Online radicals. None of their business. Aging reviewers. Too tall . Mars or bust. Imperial claims. First world warriors.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 2, 2015
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:
- André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Religion and the Department of Theological Studies, is quoted in an article in the Montreal Gazette about Islamic State and online jihadist radicalization. The article is reprised by The Province.
- Newstalk.com posts a link to audio in which Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, comments on a medical assessment questionnaire that circulated at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The questionnaire, which had drawn criticism for asking intrusive questions, has been suspended.
- A Project Muse release lists psychology associate professor Andrew Ryder among reviewers of articles that appear in theCanadian Journal on Aging.
- Pierre Gauthier, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, is mentioned among the signatories to an open letter in Le Devoir expressing concerns about a plan being promoted by Groupe Dallaire to construct a 65-storey multi-use building in Quebec City.
- An article in the National Post about the Mars One project, mentions that Raye Kass, professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, is a crew-selection advisor to the project leaders. Mars One, an initiative of Dutch engineer Bas Lansdorp, aims to establish a human colony on Mars, starting in 2014. The article is reprised by The Star Phoenix.
- Associate professor Karl Hele, director of the First Peoples Studies program, writes an opinion piece in saultstar.com about French claims of Empire by right of discovery. He focuses on a French ceremony of possession in the Sault Ste. Marie region in 1671.
- An article in Courrier Picard about France's annual Picardie history and geography conference mentions that Jean-Philippe Warren, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will speak at this year's conference on U.S. participation in the first world war. The day-long conference is scheduled for April 9, in Saint-Quentin.