Montreal's Irish musical heritage. Your toddler on TV. Khemara.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 21, 2017
Researchers in the news
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- Concordia researcher Jérémy Tétrault-Farber, PhD candidate in the humanities interdisciplinary program at Concordia, is featured in The Suburban, where he discusses his thesis work on the contributions of non-Irish people to the Irish traditional music of Montreal and mentions his thesis advisor, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Concordia Johnson Chair in Quebec/Canadian Irish Studies.
- Le Réseau d'Information Municipale du Québec (behind a paywall) covers a recent study co-authored by Caroline Fitzpatrick, affiliate researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, that describes how watching more than two hours a day of television can hamper school readiness skills in kindergartners, notably among poorer families. Fitzpatrick worked with researchers at New York University. The findings were published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics.
- Journal Métro writes about Montreal's Centre Khemara and notes that the Cambodian cultural centre grew out of the Montreal Life Stories project — an initiative of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia.