Faculty of Arts

Professor Stephen Shapin (Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University) will speak on "You Are What You Eat: Historical Changes in Ideas about Food and Identity", Thursday, October 3, 6:00 pm, Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich School of Music, 555 Sherbrooke St West. The 2013 D. Lorne Gales Lecture in the History of Science is presented by The Mossman Endowment at McGill University Libraries and the History and Philosophy of Science Program in the Department of History and Classical Studies.
Professor Jacques Berlinerblau (Georgetown University) will speak on Political Secularism in the United States: Reflections in Light of the Quebec Charter of Values, Wednesday, October 23, 5:30 pm, Arts Building, Room W-215, 853 Sherbrooke St. W. For more information, click here. Sponsored by the Department of Jewish Studies.
2013-2014 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture. The Honourable Al Gore (former Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and bestselling author) will speak on Technology and the Future of Democratization. Tuesday, November 5, 6:00 p.m. in Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke West. Free. Phone registration required. Limit of 2 tickets per person. Tickets must be picked up by 5:30 on the day. Sponsored by Media@McGill.
A Summer of Questions in Accra. This past summer, Lorenzo Daieff (MA student in Political Science) interned in Accra, Ghana with the Centre for Democratic Development, a political think-tank and research institute. Read about his experiences living and working in Accra here.
Congratulations to Professor Isabelle Daunais (Département de langue et littérature françaises) and Professor Elisabeth Gidengil (Department of Political Science) on their election as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). To reach Professor Daunais' website, click here. To reach Professor Gidengil's website, click here. To reach the RSC website, click here.