Far-right on the rise. In the Tinder age. City Hall swearing in. Sexual predators. Mugabe detention. From Bauhaus to Silicon Valley.

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:

• André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, talks to Al Jazeera (reprised by Re-Publish) about far-right groups currently active in Quebec and how they operate as they attempt to grow their legitimacy.
• Chaim Kuhnreich, PhD candidate in marketing and part-time lecturer in the John Molson School of Business, writes in The Conversation Canada about dating applications, in particular, the Tinder mobile app, and, as the headline reads, "what your profile pic says about you in the Tinder age".
• Harold Chorney, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in a La Presse article about the start of the Valérie Plante era at Montreal City Hall, as Plante prepares to be sworn in, this afternoon.
• MEL Magazine consults with experts, including Jim Pfaus,  psychology professor and Concordia University Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Science, for an analytical piece about sexual predation.
• La Presse + talks to Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, about the detention by Zimbabwe's army of the country's president, Robert Mugabe, and Mugabe's efforts in recent years to keep his family in control of the reins of power in the east-African nation.
• Arch + lists Orit Halpern, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, among the participants in a one-day course and workshop, 'From Bauhaus to Silicon Valley', Saturday, December 2, in Berlin.

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