Accolades
Clarence Epstein (Special Projects) was interviewed for an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the premier educational monthly in the United States, about his work in recovering artworks confiscated by the Nazis from the late Montreal art dealer Max Stern.
John Parisella (Special Advisor on Communications) has been appointed to the board of the influential Quebec newspaper Le Devoir.
The documentary Being Osama, co-directed by Assistant Professor Tim Schwab (Communication Studies), was broadcast throughout the Middle East on Al-Arabiya, the largest cable news network in the Arab world. The film has been acquired for global presentation by Al-Jazeera International. Schwab was also a presenter at this year’s Visible Evidence conference in Sao Paulo, appearing on a panel organized with Communication Studies colleague Elizabeth Miller called “Branding Politics: Emerging Forms of Distributing Political Documentaries.”
Eckhard Siggel (Economics) captained Concordia’s winning team in the 15th annual MAA Corporate Triathlon, held at the Olympic basin on Sept. 8. Congratulations to him and Stephen De Bardi (runner), Mathieu Bilodeau (swimmer) and Eric Grippenich (cyclist). This is the twelfth year he has worn Concordia’s colours in the fundraising event for cancer research. He says it’s become quite competitive, with over 100 teams taking part.
David Pariser (Art Education) and Paul Hastings (Psychology) authored a paper that was presented at the annual Jean Piaget Society Conference in Baltimore in June, “Children’s drawings and children’s temperament: What’s the connection?” The study was incorporated into Hastings’ research on the developmental links among temperament, emotion, physiology and behaviour.
Congratulations to Laura Dutton, whose art photo, called Water, won the Quebec prize in a competition sponsored by BMO for graduating student artists. Fourteen winners were chosen from across Canada. Dutton wanted to explore memory and subjectivity in a way that emphasized instinct rather than technique, so she advanced the film only partially to the next frame, causing the exposures to overlap. The negatives were then drum-scanned and made into digital files, allowing her to print the images out on a large inkjet printer.
Courtesy Conundrum press
Rob Allen (English) has published another volume of poetry. Called The Encantadas, it germinated over 25 years and was serialized in four books. This complete edition was published by Conundrum Press. It begins with the story of an oceanographer named Jack, who undergoes rapture of the deep and must return to his childhood home, a farm in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. By the end, Jack returns as Dionysus, smuggling wine from Crete to Northern Europe. Allen has been called one of Canada’s finest poets.