The new academic year is quickly approaching. As such we would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new PhD students and to catch up with current students. We see the beginning of this academic year as an opportunity to strengthen our ties as a research community, and to develop an even more collegial atmosphere for cultivating greater dialogue and productivity amongst the PhD student body. As such, this year we’ve decided to organize (on top of our annual beginning o

Welcome MAs! We would like to invite you to a casual Q&A session on August 30th at 2 pm in FB 411 (1250 Guy Street). This meeting will provide a forum for you to ask questions and meet with some of your fellow second year MA students. Following this, we will take a little tour to introduce you to the facilities that you’ll be using over the course of the coming year, such as our own grad lounge, the Moving Image Resource Centre, and the library. A tour wouldn’t be complete wi

→ They say recycling is good so here we dig into our GradAperture archive to rescue and update a fantastic post written by our super alumni Juan Antonio Llamas. Classes officially start on September 3rd, and soon we’ll all be running around doing readings, TAing, socializing, and not getting enough sleep. Here is a quick to-do list of things – mostly getting cards – that are better done on the first week: → NEWCOMERS: ATTEND THE ORIENTATION SESSION It’s this Friday, September