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Climate Change: Social Impacts Panel

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Vanessa Nakate, a young Ugandan environmental activist, is making waves in the news and especially in the environmental community. She gained a lot of international attention when she was recently cropped out of a photo by a major news outlet that pictured her and other young climate activists, including Greta Thunberg. She used this incident…

Ineffable

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2019-20 2018-19 The Farmers Collective and Sort of Productions will adapt ineffable, originally an alternative stage play, into a 30-minute, experimental film. Through this project, they seek to empower Black queer artists within Concordia’s Fine Arts community and beyond, and to challenge the film conventions that limit the expression of marginalized artists. ineffable is a…

Women in the Workforce- Challenging Gender Stereotypes

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The project is based on a video documentary project developed by CEED which empowers young Ugandan filmmakers by leveraging access to technology, skill building and connection to important networks to produce an annual documentary. Its adapted, relevant and pertinent to the challenges and accomplishments experienced by the residents of Gulu, Uganda. This event, part Canadian…

Women in Engineering

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2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 Women in Engineering host a Power Networking event for women Engineering students at Concordia, with the aim of encouraging the presence of women in the engineering field by providing them opportunities of improving their professional networks. This event is organized with the goal of professionals providing guidance to current students, by…

Cinema Politica

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2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 For 16 years Cinema Politica screened independent political films and video by Canadian and international artists at Concordia University every Monday. Cinema Politica hosts films that cover a series of sustainability topics; In Winter 2020, the films comprising Cinema Politica’s “Resilient Bodies: Reclaiming Life & Space” series deal…

Transform Your Workplace, Save the Planet Panel

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On the evening of February 11, 2020, labour organizers from across Canada will be speaking in Montreal about how organized labour can respond to the climate crisis. These organizers will be discussing some of Canada’s most ambitious initiatives to simultaneously address climate change, diminish social inequalities, and increase democratic participation. We will be bringing together…

AI and Democracy Panel

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As part of a requirement for a School of Public Affairs course, 4 students will host a panel on the incoming impacts of artificial intelligence on democracy. There will be 4 panelists from various spheres of work including; a governmental worker, a Concordia professor, a MILA tech developer, and an advocate from the Montreal Ethics…

Anti- Colonial Week

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Anti-Colonial Week started as the Anti-Colonial Dinner in 2015. Since 2018 it has become a week-long event of food, film, and resistance. The annual event is an education and awareness project geared towards Concordia students. The event touches on the impacts of colonization on Indigenous communities and makes connections with social and environmental movements. In…

ICOP – International Social Business Case Competition

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2019-20 2018-19 The ICOP Social Business Case Competition stimulates a culture of community and social responsibility among 70 budding Concordia Business Graduates (MBA & GDBA students). It allows students not only to apply knowledge and skills gained during their studies, but also opens views about a different kind of business model, a departure from the…

Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures

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Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures- the second Concordia-McGill African Studies Conference, aims to bring futurists, sustainable development advocates and scholars from various African countries or part of the African diaspora to discuss empirical and policy actions and initiate partnerships among Concordia community and African based scholars to work jointly for a sustainable, prosperous and equitable Africa.…
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