Circus documentary. Healthcare reform. Cross close up. Greek debt.

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:

• 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, appears in Historia TV's "Bêtes de foire", a Historia television series about circus life. Episode 1, « Le Cirque», aired last evening. Watch it here. Leroux first appears at the 18:40 mark. He will appear in future episodes of the series, notably: Episode 2, « Les hommes forts », airing next Wednesday, June 3 at 10 p.m, and Episode 3, « Les Freaks », airing Wednesday, June 10 at 10 p.m. Other episodes will follow.
• A release from the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) about a symposium on Quebec healthcare reform, past and present, mentions that political science researcher and post-doctoral fellow Elhadji Mbaye helped prepare a presentation to open the symposium in Rimouski, earlier this week.
• Yorkton This Week publishes an article profiling Roy Cross, associate professor in the Department of Cinema. It mentions that Cross earned his master's degree at Concordia.
• The Canadian Press posts an earlier article, later picked up by numerous media, quoting André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Religion and the Department of Theological Studies, about young Quebecers who are drawn into the ranks of extremist organizations. Gagné suggests that the best way to reach out to young people who could be susceptible to radical ideology may be through education. 
• Stylianos Perrakis, professor in the Department of Finance, writes a letter to the editor in The Globe and Mail about the failure of the Greek government to set the country on the path to economic recovery.

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