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1975-1976: Theatre Arts programme is under the Division of Performing Arts. At that time, the Drama (BA) is offered on Loyola Campus while the Theatre Arts (BFA) is on Sir George Williams Campus. They both appear in the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar.

September 1977: John O’Brien announces to the University Senate that the Certificate in Theatre Arts and Creative Drama has been approved by the Ministry of Education.

June 1, 1979: The Fine Arts Faculty Council states the creation of Theatre Arts as an academic department effective, as the program was already functioning as such.

May 19, 1983: The name of the Department of Theatre Arts is changed to Department of Theatre. D. Childs is the first Chairman.

Fall 1992: The department of Theatre leaves the Chameleon Theatre spaces for the newly renovated F. C. Smith Auditorium and the D. B. Clarke Theatre.

December 1995: Co-produced with Geordie Productions, the play ‘A Christmas Carol’ receives critical acclaim from Montreal Press.

Winter 2007: Edward Little goes to India with the Theatre and Development program to teach students how to use theatre as a social tool for change and activism. The three-weeks trip is taking them to poor rural areas as part of a project called ‘A Theatre for Human Rights’, with the collaboration of the Centre for Social Action in India and members of the Teesri Duniya Theatre.

May 2009: Prof. Robert Reid and a dozen of students are headed to Beijing. They are taking part in an educational exchange with China’s National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.

Fall 2009: Along with the department of Contemporary Dance, the department of Theatre is moving to their new facilities in the GM building. The goal is to consolidate all of performing arts departments on the downtown campus (the department of Music would move the following year).

The Department of Contemporary Dance has its origins in the hiring of Professor Elizabeth Langley as a Lecturer to teach a dance course in the Division of Performing Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1978.

1979-1980: Dance appears for the first time in the Division of Performing Arts in the Undergraduate Calendar.

May 29, 1979: The University Senate approves a B.F.A. Major in Modern Dance programme for 1980-1981. This was the first Canadian university dance programme geared to training choreographers.

April 1981: The Fine Arts Faculty Council approves that more funds should be made towards the appearance of the Major in Modern Dance in media publications since ‘the Dance area had no visibility within the proposed Faculty structure’.

March 25, 1988: Due to the growth in popularity of the program, the University Senate establishes Contemporary Dance as an Academic department within the Faculty of Fine Arts.

September 2009: The Contemporary Dance as well as Theatre department are moved from the Loyola Campus to their new facilities in the GM and MB buildings.

1997: Establishment of Auxiliary Services Department under the direction of Bob MacIver. The establishment of Auxiliary Services brought together Conference Services, Food Services, Printing Services, and Mail Services.

2007: Auxiliary Services was renamed to Hospitality Concordia to reflect the consolidation of all hospitality services in one department. This new department consisted of eight interrelated services including: Reservation Centre, Conference Services, Food Services, Beverage Services, Locker Services, Parking Services, Automated Banking Machines, Commercial Campus Advertising.

September 21, 2006: The FOFA Gallery opens with the exhibition titled Body Notes featuring artists Marc Séguin, Caroline George, Sophie Jodoin, Theresa Sapergia and Marion Wagschal. The gallery offers a street-front location on St. Catherine street as well as a vitrine space along the York Corridor, in the new EV building.

Spring 2009: The gallery benefits for the first time of funding from the Canada Council for the Arts thanks to the efforts of jake moore, then interim director.

May 28 to June 4, 2010: During the 2010 Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted by Concordia, the FOFA Gallery plays a key role, becoming the ‘centre of stimulating, interdisciplinary exchange’.

1965-1966: The Department of Finance is officially formalized at Sir George Williams University (SGWU), under the Faculty of Commerce, with G. Robert Curnew acting as the first departmental Chairman.

1974: As part of the merger between Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, the Department of Finance is integrated with Concordia University, under the Faculty of Commerce and Administration.

November 2000: the Department of Finance becomes part of the John Molson School of Business, previously known as the Concordia University Faculty of Commerce and Administration.

June 1, 1975: Prof. Sean McEvenue assumes the duties of Chairman of the Department of Theological Studies.
May 26, 1978: The B.A. Specialization in Theological Studies Programme is approved by the University Senate.
May 26, 1989: The M.A. in Theological Studies is approved by the University Senate.
1992: Prof. Russell Moroziuk is invited to attend the University of Kiev for one year to develop the first curriculum in theological studies at the university.
September 15, 1995: The ministerial approval of the M.A. in Theological Studies is announced at the University Senate.
November 2005: Studia Theologica, the newsletter of the Theological Studies department, is launched.

Elizabeth Morey’s first employment at Concordia was as Student Advisor in the Sir George Dean of Students Office from 1980-1984. In October, 1985 Morey was appointed Advisor to the Rector on the Status of Women by the Board of Governors with a mandate to conduct research and make recommendations on all matters affecting women on campus, including students, faculty, and staff. Subsequently, a 10-member (all female) Committee on the Status of Women was established and chaired by Morey and her term as Chair was extended to May 1, 1992.

From November 1, 1988 to 1994 Morey served as Coordinator of Special Projects in the Office of the Rector. In June, 1989 she was named Acting Director of the Council for International Cooperation, following Martin Singer (the position was filled in April 1991). Morey left Concordia for Marianopolis College in 1994, followed by a term at a university in the United Arab Emirates. In Fall, 2002 Morey returned to Concordia temporarily, as Communications and Special Projects Officer in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2008 she was named Dean of Students. She served as Dean for a three-year term and retired in May, 2011.

