April 7, 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:
- The Globe and Mail interviews Vivek Venkatesh, professor in the Department of Education, about Concordia’s Grimposium, an interdisciplinary conference on extreme metal that is being held April 11 – 12.
- The National Post, both online and in its hardcopy edition, publishes an op-ed co-written by Frances Shaver, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Kate Shannon, professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, and Chris Bruckert, professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, calling for the decriminalization of all aspects of sex work in Canada.
- Le Monde Sciences features an article about online anonymity and quotes Benjamin Fung, professor in Concordia’s Institute for Information Systems Engineering.
- Global News Montreal featured a segment about politics and online sexism. An accompanying article on their website quotes Geneviève Rail, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.
- Le Devoir features an article about the Rwandan genocide, which is commemorated 20 years since the tragic death of approximately 800 000 people and quotes Frank Chalk, professor in the Department of History and Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. An article in Le Huffington Post Québec also mentions the conference, Génocide des Tutsis du Rwanda, 20 ans après, that took place April 5 and 6 at Concordia.
- The Huffington Post Canada publishes an op-ed by Jon Paul Fiorentino, an instructor in the Department of English, encouraging people to not vote for the Parti Québécois in today’s election.
- Aaron Johnson, professor in the Department of Psychology, is quoted in an article about a new study that found that visual perception of things is influenced by what we saw up to 15 seconds ago. This helps create a stable environment, despite sacrificing some accuracy: The Washington Post, The Canberra Times, The Journal Gazette.