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Posted on May 11, 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:
- La Source features the new peer-reviewed journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, co-edited by Alice Ming Wai Jim, associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Art History, and Alexandra Chang, New York University. The article comprises an interview with Jim and an inset profiling Jim and her work. A footnote announces that Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas will be launched May 21st, in Vancouver.
- Asia Society publishes an interview with American Olympic women's hockey player Julie Chu, who joined the Stingers hockey coaching staff last fall.
- Hua Ge, assistant professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, is quoted in an article in the Montreal Gazette about improving a home's energy efficiency. The article appears also in the paper's e-edition.
- The Montreal Gazette publishes an opinion piece by Eva Pomeroy, lecturer in the Department of Applied Human Sciences. Pomeroy writes about how employers can gain from helping employees balance work and family.
- The Ottawa Citizen publishes an op-ed by Nadine Blumer, a postdoctoral fellow and an affiliate of the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV). The piece focuses on two federally-funded projects to construct memorials in Ottawa and the differing public reaction to the projects: one is the Memorial to the Victims of Communism and the other, the National Holocaust Memorial.
- Brooke Jeffrey, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, was a panelist on CBC radio's The Current, last Thursday. She was among three experts invited to discuss the possible impact of the recent NDP Alberta provincial election victory on the NDP's federal electoral fortunes. Jeffrey is first heard at the 5:30 mark.