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Military move on Mosul. Obama and executive power. Kilbourn lecture.

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Posted on October 18, 2016

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  • Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, appeared on CBC radio Montreal’s Homerun (no link available) to discuss the ongoing military campaign to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS. 
  • The Conversation publishes an analytical piece on Barack Obama’s use of unilateral executive powers in which it paraphrases Graham Dodds, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, from his book, Take Up Your Pen (University of Pennsylvania Press).
  • Torontoist announced that Steven High, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, gave a talk in Toronto, last evening, as part of the Kilbourn lecture series. The talk was titled “The Deindustrialization of the Senses: a Multi-Sensory Approach to Intangible Heritage.”