NEWS

If you're looking for what's happening right now, you've come to the right place. Here you can find information on happenings, publications, etc. that are of interest to the grad studies student body.

Nov 21, 2020
1 min

Cinema Politica: There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace

When: Film will be available between Saturday, November 21, 12PM ET - Tuesday, November 24, 12PM ET. Screen film HERE LIVE-STREAM EVENT:...

Nov 12, 2020
1 min

Dr. Marc Steinberg and Dr. Joshua Neves featured in new collection "Pandemic Media"

A new essay co-written by Dr. Marc Steinberg and Dr. Joshua Neves, "Pandemic Platforms: How Convenience Shapes the Inequality of Crisis,"...

Jun 23, 2020
1 min

Online Teaching Resources

Look for regularly updated online teaching tools and workshops under Resources.

Mar 10, 2019
2 min

Applications for the “Oksana and John Locke Award: The First 100 Years of Cinema” Due Ma

The “Oksana and John Locke Award: The First 100 Years of Cinema” will be disbursed at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. Over a...

Feb 6, 2019
1 min

The CGFSSA is seeking volunteers and proposals for the annual Masters student colloquium!

The Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student Association is currently planning the annual Masters student colloquium, “Emerging Ideas in...

Jan 21, 2019
1 min

Cinema Politica and Regards syriens collective present the Montreal premiere of STILL RECORDING

When: Monday, January 28/7:00 PM Where: Concordia University, H-110 Admission: By donation ($5-10 suggested). *The venue is wheelchair...

Jan 11, 2019
2 min

Upcoming Event: CitMoS presents An Inside Look at the Afghan Film Archives

Cinema in the Midst of Struggle, in collaboration with la lumière, presents: “An Inside Look at the Afghan Film Archives” Screening and...

Jan 9, 2019
1 min

Upcoming Event: Master Class and Screening with Filmmaker Salomé Lamas

Master Class with Salomé Lamas: “Peripheral Bodies” Where: 688 rue Sherbrooke, Room 295 When: January 15, 4-6 PM About: Director Salomé...

Dec 6, 2018
2 min

Shout Out! Giuseppe Fidotta wins the Concordia Stand-Out Graduate Research Award

Giuseppe Fidotta, a third year doctoral student in the Film and Moving Image Studies Program, is the latest recipient of Concordia’s...

Dec 4, 2018
3 min

Upcoming Event: The Maribor Uprisings – Politics of Alternative Media, Monday Dec. 10

Where: La lumière collective, 7080, rue Alexandra #506 H2S 3J5 Montreal, Quebec When: Monday December 10, 8 PM This is a free event....

Nov 12, 2018
2 min

“The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry” Kicks Off This Thursd

“The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry,” organized by a collective of PhD students in Film and Moving Image...

Nov 5, 2018
2 min

Upcoming Conference: Off-Script: Tactics and Techniques of Feminist Errancy

Where: McGill University When: November 4-6 About the Conference Everywhere we turn, feminist activism is targeting bad behavior and...

Oct 31, 2018
3 min

Upcoming Event: Restoring Solidarity – A Workshop with Mohanad Yaqubi Registration Required

Where: GEM Lab When: Wednesday November 7, 6PM Click here for the Facebook event. Please send an email to giuseppe.fidotta@gmail.com to...

Oct 29, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: “‘It was… intimate’: Hannibal and the Gendered Politics of I

Media@McGill and Seriality Across Media present a public lecture by Dr. Lori Morimoto, “‘It was… intimate’: Hannibal and the Gendered...

Oct 29, 2018
1 min

Call for Papers: 21st Annual FSAC Graduate Colloquium

Where: Carleton University, Ottawa When: March 1-3, 2019 Proposals Due: November 30, 2018, 300-500 words The 2019 FSAC Graduate Student...

Oct 26, 2018
1 min

“The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry” has released its full

“The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry,” a three day conference being held at Concordia and across the city...

Oct 25, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: Dr. Monique Rooney’s “Only Mediate: The Mere Interest of Middlebrow in K

The Departments of English at Concordia and McGill are pleased to present Dr. Monique Rooney’s lecture “Only Mediate: The Mere Interest...

