What's on
January 25 to February 8
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The Defiant Imagination
The first lecture in this series features Sandeep Bhagwati, Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art. “Composing Home: Artistic Strategies for the Identity-Challenged,” will be given in the York Amphitheatre (EV 1.605) at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1.
There are two more presentations in this series, sponsored by the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). One is by dancer-choreographer Margie Gillis on Feb. 22, and the other by Stéphane Aquin, curator of contemporary art at the MMFA, on March 29.
Political Theory Speakers Series
The Political Science Students Association, with the assistance of the Arts and Science Federation of Associations, is sponsoring several talks this term. The next one will be Feb. 1. The speaker will be Karuna Mantena of Yale University, on “Alibis of Empire: Social Theory and the Ideologies of Late Imperialism.”
On Thursday, Feb. 8, the speaker will be Professor Emeritus James Moore, on “Hutcheson and Hume: The Eclectic Stoic and the Mitigated Skeptic.” The final talks in the series will be March 1 and March 22. All talks are from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room H-1220.
The Holocaust in Canadian Art
Art historian Loren Lerner will give a lecture on “The Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Art: The Discontinuities of Memory and Narrative Discourse” tonight, Jan. 25, in Room EV1.605, beginning at 6 p.m. Future talks in the same series, sponsored by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, will take place Feb. 15, March 8 and March 22.
Celebration of the flesh at the Ellen
The current show at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery is La tête au ventre, an exploration of “the grotesque, of bawdy and irreverent behaviour, and the overturning of social norms relating to the human form.” This is a fascinating, sometimes repellent show by four artists: Alain Benoit, Louis Fortier, Myriam Laplante and Claude Perreault.
Preparing for a Career in Academia
There will be a workshop for graduate students tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 26, on the downtown campus from 10 a.m. to noon. Students who wish to attend should register by going to cdev.Concordia.ca/workshops. Other workshops in this series offered by Counselling and Development include Writing Your Graduate Thesis (Feb. 1), Keeping the Commitment (Feb. 2), and Research Reading (Feb. 9).
HIV/AIDS lecture series
Guylaine Morin is a social worker and family therapist. She will give a talk in French titled “25 Ans de VIH: Nouveaux défis pour mères et enfants” on Jan. 25, in Room H-110, at 6 p.m.
On March 1, Sarah Schulman will speak on “United in Anger: The ACT UP Oral History project,” and on March 15, Laverne Monette will speak on “Ignorance, Indifference and Invisibility: The Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Project.”
Blueprints for Change
Sustainable Concordia and University of the Streets Café are holding five public conversations.
On Jan. 30, in Java U on the mezzanine of the Hall Building, Café 1 will tackle Concordia’s role as an urban catalyst for reinvigorating the social and ecological fabric. Lance Evoy is the moderator, and it starts at 5:30 p.m.