Montreal Signs Project. Thinking Out Loud — Talking Television. Indian lands. Putting Life to Work.

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• Le Devoir (front page) and Passeport 2017 run articles featuring the Tel quel/As Is signs exhibition, on now at the Loyola campus, until this Friday, January 27. They report that the signs were collected for the Montreal Signs Project, directed by Matt Soar, associate professor of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science.  Soar is pictured and quoted at length in the Le Devoir piece, which mentions the collaboration of archivist Nancy Marrelli on the Signs Project. 
• The Globe and Mail publishes a release announcing Thinking Out Loud: 'Future Small Screen — Talking Television', Thursday, February 9 at 7 pm at the D.B. Clarke Theatre. (Please note: there is a “you” at the beginning of the text that does not belong and we are having it corrected). The Concordia conversation will featureNew Yorker television critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum and Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema assistant professor Joshua Neves, Canada Research Chair of Global Emergent Media. The Thinking Out Loud/La parole aux idées series is announced also on AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall). 
• Soo Today, Nation Talk and Country104.3.com pick up an earlier release announcing this evening's launch at Algoma University of the new book by Karle Hele, associate professor of First Peoples Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, This is Indian Land (Aboriginal Issues Press, 2016) — a collection of essays about Canadian land treaties with First Nations, co-authored and edited by Hele.
• Université de Moncton announces the Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens multimedia performance art show,'Putting Life to Work', in Moncton. It mentions that the exhibit was produced by Concordia's Leonard and Bina Ellen gallery (curated by Véronique Leblanc).

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