MISC

Thursday, September 26 - All Night Long:  A Roundtable Discussion on Night and Cultural Neighbourhoods in Montreal, part of Pop Montreal Symposium, with Simon Brault, president of Culture Montreal, Bernie Houde, former member of Lesbians on Ecstasy and owner of Alexanderplatz and Le Pick-Up, Laurent Saulnier, VP of Nuit Blanche de Montreal, and Will Straw.

3450 St. Urbain, 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm.  RSVP: inscription [at] culturemontreal [dot] ca (inscription [at] culturemontreal [dot] ca)

The MISC will hold its annual national conference.  The theme of the 2014 conference is Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, and Canada’s Future, examining the ways in which oil and the oil industry touch and affect our lives.  For more information, visit www.mcgill.ca/misc/conferences

Renowned Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw) delivers this year’s Seagram Lecture, in the company of CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel (Writers and Company), who is also a MISC Board of Trustees member.  Gladwell will be celebrating the release of his latest book, David and Goliath. 

Visiting Professor Manuel Velázquez León will give lunch time lecture at the MISC building on Canada/Cuba relations.  Exact time to be announced.

2013 Cundill Lecture, From 2012 Cundill Prize Winner Stephen R. Platt

"Imperial Eclipse: The Long Road to the First Anglo-Chinese War"

The Opium War, or First Anglo-Chinese War, of 1839-1842 has long served historians as the chosen starting point for China’s modern history, the launching point of its “century of humiliation” from which successive governments have promised redemption. But such treatment sets the war in stone, as if  China’s military weakness and Britain’s predatory aggression in Canton were eternal and unchanging facts.

A special pre-launch book event to celebrate Lives of the Family: Stories of Fate and Circumstance, the latest work from MISC Board of Trustees Co-Chair Denise Chong.  The event takes place in the Maude Abbott Lounge, on the second floor of the Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish, at 5 pm.

RSVP: misc [dot] iecm [at] mcgill [dot] ca, or 514-398-3550. 

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The MISC is pleased to host this public event commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the launch of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.   It will be open to the public and media and simultaneous interpretation will be provided.  This event is being held in partnership with the University of Ottawa and the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages.

While there are several events across Canada acknowledging the anniversary of the Commission, most of them have looked back at its history.  We intend for our event to look forward, asking, “Does bilingualism have a future in Canada?” 

Participants include Warren Allmand, Fabienne Colas, Pierre Curzi, Stéphane Dion, Ellen Gabriel, Graham Fraser, Catherine Leclerc, Sherry Simon, and Bernard St-Laurent.

Register at: http://www.mcgill.ca/misc/events/bilingualism-and-biculturalism-signup-sheet

Or RSVP at misc [dot] iecm [at] mcgill [dot] ca, or call 514-398-8346.  Free admission.

Monday, March 25 - Eakin Lecture by Professor Claire Campbell

4:00 pm, MISC Offices (3463 Peel), 2nd floor conference room, free admission

Opportunity Cost: Lessons for Canada’s political future from its environmental past 

Thursday, March 21 - Mallory Lecture by author Noah Richler