This fonds includes preservation copies of the books produced by the Concordia University Press.
The following RCRP category is contained within this fonds :
5450 University Publications (2020-2024)
Sans titreThis fonds includes preservation copies of the books produced by the Concordia University Press.
The following RCRP category is contained within this fonds :
5450 University Publications (2020-2024)
Sans titreThe fonds documents the activities of the Concordia University Department of Recreation and Athletics from 1974 until 2010.
It contains programs, schedules, newspaper clippings, minutes of meetings, correspondence, photographs, audio-visual documents, objects. It includes a list of varsity athletes by sports between 1937 and 1989 compiled by Theresa Humes.
The fonds is organized in the following series:
1210 International Academic Cooperation - Agreements
1220 Students Exchange Programs
1310 Academic Session Organization
1330 Teaching Activities
2410 Student Orientation Activities
4130 Organization Charts and Mandates
4131 Delegation of Authority
4210 University Policies and Procedures
4320 External Audits
5110 Planning
5111 Committees and Meetings
5112 Reports, Studies and Analyses
5113 Statistics
5150 Unit Evaluations
5160 University Events
5170 External Relations
5171 Conferences and Seminars - External
5410 Internal News and Announcements
5420 Media Relations
5430 Media Coverage
5460 Promotional Materials
6110 Staff and Position Management
6111 Job Profiles
6131 Job Posting and Hiring Criteria
9110 Fundraising Initiatives
9211 Historical Evolution
9320 Public Art Projects
9510 Recreation and Athletics Activities Programs
9530 Sport Regular Season
9531 Team Players
9540 Championships and Tournaments
9550 Sport Awards and Events
The fonds documents the activities of the Concordia University Department of Art History. This fonds consists mainly of course outlines, curriculum development files and publications. The following RCRP categories are contained within this fonds:
1131 Curriculum Development
1140 Academic Program Management
1160 Academic Program Appraisals
1312 Course File
1313 Course Outlines
1410 Recruitment - Academic Appointment
1421 CUFA Academic Dossiers
1430 CUPFA Academic & Professional Dossiers
2120 Enrolment Statistics
2240 Thesis and Dissertation - Management
2410 Student Orientation Activities
2430 Awards & Scholarships Programs
3210 Chairs
4130 Organizational Chart and Mandate
5111 Meetings of Units
5112 Reports, Studies & Analyses
5113 Statistics
5160 University Events
5430 Media Relations
5450 University Publications
5461 Promotional Material
6111 Job Profiles
9430 Information & Orientation Activities
The following publications are included in this fonds:
The fonds provides information on The Georgian and Loyola News, and on the activities of The Link.
The fonds consists of the publication The Link, minutes of staff meetings, letters to the editor, and other administrative files. The fonds includes photographs of a variety of subjects from The Georgian.
Sans titreThis transfer contains digitized and born-digital administrative records from the Recreation and Athletics department. The following RCRP categories are contained within this records transfer:
4160 Official University Identification (1998-2023)
5160 University Events (2012-2022)
9510 Recreation Programs Management (1999-2023)
9520 Varsity Sports Management (2003-2020)
9530 Sports Teams & Clubs (2010-2023)
9531 Team Players Files (2022-2023)
9550 Sports & Athletics Recognition Events (2015)
This transfer contains digitized and born-digital administrative records from the Department of Art History. The following RCRP categories are contained within this records transfer:
1131 - Curriculum Development (2015)
1313 - Course Outlines (1997-2023)
1410 - Recruitment - Academic Appointments (2001-2013)
2410 - Student Orientation Activities (2016-2018)
2430 - Awards and Scholarships (2013)
5440 - Websites (2010-2013)
5450 - University Publications (2011-2014)
This fonds documents the administrative activities of the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs. The following RCRP categories are contained within this fonds:
This transfer contains digitized and born-digital administrative records from the Office of the Provost Vice-President, Academic Affairs relating to the President's Task Force on Anti-Black Racism, including photos from the Final Report launch event. The following RCRP categories are contained within this records transfer:
4130 Organizational Charts and Mandates (2020-2022)
5112 Reports, Studies, and Analyses (2021-2023)
5160 University Events (2022)
5170 External Relations (2022)
5400 Communications (2021-2022)
The fonds gives information on the history and activities of the department and on contemporary dance in Montreal as well.
The fonds mainly includes newspaper clippings, leaflets, show programs, and posters from 1978-1994 and 2003-2007. The fonds also includes video recordings of four lectures given in 2013, parts of the Mover Over Lecture Series. The lecturers were Marie-Hélène Falcon, Marten Spangberg, Sarah Chase, and Guy Cools.
