November 7, 2013

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:

• The Wall Street Journal publishes an article about deconsecrated religious buildings in Montreal and Quebec being repurposed and quotes Clarence Epstein, director of Special Projects and Cultural Affairs in the Office of the President.
  Epstein also appeared on CBC’s The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti to discuss the Max Stern Art Restitution Project and German authorities finding 1,400 works of Nazi-looted art in a Munich apartment. The program also interviewed Dr. Uwe Hartmann from Germany’s Office of Provenance Research and mentions he’s in Montreal to attend the conference Plundered Cultures, Stolen Heritage.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette publishes an op-ed (online and in hard copy) written by Frank Chalk, professor in the Department of History and director of the Montreal Institute of Genocide and Human Rights Studies, about how attacks on culture often foreshadow mass atrocities. The item mentions the conference Plundered Cultures, Stolen Heritage.
  
  
• University Affairs profiles Christian Bök, a Canadian experimental poet, visual artist and professor at the University of Calgary, about his most recent project, The Xenotext Project that combines science, poetry and visual art. The article quotes Darren Wershler, professor in the Department of English.
  
  
• Project Muse publishes a book review written by Linda Kay, professor in the Department of Journalism.

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