2025 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’ by Anthony Kaldellis
The Lin Centre’s 2025 Annual Lecture, ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’, was delivered by Professor Anthony Kaldellis, Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, on March 26.
2025 Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop and Awards Program
Global Pasts Works-in-Progress WorkshopAs a means of enhancing our scholarly community on campus, the Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts will organize a workshop to showcase ongoing research aligned with the core agenda of our research group. The workshop will consist of a series of short (ca. 20 minute) presentations on individual case studies (texts, events, objects, monuments, etc.) followed by group discussion.
The Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts Releases Book on Place and Performance in Antiquity
We enthusiastically announce the publication of Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China with Cambridge University Press in December 2024. It is the first volume in Cambridge’s new series Antiquity in Global Context. Profs. Griet Vankeerberghen and Hans Beck have edited this volume, and their long-standing collaboration was the foundation of the Global Antiquities cluster of the Yan P.
Two Members of the Yan P. Lin Centre newly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations to Lin Centre (RGCS and RGGJ) members Arash Abizadeh and Daniel Weinstock, newly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada!
Research Group on Global Pasts Announces Works-in-Progress Workshop
As a means of enhancing our scholarly community on campus, the Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts will organize an annual workshop to showcase ongoing research aligned with the core agenda of our research group. The workshop will consist of a series of short presentations on individual case studies (texts, events, objects, monuments, etc.) followed by group discussion.
2024 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ by Ayşe Zarakol
The Lin Centre’s 2024 Annual Lecture, ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ was delivered by Professor Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, on March 27th. Professor Zarakol’s lecture was exemplary of the kind of cross-disciplinary, cross-era, cross-regional research on social and political ideas, orders and transformation that the Lin Centre seeks to encourage and promote!
Five Yan P. Lin Centre Members part of 2.5$M SSHRC inter-University Grant on Housing in Canada
Five members of the Yan P. Lin Centre and Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology (RGDST) were one of 13 teams in the successful “Quality in Canada's Built Environment: Seeking Equity, Social Value and Sustainability” SSHRC Partnership Grant worth $2,500,000. This unprecedented grant will assure the collaboration of a total of 14 universities, 70 researchers and 68 public and private organizations from every level of government across the country.
Yan P. Lin Centre 2023 Annual Lecture - C. Thi Nguyen “Value Capture”
C. Thi Nguyen gave the 2023 Annual Lecture on Thursday, March 30, 2023 in the Faculty Club Ballroom on “Value Capture”.
Young Alumni Supporting Crowdfunding Initiatives for McGill24
The Research Group in Constitutional Studies is hoping to build a permanent endowment that will provide long-term funding for students.
https://www.mcgill.ca/arts/article/young-alumni-supporting-crowdfunding-initiatives-mcgill24
Bruno Latour awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize
Bruno Latour, who delivered the 2021 Lin Centre Annual Lecture, has been awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize, "presented to individuals who have made significant contributions in the fields of science and technology, as well as the arts and philosophy." Among the previous Kyoto Prize Laureates is Lin Centre emeritus member Charles Taylor.
Opinion: What’s Afghanistan’s future? The history of U.S. state-building offers some clues
LORENZ LÜTHI, co-ordinator of the Research Group on Transitions and Global Modernities, contributed an article in the Globe and Mail on September 3rd: What’s Afghanistan’s future? The history of U.S. state-building offers some clues.
Professor David Theodore (member of RGDST) appointed Director of the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
On June 11, Professor David Theodore, member of the Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology has been a appointed as next director of the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.
https://kollectif.net/professor-david-theodore-appointed-next-director/
Lorenz Lüthi's book was selected as one of "The books one should have read in 2020" (Les livres qu’il faut avoir lus en 2020) by "Le Grant Continent," Paris
The usual Cold War narratives focus on the Soviet-American rivalry as if the superpowers were the only driving forces in the international system. Lorenz M. Lüthi offers a radically different narrative, restoring a role for regional powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and revealing how regional and national developments shaped the course of the Cold War.
$2-million gift from Montreal philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky to explore the impact of new technology on society
Donation will contribute to the establishment of Chair in Technology and Human Nature in McGill’s Department of Philosophy.
Evan Fox-Decent and Sébastien Jodoin named Canada Research Chairs
The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that two of its scholars have been named Canada Research Chairs. Professor Evan Fox-Decent (member of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies) has been named the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cosmopolitan Law and Justice, and Professor Sébastien Jodoin has been named the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Human Rights and the Environment.