Catalonia crisis. "Ateetee". Big business and social responsibility. Depression across cultures.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Antoine Rayroux, assistant professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is interviewed by Anne-Marie Dussault on the set of Radio-Canada television's '24/60'. They discuss the impasse between the Spanish government and Catalonia and what role Europe could play to help diffuse the crisis. The segment with the Rayroux interview begins at the 35:40 mark.
• Urbania talks to Guy Lachapelle, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science and secretary general of the Concordia-based International Political Science Association (IPSA), about prime minister Justin Trudeau's silence on the Spanish police repression of Catalonia's independence referendum.
• The Memorial University Gazette writes about Concordia postdoctoral fellow and Banting scholar Leila Qashu's Memorial University PhD dissertation, bearing on the Ethiopian Arsi tradition of ateetee, where a married woman who has suffered abuse travels to her offender's homes to achieve resolution and reconciliation by negotiating and singing a musical form of conflict resolution.
• Jordan Le Bel, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, participates in a podcastby Les Dérangeants, hosted by les affaires, where guests talk about the social and environmental responsibility of big business.
• Andrew Ryder, associate professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH), is quoted in an article in The Atlantic about how depression may be felt differently depending on one's cultural group.

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