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Reading group offers a chance to exchange ideas with the Dean - McGill Reporter
Reading group initiated by Dean of Arts Lisa Shapiro brings together students, faculty and staff to discuss selected texts, enlarging perspectives and building community
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New Initiative by Dean of Arts Lisa Shapiro brings together students, faculty and staff to discuss selected texts, enlarging perspectives and building community along the way
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Artful Naturalism, a new temporary exhibit created by Professor Hillary Kaell is on at the Redpath Museum until February 21.
Read more here: www.mcgill.ca/arts/article...
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Artful Naturalism: New Exhibit takes an Anthropological Lens to reimagine the boundaries between science, religion and ecology
Artful Naturalism, a new exhibit at the Redpath Museum, brings together contemporary artworks and the permanent collections of the Redpath Museum to ask, “How do we order the world today and human bei...
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February 18, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Artful Naturalism, a new temporary exhibit created by Professor Hillary Kaell is on at the Redpath Museum until February 21.
Read more here: www.mcgill.ca/arts/article...
Read more here: www.mcgill.ca/arts/article...
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Please make sure to submit your recipe for the 2026 Queer Food Conference Cookbook, here: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/2026-cookb...
Recipes are due by March 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.
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Recipes are due by March 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.
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2026 Cookbook
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February 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Please make sure to submit your recipe for the 2026 Queer Food Conference Cookbook, here: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/2026-cookb...
Recipes are due by March 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.
@mcgillarts.bsky.social
Recipes are due by March 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.
@mcgillarts.bsky.social
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Assistant Professor from the School of Social Work was recently on the Delve podcast to discuss how to build anti-racist public organizations.
delve.mcgill.ca/listen/commu...
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Community organizations are an antidote to systemic racism
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte is a social worker and Assistant Professor of Social Work at McGill University. She has published several studies on Black people’s experiences with healthcare, youth services, t...
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February 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Assistant Professor from the School of Social Work was recently on the Delve podcast to discuss how to build anti-racist public organizations.
delve.mcgill.ca/listen/commu...
delve.mcgill.ca/listen/commu...
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New from RGCS faculty member @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob Levy: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
New from RGCS faculty member @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob Levy: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science
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As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
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High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
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February 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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Support the 2SLGBTQIA+ Graduate Student Queer and Trans
Research Fund!
All donations will support graduate student research, including archival work, fieldwork, conference travel, and more.
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Research Fund!
All donations will support graduate student research, including archival work, fieldwork, conference travel, and more.
www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/index.p...
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February 14, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Support the 2SLGBTQIA+ Graduate Student Queer and Trans
Research Fund!
All donations will support graduate student research, including archival work, fieldwork, conference travel, and more.
www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/index.p...
@mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social
Research Fund!
All donations will support graduate student research, including archival work, fieldwork, conference travel, and more.
www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/index.p...
@mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social
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It's TOMORROW! Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Professor Ricardo Wilson will be reading from his new work on February 17, 5:30 pm.
Location: Arts 160, McCall Macbain Arts building, McGill University
Looking forward to seeing you there. 🤩
Location: Arts 160, McCall Macbain Arts building, McGill University
Looking forward to seeing you there. 🤩
February 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
It's TOMORROW! Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Professor Ricardo Wilson will be reading from his new work on February 17, 5:30 pm.
Location: Arts 160, McCall Macbain Arts building, McGill University
Looking forward to seeing you there. 🤩
Location: Arts 160, McCall Macbain Arts building, McGill University
Looking forward to seeing you there. 🤩
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📅 Join us for a live talk with #SSHRC Gold Medal winner Myriam Denov of McGill University and @ca.theconversation.com. Denov will share powerful insights from her years of work with war-affected children.
Feb 25 | 1 p.m. (ET)
Register now 👉 www.icastpro.ca/events/sshrc...
Feb 25 | 1 p.m. (ET)
Register now 👉 www.icastpro.ca/events/sshrc...
January 30, 2026 at 6:59 PM
📅 Join us for a live talk with #SSHRC Gold Medal winner Myriam Denov of McGill University and @ca.theconversation.com. Denov will share powerful insights from her years of work with war-affected children.
Feb 25 | 1 p.m. (ET)
Register now 👉 www.icastpro.ca/events/sshrc...
Feb 25 | 1 p.m. (ET)
Register now 👉 www.icastpro.ca/events/sshrc...
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Can't make it to the launch event in person? You can watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/0hD5r_4...
