Our faculty and graduate students, as always, have been active contributors to public debates over the summer, not least through media interviews relating to their scholarship and to current affairs. Here is a brief sampling from what I know is a much longer list:
PhD candidate Eric Fillion reports that Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) has just published a dossier on You say you want a revolution, the Musée des Beaux arts exhibit on countercultures presented in parallel with Montreal's 375th. Eric was interviewed to talk about the Jazz libre, Charlebois' l'Ossticho and the appropriation of free jazz in 1960s Quebec.
Here is the link to the dossier: http://www.rts.ch/info/culture/8849232-montreal-la-revolution-tranquille-.html
And the interview: http://www.rts.ch/info/culture/8849232-montreal-la-revolution-tranquille-.html#story-anchor-Charlebois+et+le+jazz+libre
Dr. Frank Chalk was interviewed on Radio-Canada last Friday to discuss the case of alleged Nazi war criminal Helmut Oberlander, who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship for the fourth time several weeks ago. You can find the link here: http://beta.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1052322/helmut-oberlander-dossier-justice-nazis-seconde-guerre-mondiale?fromBeta=true
Dr. Max Bergholz was interviewed about his 2016 book, Violence as a Generative Force, for the Genocide Studies section of the New Books Network website. If you don't know it, NBN is "a consortium of podcasts dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to serious audiences." Listen to the podcast here: