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Concordia in the news
Posted on March 2, 2015
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- An article in The Nation profiling filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard mentions a talk that Godard delivered at Concordia in the late 1970's. It mentions also the work of Serge Losique, founder of the Concordia Conservatory of Cinematographic Art, which ceased operations in 1998. Losique, founder of numerous film festivals, including the Montreal World Film Festival, introduced the first credited cinema courses in Canada at Concordia.
- Paul Allen, associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies, is listed among people who endorse the substance of an open letter in Free Republic supporting marriage as a religious institution.
- An article in Le Devoir about the Future Earth research secretariat into global sustainability mentions that Paul Shrivastava, management professor and director of the JMSB's David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, is the organization's first executive director.