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Concordia in the news
Posted on June 3, 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:
- Jean-Philippe Warren, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is quoted in an article in The Toronto Star about the impact on Quebec society and on the Parti Quebecois of former Quebec Premier, the late Jacques Parizeau. The article is reprised by Our Windsor.
- Karl Hele, associate professor and director of the First Peoples Studies program, is quoted in an article in theMontreal Gazette about the conclusions in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, presented yesterday. Hele, identified as a member of the Garden River First Nation community of the Anishinaabeg people, supports the Commission finding that Canada’s historical treatment of Aboriginal Peoples, particularly its system of Indian residential schools, amounts to what it terms "cultural genocide".
- Harold Simpkins, lecturer in the Department of Marketing, is quoted in an article in the Financial Post about a series of new television ads produced for SNC-Lavalin.
- The Jewish Voice writes about the recent Sinai Scholars Society Academic Symposium, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and mentions the participation of Rabbi Yisroel Bernath, associate chaplain at Concordia.
- A release on mei.net (in Chinese) announces that Zezhong Chen, professor in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science, will be a guest at the 2015 International Seminar on Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Cutting Tools, in Zhengzhou, China, in August.