Learn how to use Chicago notes and bibliography citation style to cite your sources! Register for this McGill Libraries workshop at https://libraryrooms.mcgill.ca/event/4057570.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 13:00to14:00
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Thursday, October 29, 2026 16:00to17:30
Paul Deslandes (Professor of History, University of Vermont)
“Acquiring Britain: Henry Ford, Herbert Morton, and the Curious Case of a Cotswold Cottage”
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Tuesday, November 3, 2026 13:00to14:00
Ask a chatbot for letters written by women during the French Revolution and you will get an answer in seconds. Whether you get a source you can read, cite, and trust is a different question. Generative AI tools are increasingly the first stop for students beginning primary source research, and they fail in ways that can look like success: a plausible citation that leads nowhere, or a summary drawn from training data rather than the source itself.
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Thursday, November 5, 2026 14:30to15:30
Can you tell a forgery from a facsimile, or either one from the real thing? Fakes, forgeries, and reproductions have always been part of the documentary record, long before a chatbot could produce a convincing letter on demand. Generative AI has changed the speed and scale at which false documents can be made, but it has not changed the questions we ask of a suspicious one.
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Thursday, November 19, 2026 16:00to17:30
Ersy Contogouris (Professeure agregée, Université de Montréal)
“Beset by the Blue Devils: Caricatures of Depression around 1800”
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Thursday, January 14, 2027 16:00to17:30
Ian Beattie (M.S.I. candidate, Université de Montréal),
“Works Cited: The Collective Construction of the Evidence Base for History”
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Thursday, February 18, 2027 16:00to17:30
Matt Lange (Professor of Sociology, McGill University),
“Transforming Minds and Minorities: British Colonialism, American Baptist Missions, and Nationalist Civil War in Zomia”
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Thursday, March 18, 2027 16:00to17:30
Hannah Soroka (PhD candidate in History, McGill),
“Going for Broke in the Hartlib Circle”
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