Staff /history/taxonomy/term/2/all en Colonial Histories, Culture Wars, and the "Truths" about Empire: A Conversation with Alan Lester /history/channels/event/colonial-histories-culture-wars-and-truths-about-empire-conversation-alan-lester-361341 <p>A conversation with <strong>Professor Alan Lester (University of Sussex) </strong></p> <p> </p> Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:34:57 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1891 at /history Alicia Hinarejos awarded European Commission’s Jean Monnet Chair /history/channels/news/alicia-hinarejos-awarded-european-commissions-jean-monnet-chair-361390 <p>The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that Professor <b>Alicia Hinarejos</b> has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law. Her three-year appointment began on 1 September 2024.</p> <p>Granted by the European Commission, these prestigious chairs aim to enhance teaching and research in European Union (EU) studies at higher education institutions worldwide. Professor Hinarejos becomes VRƵ Law’s second Jean Monnet Chair holder, following in the footsteps of the late Professor Armand de Mestral, CM.</p> Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:47:45 +0000 admin 1897 at /history MBHS - “Myth, Identity & History: Coronation and the Endurance of British Monarchy” /history/channels/event/mbhs-myth-identity-history-coronation-and-endurance-british-monarchy-358379 <p><b>Jennifer Purcell </b>(Professor of History, St. Michael’s College, Vermont)</p> <p>“Myth, Identity & History: Coronation and the Endurance of British Monarchy”</p> <p> </p> <p><b>The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25</b></p> Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:16:15 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1764 at /history Gods' Feasts and Gender Troubles: Reflecting on the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony /history/channels/event/gods-feasts-and-gender-troubles-reflecting-2024-paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-361284 <p>The 2024-25 annual Tom Nacos & Family lecture</p> Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:02:22 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1888 at /history Exam period access to Nahum Gelber Law Library for Fall 2024 /history/channels/news/exam-period-access-nahum-gelber-law-library-fall-2024-361210 <p><em>La version française suit</em></p> <p>As of Monday, December 1, VRƵ students are able to access the <a href="/library/branches/law">Nahum Gelber Law Library </a>24 hours a day, seven days a week. <b>As agreed between the Students' Society of VRƵ (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the December 2 to 20 examination period.</b></p> <p>Details are as follows:</p> Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:58:39 +0000 admin 1885 at /history Fifteen new or renewed Canada Research Chairs awarded to VRƵ /history/channels/news/fifteen-new-or-renewed-canada-research-chairs-awarded-mcgill-361164 <div> <div> <p><em><strong><span><span><span><span>$<span>13.8<span><span> <span><span>million <span>in federal funding <span>for<span> <span>VRƵ’s cohort of <span>10 <span>new<span>,<span> five renewed Canada Research Chairs<span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></em></p></div></div> Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:05:33 +0000 admin 1884 at /history Book launch - Laura Madokoro, Sanctuary in Pieces (MRRG/MISC) /history/channels/event/book-launch-laura-madokoro-sanctuary-pieces-mrrgmisc-361105 <p>The VRƵ Refugee Research Group and the VRƵ Institute for the Study of Canada co-sponsor the launch of Professor Laura Madokoro's new book, "Sanctuary in Pieces:  Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City".</p> Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:04:38 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1876 at /history European-Indigenous Interactions in Some Translations of Hennepin and Lahontan, 17th-18th centuries /history/channels/event/european-indigenous-interactions-some-translations-hennepin-and-lahontan-17th-18th-centuries-360654 <p><strong>Dr. Diego Stefanelli, University of Mainz</strong></p> <p> </p> Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:52:27 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1848 at /history For an Agrarian History of Colonial Brazil /history/channels/event/agrarian-history-colonial-brazil-360617 <p>"For an agrarian history of colonial Brazil: a brief context of the usurpation and concentration of land through violence and legal subterfuge"<br /> <br /></p> Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:05:18 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1846 at /history IOWC Speaker Series - Zitian Sun, "Pitfalls of Popularity: The Radicalization Dynamics of the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement" /history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-zitian-sun-pitfalls-popularity-radicalization-dynamics-1989-tiananmen-student-360361 <p>This paper explores why radical mobilizational tactics failed to achieve social and political changes during the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement.</p> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:31:48 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1827 at /history Land and the Highland Clearances from the soil upwards /history/channels/event/land-and-highland-clearances-soil-upwards-360360 <p>Abstract: Despite their significance, popular experience of the Highland Clearances, a series of mass evictions and forced migrations in Gaelic-speaking Scotland from c1750-c1886, remain understudied in both history and archaeology.</p> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:26:52 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1826 at /history IOWC Speaker Series: Tasha Rijke-Epstein, "Aesthetic Extraversion: Violence, Circulation, and Protective Amulets in the Southwestern Indian Ocean Basin (17th -19th century)" /history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-tasha-rijke-epstein-aesthetic-extraversion-violence-circulation-and-protective-359566 <p><strong>Tasha Rijke-Epstein (Vanderbilt University)</strong></p> Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:35:26 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1816 at /history IOWC Speaker Series: Jorge Muniz de Souza Mortean, "Sailing the Lusophone Legacy: Brazil’s Geopolitical Odyssey in the Indian Ocean" /history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-jorge-muniz-de-souza-mortean-sailing-lusophone-legacy-brazils-geopolitical-359565 <p><strong>Jorge Muniz de Souza Mortean (University of Sao Paolo)</strong></p> Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:32:31 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1815 at /history IOWC Speaker Series: Raffaele Maddaluno, "Oceanic Dispossessions in the Comoros: Ecological Claims, Economic Aspirations, and Imaginaries along the Routes to a Blue Future" /history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-raffaele-maddaluno-oceanic-dispossessions-comoros-ecological-claims-economic-359645 <p><strong>Raffaele Maddaluno (La Sapienza University of Rome)</strong></p> Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:40:11 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1819 at /history IOWC Speaker Series - Juliette Françoise, "A Colonial Scandal Born of a Web of Debts: Paul Darifat’s Bankruptcy in the Isle of France in the Late Eighteenth Century" /history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-juliette-francoise-colonial-scandal-born-web-debts-paul-darifats-bankruptcy-isle-359644 <p><strong>Juliette Françoise (University of Geneva)</strong></p> Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:36:28 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 1818 at /history