Urban sprawl. Grimposium. Open-access books. Minorities in Middle Eastern regimes.

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• Jochen Jaeger, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, and recent Concordia graduate Naghmeh Nazarnia collaborated with Queen’s University’s David Gordon to examine the consequences of increased urban sprawl. Coverage appears in LaPresse.ca.
• Tourisme Montreal writes about Grimposium in a blog about this week’s Heavy Montreal music festival. Grimposium, the brainchild of Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor in the department of education, is an academic symposium that brings together researches, musicians filmmakers and fans of heavy music for a progam of events held at Concordia and in Katacombes bar.
• The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities is the subject of an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The newly released open-access book is edited by Charles Acland, Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies and professor in the Department of Communication Studies, and Eric Hoyt, assistant professor, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Maryland.
• noodls publishes portions of a news release issued yesterday about the research of Ceren Belge, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, in collaboration with Ekrem Karakoç from Binghamton University about the role of religious minorities in Middle Eastern Regimes. The study was published earlier this year in Political Research Quarterly.

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