Educate against radicalization. Circus town. Offensive toponymy. Manga agitation. Women of Ireland.

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:

• André Gagné, an associate professor in the Departments of Religion and Theology, was interviewed on CJAD's Andrew Carter Show this morning about religious extremism and Friday's terror attacks in Paris (no link available). Gagné also appeared in a Montreal CTV News report and an online CTV text story yesterday about the work of the Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence. Gagné says more education is required to prevent radicalization of youth online.  
• The travel magazine iol reprises a recent Washington Post article in which 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, reflects on Montreal's identity as a circus town.
• The National Post reports that Ted Rutland, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, is a signatory to a recent letter to the Commission de toponymie du Québec by geography professors at four Montreal universities. In the letter, the academics call on the Quebec government to give black scholars a central role in choosing new names for nine locations in the province whose names are being dropped because they contain the racist n-word, offensive to members of the black community. Rutland is quoted in the article, which is reprised in 24news.ca.
• Matthew Penney, an associate professor in the Department of History, is quoted in an article in The Guardian about the use of Manga as a vehicle for social comment and protest in Japan. The article is reprised by The Mindanao Examiner.
• The Guardian publishes an opinion piece by Emer O'Toole, an assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies. O'Toole weighs in on the stir around the male-centric program for the centenary of Dublin's Abbey theatre and declares that Irish women will no longer put up with being written out of history.

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