Graduate Students

Planetary Health as Atmospheric Cultivation: Lessons from Nicaragua's Sugarcane Zone

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:56:03 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Alex Nading of Cornell University.

Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:48:18 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Tamirace Fakhoury of Tufts University.

Co-sponsored with the ɬ�﷬ Refugee Research Group.

New ISID Policy Brief: Climate Resilience in Small Island States: Realizing the Major Macroeconomic Benefits from Adaptation Investments

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:51:01 +0000

ISID welcomes the publication of a new policy brief by Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez. In this brief, Saghir and Ijjasz-Vasquez examine how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are increasingly affected by the growing impacts of climate hazards, including tropical cyclones, storm surges, increases in temperature, heatwaves, droughts, coastal and riverine flooding, changing precipitation patterns, and sea level rise, among others.

The Risks from Breaking the Bridges the UN Built, the Benefits of Saving Them and How to Do That

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:07:04 +0000

A guest lecture by Neil Buhne, Professor of Practice, ISID.

Climate Migrants as the New Stateless Persons

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:04:53 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor James Hathaway of the University of Michigan.

Co-sponsored by the ɬ�﷬ Refugee Research Group and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

Between International Financial Subordination and Turbulent Geopolitics: Financing Green Industrialization in the Global South

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:39:32 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Ilias Alami of Cambridge University.

Co-sponsored by CIPSS.

Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:50:44 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Paolo Boccagni of Trento University.

Co-sponsored by the ɬ�﷬ Refugee Research Group.

Standing Against Genocide and Its Ripple Effects in Palestine and Beyond

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:33:47 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Nadia Abu Zahra of the University of Ottawa.

Performance and Place-Making: Collaborative Media Production with Displaced Youth in Iran

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:21:11 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Nat Nesvanderani of Laval University.

Co-sponsored by the Critical Media Lab, the Institute for the Study of International Development, the ɬ�﷬ Refugee Research Group and the Department of Anthropology.

Welcoming Eduardo Romero Dianderas

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:35:54 +0000

The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to welcome Eduardo Romero Dianderas to its full time academic staff.

Eduardo Romero Dianderas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Development, ɬ�﷬. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2022) and specializes in the study of media technologies, technical infrastructures, and global environmental governance in Latin America.

Sophia Weiqi Li, Winner of the 2025 Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:00:44 +0000

The Institute for the Study of International Development congratulates Sophia Weiqi Li, winner of this year’s Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize. Sophia is a Honours International Development Studies Graduate with minors in French Language, Russian Language, and Urban Studies, and is recognized for her paper entitled When Feminists and Imperialists Link Arms: An Intersectional Case Study of the Russian Invasion in Ukraine.

Two Award Winners at ISID!

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:24:08 +0000

Congratulation to ISID Professors Francesco Amodio and Jacob Blanc! Professor Blanc was awarded H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching by the Faculty of Arts, and Professor Amodio was awarded the Faculty of Arts Distinction in Research Award.

“The khalla is running away from us:” Gulf capital, deficient deserts and property-making in central Sudan. A guest lecture by Professor Nisrin Elamin

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:52:42 +0000

Abstract: In the agricultural Gezira region of central Sudan, the term khalla means open land or expanse and refers to communal land that is partly used for grazing animals or rain-fed farming; what is often referred to as ‘the c

Milei’s Argentina: Understanding the Present and Shaping the Future

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:39:46 +0000

A panel discussion on Argentina's economy examining the results of President Milei's new government, the economic and political sustainability of his reforms, and future expectations.

Erik Kuhonta on arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:58:51 +0000

Professor Erik Martinez Kuhonta, ISID Associate Member and former Director, publishes an opinion piece on the recent arrrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. As Professor Kuhonta writes, "The International Criminal Court’s stunning arrest last week of former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, on charges of crimes against humanity was a powerful strike for human rights and justice. It was also a decisive move by the current President, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., against the Duterte family."