The 2024 Yan P. Lin Centre Annual Lecture
Wednesday March 28th, 2024 – Faculty Club Ballroom
Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge) “Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?”
Research Group on Constitutional Studies events 2023-2024.
Coordinator: Jacob Levy
Thursday, September 14th, 2023 – Leacock 232
Adam Smith Tercentenary Lecture: Ryan Griffiths (McGill University), "Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political Realism" and response by Shal Marriott.
Cosponsored by the Adam Smith Tercentenary project of the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Government Office in Canada
Thursday, October 26th, 2023 – Thompson House Ballroom
Lecture Series: Kevin Vallier (Philosophy, Bowling Green State University), "From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution: The Early Modern Roots of Radical Anti-liberalism"
Friday, October 27th, 2023
Works in Progress Workshop: Yann Allard Tremblay
Thursday, January 18, 2024 – Thompson House Ballroom
Lecture Series: Emily Nacol (University of Toronto), "A 'More Onerous Citizenship': Political Theory in Plague Time"
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 – Thompson House Ballroom
Joseph Carens (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto): "Reality and Political Theory"
Thursday, March 14th, 2024 – Thompson House Ballroom
Kevin Elliott (Ethics Politics & Economics, Yale): "Democracy for Busy People"
Thursday, April 11th, 2024 – Leacock Building 232
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University), “Against Decolonisation”
Sponsored by Critical Social Theory at McGill and co-sponsored by the African Studies Program, the Provostial Action Plan Against Anti-Black Racism, and the Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Constitutional Studies and Research Group on Global Justice.
Research Group on Global Justice events 2023-2024.
Coordinator: Catherine Lu
Friday, October 13th, 2023 – Thompson House Ballroom
Lecture Series: Manon Garcia (Freie Universität), “The Joy of Consent”
Friday, November 3rd, 2023 – Arts 160
Lecture Series: Lucia Rafanelli (George Washington University), “The Specter of Statelessness”
Friday, November 10th, 2023 – Arts 160
Lecture Series: Stefan Gosepath (Free University of Berlin/NYU), “Contestations and Possible Improvements of the Liberal Script”
Friday, November 17th, 2023 – Leacock 232
Marret Annual Lecture: David Welch (U of Waterloo), “How should we REALLY think about security?”
Co-sponsored by CIPSS
Friday, January 26th, 2024 – Arts 160
Lecture Series: Margaret Kohn (University of Toronto), “The Promise and Peril of Participatory Democracy: Lessons from Non-profit Housing Cooperatives”
Co-sponsored by RGDST
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 – Faculty Club Billiard Room
Roundtable on Indigeneity: Complex Identities and Diversity in Indigenous Studies
Participants: Aaron Mills (Law, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Constitutionalism and Philosophy) Noelani Arista (History, Director of the Indigenous Studies Program, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Land, Governance, and Language) Yann Allard-Tremblay (Political Science, Director of the Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative)
Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative.
Thursday, April 18th, 2024 – Arts 160
Book Roundtable Democracy and Empire by Inés Valdez (Johns Hopkins)
Participants: William Tilleczek, Robin Celikates, Ryoa Chung, Will Roberts, Yves Winter,
Jennifer Welsh, Catherine Lu, Inés Valdez
Friday, April 19th, 2024 – Arts 160
Robin Celikates (MIT/Free University of Berlin): “Xenophobia’ to Structural Racism, and Back? Epistemic Obstacles, Conceptual Struggles, and the Role of Critical Theory”
Research Group on Transitions and Global Modernities events 2023-2024
Coordinators: Anastassios Anastassiadis and Lorenz Lüthi
Monday, October 2nd, 2023 – Arts 116
Lecture Series: Hanno Hochmuth (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Postdam), “Babylon Berlin: The Weimar Republic in Past and Present”
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 – Leacock 232
Lecture Series: M'hamed Oualdi (Science Po-Paris), Connecting Mediterranean and Atlantic Slaveries (18th-19th centuries)
Monday, November 13th, 2023 – Leacock 26
Gabriel Allahdua (University of Guelph), “Harvesting Freedom: Migrant Workers in Canada”
Cosponsored by the Dean of Arts Development Fund
Friday, November 24th, 2023 – Faculty Club Billiard Room
Symposium: Collapses in History, Lived and Remembered
Participants: Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill), Cecily Hilsdale (McGill), Faith Wallis (McGill), Judith Szapor (McGill), Christopher Goscha (UQAM) & Lorenz Luthi (McGill)
Co-sponsored by RGGP
Friday, February 2nd, 2024 – Faculty Club Billiard Room
Defector Workshop
Panel 1 “Soviet Defectors to the West “
Participants: Kevin Riehle (Brunel University), Samuel Eberlee (University of Toronto), Kristy Ironside (McGill)
Panel 2 “Places of Defection”
Participants: Phi-Van Nguyen (Université de St. Boniface), Laura Madokoro (Carlton University), Lorenz Lüthi (McGill Univesity)
Friday, February 2nd, 2024 – Faculty Club Billiard Room
Erick R. Scott (University of Kansas) "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World"
Friday, March 15th , 2024 – Arts 150
