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Director Catherine Lu Reflects on Centre's 10th Anniversary

webfull — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:19:28 +0000

The Lin Centre Director, Catherine Lu, reflected on the Centre’s 10^th anniversary, and shared her own thoughts on why and how we should argue, the importance of clear thinking and academic freedom, what to think about historic, structural and global justice, who broke international order, and how studying history helps us to understand the current moment and its challenges.

Published: 4 November 2025

2025 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’ by Anthony Kaldellis

webfull — Tue, 20 May 2025 18:12:29 +0000

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.

Published: 20 May 2025

2025 Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop and Awards Program

webfull — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:20:47 +0000

Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop

Published: 24 April 2025

The Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts Releases Book on Place and Performance in Antiquity

webfull — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:34:23 +0000

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. Lin Centre, evolved and expanded into our Global Pasts Research Group.

Published: 3 February 2025

Two Members of the Yan P. Lin Centre newly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

webfull — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:01:45 +0000

Congratulations to Lin Centre (RGCS and RGGJ) members Arash Abizadeh and Daniel Weinstock, newly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada!

Published: 5 September 2024

Research Group on Global Pasts Announces Works-in-Progress Workshop

webfull — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:12:02 +0000

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. We are especially eager to involve graduate students in this workshop and to that end the RGGP will offer a series of Global Pasts student stipends to support graduate research.

Published: 24 April 2024

Yan P. Lin Centre 2023 Annual Lecture - C. Thi Nguyen “Value Capture”

webfull — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:37:00 +0000

C. Thi Nguyen gave the 2023 Annual Lecture on Thursday, March 30, 2023 in the Faculty Club Ballroom on “Value Capture”.

Published: 12 June 2023