• In 1983 Morey was named to the Board of the Canadian Bureau for International Education.
• At Forum ‘85 in Kenya, Morey was selected by the Women’s Program in the Department of the Secretary of State to be a representative of the Canadian Bureau for International Education.
• On March 4, 1987 Morey was a panelist for Do They Want Us There?, a discussion on employment equity at the School of Community and Public Affairs.
• Morey was a member of the Consultative Committee on Employment Equity, established in early 1988 with a mandate to formulate goals and regulations for the future Employment Equity Program.
• During International Women’s Week in March 1988, Morey participated in the panel discussion What’s Happening for Women at Concordia University?.
• In 1991 Morey co-chaired with Corinne Jetté the Concordia Task Force on Multiculturalism with a mandate to prepare recommendations on classroom, workforce, and community cultural diversity.
• Morey was Chair of the Native Research project, which submitted a December 1991 report addressing the experience of First Nations students within university economic, social, and political conditions and systems. The report led to an implementation plan supporting First Nations communities and the opening of the First Nations Student Centre in September 1992.
• In 1994 Morey was chosen by Oxfam Canada as International Observer of South African elections.
• In Spring 2009, Morey accepted the role of university representative on the Board of Directors of Dawson College, a three-year appointment from the Minister of Education.

Sur Rodney (Sur) is a Canadian visual artist and multimedia performance artist, who is also known for his work as an archivist, writer and curator, but above all for his impact on the awareness about AIDS/ HIV and the Aids crisis in the arts scene.

Born as Rodney Adams in Montreal on December 28, 1954, he is the second child of photographer Desmond Rupert Adams and Jean Gertrude Adams, born Gordon. Sur Rodney grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Mount Royal in Montreal, but his family was part of Montreal’s black community and Union United Church. In 1975, he officially changed his name from Rodney Adams to Sur Rodney (Sur), referring to himself as a surrealist. He was married to Gracie Mansion (then known as Joanne Mayhew Young) until 1989. Sur was married to Geoffrey Hendricks from 1995 until Hendrick’s death on May 12th, 2018.

From 1973 to 1975, Sur Rodney (Sur) studied at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design. After having graduated, he moved to the East Village in New York City in the summer of 1976. At the time, Sur Rodney was working as a visual artist, mostly known through video projects. In the early 1980s, Sur became a member of the Blackheart Collective, a group of gay black poets, writer and multi-media performance artists, which allowed him to be included in various anthologies. At the same time, Sur Rodney (Sur) was program coordinator of The Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1980) and the All New Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1981), hosted on Manhattan Cable Television and featuring many young artists of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Also in 1981, Sur Rodney (Sur) and Tessie Chua co-produced the video Scary Truth About Cockroaches and Landlords. In 1982, Sur Rodney (Sur) “abandons his practice as a visual and performing artist to form a partnership with Gracie Mansion as co-director of the Gracie Mansion Gallery” in the Manhattan East Village. Later, Sur acted for two years as program director of Kenkeleba House, an African American cultural institution in Manhattan.

With the spreading of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, Sur’s main occupation became the support of friends living with HIV/AIDS and the organization and preservation of their estates. From 1989 to 1994, he worked as an independent archivist for artists living with HIV/AIDS. He archived, among others, the estates of Swiss artist Andreas Senser, of photographer Timothy Greathouse, and of photographer Bern Boyle. In 1994, together with Geoffrey Hendricks and Frank Moore, Sur helped set up the Visual AIDS Archive Project to document the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and to secure the management of their estates. Sur also served on the Visual AIDS' Board of Directors for over ten years and worked on several curatorial projects and exhibitions relating to art and AIDS.

In the mid-1990s, Sur Rodney re-entered the art scene, working with Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks on performances and other projects.

In 2012, Sur Rodney (Sur) received the Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards (VAVA Voom). In 2016, Sur was awarded the first ever Candy Darling Award during the Acker Awards for his community engagement as a community activist.

Viviane Namaste has a BA from Carleton University, an MA in Sociology from York University and a doctoral degree from Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics. She began teaching at Simone de Beauvoir Institute in July 2002 and was Interim Principal from August 2006-May 2008 and Acting Principal from September-December 2018. Namaste was Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health from June 2008-May 2018. In 2016, Namaste was awarded an FAS Curriculum Innovation Fund grant to develop new interdisciplinary teaching for Humanities students. She is the founder of the Quebec Health Action, which began in the 1990s to improve health for Montreal’s transvestite and transsexual community. She was the principal investigator of Projet Polyvalence, which ran from 2004 to 2007, a community-based action research project seeking to contribute to HIV/AIDS and STD prevention of people with bisexual practices. The project resulted in a book “HIV Education and Bisexual Realities” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

• Namaste received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.  Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science in April 2015.
• She also received the Prix Honoris of the Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes in October 2013.
• Namaste was inducted in the Provost’s Circle of Distinction of Concordia University, in June 2012
• On October 25, 2010, she received the Grand prix du Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes.
• Namaste was the recipient of the Award for Action on HIV/AIDS 2009 handed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch, on June 12, 2009.

Namaste is the author of three books about transsexuality:

• Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) for which she won the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center in 2001
• Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism (Toronto : Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005)
• C'était du spectacle! L'histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985 (Montréal : McGill Queen’s University Press, 2005)