Places to be. Pan Am linkage. Pulpit to ballot box. Saskatchewan pilgrimage. Grimposium. Caixa Cultural.

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:

• The Wall Street Journal taps local artists and other notables for their recommendations of places to see and things to do when visiting Montreal this summer. Among the contributors is Josip Novakovich, professor in the Department of English, who shares his favourite book shop, restaurant and pub. 
• The Hamilton Spectator reprises an earlier article quoting Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, about organizers of the Toronto Pan Am Games forbidding linking to the games' official website without written permission.
• Lucian Turcescu, professor in and chair of the Department of Theology, is quoted in an article reprised by the The B.C. Catholic about a federal election guide published recently by the Canadian Council of Churches.  
• Prairie Post writes about a planned pilgrimage along Saskatchewan's North West Mounted Police Trail, co-organized by Matthew Anderson, a lecturer in the Department of Theological Studies.
• Québec Spot Média lists a series of events scheduled as part of the heavy metal music event 'Grimposium' and mentions Grimposium founder Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor in the Department of Education. The event, in association with Heavy Montreal, takes place August 4 to 6 at several venues, including the Grey Nuns Building.
• SP Entretenimentos (in Portugese) reports that Thomas Waugh, professor in the Department of Film Studies, will give a talk at a film show taking place at the Caixa Cultural, in Rio de Janeiro, from July 21 to August 2.

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