Accolades
Vladimir Titorenko (Biology) was a co-applicant on a successful CFI Leading Edge Fund grant valued at $6.7 million for the Facility for Electron Cryomicroscopy and Cryo-electron Tomography, based at McGill University.
The Hon. Roméo Dallaire, Senior Fellow in the Concordia-based Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, was honoured in an unusual way recently by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Kent Nagano. The General comprised text about Dallaire’s experience in Rwanda in 1992, read by actor Colm Feore to the accompaniment of orchestral music by Beethoven. Senator Dallaire was present in the Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts and accepted a standing ovation from the appreciative audience.
Political Ecumenism: The Collaboration of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in de Gaulle’s Free France, 1940-1945, a book by Geoffrey Adams (History, retired), has been published by McGill-Queen's University Press. It took Adams a decade to write, and offers a new perspective on Charles de Gaulle’s wartime organization. Adams describes how de Gaulle, the first practicing Catholic to lead the French Republic, rallied other Catholics, active Protestants, and secular Jews to the cause.
Terri Lituchy (Management) has co-authored a book with seven other women called Successful Professional Women of the Americas: From Polar Winds to Tropical Breezes (Just Publisher). It tells the stories of successful women across the Americas who are managers, business owners, professors and university administrators, doctors, lawyers and government ministers. Lituchy will give a presentation on the book at the McGill Centre for Teaching and Research on Women on March 1.
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James Kelly (Political Science) gave the 2006 Seagram Lecture, presented by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, on Nov. 23. The title of his lecture was “Parliament and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: An Unfinished Rights Revolution.” Kelly is an expert on the Charter and his recent book Governing with the Charter was short-listed for a Donner prize when it was released last year.
Artist Philomène Longpré, who was one of the Thursday Report’s Great Grads in 2004 when she won a full scholarship to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has an interactive video show at the Parisian Laundry in St. Henri. It’s called Formica, and is “an androgynous virtual character living in a robotic double-sided screen and made up of a pneumatic system that controls the tension on 16 plastic strips. . . Formica gauges us, observes us, and solicits our participation.” The show continues until Feb. 24.
Marie-France Dion (Theological Studies) has published a book, À l’origine du concept d’élection Divine. The publisher is Médiaspaul (Paris/Montreal).
Congratulations to animation grad Torvill Kove, whose 15-minute short The Danish Poet has just been nominated for an Oscar.
Donald Andrus (Art History, retired) has a survey exhibition of paintings from the past decade organized by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, PEI. Titled These Stones: This Sea, Dreaming, the exhibition ran from Sept. 24 to Jan. 7, and will travel to the Art Gallery of Calgary for March and April.