Trump cause and effect. Fair pay in hockey. Sociology name games. Transfiction 4.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 16, 2017
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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:
- Le Devoir publishes an opinion piece by Steven High, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Science and founding member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. High examines the socioeconomic forces, notably, deindustrialization and the uneven distribution of wealth, that could explain the success of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
- Stingers women's hockey head coach and former U.S. Olympic hockey player Julie Chu is quoted throughout aRadio-Canada.ca article about a salary dispute involving the U.S. national women's hockey team and the players' plan to boycott an upcoming world championship tournament. Chu is pictured as she bears the U.S. flag in closing ceremonies at the Sochi 2014 winter Olympics.
- The Canadian Press reruns an article quoting Marc Lafrance, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who urges fellow academics to be careful when trying to draw sociology students' interest by including big celebrity names in their course subjects. He warns that using famous names could overshadow the study of broader culture and issues. In a related story, The Canadian Press re-publishes a related story where Lafrance is asked to imagine a sociology course headlined by a famous Canadian from the entertainment world. He picks singer K.D. Lang for a course on gender, sexuality and the politics of country music.
- Wzaobao.com picks up an earlier release that lists Judith Woodsworth, professor of translation studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, among the members of the academic committee for the 'Transfiction 4 — Images as Translational Fictions' conference at GuangDong University of Foreign Studies, in Guangzhou, China, November 17 to 19, 2017.