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Concordia in the news
Posted on August 24, 2016

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  • The Sherbrooke Record (behind a paywall) writes about "Housewife Heroines: Anglophone Women at Home in Montreal during WWII", a travelling and online exhibit produced by the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network. The exhibit, currently on show in Sherbrooke, was researched and co-curated by Lorraine O'Donnell,  affiliate associate professor in the School of  Community and Public Affairs.
  • Ronald Rudin, professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, is featured in a piece in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal  about his "Lost Stories" project, focusing on little-known stories of Canadians. The piece, reprised in theMoncton Times and Transcript and The Fredericton Daily Gleaner, mentions Rudin’s latest book, Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
  • Asian Pacific Post, reviewing Gina Valle's new multilingual story book The Best of all Worlds quotes psychology assistant professor Krista Byers-Heinlein from a 2014 article in PanoramItalia about Byers-Heinlein's work on language acquisition and early bilingualism. 
  • Anthropologist and doctoral candidate in art education, Emanuelle Dufour, is interviewed for Radio Canada International about her work on post-secondary education among First Nations people in Quebec.