speaker series is organized by a group of Creative Arts Therapy graduate students at Concordia to offer supplementary special topics education regarding sexual and gender diversity. These are important issues which are not adequately covered in current course curricula but are essential considerations for training culturally sensitive therapists. As a population with a high…
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