Cirque for sale. Festival de la Imagen. Melancholia. Mars One. Yom Hashoah.
Concordia in the news
Posted on April 20, 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:
- Radio Canada International interviews Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and the Département d'études françaises, and founding director of the Montreal Working Group on Cirque/Circus. Leroux talks about the Cirque du Soleil and its imminent sale to U.S. and Chinese investors. RCI also posts a text story on the reported transaction in which it quotes Leroux. Finally, Leroux is mentioned in an article in The Globe and Mail.
- Señal Radio Colombia (in Spanish) writes about Festival Internacional de la Imagen/International Festival of Images, in Manizales, Columbia, on until Saturday. The article mentions the participation of Bill Vorn, professor in the Department of Studio Arts and Tagny Duff, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies. The festival of lectures, exhibitions and workshops explores themes involving ecology and artistic design and creation.
- An article in En Tête, a blog at the UQTR, mentions the participation of Verushka Lieutenant-Duval, part-time instructor in the Department of Fine Arts and doctoral candidate in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, in the recent Melancholia symposium at UQTR, where all interested were invited to reflect on the theme of melancholy.
- CTVNews.ca writes about the participation of Raye Kass, professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, and her brother James Kass, a nuclear physicist, in the selection and training program for crewmembers of the Mars One project, an initiative of Dutch engineer Bas Lansdorp. Mars One aims to establish a human colony on Mars, starting in 2026.
- The Cape Breton Post announces that Mario Silva, a fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, will be guest speaker at Yom Hashoah observances in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
