Ayesha Vemuri (Ph.D candidate in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill)
"The Case for Letting Assam Flood: Speculative Infrastructure in the Brahmaputra Floodplain"
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 15:00to17:00
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 17:30to19:00
Professor Kathleen DuVal delivers the 2025 Cundill Lecture on her award-winning book, Native Nations: A Millenium in North America.
Chaired by Professor Noelani Arista.
Public talk followed by a cocktail reception.
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Thursday, October 30, 2025 11:00to12:00
Organized by students from the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill, The Cundill Fringe is a lively and informal discussion of the three finalist titles in contention for the 2025 Prize.
The Fringe culminates in a People’s Choice vote, where audience members and student participants are invited to select their favourite book just a few hours before the winner is announced. Lunch will be served following the event.
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Thursday, October 30, 2025 13:00to14:30
The Cundill Forum is a panel discussion between the three 2025 finalists on common themes throughout their respective books.
Professor Jeremy Tai, Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill, will moderate this year's Forum.
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Monday, November 3, 2025 12:00to14:30
Global Pasts 2025 Works in Progress, November 3, noon -2.30 Petersen Hall 116
Haider Ali (English), “Postures of Praise in the Ghaznavid Panegyric: Notes Towards a Counter-Reading"
Caroline Laporte-Burns (Art History), “Reading Tschinke Rifles: Mother-of-Pearl Scrimshaw Ornament and the Global Liveliness of Local Killing Tools"
Jiaqi Ma (East Asian Studies), “Diplomacy of Transparency: A Journey of Rock Crystal from the Islamic World to the Liao Empire in North China, ca. 900–1100”
Thursday, November 6, 2025 16:00to18:00
RSVP here: https://libraryrooms.mcgill.ca/event/3946516
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Thursday, November 6, 2025 17:00to19:00
THE RESEARCH GROUP ON GLOBAL PASTS PRESENTS THE SECOND 2025 OUTREACH LECTURE
"Rooted in the Archives: Routes to an Intellectual Collaboration"
November 6th, 5:00-6:00 PM
Arts W-215
A lecture by
Michelle Armstrong-Partida (Emory University)
&
Susan McDonough (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 18:00to20:00
Join us for the 2025-2026 Tom Nacos and family annual talk with professor Nicholas Doumanis, University of Illinois at Chicago giving a talk entitled: Globalizing Modern Greek history: What does it mean?
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 15:00to17:00
Mathew K. Birgen (School of Religious Studies, McGill University)
"Towards Radical Utu: Reimagining the Tower of Babel through an African Ecological Lens"
More details to follow.
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Thursday, November 27, 2025 16:00to17:30
Rimliya Telkenaroglu (PhD candidate in History, McGill University)
“‘Ranting Wild Spirits’: Women and Divine Possession in Early Quakerism
More details to follow.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025 15:00to17:00
John Galaty (Department of Anthropology, McGill)
"A Deep History of Pastoralism in Eastern Africa: From the Origins of Domestication to the Indigenization of Pastoral Modernities"
More details to follow.
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Thursday, January 15, 2026 16:00to17:30
Zoe Neubauer (PhD candidate in History, McGill University)
“Language in Transition: Changing Terms and Changing Identities in the UK Trans Community”
More details to follow.
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Friday, January 23, 2026 13:00to19:00
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Thursday, February 19, 2026 16:00to17:30
Laila Parsons (Professor of History, McGill University)
“The British Invasion of Palestine, 1917”
More details to follow.
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Thursday, March 19, 2026 16:00to17:30
John Marshall (Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University)
“Antiracism, Antislavery, Art and Aesthetics: Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787, 1788, 1791) and Contexts”
More details to follow.
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