Dylan Nobel Prize. Masculinities. Safeguarding waterways. Colombia peace overture. Berzowska honour.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 17, 2016
Expert commentators
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:
- Mikhail Iossel, associate professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Science and founder/director of Summer Literary Seminars, is quoted in a piece in Scroll about Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for literature.
- Jane McGaughey, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies whose area of research interest includes public masculinities, was on CBC Montreal radio's Homerun last Friday to discuss masculinity (no link available).
- Le Devoir, reporting on the use of phytotechnology to safeguard waterways near road infrastructure, references a recent Université Laval symposium on the subject, co-organized by Pascale Biron, professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
- Diego Osorio, research associate at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia is interviewed for Radio Canada International (in Spanish) about the recent rejection, by referendum, of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian government and the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC.
- A Radio Canada International brief mentions that Joanna Berzowska, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, member of the Milieux Textile and Materiality research cluster and research director of XS Labs at Concordia, was recently named the Montreal Y Foundation's 2016 Woman of Distinction for science and technology.
