Remembering Aylan Kurdi. Resisting indigenous stereotypes. Contemporary art symposium.

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:

• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in a Canadian Press story on the first anniversary of the publication of a photograph of the body of three-year old Aylan Kurdi. The Syrian boy drowned, with other migrants, after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized near the Turkish resort of Bodrum. Matthews warns that resettling refugees will not solve the underlying problem: the conflicts that cause refugee crises: LaPresse.ca, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's,CTVnews.ca, CBC.ca, GlobalNews.ca, Huffington Post, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, L'actualité, Journal Métro, FM93.com, 660News.com, Prince Rupert Northern View, Alaska Highway News, The Sachem & Glanbrook Gazette. Matthews' quote from the CP article is reprised in an opinion piece in The Kingston Whig-Standard.
• The Montreal Gazette (online and paper editions) publishes an opinion piece by Elizabeth Fast, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences. Fast, who is Métis and teaches about diversity and First Peoples social issues, takes exception with the use of stereotypes to portray Indigenous Peoples and their cultures. She mentions specifically the recent stir around the use of a stylized indigenous headdress costume by an elementary school teacher as she greeted pupils on the first day of school.
• A release, picked up by Nation Talk, announces the participation of Martha Langford, professor in the Department of Art History and director of the Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia, as guest speaker at an upcoming contemporary art symposium at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

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