Millionaires' art auction.Waking the feminists. Gentrification. Val-d'Or scars.
Concordia in the news
Posted on November 23, 2016
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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:
- Anne Whitelaw, associate dean of research of and associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, is quoted in aCanadian Press piece about Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris, whose 1926 work 'Mountain Forms' is poised to establish a Canadian art auction record. The article is picked up by CTVnews.ca, The Halifax Chronicle Herald,HalifaxNews95.7.com, The Brandon Sun, Nanaimo News Now, Kamloops CFJC Today, Lethbridge Herald, Windsor Star, Sudbury.com, Guelph Mercury Tribune, The Halton Hills IFP.
- The Source previews a keynote address by Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, to be delivered at Simon Fraser University next Thursday, December 1st. The talk will be titled 'Waking the Feminists: 2016’s Irish Theatre Revolution'.
- PSFK.com reprises an opinion piece from The Guardian (November 16), written by Matthew Hays, lecturer in the departments of Cinema and Communication Studies. Hayes, writing about gentrification, references research on this subject by 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.
- Daniel Salée, professor in the Department of Political Science and in the School of Community and Public Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, publishes an op-ed about the decision not to prosecute Sureté du Quebec police officers accused of mistreatment of Native women in Val-d'Or: Radio-Canada and Radio-Canada “Autochtones.”Presently the op-ed is not attributed to Salée, but we are working on having the issue resolved.