Manchester attack. Giant puppets. Bombardier-Beaudoin. Donald Trump travels. Young Bar of Montreal. Blackpentecostal Breath. Victoria Day. Current affairs.

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:

• Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, was on City Montreal's Breakfast Television this morning to discuss yesterday's apparent terrorist bombing at Manchester Arena (no link available).
• Mark Sussman, associate professor of theatre and associate dean, Academic Affairs, in the Faulty of Fine Arts, was interviewed last Friday on CTV Montreal's 'News at noon' (at the 32:15 mark). Sussman talked about the giant puppetry show organized to help mark Montreal's 375th anniversary.
• Isabelle Dostaler, professor of management in the John Molson School of Business, talks to The Toronto Star about the reduced role of the Bombardier-Beaudoin families in the daily operations of the Bombardier company. The article is reprised by the Toronto Star e-edition, MSN News, OurWindsor.ca and Newscaf.
• Graham Dodds, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was interviewed on Saturday forCTV Montreal News about President Donald Trump's first official trip abroad. Please note: Dodds will be on City Montreal's Breakfast Television tomorrow morning at 6:50 to update Trump's trip.
• Le Monde Juridique announces that Alex Goupil, associate legal counsel at Concordia's University Secretariat, has been elected to the board of the Young Bar of Montreal. 
• Hillary Kaell, associate professor of religions and cultures in the Faculty of Arts and Science, interviews Ashon Crawley, author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. The interview was conducted as part of the 'New Books and Religion' podcast. 
• The Montreal Gazette enlists the help of Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, to help explain the Victoria Day holiday and how its recognition in Quebec has evolved over time to become "Journée des patriotes".
• Hugh Hazelton, associate professor (retired) of classics, modern languages and linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and Science participates in a round table discussion on Radio Canada International (in Spanish) of current Montreal and other affairs. Hazelton is first heard at the 6:22 mark of the program.
• Ira Robinson, professor of religion and director of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is named in an article in Forward among the Jewish scholars who have come from Worcester, Massachusetts. The piece centers on Professor Alan L. Mintz, a professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

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