Religion and violent extremism. Record art auction.

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:

• Marie Lamensch, project coordinator and assistant to the director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, writes an open letter in Huffington Post Québec about the role of religion in violent radicalism and maintains that it is intellectually dishonest to deny any causal link. The signatories to the letter include Kyle Matthews, MIGS senior deputy director, André Gagné, associate professor of theology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Marc-André Argentino, doctoral candidate in the Department of Religion, and Lamensch.
• Radio570News.com picked up a Canadian Press story quoting Anne Whitelaw, associate dean of research of and associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, about the auction of the 1926 painting, 'Mountain Forms', by Group of Seven impressionist Lawren Harris. The painting finally sold for a Canadian art auction record of $9.5-million at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House in Toronto,last night. The buyer's premium brought the final price to $11.2-million.

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