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Jean Bélisle retired from the Department of Art History and got his Professor Emeritus title in 2012.

Robert Tittler grew up in the Eastern United States and received his doctorate in history from New York University in 1971. He began his career at Concordia University as an assistant professor in the department of History at one its founding institution, Loyola College of Montreal, in 1969, was promoted associate professor in 1975 and full professor in 1981. He served as Chair of the Department of History from 1976 to 1978 and as Graduate Program Director from 1986 to 1989. He took part in various committees both at Concordia and outside the university as well as on numerous editorial and advisory boards. He retired on June 1st, 2005 and was granted the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He specializes in the political, urban, local and art-architectural history of Early Modern Britain, c. 1500-1640 and he has published over 60 scholarly essays and 12 books.

• In 1971, Tittler introduced the idea of Open Forums at Loyola College, for debating current issues and discuss freely current topics falling outside of academic borders.
• In 1986, Tittler was appointed general editor of a series on European urban society published in four volumes by Longman.
• Tittler was named to the Editorial Board of the Toronto-based Records of Early English Drama Publication project in 1987.
• In 1996, Tittler presided as President over the annual meeting of the Northeast Conference on British Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
• He delivered the keynote speech on the topic of ‘Reformation, Collective Memory and Civil Culture in English Provincial Towns’ to the 23rd annual meeting of the Pre-Modern Towns Group in London University in January 1997.
• Along with Michael Maxwell of McGill University, Tittler co-founded the Montreal British History Seminar in 1997, an inter-university venture hearing scholarly papers and attracting speakers from Montreal universities and beyond.
• Tittler was appointed visiting professor of history at Yale University for the spring term (January to May) of 1998.
• He was a key player in the organization of the Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) held at Concordia University on October 27 and 28, 2000.
• In 2001, Tittler chaired a special committee of the North American Conference on British Studies to study the state of British Studies and British history in Canada with a mandate to work with British Council of Canada on this issue.
• He was elected chair of the executive board of Records of Early English Drama, a Toronto-based international research and publication, in 2003.
• Tittler received a Long Service Award from Concordia University in 2004, honouring his 35 years of service.
• In 2008, Tittler was presented with a festschrift, a commemorative volume of essays celebrating his contributions to the field of English local history.
• Robert Tittler was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017.

Guy Thouin est un musicien et artiste né le 10 avril 1940 à Montréal. Il a étudié la percussion avec un professeur privé de 1959 à 1960 et, au début des années 1960, a commencé à jouer de la batterie dans les bars de Montréal. Diplômé de l'École d'Optique du Québec en 1964, il a travaillé comme opticien pendant un an avant d'entreprendre des études en arts à l'École des Beaux-arts de Montréal. De 1969 à 1970, Thouin a étudié percussion classique à l'Université McGill sous la direction de Pierre Béluse. De 1971 à 1976, il a étudié de la musique indienne à Pondichéry et à Calcutta, en Inde, en se spécialisant dans le tabla.

En 1967, Guy Thouin, avec Yves Charbonneau, Jean Préfontaine et Maurice C. Richard, devient l'un des membres fondateurs du Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec, connu originalement sous le nom de Quatuor du nouveau jazz libre du Québec. Le groupe se produit dans plusieurs bars de Montréal, collèges et universités du Québec, jusqu'à sa dissolution en 1974. En 1969, Thouin se joint également à L'Infonie, un groupe d'avant-garde où il joue avec Walter Boudreau et Raôul Duguay jusqu'en 1971, année où Thouin décide de quitter les deux groupes pour aller étudier la musique en Inde. De retour à Montréal en 1976, Thouin se réintègre à la scène de jazz montréalaise et collabore avec plusieurs artistes et musiciens, comme le groupe Mirage, qui a été finaliste du Festival de jazz de Montréal en 1985. En 1989, il fonde le Heart Ensemble, un quintette avec des musiciens invités qui interprète les compositions de Guy Thouin pendant plus de 20 ans dans des centres culturels et des bars de Montréal, d'Ottawa, de Joliette et d’autres villes du Québec. Plusieurs de ces prestations ont été enregistrées et diffusées par la Société Radio-Canada (SRC). En 2012, avec Bryan Highbloom, Thouin a fondé le Nouveau Jazz Libre du Québec, donnant plusieurs concerts, dont un au Festival Suoni Pel II Popolo.

Thouin a composé Rien ô tout ou linéaire un, une expérience sonore immersive, alors qu' il étudiait à l'Université McGill. Cet environnement sonore a été créé pour une œuvre de l'artiste visuel Roland Poulin et a été exposé en 1971 au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Depuis 2015, Guy Thouin continue de composer et de jouer, avec Félix-Antoine Hamel, dans une nouvelle version du Heart Ensemble appelée From the Basement, qui invite des musiciens à jouer avec eux dans leur sous-sol, et à explorer différentes avenues du mouvement " free jazz ".

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker are writers, lecturers, and editors in the area of technology and contemporary culture. Arthur Kroker studied at McMaster University where he received a Ph.D. in political science in 1975. In 1975 he became an assistant professor, and in 1980, an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg. He joined Concordia University's Political Science Department in 1981 as associate professor. In 1988, he was appointed professor of political science.

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker were founders and editors of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory (CJPST), in 1976 at the University of Winnipeg. They and the CJPST moved to Concordia University in 1981. The aim of the CJPST is to provide a gathering-point for political, social and cultural theory, both in Canada and globally. It aims to synthesize theoretical reflection and analysis of the public situation, to mediate theory and contemporary history. In 1993 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker relaunched the journal in electronic format on the Internet under the name CTHEORY: Theory, Technology and Culture (http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/home/). Arthur and Marilouise Kroker were also publishers of the New Worlds Perspectives series of monographs in which they were editors of the CultureTexts Series.

George Williams was born in 1821 in the County of Somerset, England. He founded the movement known worldwide as the YMCA (the Young Men's Christian Association) in 1844.

The Montreal branch of the YMCA was formed in 1851, the first in North America. In 1873 the YMCA inaugurated evening courses in vocational and general education. The undertaking was first known as the Educational Program, and later the Montreal YMCA Schools. In 1926, it changed its name to Sir George Williams College in honour of the founder of the YMCA movement. S.G.W. was one of the founding institutions of Concordia University.

Kevin McKenna was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1952. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in New York in 1974.
Bob McKenna is an artist and filmmaker working in visual and media arts.
Together, the McKenna brothers participated in the exhibition Corridart dans la rue Sherbrooke, that was sponsored by the Arts and Culture Committee of the 1976 international Olympic Games held in Montreal. They created the large-scale photomontage Rues-miroirs, encompassing a panoramic view of five or six blocks of Sherbrooke Street and St-Laurent Street, where it was installed. The exhibition, and with it McKenna’s installation, was dismantled by the City of Montreal before the Olympic Games opened.