Closing event of the 2020 BU Art Fest STORRY is a seasoned artist trained in classical music who performs Mozart arias with as much confidence as hip hop, R&B, and gospel. Fierce and multifaceted, she writes and produces all her music. STORRY’s voice quality is second to none, and she uses and enhances her incredible … Continue reading BU Arts Fest presents STORRY
The Duo Francois will present a concert featuring masterpieces music for violin and piano including the wonderful Sonata #3 in C minor of Edvard Grieg, the hauntingly beautiful “Lark Ascending” of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and other works. The concert may include the world premiere of a new commissioned Sonata by Andrew Paul MacDonald. The work … Continue reading Musique chez nous: Duo François
Joshua Aiken, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Bishop’s University AM CVn stars are a type of ultra-short period binary system (with orbital periods as low as 5 minutes) with a white dwarf accreting helium from a hydrogen-depleted donor star. Due to these very short periods, AM CVn stars are an excellent source of low-frequency gravitational … Continue reading Physics & Astronomy Seminar: On the Formation of AM CVn Stars
Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau, Bishop's University Plurilingualism, derived from a sociolinguistic perspective, highlights the interconnections and mutual influence among languages and cultures (Piccardo, 2013). It challenges a static, compartmentalized view of language and disrupts the traditional deficit-oriented view of additional language (AL) learners who are often defined by their lack of target language competency, … Continue reading Research Talk: Plurilingual Integrated Teaching and Learning: Promoting Transversal Language Competence for Critical Learning
Professor of Physics, Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics (McGill University) Dr. Victoria Kaspi is a distinguished physics professor at McGill University. Her work focuses on the astrophysics of neutron stars and pulsars. With an undergraduate degree from McGill in 1989, Dr. Kaspi went on to complete … Continue reading Donald Lecture Series: Dr. Victoria Kaspi – Professor of Physics
Emilie Parent, Department of Physics & MSI McGill University Over the past five decades, pulsar astrophysics has greatly impacted a variety of fields in fundamental physics, from testing theories of gravity to investigating the equation-of-state of matter at supra-nuclear densities. Radio surveys for pulsars and fast transients have been the most effective mean of discovering … Continue reading Physics & Astronomy Seminar: The Arecibo PALFA survey and the observed population of millisecond pulsars
Kaleb Mathieu, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Bishop’s University The Quantum Hall Effect(QHE) is the quantum-mechanical version of a classical effect known as the Hall Effect. This effect creates a voltage difference across an electrical conductor, transverse to an applied electric field in the conductor and an applied magnetic field. This voltage difference causes a … Continue reading Physics & Astronomy Seminar: On the influence of Gravity on the Quantum Hall Effect
The German Studies Section of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures is presenting CALLIOPE: an Exhibit on outstanding Austrian women in Society, Culture & the Sciences, from the 18th Century to the present day; women who have left their mark on Austria and helped shape history! Sponsored by the Austrian Embassy in Ottawa … Continue reading Calliope: Exhibit on Austrian Women in Society, Culture & the Sciences
2018 JUNO nominee Kellylee Evans is a high-octane, chameleon-like performer whose natural charm and improvisational vocal style embody jazz, soul, pop, and hip-hop. The singer-songwriter won a 2011 JUNO Award and has been captivating audiences along the way, opening for stars such as John Legend, George Benson and Willie Nelson.
Elise Moser is the author of three books, including her YA novel Lily and Taylor, which was named to the Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014 list by the American Library Association. She is a freelance editor, coordinates the Atwater Writers Exhibition, and has led writing workshops for the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) and the … Continue reading Morris House Reading Series: Elise Moser
Presented by the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Dr. Karine Bertrand, Queen’s University Department of Film and Media From Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary Mother of Many Children (1977) to Jeff Barnaby’s contemporary take on residential schools, Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), storytelling and the remediation of oral tradition is slowly becoming a unifying factor … Continue reading Canadian Indigenous cinemas and the remediation of Indigenous languages on screen
Benjamin Leblanc, Department of Physics & Astronomy Bishop’s University Liquid water is one of the most basic considerations in the search for life, therefore we must find exoplanets with the possibility of liquid water. The habitable zone is the range of orbital radii around a particular star where liquid water could be present. The stellar temperature … Continue reading Physics & Astronomy Seminar – Black Hole Sun: A Cold Sun and a Hot Sky
Original music by Fannie Lyrics: Normand Achim A concert of French music by the Bishop’s University Singers’ artistic director, Fannie Gaudette who is exploring a new musical journey as a singer-songwriter.
Public lecture by: Professor Preslav Dimitrov, Dean, Faculty of Economics Neofit Rilski University, Blagoevgrad Sponsored by: WSB Student Activity Fund Speakers Committee Everyone is welcome and invited to attend.
Déreck Lizotte, Department of Physics & Astronomy Bishop’s University Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by tiny, faint orbital companions known as dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The huge difference between the luminous mass and mass inferred due to the dynamics of the stars within these types of galaxies implies a very significant content of non-luminous (dark) … Continue reading Physics & Astronomy Seminar – Dark Matter Content in Milky Way Companion Galaxies
The Miracle Worker (The story of Helen Keller), by William Gibson Among the most beloved American plays of all time, The Miracle Worker presents the true story of the young Helen Keller, blind and deaf from infancy. Undisciplined by her parents due to the pity they feel for her, and unable to communicate beyond simple … Continue reading The Drama Department presents: Miracle Worker
Andrea Giusti, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Bishop’s University The Horizon Quantum Mechanics is an approach that allows one to analyze the gravitational radius of spherically symmetric systems and compute the probability that a given quantum state is a black hole. We first review the general formalism and show how it reproduces a gravitationally inspired … Continue reading Physics & Astronomy Seminar: Horizon Quantum Mechanics
The Miracle Worker (The story of Helen Keller), by William Gibson Among the most beloved American plays of all time, The Miracle Worker presents the true story of the young Helen Keller, blind and deaf from infancy. Undisciplined by her parents due to the pity they feel for her, and unable to communicate beyond simple … Continue reading The Drama Department presents: Miracle Worker
