December 13, 2013
Concordia in the news
Posted on December 9, 2013
Expert commentators
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 Globe and Mail features a story about social media marketing courses at business schools across the country, including the John Molson School of Business. The article quotes Christopher Ross, chair in the Department of Marketing, who explains that the JMSB’s social media course has been more popular than most electives since it made its debut in 2011.
- The Ottawa Citizen publishes an op-ed written by Kathleen O’Grady, research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, about how to speak to a child with autism.
- The Canadian Media Fund has awarded Floyd Favel, a playwright and an instructor in the Department of Theatre, $400,000 for his film Sweet Cherry Wine that will uncover 60 years of Saskatchewan Cree history. Favel is pairing with two Cannes International Film Festival winners, Zacharius Kunuk and Norman Cohn of Kingulliit Productions: The Battleford New-Optimist.
- Norman Ingram, professor of the Department of History, will be speaking on a panel at the University Paris-Est and the Institut historique allemande on January 15, 2014 to mark the centenary of WWI at the beginning of 2014: Hsozkult.