Benefits of bilingualism. Richard Foltz talk and book signing.

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• Coverage continues of a new Concordia study of the cognitive benefits to children of being bilingual as toddlers, led by Diane Poulin-Dubois, a professor in the Department of Psychology, and Cristina Crivello, a graduate student with Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH): Aujourdhui.com, How To Learn, South Africa Sunday Times. The paper was published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
• The University of California, Irvine School of Humanities announces that Richard Foltz, a professor in the Department of Religion and founding director of Concordia's Centre for Iranian Studies, will give a lecture at UC Irvine's Jordan Center for Persian Studies, Tuesday, February 23rd, titled 'On the Margins of Greater Iran: Richard Frye and the History of the Tajiks'. The release also states that Foltz will hold a book signing immediately following the lecture and mentions his two most recent books: Iran in World History (Oxford University Press, 2015) andReligions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present (Oneworld Publications, 2013).

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