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The Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePot) Podcast recorded a live episode, using the film "Billy Elliot" (2000) as an entry point to discuss gender in the context of deindustrialization and deindustrialized communities.

Postdoc Fred Burrill hosts this discussion, joined by Amber Ward, a Depot affiliate and PhD student, along with Montreal-based students Lauren Laframboise, Liam Devitt, and Amanda Whitt.

A live podcast recording of The Iron Ring from Women In Engineering (WIE). This episode will focusses on Azadeh Dastmalchi's journey through school and her research, as well as her decision to become an entrepreneur

Hosts Emily Phillipp, Emilia Ventulieri, and ambassador Olivia Ferrara will ask Azadeh advice she can offer to future and present women engineers.

The Potentials and Pitfalls of Social Media Presence for Muslim Women

Within religion and theology, men have dominated the power of voice, to the detriment of women and others. Social media has created a space where women can contribute to the discussion by removing obstacles such as situational and geographical boundaries.

For Muslim women, in particular, these spaces allow for response to their double silencing by Muslim patriarchal traditions and ‘white savior’ feminism. Muslim women have used these public avenues to engage critically with issues of identity, representation, and political discourses. They also use these spaces to build community and support forums to talk about issues relevant to their lives.

However, their presence on social media is often hyper-focused on the hijab and religion which leads to stereotypical and monolithic representations and occludes the lived complexity of their lives. At the same time, although these spaces are avenues of empowerment, they are also points of vulnerability for women, who disproportionately face criticism and online abuse.

This roundtable, led by Public Scholar Arwa Hussain, addresses these issues by bringing into conversation a diverse group of Muslim women, in order to foreground the knowledge of those with first-hand experiences.

The third interview in the Black Community Health series, a week long event where experts from the field will discuss their work, community initiatives they have taken on or witnessed, disparities they encounter in their sectors, changes they hope to see in community health, and their vision of the future Black community health.

In this event, Annick Maugile Flavien will interview Ariane Métellus about her experience as a doula working in homes and healthcare institutions, and a community advocate.

Ariane Métellus

Ariane K. Métellus is a social entrepreneur, consultant, speaker, birth and perinatal worker. Ariane K is passionate about perinatal, sexual and reproductive health, more specifically obstetrical and gynaecological violence and systemic racism in Quebec’s health care system. She is the Regional Recruitment Coordinator for the province of Quebec and sits on the steering council committee of The RESPCCT Study (Research Examining Stories of Pregnancy and Childbearing in Canada Today) at UBC's Birth Place Lab, on Breast Cancer Action Quebec’s board and on the steering committee of La CORPS féministe.

Her background has led her to examine the importance we give to the experience of marginalized women, particularly black and racialized women in Quebec's health care system, specifically concerning sexual and reproductive health and during the perinatal period.

Through her work, she hopes to raise awareness, inform and support these women, assert their rights to all those who work closely or remotely with them, and participate in the recognition of the various issues that concern them by institutions and the various communities affected by these realities.

Her work is rooted in love!

The second interview in the week of Black Community Health, a series of events where experts from the field discuss their work, community initiatives they have taken on or witnessed, disparities they encounter in their sectors, changes they hope to see in community health, and their vision of the future Black community health.

In this event, Annick Maugile Flavien will interview Kimani Daniel about her experience as an educator and nurse working in healthcare institutions and the community.

Kimani Daniel is Assistant Professor in the Ingram School of Nursing at McGill University. She has over 15 years of experience in perinatal health. In her role as Clinical Nurse Specialist in Maternal-Child Health at the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, she has been involved in educational initiatives, quality improvement projects and policy development.

The final interview in a week of Black Community Health, a series of events where experts from the field will discuss their work, community initiatives they have taken on or witnessed, disparities they encounter in their sectors, changes they hope to see in community health, and their vision of the future Black community health.

In this last event, Annick Maugile Flavien will interview Marlihan Lopez about her experience as a community advocate and caregiver.

Marlihan Lopez is a Black feminist community organizer tackling issues surrounding anti-blackness, gender-based violence and its intersections. She coordinated the EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) division for the Quebec Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, where she did advocacy work and raises awareness on how gender, race, class and ability intersect in the context of sexual violence. She has also organized with movements such as Black Lives Matter around issues such as racial profiling and police brutality. She was Vice-President for la Fédération des femmes du Québec and is currently Program and Outreach Coordinator at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. She is also cofounding member of Coalition to Defund the Police, based in Montreal.

In the this episode of our Checking In series, Patrick Lejtenyi, Concordia’s Public Affairs Advisor sits down with Concordia researcher Scott De Jong to understand why online falsehoods go viral and how they shape our relationships with social media — and each other.

The communication studies PhD student created a board game that pits conspiracy theorists and their online troll amplifiers against moderators and educators. DeJong says Lizards & Lies, available as a free download, is designed as a model to help us grasp the movement of false content and the frustrations those fighting against it can experience.

Why is online age verification crucial? Why does it need to be mandatory for certain web content, as already proposed in the Canadian Senate and House of Commons? Is it technologically viable?

Join us for this panel discussion, moderated by doctoral candidate Azfar Adib, to know more, as we engage in a conversation with the lawmakers, social activists, and engineering researchers leading this arena. Panelists Senator Julie Miville Dechêne, MP Arnold Viersen, Nima Karimian, PhD, and Penny Rankin will discuss the need for mandatory age verification, particularly to safeguard kids from online harm, along with its technological feasibility.

In the next episode of our Checking In series, Patrick Lejtenyi, Concordia’s Public Affairs Advisor sits down with Concordia researcher Stefanie Duguay and one of her co-authors Christopher Dietzel to discuss their new study looking at how dating apps were quick to adapt to the new limits placed on socializing during the pandemic.

The first episode of our new series celebrating Concordia's Distinguished University Research Professors, the highest form of recognition for overall research achievements.

In this episode, professor Shimon Amir sits down with  Lauren Segall, his former student and the current Advisor, Research Development at Gina Cody School of Engineering. The conversation was introduced Paula Wood-Adams, Interim Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies.