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September 12, 2002 Of Note

 

 
 
2002 John Hans Low-Beer Memorial Lecture

Myths, Mountains, Miracles: Face to Face with Mental Illness
Fred Frese, PhD
Wednesday, September 25, at 7 p.m.
Room 110, Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Fred Frese is a psychologist at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at 25, he will talk about the prospects and experiences of recovery, both from his own perspective and as a mental health professional.

Sponsored by AMI-Québec Alliance and the Department of Psychology
   
 
Writers read @ Concordia

Concordia writer-in-residence Steven Heighton
Thursday, Sept. 19, 8:30 pm, Hall Building H-762

Steven Heighton is the author of seven books, including the novel The Shadow Boxer, published by Knopf Canada (2000). His poetry collection, The Ecstasy of Skeptics (1995), was nominated for the Governor-General’s Award, and he was a Trillium Award finalist for his collection of short fiction, Flight Paths of the Emperor (1993). He has also published a book of essays, The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing and Culture in a Virtual World. Raised in Toronto and in Northern Ontario, he lives in Kingston, Ontario, where he edited Quarry Magazine from 1988 to 1994.

Presented by the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program
   
 

The English Department presents the annual Lahey Lecture

Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California at Davis
“Cultural Literacy and the Question of Jargon:
An Historical Perspective”
Friday, September 20, 3 p.m.
J.A. De Sève Cinema, LB-125, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Margaret Ferguson is the author of Trial of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry and Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern France and England.


   
 

Stingers Football Schedule

Saturday, September 14 – 1 p.m.
Concordia vs. Acadia
Home games played at Concordia Stadium,
7200 Sherbrooke St. W., N.D.G.

Saturday, September 28 – 1 p.m.
Concordia @ Bishop’s

www.concordia.ca/stingers