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Queering the Map

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Queering The Map (QTM) is a community generated digital counter-mapping project that aims to archive fleeting moments of queer existence and resistance in relation to physical space. Participants of the project anonymously share stories of queer significance and locate them on the map with a drop-pin. The project intends to leave ‘queerness’ open to endless…

Take Heed

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Take Heed is a set of wearable vests that use moving panels and haptic feedback to create an intimate and immersive experience that opens a discussion on mental health. The interdisciplinarity of Take Heed involves programming, electronics, a web database, and experimental fashion design. Take Heed is a year-long medium-term project that encourages female and…

There’s Something in the Water- Book Launch and Panel

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A launch of Dr. Ingrid Waldron’s book, There’s Something in the Water, based on her Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health Project (ENRICH), which is addressing the social, economic, political, and health effects of environmental racism in Nova Scotia. The book launch was followed by a panel of speakers from communities impacted by environmentalism…

Women in Engineering Power Networking

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Women in Engineering will be hosting a Power Networking event for female Concordia Engineering students on February 5th, 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…

From the Source

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The goal with this project that came out of classwork, was to advance sustainability in its curriculum by directly including Indigenous perspectives in the course “Indigenous Peoples and the Environment (GEOG 407/607)”. The instructor was able to include 5 guest speakers and 2 field trips which greatly enhanced the course. YEARS FUNDED 2018-19 AMOUNT ALLOCATED…

FaisenPour2

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This project aims to stimulate students’ mindfulness towards homeless people. We want to ease access to social involvement by giving students the opportunity to become actors in the aid towards the less fortunate. We aim to provide an inclusive and tangible way for students to contribute in other ways than simply donating money. In theory,…

Digital Democracy

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Awakening of Digital Democracy is a bilingual panel emphasizing the paradigm shifts imposed by the growing and highly influential digital sphere. Canadian’s increased usage and reliance on the digital sphere forwards important questions regarding the veracity of online information. Focusing on different issues such as the “Fake News” epidemic to the current Democratic Deficit, this…

Concordia University Art History Undergraduate Conference

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The 8th Annual Concordia University Undergraduate Art History Conference—coordinated by undergraduates in the Department of Art History—provides a unique environment for Fine Arts undergraduate students to present their own research to the Concordia community, along with participants from universities across the world. Housed at Concordia University, this year’s conference, (dis)location: art in a mobile age,…

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…

The PhD

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The PhD is a 20-minute short film that dives into the intimate life of an homosexual student who sees his relationship with his boyfriend shattered after suffering a nervous breakdown that costs him his admission for the PhD in psychology. It is an intimate drama with a touch of black humor that depicts the ins-and-outs…
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