We’re halfway through the summer vacation! SoPhiA hopes everyone is well, wherever they are.
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Job Opportunity
The Sustainability Action Fund is hiring a Communications Coordinator!
Deadline to apply: July 6th, 11:59pm
Start date: August 2
Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: $19.91/hour
1-year contract (August 2022 – July 2023), with the option for yearly renewal
Conference on Romani Experiences: Contexts of translation, interpreting and ethics
The event is a is a two-day public online event focused on ethics and translation (written) and interpreting (oral) in the Romani context. This event is being interpreted simultaneously into the Romani language.
When: July 7th, 8am-12pm
Where: online
See the event details
Academic Offence Workshop
Do you want to know what’s considered an academic offence? Did you know that most academic offences are in fact unintentional? The most common academic offence is unintentional plagiarism.
The Student Success Center is hosting a workshop titled: “Cheating and other academic offences: everything you should know!” In the workshop, they will go over unintentional academic offences and Academic Code of Conduct.
Who: Student Success Center
What: A workshop on academic offences
When: July 7th, 1-2pm
Where: Online
Drug Test Kits
On behalf of the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CssDP Concordia), The Frigo Vert is offering free drug testing kits to take home every Friday from 12-4pm.
- Kits available to take home
- Confidential & anonymous
- Non-judgmental
- Wheelchair accessible
- Fentanyl strips available
- Private gender-neutral bathroom
What: Free drug test kits
When: Every Friday from 12-4pm
Where: Le Frigo Vert (1440 Mackay St.)
Stay safe and responsible with drug use.
Party Time
Reggies Bar (Concordia’s student-run on-campus bar) is hosting a Booze & Breeze tropical beach themed evening this Friday, July 9th from 9pm-3am.
- Fun summer cocktails
- Beach themes photobooth + professional photographer
- Your favorite summer throwbacks
When: July 9th from 9pm-3am
Where: Reggies Terrace (In the back of the Hall Building H3G 1M8)
Social Justice Theory Workshop
The Philosophy department’s Social Justice Center (and Centre de Recherche en Ethique from Université de Montreal) will be co-hosting a Social Justice Theory Workshop. Our own Dr. Pablo Gilabert will be a speaker at the event.
“The aim of the Social Justice Theory Workshop is to enable sustained exploration in the theory of social justice. It addresses topics such as the articulation of ideals and principles of economic, political, gender, race, environmental, and cultural justice; the critique of inequality, domination, exploitation, and alienation; and the illumination of political institutions, practices and processes of transformation that might foster progressive change.”
Limited places available.
Who: Social Justice Center
What: Social Justice Theory Workshop
Where: S Annex Room 201 (Concordia philosophy department)
When: July 14th, all day
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