Faculty /arts/taxonomy/term/3/all en Everything for the People, Everything for Money: Wang Shuo and the Rise of Televisual Postsocialism /arts/channels/event/everything-people-everything-money-wang-shuo-and-rise-televisual-postsocialism-360764 <h4>This talk explains the significance of an unlikely encounter between Wang Shuo, a writer who became infamous in the 1980s for his transgressive portraits of the Beijing underclass, and a nascent Chinese television industry searching for a popular</h4> Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:28:19 +0000 admin 2396 at /arts Waiting for Progress: Promises of Privatization and Conservation on an African Indigenous Frontier in southern Kenya /arts/channels/event/waiting-progress-promises-privatization-and-conservation-african-indigenous-frontier-southern-kenya-360762 <p>A guest lecture by Professor Kariuki Kirigia of the School of Environment, University of Toronto.</p> Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:13:39 +0000 admin 2395 at /arts Scott Imberman (Michigan State University), "Gender and Racial Earnings Differences: Major Choices, Returns, and Welfare Consequences" /arts/channels/event/scott-imberman-michigan-state-university-gender-and-racial-earnings-differences-major-choices-360705 <h2><strong>Social Statistics & Population Dynamics Seminar Series</strong></h2> <h3>"Gender and Racial Earnings Differences: Major Choices, Returns, and Welfare Consequences"</h3> Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:27:06 +0000 admin 2393 at /arts Día de los Muertos 2024 /arts/channels/event/dia-de-los-muertos-2024-360678 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:46:13 +0000 admin 2389 at /arts Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania), Title TBA /arts/channels/event/petra-todd-university-pennsylvania-title-tba-360677 <h2><small><a href="https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/people/petra-todd">Petra Todd</a> (University of Pennsylvania)<br /> Thursday, April 17, 2025<br /> 10:00-11:30 AM <br /> Leacock 927</small></h2> Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:39:43 +0000 admin 2391 at /arts Daniela Vidart (University of Connecticut), Title TBA /arts/channels/event/daniela-vidart-university-connecticut-title-tba-360674 <h2><small><a href="https://www.danielavidart.com/">Daniela Vidart</a> (University of Connecticut)<br /> Friday, April 4, 2025<br /> 10:00-11:30 AM <br /> Leacock 429</small></h2> <p><strong>Host: </strong>Francesco Amodio<br /></p> Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:27:10 +0000 admin 2388 at /arts Día de los Muertos 2024 /arts/channels/news/dia-de-los-muertos-2024-360676 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:30:54 +0000 admin 2387 at /arts Congratulations to Dr. Alicia Boatswain-Kyte on receiving a Special Recognition Award at the 39th World Cultural Council (WCC) Awards Ceremony /arts/channels/news/congratulations-dr-alicia-boatswain-kyte-receiving-special-recognition-award-39th-world-cultural-360663 <p>Congratulations to Dr. Alicia Boatswain-Kyte on receiving a Special Recognition Award at the 39th World Cultural Council (WCC) Awards Ceremony, which took place at the Faculty Club, о on October 23, 2024.</p> Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:49:54 +0000 admin 2386 at /arts Congratulations to Myriam Denov, Professor in о’s School of Social Work who won the Prix du Québec’s Marie-Andrée-Bertrand Prize for social innovation. /arts/channels/news/congratulations-myriam-denov-professor-mcgills-school-social-work-who-won-prix-du-quebecs-marie-360665 <p>"A leading advocate for children’s rights, Myriam Denov won the Prix du Québec’s Marie-Andrée-Bertrand Prize for social innovation.</p> <p>Denov conducted groundbreaking research on war-affected children and families for more than two decades and on three continents. Her research explored the unique realities and complex challenges of child soldiers, girls in armed conflict and children born of wartime rape, as well as that of post-conflict reconciliation and war-induced migration and resettlement.  </p> Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:58:18 +0000 admin 2385 at /arts “The ‘Womanly’ Bible: Sentimentality and the Tsenerene at the Origins of Modern Yiddish Culture” with Miriam Borden (University of Toronto) /arts/channels/event/womanly-bible-sentimentality-and-tsenerene-origins-modern-yiddish-culture-miriam-borden-university-360633 <p>Part of Jewish Studies Seminar</p> Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:20 +0000 admin 2382 at /arts Two о researchers win 2024 Prix du Québec honours /arts/channels/news/two-mcgill-researchers-win-2024-prix-du-quebec-honours-360619 <p><em>Professors recognized for work on war-affected children and families, development of ‘intelligent’ fabrics</em></p> <p>Two о researchers won Prix du Québec, the highest honours awarded by the Quebec government in the fields of culture and science.</p> <p><a href="/socialwork/about/people/faculty/denov">Myriam Denov</a>, Professor in о’s School of Social Work won the <a href="https://prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/">Prix du Québec</a>’s Marie-Andrée-Bertrand Prize for social innovation.</p> Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:47:10 +0000 admin 2379 at /arts For an Agrarian History of Colonial Brazil /arts/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 admin 2378 at /arts 10th Annual Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship /arts/channels/event/10th-annual-celebration-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-360615 <p>Over the past eleven years, the <a href="/engine/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">о Engine Centre </a>has been instrumental in fostering innovative technologies.</p> Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:50:04 +0000 admin 2377 at /arts 10th Annual DAAD German Language Teaching & Learning Workshop /arts/channels/event/10th-annual-daad-german-language-teaching-learning-workshop-360558 <p>A professional development seminar for university teachers of German in graduate programs and early-career stages. Co-organized with a graduate student from German Studies and Professor Hang-Sun Kim and graduate students from the University of Tor</p> Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:09:39 +0000 admin 2353 at /arts Halima Ouanada (Université de Tunis - El Manar), "Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie or the Creation of the Invariable Feminine in the Age of Enlightenment" /arts/channels/event/halima-ouanada-universite-de-tunis-el-manar-diderot-and-dalemberts-encyclopedie-or-creation-360553 <h2><strong>And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy : Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity.</strong></h2> Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:38:01 +0000 admin 2354 at /arts