Language exchange. Munk debate. Les chefs en français. French debate. Digital La Presse. Quiet revolution. Palestine panel. Harlan Johnson. Too close to call.

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:

• A Dalhousie University news release announces that Sherry Simon, professor in the Département d'Études Françaises, will give a talk at Dalhousie on October 22. Simon's lecture, part of Dalhousie's annual MacKay Lecture Series, will bear on language exchange and how it shapes urban culture.
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, is quoted in an article in iPolitics about next Monday's Munk Debate on Canada's foreign policy, between Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau and New Democratic Party  leader Thomas Mulcair. Matthews expresses the hope that the party leaders will discuss the importance for Canada to help establish international security norms for cyberspace.
• The Montreal Gazette enlists the services of Political Science professor Guy Lachapelle and Université de Montreal French literature professor Benoît Melançon to grade the French speaking proficiency of the federal party leaders, whose French-language campaign debate is being held this evening. The article is reprised inThe Vancouver Sun.
• Mireille Paquet, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, is quoted in a Canadian Press article about Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe's likely strategy for this evening's leader's debate. The article appears in The Winnipeg Free Press, Cambridge Times and Yahoo! News.
• Paquet is quoted again in a related Canadian Press article that looks at how Justin Trudeau may want to avoid taking risks in the debate. The article appears in the Winnipeg Free Press (behind a paywall), Yahoo! Newsand Ottawa Community News
• Paquet was interviewed about this evening's debate for today's newscasts on CJAD radio (no links available).
• The Canadian Press releases an earlier article quoting journalism professor Mike Gasher on the announcement that La Presse is ceasing publication of its weekday paper edition in the new year.
• Jean-Philippe Warren is interviewed on Radio-Canada's "Aujourd'hui l'histoire". He talks about Quebec's political turn to the left during the Quiet Revolution of the 1960's. Listen to the interview. The accompanying text mentions two of Warren's books on Quebec's intellectual and cultural history: Ils voulaient changer le monde : le militantisme marxiste-léniniste au Québec and Une douce anarchie : les années 68 au Québec.
• Rabble.ca announces that two Concordians will participate in a panel discussion of this summer's  International Conference of Critical Geography in Ramallah, Palestine: Kevin Gould, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, and Norma Rantisi, professor in the same department. Rantisi will act as panel chair. The event takes place in Toronto, October 7.
• Harlan Johnson, part-time instructor in the Department of Studio Arts, is interviewed for The Coast (Halifax).
• The Winnipeg Free Press (behind a paywall) publishes an article in which Mebs Kanji, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Kerry Tannahill, a doctoral candidate in the department, analyze the ongoing federal election campaign and the opinion polls that suggest a three-way tie. 

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