Social media and refugees. Morelli retrospective. Novakovich Q/A.

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• AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) picks up a release updating ongoing research by Nadia Naffi, a Concordia Public Scholar and faculty member in the Department of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Naffi's work focuses on how social media shapes young people’s attitudes toward refugees.
• La Presse + features artist François Morelli, professor of painting and drawing in the Department of Studio Arts and a Concordia alumnus (BFA). The paper announces a retrospective show of Morelli's work, October 6 to December 17, at the 1700 La Poste art centre.
• CBC publishes a question-and-answer piece, where author Josip Novakovich, English professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, takes questions from several fellow-authors. The introduction to the piece mentions that Novakovich is longlisted for this year's Scotiabank Giller literary prize for his short story collection, Tumbleweed (Véhicule Press). 

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