Niqab legislation. MIGS letter. Radicalization of women. Plight of the Yazidi. Masters of Tomorrow.

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:

• Lynda Clarke, associate professor in and interim chair of the Department of Religion, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in an article in Le Devoir about the conclusion by the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ) and the Ligue des droits et libertés (LDL) that the Quebec Bill 62 restrictions on the niqab are discriminatory. The original quote of Clarke is from the CDPDJ memoir on Bill 62. 
• The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia has published an open letter on the blogging platform Medium to respond to a recent study the signatories feel downplays the role of religion in radicalization. The letter is signed by MIGS senior deputy director Kyle Matthews, associate professor of theological studies Andre Gagné, PhD candidate (religion) Marc-André Argentino and MIGS project coordinator Marie Lamensch. 
• Marie Lamensch, researcher and assistant to the director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, was on Radio-Canada’s ‘Midi Info’, yesterday, to offer her perspective on radicalization of women. The Lamensch segment begins at the 40:25-mark, through the link identified as "Émission spéciale avec Michel C. Auger : Internet et la radicalisation (Partie 2).
• MIGS senior deputy director Kyle Matthews and Silke Melbye-Hansen, a MIGS youth fellow, co-author a piece onOpenCanada.org about the plight of the Yazidi people of Iraq, targetted by ISIS, and Canada's recent commitment to bringing an unspecified number of Yazidi refugees to this country. 
• Oregon Live posts a release announcing the participation of Joanna Berzowska, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and member of the Milieux Textile and Materiality research cluster, in the Masters of Design conference, part of the Masters of Tomorrow Summit to be held in Miami, November 30th.

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