The series illustrates the North-American and more precisely the New York East Village art scene around Sur Rodney (Sur) from the 1960s to 2018. It depicts Sur Rodney (Sur)’s career as an artist, his involvement in the art scene and his relation to fellow artists. It gives an insight in the life of various artists by the means of personal correspondence exchanged with Sur Rodney (Sur), exhibition catalogues, and documents related to The Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1980) and the All New Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1981), which were both presenting artists from the Manhattan's Lower East Side art scene. Artists mentioned in the series are, among others, Andreas Senser, Gracie Mansion, Geoffrey Hendricks, Pauline Graham Leathem, Ronald Heydon, Nan Goldin, John Brill and Lorraine O'Grady. The series covers subjects like Black Contemporary Art, Performance art, and Queer Art. It also refers to Visual Aids, an organization working on AIDS awareness through art projects, while supporting artists living with AIDS and archiving their work.
The series is organized into the following sub-series:
P0234/ B1 Sur Rodney (Sur)’s talks, presentations and writings
P0234/ B2 Works of fellow artists
P0234/ B3 Correspondence with fellow artists
The series contains, but is not limited to, correspondence, newspaper articles, drafts, scrapbooks, exhibition catalogs, magazines and other publications, posters, notebooks, calendars, photographs, flyers, moving images, a press kit, a sound recording, and an Acker Awards box.
The sub-series includes records related to Beissel's studies at University of Toronto: course notes, correspondence (1958-2022) and syllabi of courses he attended on subjects such as 15th century literature, classics in translation, Sir Thomas Browne, English drama, philosophy, mythology, contemporary Canadian poets, Canadian literature, [Geoffrey] Chauncer, Edmund Spenser, Ezra Pound Cantos, Henry Vaughan, John Donne, John Milton, Yeats' poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, the Romantics. Beissel's master thesis titled 'The Light and the Mirror' is also included.
The sub-series also includes earlier course notes and writings [ca.1943-1950].
Sans titreThe following RCRP categories are contained within this records transfer:
1131 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
1140 ACADEMIC PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
1160 ACADEMIC PROGRAM APPRAISAILS
1313 COURSE OUTLINES
1410 RECRUITEMENT – ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
1421 CUFA – ACADEMIC DOSSIERS
1430 CUPFA – ACADEMIC & PROFESIONNAL DOSSIERS
2240 THESIS & DISSERTATION - MANAGEMENT
2410 STUDENT ORIENTATION ACTIVITIES
2430 AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS - PROGRAMS
5111 MEETINGS OF UNITS
5112 REPORTS, STUDIES & ANALYSES
5113 STATISTICS
5160 UNIVERSITY EVENTS
5450 UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS
5461 PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL
6111 JOB PROFILES
9430 INFORMATION & ORIENTATION ACTIVITIES
The subseries illustrates the art scene around Sur Rodney (Sur), focussing especially on artists from the New York East Village, but including some international artists as well. It gives an insight in the artistic career of various artists, as there are, among others, Andreas Senser, Gracie Mansion, Geoffrey Hendricks, and photographer Timothy Greathouse. The sub-series covers subjects like Black Contemporary Art, performance art, Queer Art, and the problematic of Aids. The sub-series includes the documentary "I'll be your Mirror", screened at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian film festival and featuring photographer Nan Goldin and the lower east side of Manhattan during the 1980s and HIV/AIDS. It also includes an Acker Award box from 2014, containing original art works and mementos contributed by the awardees.
The subseries consists of, but is not limited to, newspaper articles, exhibition catalogs, magazines, and other publications, correspondence, a poster, and an Acker Awards box.
The fonds provides information on Henry Beissel's professional life as a poet, playwright, essayist, editor and teacher. It is first comprised of records related to his teaching, including correspondence, evaluations administrative files, student works, meeting minutes and course notes. It also contains records related to his prolific writing of poetry, theater and essays: many annotated versions of manuscripts, notebooks and some correspondence with publishers. The translation notes and manuscripts found in the fonds testify of Beissel's work as a translator of many works of German, Spanish and Chinese language authors.
Are also comprised are records related to the many conferences, book tours and research trips around the world Beissel took part in: text for presentations, audio recordings, some correspondence and promotional material (posters, prospectus). His commitment to humanism and active involvement with his community is shown through more correspondence and meeting documents.
An extensive correspondence testifying of the ties he established with peers and other artists, professors, humanists is also included. The press clippings, reviews and other pieces of media coverage are proofs of Beissel's success and recognition, echoed with the distinctions he received throughout his career.
Finally, the fonds includes records related to Beissel's private life: journal, travel diaries as well as personal correspondence provide a peek into his family life. The records related to his education (course notes, syllabi and early writings) hint at a rich career in the making.
