Harper legacy. Verthuy on Djebar. Cooperative education. Globe: études québécoises.

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:

• Assistant professor of political science Mireille Paquet, interviewed earlier today on the morning shows of six Radio-Canada radio stations in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and PEI, discussed the Conservative Party's three-day policy convention, opening this evening in Vancouver. She considered former leader Stephen Harper's legacy and looked ahead to the party's leadership race. Listen to her on Radio-Canada Charlottetown ("Ouverture du congrès du parti Conservateur").
• El Watan publishes an interview with Maïr Verthuy, co-founder and first director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, who talks about Algerian author, the late Assia Djebar. The introductory text to the interview notes that Djebar received an honorary degree from Concordia (June, 2002).
• Graham Carr, vice-president, Research and Graduate Studies, is quoted in a piece in Times Higher Education about cooperative education programs, where students combine time in the classroom with paid time in the workplace.
• A Calenda release inviting article submissions for an upcoming edition of Globe — Revue internationale d’études québécoises, lists political science professor Guy Lachapelle among the members of the publication's editorial board.
• Another Calenda release, previewing "Borders, Walls and Violence: Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing" — a two-day symposium at UQAM, June 2nd and 3rd — announces that Marie Lamensch, assistant to the director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, will will lead a panel discussion on the second day of the event.

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