Oct 24, 2018
1 min

Synoptique Issue 7.2 is out now!

Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia’s own peer-reviewed journal, has released their October 2018...

Oct 19, 2018
2 min

Concordia’s Film Studies Colloquium Series Begins October 26th

Concordia’s Film Studies Colloquium Series will begin next Friday, October 26th with a discussion with André Habib and Catherine Russell...

Oct 18, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: The Electric Ecology: Models of Connectivity in Japan’s Media Century

Date: Thursday, November 22, 2018 Time: 5:30pm Location: EV-2-776 (entrance through EV-2-705), Deans...

Oct 17, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: Manifesto! an Artist Talk by Julian Rosefeldt

When: Saturday, Oct 20, 5-8PM Where: H-110, Henry Hall Building The MAC, in partnership with Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, presents...

Oct 11, 2018
2 min

Upcoming Event: Larissa Hjorth presents “Careful Surveillance and Digital Wayfaring” Oct

CAREFUL SURVEILLANCE & DIGITAL WAYFARING: INTERGENERATIONAL & MORE-THAN-HUMAN LOCATIVE MEDIA PRACTICES BY LARISSA HJORTH WHAT? Talk and...

Oct 9, 2018
7 min

Call for Proposals! HASTAC 2019: “Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education” Due Mond

CALL FOR PROPOSALS On 16-18 May 2019, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), in partnership...

Oct 4, 2018
1 min

Shout Out! Ilona Jurkonytė Curates International Festival, Film Studies Symposium

PhD Canadidate at Concordia and Vanier Scholar Ilona Jurkonytė curated one of Lithuania’s most well-recognized film festivals, Kaunas...

Oct 4, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: Jacopo Quadri Screenings and Master Class Oct. 22-25

Jacopo Quadri, the Italian director and editor who worked with Bertolucci, Zhang Yuan, and Gianfranco Rosi, will be in Montreal from...

Oct 2, 2018
2 min

(UPDATED!) Upcoming Event: Political Imaginary of Waiting Screening Series, Tuesday, Oct. 9 at

The Political Imaginary of Waiting Screening Series, with the support of the Global Emergent Media Lab, la lumière collective, and...

Oct 1, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: Format and Host: The Holy Ghosts of Irish TV, a public lecture by Anna McCarthy

Where: GEM Lab (FB 630.15) When: Friday, October 12 at 5pm Anna McCarthy, Chair of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York...

Sep 27, 2018
1 min

Shout Out! Nikola Stepić wins the Gerald Pratley Award

Nikola Stepić, a graduate of the MA in Film Studies and presently a doctoral student in the PhD in Humanities, has won the FSAC/ACEQ...

Sep 27, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: Gramsci at the Movies, Tuesday October 9th

GRAMSCI AT THE MOVIES FB 407, Tuesday, October 9 @ 2pm-4pm Featuring presentations by: Yuri Brunello (Universidade Federal do Ceará,...

Sep 21, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: Symposium, “Être femme dans les médias audiovisuels au Québec : cinéma, télévi

Le colloque « Être femme dans les médias audiovisuels au Québec : cinéma, télévision, jeux vidéo, web » vise à mobiliser des...

Sep 13, 2018
1 min

Shout Out! PhD Candidate Enrique Fibla Gutierrez wins the Standout Graduate Research Award

PhD Candidate Enrique Fibla Gutierrez has received the Concordia School of Graduate Studies’ Stand-Out Graduate Research Award in the...

Sep 10, 2018
1 min

UPCOMING EVENT: PASOLINI/PARAJANOV: THE SUBVERSIVE AND THE ARCHAIC @ GEM LAB SEPT. 21

Event Time September 21 @ GEM Lab, FB 630-15 10:30 AM-3:00 PM Event Description This event will bring together four scholars from...

Jul 5, 2018
3 min

MHSoC professors Rosanna Maule and Guylaine Dionne’s documentary about women filmmakers will h

Rosanna Maule and Guylaine Dionne’s documentary Contemporary Women Filmmakers: The State of Things / Les réalisatrices contemporaines :...

