June 19, 2014

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• Marguerite Mendel, professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, was designated an officer of L’Ordre national du Québec, the province’s highest civic honour, in recognition of her research on the social economy: arrondissement.com
  
  
• Reader's Digest Magazine profiles David Howes, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, his research on senses and his book Way of Sensing, which outlines how companies are using multisensory marketing to sell products.
  
  
• Research conducted by Aaron Johnson, professor in the Department of Psychology, investigated the common problem of blurred sight, which can be caused by factors like changes in distance between objects, as well as vision disorders like near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism. The study found that human sight is still sensitive to certain kinds of changes in our visual environment – even while performing a difficult task. Further coverage appears in Health News Network and Bright Surf.
  
  
• Broadway World covers the exhibition La Cour des Miracles in Pittsburgh featuring the work of Bill Vorn and Louis-Philippe Demers. Vorn is a professor in the Department of Studio Arts and responsible for the robotic art research-creation lab at Hexagram. The exhibition is an interactive robotic installation that reacts to viewers’ presence in a multimedia environment.
  
  
• Marie-Josée Allard, director of Hospitality Concordia and a member of the steering committee for the Encuentro was interviewed last night on the program Poesia Libre on Radio-Centre-Ville 102,3 fm (no link available) along with Loreto Araya, a member of the Chilean Theatre company Teatrocinema who will be performing at the Théâtre Outremont on Friday as part of the Encuentro programming. Concordia is hosting the week-long conference conceived by the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics that brings together academics, artists and activists from across the Americas. It is being held for the first time in Canada between June 20 and June 28.
  
  
• Gina Athena Ulysse, associate professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University, writes in the Huffington Post about her participation at the Encuentro and gives an overview of this year’s activities as well as the history of the event. Mark Sussman, associate dean of Academic and Student Affairs in the Faculty of Fine Arts is quoted as the conference’s academic convenor.

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