Gamergate. Morning Star. Syrian resettlement. Therapeutic art. Exercise for the brain. Trudeau and climate change. Circus academics. Symposium de sociocritique.

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:

• Mia Consalvo, a professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia, is quoted in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review that deals with the ongoing Gamergate debate. The article focuses on the engagement of the U.S.-based Society of Professional Journalists in the discussion of ethics in gaming journalism. Consalvo reflects on the anger some in the gaming community feel over what they perceive as an attempt to inject feminist critiques into gaming culture.
• CBC.ca posts a profile of Morning Star Orr, an elder who regularly leads healing circles at the university's Aboriginal Student Resource Centre. The article is reprised by Yahoo! News.
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, appeared on CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup, on Sunday. Matthews joined the discussion of the federal government plan to resettle 25-thousand Syrian refugees by year-end. Listen to the Matthews segment (at the 50:50 mark).
• Josée Leclerc, an associate professor in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies, is quoted throughout a piece in Le Devoir featuring Concordia's art therapies programs.  The online version of the article includes an on-camera interview with Leclerc.
• Louis Bherer, scientific director of the PERFORM Centre at Concordia, is quoted in an article in The Toronto Star about scientific studies that have shown the significant benefits of regular exercise in warding off dementia.
• Le Devoir turns to Peter Stoett, a professor in the Department of Political Science, for perspective on the impact on Canada's climate change policies of the election of Justin Trudeau at the head of a majority Liberal government. 
• 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, and PhD student Alison Bowie were interviewed about their circus research on Czech radio station, Vltava. The interview, with a voice-over translation to Czech, begins shortly after the 41-minute mark.
• A brief in Fabula announcing the Symposium international de sociocritique, at Université de Montréal, December 9 to 12, lists three Concordia academics among the participants: Sherry Simon, a professor in the Département d'Études françaises, and Geneviève Sicotte and Sylvain David, assistant professors in the same department. 

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