NYC, Paramour. Children of jihad. Jihad women. The story of autism. Target failure.

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:

• Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English, is quoted in a an article in The New York Timesabout 'Paramour' — the latest attempt by Cirque du Soleil to establish a major production in New York City. The article references The Montreal Working Group on Circus, of which Leroux is the founding director.
• Frank Chalk, professor in the Department of History, is paraphrased throughout an article in La Presse + that examines the practice by Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadists of using children as suicide bombers.
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, and Marie Lamensch, assistant to the director at MIGS, are quoted in an article in Le Devoir about djihadist organizations' recruitment of women in Western countries.
• The Chicago Tribune publishes a review by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, of In a Different Key: The Story of Autism (Crown Publishers), in which journalists John Donovan and Caren Zucker write about their experiences with autism among their entourage.
• Saul Carliner, associate professor and program director of the PhD program in the Department of Education, writes an analytical piece in Retail-Insider about the failure of the Target Canada store chain, in January, 2015.

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