Beauty in diversity. Gentrification. Anti-Semitic paraphernalia. Modern Jewish orthodoxy. Burundi censorship. Son of Saul. CEOs of the year. Creative Montrealers.

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:

• Andrew Ryder, associate professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, appeared on CBC's 'Homerun' (no link available) to talk about ethnic diversity and how living in an ethnically diverse neighbourhood is good for residents. Ryder offered his insight in regards to the news of a planned residential development for Muslim families, in Brossard.
• Matthew Hays, lecturer in the departments of Cinema and Communication Studies, writes about gentrification in The Guardian  (reprised by Exec Review) and references the gentrification research work of Peter Morden, chair of and associate professor in the Department of  Applied Human Sciences, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Hays quotes Morden, who wonders about the effectiveness of a bylaw limiting new restaurant openings in Montreal’s Saint-Henri area as a means of curtailing gentrification. 
• The Canadian Jewish News quotes Erica Lehrer, associate professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies, in an article about the design and production by a Tel Aviv company of chassidic collectible figurines considered by some anti-Semitic. The article refererences Lehrer's work on the Polish "lucky Jew" paraphernalia phenomenon, about which she has written and curatedexhibits.
• Norma Joseph, professor of religion in the Faculty of Arts and Science and associate director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, talks to The Canadian Jewish News about modern Jewish orthodoxy in Montreal. 
• Frank Chalk, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in a piece in LaPresse.ca about Burundi's move to suspend a radio program for having played a song the government deemed "contrary to the country's democratic values".
• The Hungarian Free Press publishes introductory remarks by Concordia professor emeritus András Göllner for a talk by Laszló Rajk, art director on the 2015 movie Son of Saul. The event, organized by Göllner and hosted by the School of Community and Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science, was held on November 4.
• Michel Magnan, professor in the Department of Accountancy and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance, is listed among the Les affaires selection jury for the publication's 2016 CEOs of the year. 
• Please note: Matthew Anderson, lecturer in the Department of Theological Studies and pilgrimage expert, will be a guest on CBC Radio 1, for its 'Creative Montrealers' series, this Saturday, November 19, from 5:05 pm to 6 pm. Anderson will talk about art, pilgrimage and creativity.

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