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Concordia's graduate student ambassadors from the Arts and Science, Fine Arts and Business (JMSB) faculties share their experiences finding research supervisors at different stages in their studies, and discuss strategies for building strong mentorship bonds.

For this live conversation, renowned weight bias research experts gather to disseminate the research and advocacy initiatives in this field of research, and to discuss future research directions that aim to make strides in advocacy for individuals with lived experiences of weight bias, stigma, and discrimination.

We’ve heard it all before. Kids these days are more depressed, less social, and in need of more academic help. If only there was a way to help all these areas simultaneously… Enter: books.

English Language Arts Consultants, Literacy Coaches, and Librarians got together to discuss the scientific discoveries associated with reading for pleasure!

We hear about the emerging artificial intelligence future every day, but how many of us have a say in what shape that future will take?

Public Scholar and doctoral candidate Jacob Pitre moderated an exciting and dynamic discussion with a panel dedicated to giving space to imagining alternative AI futures!

In an era where the battle against bacterial infections grows increasingly complex, the global health community faces a not-so-new challenge: antibiotic resistance.

Public Scholar and PhD candidate Laura Domínguez Mercado moderated an enlightening panel discussion where distinguished researchers and experts from the fields of animal and human health converge shed light on this pressing global health challenge.

Tune in for an open conversation about gender, moderated by Public Scholar and doctoral candidate Maxine Iannuccilli, psychology researcher specialized in the acquisition of gender stereotypes and their effects on behaviour.

The goal was everyone to leave with a fresh perspective informed by shared insights, ultimately contributing to a deeper understanding of how society constructs the meaning of gender and perpetuates stereotypes that influence our lives and wellbeing.

When we are nostalgic for certain pasts or futures, we may start hoarding or intensely use digital technologies to bottle time up, yet, if these objects or "bottles" could speak, what would they say about how we are dealing with time that has been, and will be lost?

This introduction was part of NOSTAGAIN NETWORK's Time in a Bottle symposium and research-creation showcase featuring works related to nostalgia by students, scholars, and artists. Workshops, art installments, presentations, debates, and discussions allow for various levels of interaction, reflection, and reception.

In these times of crisis, many of us have days when it's difficult to find hope. In this session, faculty members and graduate students present and discuss readings that bring them hope and inspire them to action.

How are places named and who gets to name them? When place names are offensive, how can they be renamed? Who and what is represented or excluded in Canada’s differing naming traditions?

Lauren Beck, author of Canada's Place Names and How to Change Them, joins editor Ryan Van Huijstee in a conversation about various kinds of names, the history of naming places, recent and past efforts to rename places, and the naming and renaming practices that are critically examined in her book.

Listen to this panel discussion with Dr. Kamari Clarke, Brenda Paris, Marlène Rateau, and Marjorie Villefranche that looks at the history of Black Women's organising in Montreal, as well as honouring their living legacies.

This event is part of Harambec's "Flame Keeping" which is a constellation of events marking the 40th Anniversary of Canada's first university accredited course in Black Women's Studies, Black Women: The Missing Pages from Canadian Women's Studies.