SOMEONE fighting hate speech. Sheldrake's lost stories. Filmmakers' gender divide. Presenteeism.

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• Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is featured in Le Devoir and was interviewed for Radio Canada news and public affairs programs along the radio network, in Toronto, Sudbury, Winnipeg and Regina (no links available) about the SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every day) initiative to sensitize the public and civil society to problems associated with online hostility. Venkatesh is leading researchers at Concordia and elsewhere in the project to develop a web portal dedicated to fighting online hate speech and radicalization.
• CBC.ca presents the story of the leprosy colony of Sheldrake Island, at the mouth of New Brunswick's Miramichi River. It reports that the story will be included in the Lost Stories project, led by Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Lost Stories involves the collection of little-known stories of Canadians that will be published for Canada Day, 2017.
• LaPresse.ca writes about an effort by the Quebec government's Société de développement des entreprises culturelles to launch a study, with the collaboration of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, to examine how schools like Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts teach filmmaking. The research goal is to determine how current teaching programs may be fostering a gender cleavage among new and prospective filmmakers.
• Il Messaggero (in Italian) references a research review of the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, co-written by professor emeritus of management Gary Johns and published in 2015 in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 
• Please note: Michael Carney, professor in the Department of Management, will be a guest on CJAD's Aaron Rand Show this afternoon at 4:45 to discuss his research into popular assumptions about the lifestyle of the very wealthy "one percent." Carney led the study with department colleague, assistant professor Robert Nason.
• Please note: Philip Abrami, education professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Director of the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP), will be on Montreal Breakfast Television tomorrow morning at 8:50 to discuss ABRACADABRA — software developed by CSLP researchers to help children with autism learn to read.

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