February 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Can't make it to the launch event in person? You can watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/0hD5r_4...
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Then & now 📖
Founded in 1952, the Islamic Studies Library has grown from a small departmental collection into a world-class resource of over 150,000 volumes — a collection that’s truly unique in Canada.
Ever studied here?
📷: McGill University Archives
Founded in 1952, the Islamic Studies Library has grown from a small departmental collection into a world-class resource of over 150,000 volumes — a collection that’s truly unique in Canada.
Ever studied here?
📷: McGill University Archives
January 29, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Then & now 📖
Founded in 1952, the Islamic Studies Library has grown from a small departmental collection into a world-class resource of over 150,000 volumes — a collection that’s truly unique in Canada.
Ever studied here?
📷: McGill University Archives
Founded in 1952, the Islamic Studies Library has grown from a small departmental collection into a world-class resource of over 150,000 volumes — a collection that’s truly unique in Canada.
Ever studied here?
📷: McGill University Archives
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Juan Pablo Luna, the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies in McGill’s Department of Political Science, recently delved into the ouster of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and the wider ramifications it holds for the region mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/all-eyes-on-...
January 29, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Juan Pablo Luna, the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies in McGill’s Department of Political Science, recently delved into the ouster of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and the wider ramifications it holds for the region mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/all-eyes-on-...
Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications, was on CBC's The Current to discuss a potential under 14 social media ban.
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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January 29, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications, was on CBC's The Current to discuss a potential under 14 social media ban.
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Analysis of national data reveals Black children are more likely to be placed out-of-home than white children, including when case characteristics are otherwise similar.
Read more about Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte's research here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Read more about Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte's research here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Study offers evidence that racial bias is at play in overrepresentation of Black youth in Canadian child welfare systems
Researchers who examined Canadian child welfare data found that Black children were not only investigated at a higher rate than their white peers but were also more likely to be taken from their homes...
www.mcgill.ca
January 29, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Analysis of national data reveals Black children are more likely to be placed out-of-home than white children, including when case characteristics are otherwise similar.
Read more about Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte's research here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Read more about Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte's research here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Paul Yachin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the The Conversation: "How ‘Hamnet’ will help me lead Shakespeare classes about ‘Hamlet’s’ Ophelia"
Read here: theconversation.com/academy-awar...
Read here: theconversation.com/academy-awar...
Academy Awards 2026: How ‘Hamnet’ will help me lead Shakespeare classes about ‘Hamlet’s’ Ophelia
‘Hamnet,’ focussed on Shakespeare’s wife Agnes as a healer, brings forward stronger readings of a character who’s been at the centre of feminist criticism and western pop culture: Ophelia in Hamlet.
theconversation.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Paul Yachin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the The Conversation: "How ‘Hamnet’ will help me lead Shakespeare classes about ‘Hamlet’s’ Ophelia"
Read here: theconversation.com/academy-awar...
Read here: theconversation.com/academy-awar...
What does Shakespeare’s Macbeth teach us about healing trauma? How is the murder of King Duncan connected to the manosphere? What does Macbeth’s story teach us about ambition, morality and the pursuit of power?
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Theatre was the original thinking machine
What does Shakespeare’s Macbeth teach us about healing trauma? How is the murder of King Duncan connected to the manosphere? What does Macbeth’s story teach us about ambition, morality, and the pursui...
delve.mcgill.ca
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 PM
What does Shakespeare’s Macbeth teach us about healing trauma? How is the murder of King Duncan connected to the manosphere? What does Macbeth’s story teach us about ambition, morality and the pursuit of power?
@mcgillenglish.bsky.social @mcgilldelve.bsky.social
delve.mcgill.ca/listen/theat...
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New by @abizadeh.bsky.social in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
"Elicitory Structural Power and Agential Power: An Outline and Defense"
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"Elicitory Structural Power and Agential Power: An Outline and Defense"
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
Many theorists assume that social power operates only by way of agents’ intentional actions and their causal influence on outcomes—where causality is understood to imply making a difference. This arti...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:24 PM
New by @abizadeh.bsky.social in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
"Elicitory Structural Power and Agential Power: An Outline and Defense"
jesp.org/index.php/je...
"Elicitory Structural Power and Agential Power: An Outline and Defense"
jesp.org/index.php/je...
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excited to be on the @allusionistshow.bsky.social again with @helenzaltzman.bsky.social !
