Blog post | A Starting Point: Transversal Questions and Recommendations for Montreal’s Digital Data Charter
Response to the City of Montreal’s public consultation on Montreal’s Digital Data Charter Written by Jess Reia and Ana BrandusescuNew members and resident scholars
As approved by its Board of Directors, CIRM recently welcomed two new members:
Meet our new Interim Director, Nik Luka!
We are pleased to welcome Professor Nik Luka as Interim Director for the 2020–2021 school year. As an Associate Professor in the School of Urban Planning and the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University, he has been involved with CIRM since its inception in 2014. Prof.
2019–2020 Annual Report Now Online
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM) is proud to present its annual report for the 2019–2020 academic year. Submitted last April to McGill’s University Advancement, the report bears witness to CIRM’s intense activity during this period.
[Extension] Call for applications: Research Assistant positions
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM)’s professor of practice Ana Brandusescu and McGill Department of Geography and Bieler School of Environment professor Renee Sieber are seeking applications to fill two research assistant positions for a SSHRC-funded project called Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Rest of Us.
Blog post | Montreal as an Island
Written by Victoria C. SlonoskyThe spring ice break up season was always a tricky time for Montrealers. These days, unless we live off-island, we tend not to think too much about the practical geographical fact of the city Montreal as an island in the St Lawrence River.
Call for applications: Research Assistant position
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM) is seeking applications to fill a research assistant position. Attached to the Faculty of Arts, CIRM brings together researchers from the humanities, social sciences, pure, and applied sciences as well as law and technology whose fields of interest or expertise are related to urban life and Montréal.
Two CIRM members receive funding for their COVID-19 research
In response to the current health crisis, the latest Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Partnership Engagement Grants competition included a special initiative for research related to COVID-19. More than $3 million was awarded to 139 projects across the country.
CIRM joins the regional forum for social development on the Island of Montreal
CIRM is pleased to be a member of the Forum régional sur le développement social de l'Île de Montréal (FRDSÎM). Its status was unanimously confirmed at the FRDSÎM's Board of Directors meeting on September 17. CIRM looks forward to collaborating in the Forum's work and, through the expertise of its team and its member-researchers, to supporting the organizations associated with the FRDSÎM and to contributing to the social development of the city.
Three CIRM members receive SSHRC and FRQSC grants!
Erin Hurley (Co-director of the research-action axis “Digital culture, art, literature, and performance”):Alongside Nicole Nolette (University of Waterloo), Marie-Christine Lesage (UQAM), and Shauna Janssen (Concordia University), Erin Hurley has received a SSHRC grant for a four-day conference initially planned to be held in Montreal from May 25th to 28th, at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University. The conference has
Four CIRM members receive SSHRC grants
Le CRIEM warmly congratulates Harold Bérubé, Mary Anne Poutanen, Nik Luka, and Julie Ravary-Pilon for receiving grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)!
COVID-19: CIRM is still active!
In these times of physical distancing, the public sphere is going digital and becoming a space of solidarity to which CIRM hopes to contribute in its own way.
Remembering Jarrett Rudy (1970 - 2020)
Born November 14, 1970, in Stratford, and raised in Tavistock, Ontario. He died at home on April 4, 2020, from complications following heart surgery, at 49 years of age. His early passing is deeply mourned by his wife, Cynthia Kelly, father and mother, Bob & Joan (Korgaard) Rudy, brother and sister-in-law, Jensen & Heidi (Janzen) Rudy, their two children, Daniel & Kate Rudy, and Heidi’s father, Peter Janzen.
CIRM welcomes Anna Giaufret, international member from Université de Gênes
CIRM invites you to meet Anna Giaufret, international member and associate professor of the Department of Languages and French and Modern Culture of Université de Gênes. Temporarily in Montreal until November 30th, the researcher will partake in CIRM activities and will pursue her researches on Montreal comic art, a topic on which she is preparing a book for 2020, with the Presse de l’Université Laval.
CIRM mandated to build an advisory committee
On October 22nd, Montreal City Council members came to a mutual research agreement between the City and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM) for the realization of a project regarding the implementation of the Politique de l’enfant’s five intervention axes “Naître, grandir, s’épanouir à Montréal: de l’enfant à l’adolescence”.
