Refugee influx. Catalonia crisis. Sexism in sport media. Magistrates' cocktail.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 6, 2017
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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:
- Political Science assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Mireille Paquet, appears in a Fox Newsreport about the influx of refugees crossing into Canada form the U.S. Note that the on-screen text identifies Paquet as being at Harvard because she is the 2017-18 William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow of the Canada Program at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
- The Conversation France publishes a piece by Antoine Rayroux, assistant professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who reflects on the independence referendum in Catalonia and the European Parliament's slow response to calls for it to react.
- Linda Kay, journalism professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, talks to The Canadian Press about sexism in sport media. In the article, Kay is noted for breaking a gender barrier in the 1970' when she became the first female sports reporter at the San Diego Evening Tribune. The story is picked up by the National Post, The Toronto Star, Cambridge Times, DurhamRegion.com and 3 Down Nation.
- Alex Goupil, associate legal counsel at Concordia's University Secretariat, is pictured among participants at the recent magistrates' cocktail, organized by the Young Bar Association of Montreal: Droit-Inc.