Where: CJ Building, Room 2.130, Concordia University When: Thursday, April 4, 5:00 – 7:00 PM This event is part of the Feminist Media Studio’s 5 à 7 Speaker Series. The night has long played a central, if unremarked, role in cinematic representations…
When: April 5, 1-5:30 @ GEM Lab *Including a Screening of Third World Newsreel classics (April 6, 7pm @EV 1.605)* In recent years, we have witnessed increasing global inequalities that have generated forced migrations, the return of policed borders, and the resurgence…
LIVING BLACK STUDIES is a two-day conference that aims to reimagine Black Studies in Canada. Looking within the Concordia community and beyond, LIVING BLACK STUDIES seeks to actively rethink how we teach, learn, and experience Blackness in our academic institutions…
When: Wednesday February 20th, 6 PM Where: GEM Lab Vox Populi is an ongoing project by Lara Baladi, including a series of media initiatives, artworks, publications, an open source timeline and portal into web based archives of the 2011 Egyptian…
The Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student Association is currently planning the annual Masters student colloquium, “Emerging Ideas in Film and Media Studies” on April 25. The event is a great chance for us to share our research and writing, and to get…
Where: Concordia University – DeSève Cinema When: Saturday, February 16th, 6:00-10:00 PM Synopsis: The Independents is a musical comedy/drama about three struggling singer-songwriters whose chance-meeting rekindles each of their fading dreams of making it in the music business. Join us for a special…
When: Monday, January 28/7:00 PM Where: Concordia University, H-110 Admission: By donation ($5-10 suggested). *The venue is wheelchair accessible. Childcare provided on site by the Montreal Childcare Collective with 24 hour notice (https://childcarecollective.wordpress.com/about/) Synopsis STILL RECORDING is a feature documentary…
Cinema in the Midst of Struggle, in collaboration with la lumière, presents: “An Inside Look at the Afghan Film Archives” Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Ariel Nasr January 19th, 2019 | 7pm la lumière | 7080 Rue Alexandra #506 |…
Master Class with Salomé Lamas: “Peripheral Bodies” Where: 688 rue Sherbrooke, Room 295 When: January 15, 4-6 PM About: Director Salomé Lamas associates the filmmaker’s task with that of the translator. This class explores the relationship between language, symbolic systems, images, and…
Where: McGill University When: November 4-6 About the Conference Everywhere we turn, feminist activism is targeting bad behavior and creating new networks of community through digital technology. Campaigns and hashtags such as #MeToo, #TimesUp, #SayHerName and #NiUnaMenos, campus protests, live feeds,…
Where: GEM Lab When: Wednesday November 7, 6PM Click here for the Facebook event. Please send an email to giuseppe.fidotta@gmail.com to register. This event is a part of “Political Imaginaries of Media,” a year-long series of events and screenings dedicated to…
The Departments of English at Concordia and McGill are pleased to present Dr. Monique Rooney’s lecture “Only Mediate: The Mere Interest of Middlebrow in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011) and Howards End (2017).” Where: Room LB 646, J.W. McConnell Building (1400 De Maisonneuve W.),…