Get to Know the Database (G2KD) is a hands-on library workshop series designed to build your confidence and skills in using research databases. Each session highlights a single database, guiding you through its key features, search techniques, and best practices.


Elizabeth Elbourne (Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill)
"Hunter Gatherers between Clientage, Child Trafficking and Genocide: Reading Missionary Papers for Evidence of Interactions between San, Settlers and other Africans in early Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa"

Learn how to use Chicago notes and bibliography citation style to cite your sources! Please feel free to bring along questions you have about a paper or project you are working on now.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
-Understand the difference between Chicago Style notes and bibliography and author-date systems and when to use them
-Distinguish between different types of secondary sources to ensure you cite them correctly
-Determine how to cite unique primary and archival sources
Michael Collins (Associate Professor of Modern & Contemporary British History, University College London)
“Windrush and Writing British History”
More details to follow.

Get to Know the Database (G2KD) is a hands-on library workshop series designed to build your confidence and skills in using research databases. Each session highlights a single database, guiding you through its key features, search techniques, and best practices.
L’Année philologique is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, and is often the best bet database for Classical Studies.
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"
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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.

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.

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.
Mathew K. Birgen (School of Religious Studies, McGill University)
"Towards Radical Utu: Reimagining the Tower of Babel through an African Ecological Lens"
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Rimliya Telkenaroglu (PhD candidate in History, McGill University)
“‘Ranting Wild Spirits’: Women and Divine Possession in Early Quakerism
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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"
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Zoe Neubauer (PhD candidate in History, McGill University)
“Language in Transition: Changing Terms and Changing Identities in the UK Trans Community”
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