Sans titreThis transfer contains administrative records from the Department of Contemporary Dance. The following RCRP categories are contained within this records transfer:
1160 Academic Program Appraisals (1999-2003)
2430 Awards & Scholarships - Programs (1991-2006)
5160 University Events (1980-2022)
5430 Media Coverage (2000-2016)
5450 University Publications (1992-2008)
5461 Promotional Material (1990-2020)
9430 Information & Orientation Activities (1982-2001)
The fonds mainly provides information on Sister Prudence Allen’s research, teaching activities, and her religious life. Some materials are related, among others, to religious figures such as Hildergard of Bingen and Edith Stein, as well as philosophical perspectives on woman. The fonds also gives genealogical information on the Allen family and the Oneida Community
The fonds includes lectures, speeches, and articles; correspondence, daily journals, and photographs. The fonds also includes three dolls made by Sr. Prudence Allen’s grandmother, Christine Hamilton Allen (1875-1952), a social worker who worked closely with Eleonar Roosevelt during the Suffrage Movement. There are other artifacts such as a Tree of Life embroidered for Sr. Prudence Allen by Gretta Nemiroff.
Sans titreThe Sur Rodney (Sur) fonds gives an insight into the life and career of Sur Rodney (Sur), from his childhood in Montreal until today. It informs about his family background and early life as part of Montreal’s black community during the 1950s and 1960s. The fonds illustrates Sur Rodney’s work as an artist and activist, and it presents the North-American and more precisely the New York East Village art scene around Sur Rodney (Sur) from the 1960s to 2018, by the means of personal correspondence exchanged with Sur Rodney (Sur), exhibition catalogues, and documents related to The Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1980) and the All New Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1981). It also contains information about the AIDS crisis, the organization Visual Aids and Sur Rodney’s implication within this context.
The fonds is organized into the following series:
P0234/A The Adams family and Sur Rodney (Sur)’s personal life
P0234/B The Artist Sur Rodney (Sur) and fellow artists
The fonds includes, but is not limited to, photographs, art works, scrap-books, posters, speaking notes, correspondence, programs, flyers, newspaper clippings, ephemera, publications with contributions by Sur Rodney (Sur), moving images and sound recordings.
Sans titreThis transfer contains digitized and born-digital administrative records from the School of Graduate Studies (SGS). These records relate to the School of Graduate Studies awards and GradProSkills programming. The following RCRP categories are contained within this records transfer:
2430 Awards and Scholarships - Programs (2003-2017)
5111 Meetings of Units (2012-2017)
5160 Events (2014-2022)
The sub-series consists of letters, greeting cards and postcards from friends and family members. It includes exchanges with Ruth Heydasch-Beissel, Susanne Forster and her relatives, Arlette Francière, Anna Beissel, Bernd Beissel, Grete Beissel, Heribert Beissel, Johanna Beissel, Clara Beissel Boisvert, Angelica Beissel Elder, Myrna Beissel but most notably, Walter Beissel, Henry's father.
Sans titreFonds consists of materials related to the life and work of Taras Grescoe and documents the research conducted during the process of writing the following publications: Sacré Blues (2000), The End of Elsewhere (2003), The Devil's Picnic (2005), Bottomfeeder: How to Ear Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (2008), Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012), and Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World (2016). These publications document Quebec society, tourism, the environment, history, and the prohibited food and substance business, among other topics. The fonds includes audio interviews and transcripts and interview transcripts, research documentation, drafts of book chapters and articles, travel notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts.
The records include sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, research materials, drafts of book chapters and articles, travel notebooks, and correspondence.
Sans titreThe Private Life series is comprised of records related to Beissel's early life in Germany, his education and many travels around the world, as well as his family life and friendships. It includes course notes, syllabi, notebooks and journals, and extensive correspondence.
The subseries also contains correspondence from 1963-1964 with William Hawrelak, Mayor of Edmonton, records on Beissel's involvement with the Save the Train Committee (Alexandria Station) in 1987, the Save Maxville Junior and Senior School campaign from 1987-1988 and well as the Woodland Improvement Program (1984-2003). It also includes a file about Beissel's 90th birthday celebration (2019).
Sans titreThe sub-series includes notes and manuscripts of translations of works by Pablo Neruda, Tor Age Bringsvaerd, François Charron, Tankred Dorst, Shie Min, André Simard, Helmut Markus and Henrik Ibsen among others, but most notably Walter Bauer and Peter Huchel.
Sans titreThe sub-series includes miscellaneous press clippings, reviews of Beissel's prose, poetry and plays as well as promotional material related to his publications, correspondence with poetry magazines.
It also contains an extensive interview with Per Brask from 1982.
Sans titreThe subseries illustrates Sur Rodney (Sur)’s career as an artist and his involvement in the art scene, from the beginning of his career in the 1960s to today. It documents Sur Rodney (Sur)’s various actions and implications not only as an artist, but also as spokesperson for artists from marginalized groups and especially those living with HIV/AIDS.
