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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:

• Sociology and anthropology professor Frances Shaver is quoted in an article in the Calgary Journal about the recent passage of Bill-C36 -- an amendment of Canada's law on prostitution.
• Part-time sociology and anthropology instructor Constance Classen appears on the BBC World Service program The Why Factor, in an episode about why we perfume ourselves. Listen here. Classen's segment begins at the 3:50 mark.
• 972 Mag publishes an interview of non-violent resistance expert Mubarak Awad by Meir Amor, associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
• Daily Xtra writes about art history associate professor John Potvin's book Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain, about the private lives and homes of some prominent gay bachelors living in Britain at the turn of the last century.
• Linguistica Antuerpiensia writes about the work of playwright Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and the Département d'Études Françaises.
• Professor and MA director in the Communication Studies Department Charles Acland talks about the Hollywood blockbuster movie business model in an interview on the BBC World Service program Business Daily. Acland's segment begins at the 6:15 mark.
• Yakub Halabi, research associate at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, writes an opinion piece in i24 news about the recent withdrawal of Hamas from the European Union's list of terrorist organizations. 

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