IOWC Speaker Series: Tasha Rijke-Epstein, "Aesthetic Extraversion: Violence, Circulation, and Protective Amulets in the Southwestern Indian Ocean Basin (17th -19th century)"
Tasha Rijke-Epstein (Vanderbilt University)
Book Launch - "Montreal's Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole"
From Cells to Servers: Exploitative Labour and the Digitization of Historical Documents
The Department of History and Classical Studies and the Montreal History Group invite you to hear Dr. Kristen Howard speak about the use of prison labour in archival digitization projects.
IOWC Speaker Series: Jorge Muniz de Souza Mortean, "Sailing the Lusophone Legacy: Brazil’s Geopolitical Odyssey in the Indian Ocean"
Jorge Muniz de Souza Mortean (University of Sao Paolo)
Go-Betweens and Reciprocal Patrons: Protestant Missionaries and the Making of Treaty Six
Go-Betweens and Reciprocal Patrons: Protestant Missionaries and the Making of Treaty Six
Tolly Bradford (Concordia University of Edmonton)
RGGP: Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop
The Research Group on Global Pasts is having their first Works-in-Progress Workshop on October 8th at 3:30PM at Peterson Hall 116. The three recipients of the stipend will present their research that intersects with the core mission of the research group. Coffee and snacks will be provided.
IOWC Speaker Series: Raffaele Maddaluno, "Oceanic Dispossessions in the Comoros: Ecological Claims, Economic Aspirations, and Imaginaries along the Routes to a Blue Future"
Raffaele Maddaluno (La Sapienza University of Rome)
MBHS - “Religion and Renown in Post-Revolutionary England”
Brian Cowan (Professor of History, McGill University)
“Religion and Renown in Post-Revolutionary England”
The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25
Now in its 28th year, the MBHS provides a forum for faculty and graduate students sharing a research interest in any phase of British History (very broadly defined). Papers of about 45-50 minutes or pre-circulated papers are followed by discussion.
Research Group on Global Pasts 2024 Outreach Lecture : Bérénice Bellina
Homecoming lecture, "Made by Students: Made by Students: How Student-led Campaigns Shaped the History of McGill."
Homecoming lecture, delivered by Prof. Suzanne Morton
Please RSVP via this link: McGill Alumni - Event Details
2024 Cundill Festival Schedule
Please see individual event listings for more information.
October 29
The Cundill Lecture in History • 5:30pm
Delivered by 2023 winner, Tania Branigan, on her book Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution.
For more information and to RSVP, please click here.
The Cundill Lecture: Red Memory
Tania Branigan, Foreign Leader Writer at The Guardian, will deliver the 2024 Cundill Lecture on her award winning book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan was awarded the 2023 Cundill History Prize for her “haunting” excavation of the Cultural Revolution.
RGTGM Outreach event
IOWC Speaker Series - Juliette Françoise, "A Colonial Scandal Born of a Web of Debts: Paul Darifat’s Bankruptcy in the Isle of France in the Late Eighteenth Century"
Juliette Françoise (University of Geneva)
MBHS - “Tales We Tell Ourselves: The Endurance of British Monarchy into the 21st Century"
Jennifer Purcell (Professor of History, St. Michael’s College, Vermont)
“Tales We Tell Ourselves: The Endurance of British Monarchy into the 21st Century"
The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25