The subseries includes material on various of Sur Rodney’s projects, such as, among others, the video production The Scary truth About Cockroaches & Landlords, various exhibitions, Sur Rodney (Sur)’s contributions to numerous publications, his participation in various panels and talks, especially his presentation at the CCA Panel : Art Minus Hype : American Art in the 1980’s (1997), and the television shows Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1980) and All New Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1981), both moderated by Sur Rodney (Sur). In these shows Sur Rodney (Sur) presented artists from the Manhattan's Lower East Side art scene.
The subseries also includes interviews with Sur Rodney (Sur).
The subseries contains, but is not limited to, scripts, notebooks, calendars, a scrapbook, photographs, flyers, newspaper articles, magazines and other publications, moving images, a press kit, posters, and a sound recording.
The fonds provides information on Philip Szporer's career as a part-time instructor at Concordia University but also as a filmmaker and a journalist.
The PROFESSIONAL LIFE series includes material related to Stress, the Official Journal of the International Institute of Stress and its Affiliates Szporer edited in the beginning of the 1980's, some of films he directed as well as conferences and festivals he attended or actively took part in.
The DISTINCTIONS sub-series is comprised of records related to the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize and the Distinguished Teaching Award he received in 2010 and 2016, respectively.
The TEACHING sub-series contains course outlines, records related to the CUPFA grants Szporer received throughout the years, some correspondence, a working copy of the Concordia University Contemporary Dance Department Assessment Report he produced in 2001 as well as some course materials, including slides on the history of modern dance as well as the works of dancers: Doris Humphrey, Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Maud Allen, Martha Graham, Ruth St. Denis, and Twyla Tharp among others.
The WRITINGS sub-series includes articles Szporer wrote for Dance Connection, Dance Journal USA, Cinema Canada as well as Concordia's Thursday Report.
The PERSONAL LIFE series contains a case study on the distribution of 'Not a Love Story' submitted to the department of Communication Studies in 1981 while Szporer was completing his graduate studies at Concordia University.
Sans titreThe series provide information on Henry Beissel's professional life as a teacher, an author and a translator. It also includes records related to his involvement in the different communities of authors and humanists and the many relationships he established with peers and other artists through an extensive correspondence. The series is also comprised of some media coverage and records related to the distinctions Beissel received throughout the years.
The series also includes photos of a trip to Cologne in 2014 and colour slides (57) of photos of the The World Isa Rainbow Exhibition, held at at the Kentucky Art Gallery in 1969.
Sans titreThe sub-series is comprised of correspondence, promotional material, speaking notes and travel reports related to Beissel's participation in many conferences, talks, festivals around the world including Peru, Kenya, China, Japan and Mexico but mostly in Canada and Germany where he often toured extensively.
This sub-series includes a number of audio recordings created during his attendance at the Cultural Congress of Havana which took place January 4-11, 1968. It also contains records one the Face-to-Face National Conference on Contemporary English-Canadian Theatre Beissel helped organize at Concordia University in 1975.
Sans titreThe sub-series testifies of Beissel's involvement with different organizations and associations: the League of Canadian Poets, the Humanist Association of Ottawa, the Universities Faculty Committee for Peace in Vietnam (UFCPVN), the Canadian Humanists Publications, the Book and Periodical Development Council, the Writers' Union of Canada, the International Theatre Institute, the Playwrights Guild of Canada and more. It also includes records related to his work as an editor of the magazines Humanist Perspectives and Edge. The subseries is comprised mostly of correspondence but also includes some meeting agendas, minutes and notes.
Sans titreThe sub-series is comprised of letters, postcards and greeting cards exchanged with peers (artists, writers, professors, humanists, publishers) of Beissel including: Angelika Arend, Werner Berchem, Werner Berg, Per Brask, Ronnie Brown, Anthony Cassils, Patrick Drysdale, Leo Enright, Heide Fruth-Sachs, Keith Garebian, Gary Geddes, Albert-Reiner Glaap, Amanda Hale, Jack Herbert, Jürgen Jankofsky, Anne Kulling, Renée Makino, Helmut Markus, Rob McLennan, Najwa Nasr, Anja Oppermann, Bruno Petrenko, Andrew Proctor, Uta Regoli, Walter Riedell, Gillian Rimington, Gerd Rohmann, Fruma Rothberg Sanders, Desmond Scott, John Smith, Richard Thain, Axel Vieregg and Norman Yates, to name a few.
There is also an extended correspondence with Edward Lacey, Walter Bauer and Wolfgang Bottenberg, the latter including a musical score for 'The World Is a Rainbow'.
Sans titreThe series provide information on Clarence Bayne's education as well as his family life. It includes course notes, diplomas and some correspondence, documents pertaining to his immigration to Canada, as well as photographs of family and friends, including those of Norma Smith's costumes worn at different carnivals in Montreal as well as slides of different travels in the United States and Canada, including those of a visit to Expo 67 ‘Man and His World’ in Montreal.
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