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

admin — 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.

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

admin — 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.

Perimeters Graduate Conference

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

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

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

The Department of Anthropology congratulates its fellowship recipients for Fall 2025!

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:58:28 +0000

Doctoral
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Camilo Mireles Salcedo
Canada Graduate Scholarship: Anna Horton, Lynn Jacobs, and Sabine Plummer
FRQSC Doctoral Scholarship: Sara Hosseini, Lynn Jacobs, Wenrui Li, Camilo Mireles, Enke Tuyaa Montgomery
SECIHTI (Mexico): Alondra Pérez Rojas
Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship: Alondra Pérez Rojas

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

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:10:58 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Alex Nading of Cornell University.

Cosponsored by the Institute for the Study of International Development.

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

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:33:48 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Nat Nesvanderani of Laval University.

Sarah Pinto (Tufts University) - The Ethical Monster

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:21:51 +0000

The Ethical Monster: Theorizing Ugliness and Gendered Political Subject in India

Speaker Series

shameem.mooradun@mcgill.ca — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:14:52 +0000

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CANCELLED - Anthropology Speaker Series - Marta-Laura Haynes

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:20:25 +0000

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Anthropology Speaker Series - Natasha Raheja

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:18:26 +0000

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Natasha Raheja (Cornell University): https://anthropology.cornell.edu/natasha-raheja

'Old Woman of Nishapur' series - Marie Odgaard (University of Toronto)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:35:02 +0000

Marie Odgaard (University of Toronto)

When She Arrives: On friendship, singular encounters, and being an anthropologist like a friend

Anthropology Speaker Series - Nicolas Delsol

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:15:35 +0000

Please join us for a talk by Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Nicolas Delsol (Université Laval): https://celat.ca/liste-des-membres/delsol-nicolas/.

Anthropology Speaker Series - Nisrin Elamin

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:22:37 +0000

Nisrin Elamin
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto

Co-sponsored with ISID, the 9I�� Refugee Research Group, and the African Studies program.

More details to follow.

Samar Zora Memorial Event

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:13:09 +0000

Roundtable discussion: The Difficulty of Reality

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