May 7, 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:

• The Montreal Gazette features a story, on the front page of the Food Section, about a course taught by Liz Miller, professor in the Department of Communication Studies. The theme of the course, “You Are What You Eat (And Drink),” looks at our place in an increasingly industrialized food chain; topics taught include the sources of our food supply, food production and the consequences of food choices.
  
  
• Daniel Douek, professor in the Department of Political Science, is interviewed about Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group, that is behind the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian school girls: CBC.
  
  
• Canculture features a review of the documentary film, Children 404, that exposes the aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay legislation that was passed last year. The review mentions that Concordia’s Cinema Politica co-founders Svetla Turnin and Ezra Winton, who each hold an MA from Concordia, along with Thomas Waugh, professor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and Ryan Conrad, a student in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, raised $11,575 USD on the Indiegogo campaign for Children 404.

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