Apr 13, 2018
1 min

Sami Zenderoudi’s short film “GAEA” to be screened at Bar Le Ritz PDB on April 22,

Sami Zenderoudi‘s latest short film, “GAEA”, will be screened at Bar Le Ritz PDB on April 22, 2018 at 8pm! Film synopsis: amisdt unstable...

Apr 11, 2018
1 min

TOMORROW: The Concordia Cinémathèque presents Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervou

The Concordia Cinémathèques invites you to a free screening of a 35mm print of Pedro Almodóvar’s WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS...

Mar 27, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: Shahrzaad’s Tale (Shahin Parhami) @ J.A. De Sève Cinema on April 6

On April 6th, 2018, at 7pm in the J.A. De Sève Cinema, Shahin Parhami – a MHSoC alumnus! – will present his film: Shahrzaad’s Tale (2015,...

Mar 15, 2018
2 min

Work-in-Progress (WIP) Workshop Series Upcoming Event: Film Production Worlds (April 2)

Works-in-Progress (WIP) Workshop Series presents: Film Production Worlds: Fragments from Myanmar (in Progress) Theo Stojanov When: April...

Mar 12, 2018
1 min

SHOUT OUT! PhD Candidate Theo Stojanov is part of the round-table Relocation, Media Industries, and

Shout Out! PhD Candidate Theo Stojanov is part of the round-table Relocation, Media Industries, and City Branding, published in...

Mar 12, 2018
1 min

SHOUT OUT! PhD Antoine Damiens published an article in the Studies in European Cinema Journal

Shout Out! PhD Antoine Damiens published an article in the Studies in European Cinema Journal! In his article, “The queer film ecosystem:...

Mar 2, 2018
3 min

Event Report: Andrea Masu (Alterazioni Video Collective) @ GEM Lab

The GEM Lab hosted a presentation by Italian artist and co-founder of Alterazioni Video Collective Andrea Masu on January 16, 2018....

Mar 2, 2018
2 min

Event Report: Dr. Kristin Dowell – “Digital Sutures: Family, cultural memory, and altern

A presentation by D Kristin Dowell is an associate professor in the department of Anthropology at Florida State University. She has...

Mar 2, 2018
2 min

Event Report: GEM Lab Open House

On January 31, 2018, the Global Emergent Media Lab (GEM Lab), a community and research platform that focusses on the critical study of...

Feb 25, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: The Two No’s with Joshua Clover

The Cinema in the Midst of Struggle screening series presents The Two No’s, a talk by Joshua Clover. When: March 7th @ 6PM Where: EV...

Feb 8, 2018
2 min

VISIONS | THE PEAK EXPERIENCE (Feb. 15)

As part of its Dialogue series, VISIONS presents: THE PEAK EXPERIENCE (Programme by Leslie Supnet) February 15, 2018 From the website:...

Feb 5, 2018
1 min

Join TRAC in their efforts to improve students’ working conditions!

Join the Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia (TRAC) Union in their efforts to improve students’ working conditions! TAs and RAs...

Feb 4, 2018
1 min

The Concordia Cinémathèque presents Martha Coolidge’s VALLEY GIRL (1983) this Friday!

The Concordia Cinémathèques invites you to a free screening of a 35mm print of Martha Coolidge’s VALLEY GIRL (1983) this Friday, February...

Feb 3, 2018
2 min

SHOUT OUT! PhD Candidate Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez published an article in Screen!

Shout Out! PhD Candidate Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez published an article in the prestigious scholarly journal Screen! “Film called into...

Feb 2, 2018
2 min

Work-in-Progress (WIP) Workshop Series’ Upcoming Event: The Migrant Cinema (Feb. 12)

Works-in-Progress (WIP) Workshop Series presents: The Migrant Cinema: Indigenous Tibetan films produced by 乡村之眼 (From Our Eyes) Cui Yi...

Feb 2, 2018
2 min

Free screening of Cecilia Aldarondo’s Memories of a Penitent Heart on Feb. 15!

The Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS and Cinema Politica Concordia presents a free screening of the critically...

Feb 2, 2018
1 min

Upcoming Event: John Woo’s Hard Boiled in 35mm at Bar le Ritz PDB

To welcome the return of the weekly film series Cinema 1999, under the new leadership of Nicolas Krief and Eric K. Boulianne, Bar le Ritz...