The contemporary circus. Autism strategy. The Hateful Eight. Perspectives on food.

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:

• New York Observer reports on a recent gathering of circus academics and performers at New York University, attended by Patrick Leroux, an associate professor in the Department of English and founding director of theMontreal Working Group on Circus Research. Leroux and others offer their perspectives on the contemporary circus.
• Ottawa Life Magazine and The Battlefords News-Optimist are the latest to reprise an opinion piece by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, in which she calls on the federal government to enact a national autism strategy. 
• Donato Totaro, a cinema instructor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, is quoted in a review in The Suburban of the latest Quentin Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight.
• A CNW/Telbec release lists Jordan LeBel, associate professor of marketing and director of the Executive MBA program at the John Molson School of Business, among the speakers at the 'France-Canada Food Culture Conference – Perspectives on the advantages and attractiveness of products based on terroir, origins and quality levels'. The conference is set for Thursday, January 28, 9 a.m. to noon, at Musée McCord. The release is picked up by Money News and Shaw Connect.

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