Turtle Island Reads. The power of encouragement. The science and history of decorating. Ubiquitous computing.

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:

• CBC.ca previewed last evening's Turtle Island Reads public event at the Kahnawake Survival School, where certain works of Indigenous writers were examined by a panel which included Elma Moses, a faculty member who teaches in the First Peoples Studies program. Moses discussed Dawn Dupont's autobiographical novel, Nobody Cries at Bingo. CBC.ca later wrote about the event and posted a re-cap of last evening's live stream, where Moses is seen throughout.
• Suzanne Reisler Litwin, an instructor in the Centre for Continuing Education and Concordia alumna (MA, educational technology) writes in The Suburban about the power of encouragement.
• A Calenda brief announces the participation of John Potvin, associate professor in the Department of Art History, in an international symposium on the history of interior decorating. Potvin's talk will be titled, 'Feeling and the Science of Decorating: The Gender of the Professional Interior Decorator, 1900-1940'.
• Cornell University announces that Orit Halpern, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will give a talk on “The Smart Mandate: Ubiquitous Computing, Design and Resilience”., Thursday, October 6, at Cornell.

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