Faculty

Isabel Wilkerson to deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:49:01 +0000

Pulitzer-Prize winning American journalist, journalism professor and author will speak Oct. 23

Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns will deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture at 91ֱ�� on Oct. 23 during the University’s annual Homecoming festivities. Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC national radio program Ideas, will moderate the event.

Provost honours 31 91ֱ�� professors for exceptional research achievements

admin — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:23:55 +0000

91ֱ�� announces 2025 cohort of Distinguished James 91ֱ�� Professors, James 91ֱ�� Professors and William Dawson Scholars
Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Christopher Manfredi has named 31 91ֱ�� professors as Distinguished James 91ֱ�� Professors, James 91ֱ�� Professors or William Dawson Scholars. The internal awards recognize exceptional research achievements.

School of Information Studies Professors Awarded $5.6M Grant to Propel Canada to the Forefront of Cybersecurity Data Analytics Research

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:00:53 +0000

Professor Benjamin Fung, Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, and Professor Steven Ding, both of the School of Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts, are part of a team that has recently been awarded a $5.6 million grant, funded under the NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE. The project, the only one to receive funding from NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE, will provide a multimodal, comprehensive solution for exploratory analysis of unstructured data, with a strong focus on cybersecurity applications.

$268,000 awarded to support outreach activities by 91ֱ�� researchers

admin — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:40:59 +0000

Seven 91ֱ�� researchers have been awarded more than $268,000 in Connection Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Professor Manshel's "Writing Backwards" released as an audiobook

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:45:57 +0000

Associate Professor Alexander Manshel's publication Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Columbia University Press, 2023) has been released as an audiobook by University Press Audiobooks.

Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:34:40 +0000

Zine-making 101: Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments

Professor Nathalie Cooke appointed to Royal Society of Canada

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:02:40 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Nathalie Cooke on her election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada!

English PhD candidate heads Montreal’s first trans film festival

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:33:07 +0000

English PhD candidate, Iris Pintiuta, created Exposure, Montreal's first trans film festival. The festival aims to promote inclusive representation for trans people, as well as create programs and events that advance trans acceptance.

'“Too often, queer and trans scholarship doesn’t make it back to the people it speaks about. I wanted to change that – I wanted to build a bridge between academic knowledge and public access and use what I was learning to support my community, not just advance my own career.”'

Nathalie Cooke's Latest Book: Tastes and Traditions

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:03:09 +0000

Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History by Professor Nathalie Cooke
Published by Reaktion Books

Where the Light Gets In - Why Canada’s Global Engagement Matters by Ambassador Bob Rae

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:40:36 +0000

Join MISC for a lecture by Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Bob Rae, titled Where the Light Gets In - Why Canada’s Global Engagement Matters on Monday, October 6th, 2025, 4 p.m.

East Asian Studies Speaker Series Talk, "Landscape and Power in Post-Imperial Chang'an"

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:34:28 +0000

East Asian Studies Speaker Series Talk
"Landscape and Power in Post-Imperial Chang'an"
Professor Xin Wen, Princeton University

Thursday, October 23, 4:35 PM
680 Sherbrooke Room 1041

2025 Beatty Lecture with Isabel Wilkerson

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:23:37 +0000

2025 Beatty Lecture with Isabel Wilkerson
Followed by a book signing
Thursday, October 23 at 6 p.m.
Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building

What Stories Can Menus Tell?

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:03:25 +0000

Sunday, September 28, 14h
Westmount Public Library
4574 Sherbrooke W, Westmount, QC H3Z 1G1

Emily Mann and Annabel Soutar in Conversation

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:25:33 +0000

March Neurogenesis talks explore brain mechanisms in food choice and computational modelling

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:43:01 +0000

Last week, HBHL hosted the third talk of the 2024-2025 Neurogenesis Speaker Series at the Neuro, featuring Dana Small and Yashar Zeighami.

Dana Small’s presentation, "The Interoceptive Origins of Reward," explored how biological signals are integrated to determine food choice, while Yashar Zeighami’s talk, "Fine-Tuning Neuroimaging Analysis to Reveal Hidden Insights," highlighted his research into the development of multi-scale computational models of brain anatomy.