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Director Catherine Lu Reflects on Centre's 10th Anniversary

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

The Lin Centre Director, Catherine Lu, reflected on the Centre’s 10th 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.

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.

Welcoming Eduardo Romero Dianderas

admin — 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, ��. 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.

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.

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025: Shiping Tang (Fudan University), "The New Landscape of International Political Economy: Toward a New IPE of/for/from the Global South"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:28:22 +0000

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025

"The New Landscape of International Political Economy: Toward a New IPE of/for/from the Global South"

Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:50:44 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Paolo Boccagni of Trento University.

Co-sponsored by the �� Refugee Research Group.

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

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:56:04 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Alex Nading of Cornell University.

Lin Centre 2026 Annual Lecture

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:56:05 +0000

CIPSS Speaker Series: Marek Brzezinski (��), "The Quality of Atrocity: Explaining Extreme Violence by State Military Forces"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:24:03 +0000

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025

"The Quality of Atrocity: Explaining Extreme Violence by State Military Forces"

Marek Brzezinski (��)

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025: Elizabeth Bloodgood (Concordia University), "What Does Government Know? Regulatory Diffusion, Translation, and Governments’ Ability to Enforce Foreign Funding Restrictions on NGOs"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:40:15 +0000

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025 "What Does Government Know? Regulatory Diffusion, Translation, and Governments’ Ability to Enforce Foreign Funding Restrictions on NGOs"

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025: Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo), "What Kind of a Neomercantilist is Trump?"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:33:50 +0000

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025 "What Kind of a Neomercantilist is Trump?" Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo)
Friday, November 7, 2025

RGCS Lecture: Asha Rangappa, “Presidential Paradox: Reconciling Executive Accountability with Prosecutorial Independence”

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:26:44 +0000

The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series presents: “Presidential Paradox: Reconciling Executive Accountability with Prosecutorial Independence”

Asha Rangappa

MISC: The Case for Supply Management and Fairer Food Systems

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:48:04 +0000

Thursday, November 17, 2022, 4 p.m.

MISC Eakin Lecture: Kate Puddister, "To Serve and Protect? Canadian Police Oversight in Practice"

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:20:54 +0000

Fall 2022 Eakin Lecture "To Serve and Protect? Canadian Police Oversight in Practice"
Professor Kate Puddister
Thursday, November 10, 2022, 4 p.m.

RGCS Lecture: Jonathan Rodden, “Political Geography, Polarization, and Representation"

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:21:44 +0000

Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture “Political Geography, Polarization, and Representation" Jonathan Rodden