Maura Hametz (James Madison University) “Terrorists or Martyrs: International Justice and the 1930 Il Popolo di Trieste Trial”
Friday, March 22nd, 2024 – Leacock Building 110
Elizabeth Leake (Tufts) “Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Remaking of the International Order”
Friday, April 19th, 2024 – Arts 160
Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ (Harvard) “The Making of a Socialist World: Cultural Connections between Poland and Vietnam After 1955”
Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology events 2023-2024
Coordinator: Ipek Tureli
Monday, October 2nd to Friday, October 27th, 2023 – Macdonald-Harrington Building 114
Exhibition “Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority”
Thursday, October 5th, 2023 - Macdonald-Harrington Building 101-102
Workshop “Biocompatible Porous Concrete” with McGill University's Biomass Production Lab
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 - Macdonald-Harrington Building 101-102
Workshop “Radical Gardens for Radical New Relations” with Nouveaux Voisins
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 - Macdonald-Harrington Building 114
Exhibition “Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority” Vernissage
Thursday, October 19-20, 2023
Symposium “Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority”
Hosted by Vikram Bhatt (McGill University) and Ipek Türeli (McGill University)
Participants: David Theodore (McGill University), Carmela Cucuzzella (UdM), Gonzalo Lizarralde (UdM), Zeenat Niazi (Development Alternatives Group), Jesus Navarrete (Inter-American Development Bank), Balakrishna Menon Parameswaran (World Bank Group), Marie-Pierre McDonald (BC2), Tasneeem Chowdhury (University of Illinois at Chicago), Rachelle Navarro Åstrand (Sweco Sverige AB), Varun Thautam (Varun Thautam Architects), Georgia Cardosi (UdM), Leila Marie Farah (Toronto Metropolitan University), Rune Kongshaug (Produktif), Meltem Yilmaz (Hacettepe University), Arièle Dionne-Krosnick (McGill University), Martha Schwindling (Studio Martha Schwindling), Cassidy Johnson (University College London), Martien de Vletter (Canadian Centre for Architecture), Meredith Gaglio (Louisiana State University), Bushra Nayeem (University of Kansas), Lee Stickells (University of Sidney) and Witold Rybczynski (University of Pennsylvania)
Friday, November 17th to Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
Focus Bidayyat: New Beginnings
This series consists of five screenings, three panels and two workshops at McGill University and the 2023 RIDM Film Festival.
Supported by World Records, RIDM, the Critical Media Lab, FRQSC, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 – Peel Street Cinema
Night-time Design for/with Marginalized Communities: Queering the Night Screening
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 – Macdonald Harrington Building 508
Night-time Design for/with Marginalized Communities: Queering the Night Workshop
Thursday, February 1st, 2024 -Leacock Building 232
On Gaza – A Speaker Series
Gaza Crisis: Background and Implications – talk by Mouin Rabbani
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 - Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall 108
On Gaza – A Speaker Series
Gaza Crisis: Journalism under Siege
Participants Sherif Mansour,MENA Program Coordinator
Ghousoon Bisharat, Editor-in Chief, +972 Magazine
Nidal Rafa, Independent Journalist and Producer, Jerusalem
Mahmoud Mustafa, Independent Journalist and Human Rights Activist, Gaza
Moderator: Amahl Bishara, Tufts University
Co-sponsored by: The Critical Media Lab, Department of Anthropology and Department of Anthropology & Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University
Thursday, March 12th, 2024 - Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall 108
On Gaza Series – A Speaker Series
Poetry as Resistance
Mosab Abu Toha, Writer and author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022)
Mahmoud Al-Shaer, Writer and editor of Majallat 28
Moderated by:
Rula Abi Saab, Professor of Islamic History at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Research Group on Human Nature and Values in the Digital Age 2023-2024
Coordinator: Jocelyn Maclure and Chris Howard
Monday, February 26th, 2024 – Leacock 429
Work In Progress Session : “AI Ethics’ Institutional Turn” by Jocelyn Maclure & Alexis Morin-Martel
Cosponsored by the Jarlslowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology
Wednesday, April 3th, 2024 – Virtual
Book Seminar on The Privacy Fallacy. Harm and Power in the Information Economy by Ignacio Cofone (McGill)
Research Group on Global Pasts events 2023-2024
Coordinator: Griet Vankeerberghen
Thursday, September 7th, 2023 – Peterson Hall 116
Lecture Series: Véronique Chankowski (Directrice de l’Ecole française d’Athènes), "Illicit trafficking in antiquities: what can scholars do?"
Thursday, November 9th, 2023 – Peterson Hall 116
Lecture Series: Alexandre Farnoux (Sorbonne), "Greek Art in turmoil, Paris 1919-1939"
Thursday, February 1st, 2024 – Arts W-215
Maria Feliciano, “Rethinking ‘Medieval’: The Early Modern Repurpose of Medieval Textiles in the Iberian Peninsula”
Friday, March 15th and Saturday, March 16th, 2024 – Concordia University
43rd Annual Conference of Canadian Medieval Art Historians
Co-sponsored by the Research Group on Global Pasts