Faculty

Program Coordinating Committee Meeting (PCoCo)

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:16:10 +0000

Symposium: Black Communities, Emancipatory Research, and Pathways to Liberation

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:52:26 +0000

Date: Wednesday, May 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday, May 22, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Brief event description:

School of Social Work Spring Convocation

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:24:52 +0000

The Spring convocation ceremony for the School of Social Work will be held under the white Convocation Tent on the ɬ�﷬ downtown campus on Tuesday, June 3rd at 10:00 am followed by a Wine & Cheese reception for all So

Elections in Troubled Times: The 2025 Canadian Election in Historical Perspective Webinar

admin — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:02:28 +0000

Join MISC at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, May 20th for an online Zoom webinar, Elections in Troubled Times: The 2025 Canadian Election in Historical Perspective.

Bridging Wisdom: Indigenous Advisory Councils in Academia

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:40:44 +0000

On May 15th from 1 - 2:30 PM, join the Office of Indigenous Initiatives for a virtual panel featuring distinguished academics and Chairs of Indigenous Advisory Councils.

March Neurogenesis talks explore brain mechanisms in food choice and computational modelling

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:43:01 +0000

Last week, HBHL hosted the third talk of the 2024-2025 Neurogenesis Speaker Series at the Neuro, featuring Dana Small and Yashar Zeighami.

Dana Small’s presentation, "The Interoceptive Origins of Reward," explored how biological signals are integrated to determine food choice, while Yashar Zeighami’s talk, "Fine-Tuning Neuroimaging Analysis to Reveal Hidden Insights," highlighted his research into the development of multi-scale computational models of brain anatomy.

Canadian-Scottish Studies History Colloquium

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:05:07 +0000

2025 Colloquium of the St. Andrew’s Society/ McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies

Wednesday 14th May 2025

13:50-14:00: Welcome

Faculty Spotlight on Camille Owens!

admin — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:45:27 +0000

Assistant Professor Camille Owens spoke about her latest book Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America for the Faculty of Arts' Faculty Publication Spotlight!

Professor Manshel's "Writing Backwards" released as an audiobook

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:45:57 +0000

Associate Professor Alexander Manshel's publication Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Columbia University Press, 2023) has been released as an audiobook by University Press Audiobooks.

English PhD candidate heads Montreal’s first trans film festival

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:33:07 +0000

English PhD candidate, Iris Pintiuta, created Exposure, Montreal's first trans film festival. The festival aims to promote inclusive representation for trans people, as well as create programs and events that advance trans acceptance.

'“Too often, queer and trans scholarship doesn’t make it back to the people it speaks about. I wanted to change that – I wanted to build a bridge between academic knowledge and public access and use what I was learning to support my community, not just advance my own career.”'

Kizziah Burton - Winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024

admin — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:02:49 +0000

Congratulations to Kizziah Burton, the winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024. Her poem, “Portrait of Me Incensing the Mushrooms Channelling Demeter,” has been awarded the $20,000 prize. Read the poem here.

Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:34:40 +0000

Zine-making 101: Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments

Inaugurating The Peter Sabor Fellowship

admin — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:37:57 +0000

The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Burney Society of North America have partnered to establish a new fellowship named after Distinguished James ɬ�﷬ Professor Emeritus, Burney editor, long-time member, and past President of CSECS, Peter Sabor.

PhD Candidate Jay Ritchie on his latest book "Listening in Many Publics"

admin — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:10:45 +0000

Jay Ritchie, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, spoke to the Faculty of Arts about his newest collection of poems 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴, shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.

Marco Menin (Università degli Studi di Torino) & Silvia Manzo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

admin — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:43:48 +0000

And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy : Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity.