Football circus. Decolonizing Curatorial Pedagogies. Group artists. Coach Chu.

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 and founding director of The Montreal Working Group on Circus, is quoted in The Globe and Mail coverage (reprised by BNN.ca) of a Cirque du Soleil partnership with the National Football League to create an interactive tourist attraction in New York's Times Square. 
• A brief in Nation Talk about the recent workshop in Ottawa on museum policies and practices with regard to Aboriginal peoples, titled Decolonizing Curatorial Pedagogies, mentions the participation in the workshop of Erica Lehrer, associate professor in the Department of History and Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies, and Heather Igloliorte, assistant professor in the Department of Art History.
• Canadian Art announced that Kristina Huneault, professor in the Department of Art History, participated in a panel discussion, last week, at the Art Gallery of Windsor, on group-artist culture, focusing on the Group of Seven and the Beaver Hall Group. The brief noted that Huneault is co-founder of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.
• Asian American Press, reprised by My Informs,  picks up news that four-time Olympic hockey medalist Julie Chu has been named head coach of the  Stingers women's hockey program for the upcoming season after having served as acting head coach last season.

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