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Two Members of the Yan P. Lin Centre newly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to Lin Centre (RGCS and RGGJ) members Arash Abizadeh and Daniel Weinstock, newly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada!

Published: 5 Sep 2024

Research Group on Global Pasts Announces Works-in-Progress Workshop

As a means of enhancing our scholarly community on campus, the Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts will organize an annual workshop to showcase ongoing research aligned with the core agenda of our research group. The workshop will consist of a series of short presentations on individual case studies (texts, events, objects, monuments, etc.) followed by group discussion.

Published: 24 Apr 2024

2024 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ by Ayşe Zarakol

The Lin Centre’s 2024 Annual Lecture, ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ was delivered by Professor Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, on March 27th. Professor Zarakol’s lecture was exemplary of the kind of cross-disciplinary, cross-era, cross-regional research on social and political ideas, orders and transformation that the Lin Centre seeks to encourage and promote!

Published: 10 Apr 2024

Five Yan P. Lin Centre Members part of 2.5$M SSHRC inter-University Grant on Housing in Canada

Five members of the Yan P. Lin Centre and Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology (RGDST) were one of 13 teams in the successful “Quality in Canada's Built Environment: Seeking Equity, Social Value and Sustainability” SSHRC Partnership Grant worth $2,500,000. This unprecedented grant will assure the collaboration of a total of 14 universities, 70 researchers and 68 public and private organizations from every level of government across the country.

Published: 12 Jun 2023

Yan P. Lin Centre 2023 Annual Lecture - C. Thi Nguyen “Value Capture”

C. Thi Nguyen gave the 2023 Annual Lecture on Thursday, March 30, 2023 in the Faculty Club Ballroom on “Value Capture”.

Published: 12 Jun 2023

Young Alumni Supporting Crowdfunding Initiatives for ۲ݮƵ24

The Research Group in Constitutional Studies is hoping to build a permanent endowment that will provide long-term funding for students.

/arts/article/young-alumni-supporting-crowdfunding-initiatives-mcgill24

Published: 8 Mar 2022

Bruno Latour awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize

Bruno Latour, who delivered the 2021 Lin Centre Annual Lecture, has been awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize, "presented to individuals who have made significant contributions in the fields of science and technology, as well as the arts and philosophy." Among the previous Kyoto Prize Laureates is Lin Centre emeritus member Charles Taylor.

Published: 16 Sep 2021

Opinion: What’s Afghanistan’s future? The history of U.S. state-building offers some clues

LORENZ LÜTHI, co-ordinator of the Research Group on Transitions and Global Modernities, contributed an articlein the Globe and Mail on September 3rd: What’s Afghanistan’s future? The history of U.S. state-building offers some clues.

Published: 7 Sep 2021

Professor David Theodore (member of RGDST) appointed Director of the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture

On June 11, Professor David Theodore, member of the Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology has been a appointed as next director of the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.

https://kollectif.net/professor-david-theodore-appointed-next-director/

Published: 14 Jun 2021

Lorenz Lüthi's book was selected as one of "The books one should have read in 2020" (Les livres qu’il faut avoir lus en 2020) by "Le Grant Continent," Paris

The usual Cold War narratives focus on the Soviet-American rivalry as if the superpowers were the only driving forces in the international system. Lorenz M. Lüthi offers a radically different narrative, restoring a role for regional powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and revealing how regional and national developments shaped the course of the Cold War.

Published: 26 Jan 2021

$2-million gift from Montreal philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky to explore the impact of new technology on society

Donation will contribute to the establishment of Chair in Technology and Human Nature in ۲ݮƵ’s Department of Philosophy.

Published: 4 Aug 2020

Evan Fox-Decent and Sébastien Jodoin named Canada Research Chairs

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that two of its scholars have been named Canada Research Chairs. ProfessorEvan Fox-Decent (member of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies) has been named the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cosmopolitan Law and Justice, and ProfessorSébastien Jodoinhas been named the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Human Rights and the Environment.

Published: 2 Jul 2020

Yves Winter's “Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence” has been awarded the Canadian Political Science Association's CB Macpherson Prize for the best book in political theory.

The prize jury said "In this richly theorized and elegantly written book, Yves Winter offers a systematic treatment of Machiavelli's distinctive approach to political violence. Winter's analysis illuminates the public and performative nature of political violence in Machiavelli's thought and emphasizes how Machiavelli crucially views violence as a spectacle rather than merely a means to punish or coerce behavior.

Published: 11 Jun 2020

Daniel Weinstock named Pearson Chair in Civil Society & Public Policy

Daniel Weinstock, a founding member of the Lin Centre's faculty and a member of its Research Group on Constitutional Studies, has been appointed as the next holder of the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the Faculties of Law and Arts.

/law/channels/news/daniel-weinstock-pearson-chair-322537

Published: 2 Jun 2020

Megan Bradley (RGGJ) awarded 2020 Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers

Congratulations to Megan Bradley for being the recipient of the 2020 Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers! This prize, which comes with a $5000 award, was created in 2013 to encourage and celebrate ۲ݮƵ’s most outstanding early-career researchers. Megan has been a member of the Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) of the Lin Centre since 2015.
Published: 14 Apr 2020

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