March 4, 2014

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:

• On Saturday, The Globe and Mail printed a story, in hardcopy only, about the Thinking out Loud conversation series that will feature Louis Patrick Leroux, professor in the Department of English and the Département d’études françaises, and Lyn Heward, former director of creation for Cirque du Soleil. Leroux and Heward will be in conversation at Concordia on March 12, register here (and please encourage your colleagues also).
  
  
• CBC News Montreal features a story on their website about a CBC-Ekos poll that shows Anglophones and francophones are divided on whether the Government of Quebec’s Bill 60 will help or hurt social cohesion. Genviève Rail, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, is quoted. The story is reprised by Yahoo! Canada News and The Huffington Post Canada.
  
  
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, appeared on CBC Homerun to discuss the crisis in Ukraine.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette publishes an op-ed by Clarence Bayne, professor in the John Molson School of Business, about Gemma Raeburn-Baynes who will be honoured at Montreal’s St. James Club for 50 years of community activism in Montreal and Canada.
  
  
• Luca Caminati, professor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, will be giving a talk on Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s representation of the urban landscape in film prior to the screening of Pasolini’s Mamma Roma on March 8 in Toronto: Torontoist.

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