Catherine Lu
@catherinelu.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre, and Coordinator of the Research Group on Global Justice, McGill. Co-editor of International Theory. Posts here speak only for myself.
Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social
'It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.' Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents.
August 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
'It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.' Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents.
This Fourth of July, remember Fritz Gerlich, who warned his fellow Germans of Hitler and the road to ruin, and who was shot and killed on the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, during a purge of critics of the Nazi regime.
July 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This Fourth of July, remember Fritz Gerlich, who warned his fellow Germans of Hitler and the road to ruin, and who was shot and killed on the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, during a purge of critics of the Nazi regime.
Happy New Year! May 2025 bring more peace, love, & joy to all. May those who suffer receive relief. May the bombing of children stop. May those who are aggressors meet an unhappy end. May we be free to argue & have the courage to criticize the powerful. May we continue to hope for justice & truth.
January 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Happy New Year! May 2025 bring more peace, love, & joy to all. May those who suffer receive relief. May the bombing of children stop. May those who are aggressors meet an unhappy end. May we be free to argue & have the courage to criticize the powerful. May we continue to hope for justice & truth.
With the conclusion of the Pelicot rapes trial, it's a good time to read @manongarcia.bsky.social Manon Garcia's book, The Joy of Consent, so vital and necessary for feminist liberation.
December 19, 2024 at 6:46 PM
With the conclusion of the Pelicot rapes trial, it's a good time to read @manongarcia.bsky.social Manon Garcia's book, The Joy of Consent, so vital and necessary for feminist liberation.
Last seminar today on Euripides' Trojan Women, to end the course on 'War, Law, Humanity.' The entire course has culminated in these lines: (War) 'They are going to kill your boy.' (Law) 'There is no justice here.' (Humanity) 'Consider no prosperous man to have good fortune until he is dead.'
December 6, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Last seminar today on Euripides' Trojan Women, to end the course on 'War, Law, Humanity.' The entire course has culminated in these lines: (War) 'They are going to kill your boy.' (Law) 'There is no justice here.' (Humanity) 'Consider no prosperous man to have good fortune until he is dead.'
Welcome to a master of philosophical fun and curiosity, new BS member, @danielweinstock.bsky.social ! A photo from our last lunch in mid-September.
November 17, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Welcome to a master of philosophical fun and curiosity, new BS member, @danielweinstock.bsky.social ! A photo from our last lunch in mid-September.
Looking for ways to put current events in historical perspective? Come to the Lin Centre's public symposium on 'Rupture and Continuity in History' with (moderns) Luthi @lorenzluthi.bsky.social, Johnson @excubs.bsky.social , Dunsworth, & (ancients) Kleinman, Hilsdale, & Totten, @mcgillu.bsky.social .
November 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Looking for ways to put current events in historical perspective? Come to the Lin Centre's public symposium on 'Rupture and Continuity in History' with (moderns) Luthi @lorenzluthi.bsky.social, Johnson @excubs.bsky.social , Dunsworth, & (ancients) Kleinman, Hilsdale, & Totten, @mcgillu.bsky.social .
Hello, new BS friends! This Remembrance Day, here's a photo of some works we're discussing in my honors political theory seminar this term, on 'War, Law, and 'Humanity.'
November 11, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Hello, new BS friends! This Remembrance Day, here's a photo of some works we're discussing in my honors political theory seminar this term, on 'War, Law, and 'Humanity.'
Excited to spend my last day in Berlin at the Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, organized tirelessly by @manongarcia.bsky.social and @estherneuhann.bsky.social !
June 28, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Excited to spend my last day in Berlin at the Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, organized tirelessly by @manongarcia.bsky.social and @estherneuhann.bsky.social !
Can't wait for @leaypi.bsky.social 's last lecture tonight, after two great lectures on her vision of moral socialism, critique of capitalism, highlighting the importance of global & collective action to realize conditions for universal freedom of agency. Thank you, Lea and @ktbberlin.bsky.social !
June 21, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Can't wait for @leaypi.bsky.social 's last lecture tonight, after two great lectures on her vision of moral socialism, critique of capitalism, highlighting the importance of global & collective action to realize conditions for universal freedom of agency. Thank you, Lea and @ktbberlin.bsky.social !
'Is the disorder of our times unprecedented?' Lin Centre Annual Lecture by @aysezarakol.bsky.social on March 27 at @mcgillu.bsky.social !
March 22, 2024 at 12:32 PM
'Is the disorder of our times unprecedented?' Lin Centre Annual Lecture by @aysezarakol.bsky.social on March 27 at @mcgillu.bsky.social !