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there's a new episode in your podfeed! Featuring dino gobs, feminist cookbooks, and swear school, with @aketchum22.bsky.social, @martinaustwick.bsky.social, @suchmayer.bsky.social, #HannahMcGregor, #KellyElizabethWright and @mixedlinguist.bsky.social theallusionist.org/bonus2025
Allusionist 223. Bonus 2025 — The Allusionist
MP3 • APPLE PODCASTS • RSS • GOOGLE • POCKETCASTS • TRANSCRIPT It's the annual parade of bonus bits ! Every year, the show's guests say too many inte...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM
excited to be on the @allusionistshow.bsky.social again with @helenzaltzman.bsky.social !
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New article in The Conversation by Max Bell School of Public Policy Professor of Practice Gisèle Yasmeen and two Max Bell students looks at how street vendors and waste pickers can help cities manage growth.
Read more here: theconversation.com/how-street-v...
Read more here: theconversation.com/how-street-v...
How street vendors and waste pickers can help cities manage growth
Across the world, urbanization affects how food is grown, distributed and consumed, and cities are primary drivers changing food systems.
theconversation.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
New article in The Conversation by Max Bell School of Public Policy Professor of Practice Gisèle Yasmeen and two Max Bell students looks at how street vendors and waste pickers can help cities manage growth.
Read more here: theconversation.com/how-street-v...
Read more here: theconversation.com/how-street-v...
New research from the School of Social Work reveals Black children are more likely to be placed out-of-home than white children, including when case characteristics are otherwise similar.
Read more here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Read more here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Study offers evidence that racial bias is at play in overrepresentation of Black youth in Canadian child welfare systems
Researchers who examined Canadian child welfare data found that Black children were not only investigated at a higher rate than their white peers but were also more likely to be taken from their homes...
www.mcgill.ca
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
New research from the School of Social Work reveals Black children are more likely to be placed out-of-home than white children, including when case characteristics are otherwise similar.
Read more here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
Read more here:
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
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Registration for the Queer Food Conference opens on January 15th at 8 AM ET. www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registrati...
The hybrid conference will be in-person in Montréal and online from May 1-3, 2026. You can see the full schedule online.
The hybrid conference will be in-person in Montréal and online from May 1-3, 2026. You can see the full schedule online.
Registration (2026)
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January 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Registration for the Queer Food Conference opens on January 15th at 8 AM ET. www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registrati...
The hybrid conference will be in-person in Montréal and online from May 1-3, 2026. You can see the full schedule online.
The hybrid conference will be in-person in Montréal and online from May 1-3, 2026. You can see the full schedule online.
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A major essay from @debthompsonphd.bsky.social in the Globe and Mail, looking back at what the first year of Donald Trump's return to the presidency has wrought.
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Opinion: Year one of Donald Trump’s second term has been catastrophic for American democracy
The past year has been marked by near-constant upheaval, with new, revised or abandoned directives emerging from the Oval Office almost daily. The result is a sustained and dangerous transformation in...
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:23 PM
A major essay from @debthompsonphd.bsky.social in the Globe and Mail, looking back at what the first year of Donald Trump's return to the presidency has wrought.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
or for access on campus
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www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
or for access on campus
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On Thursday, January 29 the Department of English and the Department of Sociology welcome Professor Jamie McCallum from Middlebury College for a talk on "Unions Beyond the Workplace"
Details here:
www.mcgill.ca/sociology/ch...
@eidlin.bsky.social
Details here:
www.mcgill.ca/sociology/ch...
@eidlin.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM
On Thursday, January 29 the Department of English and the Department of Sociology welcome Professor Jamie McCallum from Middlebury College for a talk on "Unions Beyond the Workplace"
Details here:
www.mcgill.ca/sociology/ch...
@eidlin.bsky.social
Details here:
www.mcgill.ca/sociology/ch...
@eidlin.bsky.social
Congratulations to Professor Erin Hurley who is one of the recent recipients of the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants, researching the cultural impact of Montreal’s Centaur Theatre!
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Three McGill researchers receive SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants
The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced recipients of the latest Partnership Engage Grants competition, including a total of $73,782 awarded to three McGill rese...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Congratulations to Professor Erin Hurley who is one of the recent recipients of the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants, researching the cultural impact of Montreal’s Centaur Theatre!
@mcgillenglish.bsky.social
www.mcgill.ca/research/cha...
@mcgillenglish.bsky.social
www.mcgill.ca/research/cha...
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