Faculty

Ya Hsuan (Wendy) Lin, Recipient of the 2026 Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:07:52 +0000

The Institute for the Study of International Development congratulates Wendy Lin, recipient of this year��s Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize. Wendy is a Joint Honours International Development Studies and Cultural Studies graduate with a minor in East Asian Language and Literatures. She received the award for her honours thesis, ��ȥȥ �C Coming and Going: A Qualitative Study on First- and 1.5-Generation Taiwanese Return Migration.��

2026 Annual AMR Symposium

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:32:53 +0000

The 91ɬ�� AMR Centre is hosting its 6th Annual Symposium on the theme One Health AMR.

Secondhand Sacred: Exhibiting Objects of Lived Religion

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:59:05 +0000

An exhibit and discussion by James Bielo, professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

Commerce and Curation: Methods for Circulation

Workshop examines leadership and lessons from internal displacement in Ukraine

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:33:54 +0000

Researchers, policymakers and displaced Ukrainian leaders gather in Warsaw to discuss action, advocacy and durable solutions to address the displacement crisis in Ukraine

Perimeters Graduate Conference

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:01:57 +0000

Perimeters, a new graduate conference by AGSA, will be hosting its inaugural session on March 21, 2026, at Thomson House. Notoriously messy and elusive, the ��field�� is a thorny problematic for many of us before, during, and after fieldwork.

Samar Zora Memorial Lecture 2026

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:54:27 +0000

The Samar Zora Memorial Event is a student-led event in the department of anthropology to commemorate Samar Zora, former student, interlocutor, and friend, who died in the earthquake that struck Eastern Turkey and Northwestern Syria on Februar

Book Launch: Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:47:41 +0000

Artful Naturalism: Special Exhibition at the Redpath Museum (17 Jan - 21 Feb)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:08:46 +0000

Sir John William Dawson (1820�C1899), former principal of 91ɬ��, was a notable geologist, president of Montreal��s Natural History Society, and founder of the Redpath Museum.

Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:45:20 +0000

Please join the Department of Anthropology for a talk by Agnieszka Pasieka, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Universit�� de Montr��al.

Partition (2025) Screening and Q+A

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:11:05 +0000

91ɬ��'s Department of Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of International Development Present:

Book Launch: Toward a Small Data Archaeology: Otomi?, Aztec Imperial, and Spanish Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:10:53 +0000

"For Lack of a Dictionary": Poetry Reading, Book Signing, and Discussion with Rosalind Morris

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:29:26 +0000

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Call for papers - Perimeters Graduate Conference

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:06:13 +0000

Perimeters, a new graduate conference by AGSA, invites paper proposals on the topic of the ��field�� for our inaugural conference - to be held March 21, 2026, at Thomson House.

Notoriously messy and elusive, the ��field�� is a thorny problematic for many of us before, during, and after fieldwork. This conference invites papers that sit with this trouble in order to engender new ways of thinking and theorizing the ��field.�� Some of our questions include:

- How do we find and make sense of the contexts we step into?

Collaboration with Mexico's School of Anthropology (ENAH) Field School

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:15:17 +0000

During the summer of 2025, the Guiengola Archaeological Project, directed by Guillermo Ram��n Celis--Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Anthropology Department at 91ɬ��--mentored twelve students from Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). Together, they surveyed a neighborhood of Guiengola, a fortified Zapotec city in southern Oaxaca that was occupied during the period when Europeans first arrived in the region.

Salisbury Memorial Lecture with Anna Tsing

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:24:01 +0000

Fish that Empty the Water: Co-Species Invasion as Occupation