A beautiful present to arrive in the mail this Monday morning! Congratulations to all the editors and contributors! And special thanks to Wayne Modest and the Research Center for Material Culture in Leiden for supporting my work on the complex challenges of decolonizing museums.
February 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
A beautiful present to arrive in the mail this Monday morning! Congratulations to all the editors and contributors! And special thanks to Wayne Modest and the Research Center for Material Culture in Leiden for supporting my work on the complex challenges of decolonizing museums.
The Research Group on Global Justice of the Lin Centre at @mcgillu.bsky.social looks forward to this talk tomorrow!
January 25, 2024 at 3:53 PM
The Research Group on Global Justice of the Lin Centre at @mcgillu.bsky.social looks forward to this talk tomorrow!
Got my copy! It's Open Access on the OUP website, so you can also get yours!
January 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Got my copy! It's Open Access on the OUP website, so you can also get yours!
Appearing in January 2024, my contribution to the volume, The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism, from Amsterdam University Press. Thanks to the editors, especially Wayne Modest, Pepijn Brandon, and Emma van Bijnen. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
December 29, 2023 at 11:17 PM
Appearing in January 2024, my contribution to the volume, The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism, from Amsterdam University Press. Thanks to the editors, especially Wayne Modest, Pepijn Brandon, and Emma van Bijnen. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
My first article conceptualizing the idea of tragic progress.
December 29, 2023 at 10:49 PM
My first article conceptualizing the idea of tragic progress.
The Lin Centre's Research Groups on Transitions and Global Modernities, and on Global Pasts present a public colloquium for our times: Collapses in History, Lived and Remembered, this Friday, November 24, 2-6 pm at McGill University!
November 23, 2023 at 1:27 PM
The Lin Centre's Research Groups on Transitions and Global Modernities, and on Global Pasts present a public colloquium for our times: Collapses in History, Lived and Remembered, this Friday, November 24, 2-6 pm at McGill University!
Today! Looking forward to welcoming @davidawelch.bsky.social David A. Welch to McGill to give the John and Eileen Marrett Annual Lecture, 2 to 4 pm, Leacock 232.
November 17, 2023 at 4:26 PM
Today! Looking forward to welcoming @davidawelch.bsky.social David A. Welch to McGill to give the John and Eileen Marrett Annual Lecture, 2 to 4 pm, Leacock 232.
This Friday, the Lin Centre's Research Group on Global Justice at McGill University welcomes Stefan Gosepath, 'Contestations and Possible Improvements of the Liberal Script.'
November 6, 2023 at 8:33 PM
This Friday, the Lin Centre's Research Group on Global Justice at McGill University welcomes Stefan Gosepath, 'Contestations and Possible Improvements of the Liberal Script.'
Looking forward to discussing 'The Spectre of Statelessness' with Lucia Rafanelli @lrafanell.bsky.social with @gripp-montreal.bsky.social and the Lin Centre's Research Group on Global Justice, this Friday!
October 31, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Looking forward to discussing 'The Spectre of Statelessness' with Lucia Rafanelli @lrafanell.bsky.social with @gripp-montreal.bsky.social and the Lin Centre's Research Group on Global Justice, this Friday!
Go see the exhibit of the Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority, at McGill University! Sponsored by the Lin Centre's Research Group on Democracy, Space, and Technology. Learn about biocompatible porous concrete, radical gardens, and design for deconstruction. Last day today!
October 26, 2023 at 2:17 PM
Go see the exhibit of the Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority, at McGill University! Sponsored by the Lin Centre's Research Group on Democracy, Space, and Technology. Learn about biocompatible porous concrete, radical gardens, and design for deconstruction. Last day today!
Great to see works of one of my favourite authors, Jeanette Winterson, on display, at the Word Bookstore in Montreal.
October 18, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Great to see works of one of my favourite authors, Jeanette Winterson, on display, at the Word Bookstore in Montreal.
Look what arrived in the mail! Can't wait to read Inés Valdez's Democracy and Empire, w/ the Lin Centre's Research Group on Global Justice, next April 18, w/ Inés + Will Roberts @marxinhell.bsky.social, Yves Winter, Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social, Robin Celikates, William Tilleczek, & Jennifer Welsh!
October 16, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Look what arrived in the mail! Can't wait to read Inés Valdez's Democracy and Empire, w/ the Lin Centre's Research Group on Global Justice, next April 18, w/ Inés + Will Roberts @marxinhell.bsky.social, Yves Winter, Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social, Robin Celikates, William Tilleczek, & Jennifer Welsh!