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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:

• Gabrielle Trépannier-Jobin, an incoming associate professor of media sociology, is interviewed by Mutsumi Takahashi on the CTV Montreal Noon News. She talks about the portrayal of women in the male-dominated video gaming industry and the growing presence of women in game design and programming. Trépanier-Jobin also mentions the History of Gender in Games symposium, tomorrow and Saturday in Montreal. The symposium, free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by Concordia's Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) research centre.  
• Clarence Epstein, senior director of Urban and Cultural Affairs at Concordia, is quoted in an article in La Presse + about the controversy that has surrounded certain pieces of public art, including Tilted Arc, a large sculpture that was eventually removed from Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, and the Eiffel Tower, whose detractors, a group of artists led by Guy de Maupassant, complained that the tower, erected in 1889, would disfigure Paris.
• Anaïs Détolle, a part-time instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is interviewed on the Radio-Canada program 'Bien dans son assiette'. She discusses the particular characteristics of a given food-product that may allow its producers to market it as a "produit du terroir", or "native product", and examines the case of Quebec ice cider.

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