Birks After Dark podcast
Ana de Souza, School of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts
The Birks After Dark podcast is a horror themed ode to late night radio shows. It is named after the historical Birks building which houses the School of Religious Studies. The podcast is produced by Ana de Souza, a PhD student in the School of Religious Studies. The podcast’s premise takes inspiration from the fact that religion is one of the 'evidently' spooky and disconcerting categories in the university in particular, but also in Western society at large. Each episode is framed as a randomly 'overheard' conversation going on between experts (grad students). Episodes are available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart, or directly on the Anchor website (https://anchor.fm/ana-mota-de-souza).
Website: birksafterdark.ca
Field Chronicles: Opening the Black Box of Fieldwork
Sasha Lleshaj and Rose Chabot, Political Science, Faculty of Arts
Fieldwork is the cornerstone of qualitative social science research, yet students are often poorly trained, operate within a mindset that either mythologizes fieldwork, or obscures its challenges. As today's academia is more diverse in both knowledge generation and the people that inhabit it, we have to tailor our training around these new lived realities and perspectives: understand why some of us face particular barriers to successful fieldwork; engage with the ethical challenges around people in the field and our own positionality, limits, traumas, emotional wellbeing as we conduct this type of work; and, finally, embed fieldwork in the bigger cycle of qualitative research, which is seldom linear, objective, detached from the subject of research. This full day graduate student workshop organized by students, for students, with students, brings together social science graduate students from the four Montreal universities who: (1) have been on fieldwork collecting data, (2) are currently in the field collecting data, or (3) are preparing to go in the field to collect data
Website: https://fieldworkchronicle.wixsite.com/workshop
Workshop on Data Management and Replicability
Ann-Marie Helou, Sociology, Faculty of Arts
A major component of all research is data management. As reproducibility of social science research is becoming an increasing concern, data management is becoming even more important. This one-day workshop should give you a solid foundation for creating and sharing reproducible quantitative social science projects. You will learn about version control, data citations and deposits, and curating a reproducible repository. You will practice using the actual tools through exercises meant to walk you through the basics of the concepts introduced. The workshop will go through all the necessary steps for creating a reproducible research product and will discuss the following topics: 1. Finding, describing, accessing, and sharing datasets to enhance reproducibility 2. Data management plans/planning 3. Reproducible work and code.
To register: https://forms.office.com/r/vGXcyhNTq9
McGill Summer Institute for School Psychology
Sara Ann Marshall, Child Psychology, Faculty of Education
The McGill Summer Institute for School Psychology (SISP) is a webinar series created by graduate students in the McGill School/Applied Child Psychology program to enhance knowledge mobilization of school psychology-related topics to students, researchers, and professionals. The event features webinars presented by renowned scholars in the fields of clinical and school psychology and also provides professional development credits for professionals registered with the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec (OPQ) and the Canadian Psychology Association (CPA).
Website: http://www.mcgillschoolpsychinstitute.com/
Know Your Rights: Legal Tools for Creative Careers Workshop
Ihlara McIndoe, Schulich School of Music
As composers, performers, visual artists, and general creatives, we put a lot of time and energy into the art we create. But what happens once our work is out in the world? Run in collaboration with the McGill Art Law Association, this workshop brings together industry professionals, and students from the Schulich School of Music, the Faculty of Law, and other performing and visual arts groups for an informative session on using the law to protect the art we create, and the ways we create it. Workshop sessions will cover the basics of reading contracts (specifically contracts relating to work in the creative industries), copyright and licensing, and negotiation skills. Following the workshop, attendees and presenters are invited to stay to connect with each other over snacks and drinks, while enjoying performances by Schulich School of Music students. The workshop will be held at the end of March, will registration opening at the beginning of the month.
Texts, Traditions, & Translations: a South Asian Reading Workshop
Sabeena Shaikh, Islamic Studies, Faculty of Arts
This reading group brings together faculty and graduate students to engage with South Asian manuscripts and texts (both pre-modern and modern) that are essential and necessary components of the MA and PhD research process. The reading group will feature a key-note lecture/ workshop at the end of the semester by Daniel Majchrowicz, an assistant professor of South Asian Literature at Northwestern University whose new book, The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia, is under review with Cambridge University Press.
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Choral Concert and Audience Talkback
Megan Batty & The Choral Collective, Schulich School of Music
This concert by the Choral Collective, a choir of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral music students at McGill, will feature the performance of works by historically underrepresented and living composers. The Choral Collective is the only choir of graduate students at McGill that invites multiple students to conduct, compose, and accompany regularly, providing valuable opportunities for students from various disciplines to develop their skills and expertise as conductors, composers, and accompanists. This 45-minute concert will be held in April 2023 and will be followed by an audience talkback (Q&A) to foster dialogue between choristers and audience members.
Decolonization and the Study of Religion Workshop
Lucie Robathan, School of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts
Decolonization efforts have been glaringly absent in the study of religion in North America. This workshop on decolonization and decolonial pedagogy as it pertains to the field of religious studies aims to fill this gap. Organized and directed by graduate students from both the McGill School of Religious Studies and the Concordia Department of Religions and Cultures, this project aims to familiarize graduate students with emergent decolonial discourses, and to equip graduate students with praxis-informed decolonial skills that can be used both within and beyond the classroom. While the theme is concerned primarily with the study of religion, we will welcome interested graduate students working in other disciplines.
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Marginal Grad Talks and The Black Post
Aisha Barisé, Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education
The project consists of launching two initiatives that cultivate oral dissemination through (i) Marginal Grad Talks and written dissemination through (ii) The Black Post using Black Methodologies. Marginal Grad Talks is an oral presentation platform (via zoom) for Black and solidarity graduate students, from any department, to disseminate their research at any stage. The Black Post is a journal blog designed for Black and solidarity graduate students to disseminate work at any stage. Both Marginal Grad Talks and The Black Post aim to provide a sense of community and belonging amongst emerging graduate students across departments to cultivate critical interdisciplinary conversations through Black Methodologies.
To sign up for Marginal talks: http://forms.gle/ELNQPhnrrXMP4MMC6
Dialogues in Performance: Seeking Deeper Collaboration and Reflexivity Across Music Disciplines and Beyond
Julia Weldon and Rebekah Dennis, Schulich School of Music
Dialogues in Performance seeks to unearth the ways in which self-directed learning and creativity can be fostered in collaborative spaces, and how these concepts can be applied in musical contexts and beyond. It aims to foster deeper understandings of collaborative creation and learning through a symposium featuring two McGill guest speakers, Emmanuel Tabi and Andrea Creech, as well as a creative composition by students from the Schulich School of Music. Audience members will be encouraged to participate in this afternoon of innovative ideas, coffee, pastries, and conversation. This symposium will not only encourage students to become more self-reflexive and critical in higher education music practice and rehearsals, but will create a space for interdisciplinary connections and community-building between music and non-music graduate students, professors, and members of the public.
To register for Dialogues in Performance: https://forms.office.com/r/8tUGVJZutT
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