Privatization in the air. Guy Lachapelle, Graham Dodds and Maria Peluso: Trump. Hoodfar and academic freedom. Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg. Ebola. DAPL.
Concordia in the news
Posted on November 14, 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:
- Radio-Canada.ca and CBC.ca (reprised by Yahoo! News) quote Isabelle Dostaler, professor of management at the John Molson School of Business, in a piece about a review of the Transportation Act that could clear the way for increased airport privatization in Canada.
- LaPresse.ca publishes an analytical piece by Guy Lachapelle, political science professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and secretary general of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), about Donald Trump's election win. The piece originally appeared last week in La Presse +.
- Graham Dodds, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, talks to Le Journal de Montréal about the Trump election win and how Trump tapped a current of fear and resentment among people he says feel they've been forgotten.
- Le Journal de Montreal quotes Maria Peluso, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in a piece about the anger that swelled the ranks of Donald Trump supporters and how that anger could play out in Quebec politics.
- University Affairs and iPolitics report that professor emerita of anthropology Homa Hoodfar was a keynote speaker at last week's 2016 Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. Hoodfar's talk centered on science, human rights and academic freedom.
- Ira Robinson, professor of religion in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Chair of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, writes in the Canadian Jewish News about Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg (1859-1935) — a prominent Canadian Orthodox rabbi of the early 20th century.
- All Africa reports that David Secko, chair of and associate professor in the Department of Journalism of the Faculty of Arts and Science, participated in a panel discussion of news coverage of the 2014 Ebola crisis in Liberia, at the Ottawa science policy conference mentioned above.
- Before It's News reports that Louellen White, assistant professor of First Peoples Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science participated in last week's Montreal rally in solidarity with First Peoples and others in North Dakota who are opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline project. White is quoted.