March 13, 2014
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:
- Louis Patrick Leroux, professor in both the Department of English and the Département d’études française, appeared on CBC Homerun yesterday to discuss the circus. Leroux was part of the second conversation in the Thinking out Loud conversation series about the academics of the circus. The next event is on March 20 featuring two-time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey and creative writing professor and Man Booker Prize nominee, Josip Novakovich. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information on the series, visit concordia.ca/CUtalks. Glenda MacDonald, blogger, social media strategist and marketing consultant, publicized the event on her blog.
- Zero Anthropology publishes a review of Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa, a recent book by Maximilien Forte, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
- The Winnipeg Free Press reports the book Stripmalling by Jon Paul Fiorentino, a professor in the Department of English, has been optioned as a screenplay to be developed by Farpoint films.
- An article in Bloomberg and Bloomberg Businessweek on the arrival of Pierre Karl Peladeau as a PQ candidate quotes Guy Lachapelle, professor in the Department of Political Science and a PQ candidate in the 2007 election.
- UCONN Foundation profiles Tingyu Zhou, professor in the Department of Finance and the first beneficiary of the Jou scholarship for her work in the doctoral program at the University of Connecticut.
- Harold Simpkins, professor in the Department of Marketing, is quoted in an article in The Gazette looking at election commercials.
- Marc Lafrance, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, participated in a discussion on Radio-Canada’s Médium large about sexual violence on campuses across North America as well as a new lexicon for LGBT terms in the workplace.
- Catherine Lebel, instructor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, will be participating in a conference on the humanities in the digital era, taking place at UQAM on March 14: CNW.