Expert commentators

Josée Leclerc, a professor in the Department of Creative Art Therapies, discusses the role of the body in art in Le Devoir.

Nancy Marrelli, archivist emerita, writes about the negative effects of staff cuts at Library and Archives Canada in The Montreal Gazette.

Shaw provides information about the Symposium on Criminality in the Art and Cultural Property World, a conference which will be held in Toronto June 15-16. Clarence Epstein, Director of Special Projects and Cultural Affairs in the President’s Office, is among the panelists.

Sharon Sutherland, an instructor in Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, is thankful that NDG/Lachine MP Isabelle Morin is supporting local artists. Morin, who believes the number of exhibition spaces is insufficient, has been featuring works of art in her office. The pieces displayed change every four months: L’Actualité.

Graham Dodds, a professor in the Department of Political Science, was on CTV Montreal News at Noon to discuss the endorsement of gay marriage by U.S. president Barack Obam.

Diane Bastien, a PhD candidate in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, explains that net-zero energy homes and buildings can be designed: Voir Vert.

The Montreal Gazette reports that new cardio machines equipped with built-in Internet access are available at the PERFORM Centre. Alicia Wright, coordinator of conditioning and rehabilitation, is quoted.

Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of Concordia’s Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), was on CBC’s Homerun on May 11, 2012 to comment on the murder of a Montrealer who went back to Sri Lanka to reclaim property lost during the civil war.

Gunargie O'Sullivan of Vancouver Co-op Radio wants the federal government to pass a law mandating the inclusion of more Indigenous language radio programs on Canada’s airwaves. Lorna Roth, a professor in the Department of Communication Studies, comments on O'Sullivan’s suggestion in Rabble.ca.