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2023-2024 Events

The 2024 Yan P. Lin Centre Annual Lecture

Wednesday March 28th, 2024 – Faculty Club Ballroom

Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge) “Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?”

Research Group on Constitutional Studies events 2023-2024.

Coordinator: Jacob Levy

Thursday, September 14th, 2023 – Leacock 232

Adam Smith Tercentenary Lecture: Ryan Griffiths (۲ݮƵ University), "Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political Realism" and response by Shal Marriott.

Cosponsored by the Adam Smith Tercentenary project of the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Government Office in Canada

Thursday, October 26th, 2023 – Thompson House Ballroom

Lecture Series: Kevin Vallier (Philosophy, Bowling Green State University), "From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution: The Early Modern Roots of Radical Anti-liberalism"

Friday, October 27th, 2023

Works in Progress Workshop: Yann Allard Tremblay

Thursday, January 18, 2024 – Thompson House Ballroom

Lecture Series: Emily Nacol (University of Toronto), "A 'More Onerous Citizenship': Political Theory in Plague Time"

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 – Thompson House Ballroom

Joseph Carens (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto): "Reality and Political Theory"

Thursday, March 14th, 2024 – Thompson House Ballroom

Kevin Elliott (Ethics Politics & Economics, Yale): "Democracy for Busy People"

Thursday, April 11th, 2024 – Leacock Building 232

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University), “Against Decolonisation”

Sponsored by Critical Social Theory at ۲ݮƵ and co-sponsored by the African Studies Program, the Provostial Action Plan Against Anti-Black Racism, and the Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Constitutional Studies and Research Group on Global Justice.

Research Group on Global Justice events 2023-2024.

Coordinator: Catherine Lu

Friday, October 13th, 2023 – Thompson House Ballroom

Lecture Series: Manon Garcia (Freie Universität), “The Joy of Consent”

Friday, November 3rd, 2023 – Arts 160

Lecture Series: Lucia Rafanelli (George Washington University), “The Specter of Statelessness”

Friday, November 10th, 2023 – Arts 160

Lecture Series: Stefan Gosepath (Free University of Berlin/NYU), “Contestations and Possible Improvements of the Liberal Script”

Friday, November 17th, 2023 – Leacock 232

Marret Annual Lecture: David Welch (U of Waterloo), “How should we REALLY think about security?”

Co-sponsored by CIPSS

Friday, January 26th, 2024 – Arts 160

Lecture Series: Margaret Kohn (University of Toronto), “The Promise and Peril of Participatory Democracy: Lessons from Non-profit Housing Cooperatives”

Co-sponsored by RGDST

Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 – Faculty Club Billiard Room

Roundtable on Indigeneity: Complex Identities and Diversity in Indigenous Studies

Participants: Aaron Mills (Law, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Constitutionalism and Philosophy) Noelani Arista (History, Director of the Indigenous Studies Program, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Land, Governance, and Language) Yann Allard-Tremblay (Political Science, Director of the Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative)

Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative.

Thursday, April 18th, 2024 – Arts 160

Book Roundtable Democracy and Empire by Inés Valdez (Johns Hopkins)

Participants: William Tilleczek, Robin Celikates, Ryoa Chung, Will Roberts, Yves Winter,

Jennifer Welsh, Catherine Lu, Inés Valdez

Friday, April 19th, 2024 – Arts 160

Robin Celikates (MIT/Free University of Berlin): “Xenophobia’ to Structural Racism, and Back? Epistemic Obstacles, Conceptual Struggles, and the Role of Critical Theory”

Research Group on Transitions and Global Modernities events 2023-2024

Coordinators: Anastassios Anastassiadis and Lorenz Lüthi

Monday, October 2nd, 2023 – Arts 116

Lecture Series: Hanno Hochmuth (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Postdam), “Babylon Berlin: The Weimar Republic in Past and Present”

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 – Leacock 232

Lecture Series: M'hamed Oualdi (Science Po-Paris), Connecting Mediterranean and Atlantic Slaveries (18th-19th centuries)

Monday, November 13th, 2023 – Leacock 26

Gabriel Allahdua (University of Guelph), “Harvesting Freedom: Migrant Workers in Canada”

Cosponsored by the Dean of Arts Development Fund

Friday, November 24th, 2023 – Faculty Club Billiard Room

Symposium: Collapses in History, Lived and Remembered

Participants: Griet Vankeerberghen (۲ݮƵ), Cecily Hilsdale (۲ݮƵ), Faith Wallis (۲ݮƵ), Judith Szapor (۲ݮƵ), Christopher Goscha (UQAM) & Lorenz Luthi (۲ݮƵ)

Co-sponsored by RGGP

Friday, February 2nd, 2024 – Faculty Club Billiard Room

Defector Workshop

Panel 1 “Soviet Defectors to the West “

Participants: Kevin Riehle (Brunel University), Samuel Eberlee (University of Toronto), Kristy Ironside (۲ݮƵ)

Panel 2 “Places of Defection”

Participants: Phi-Van Nguyen (Université de St. Boniface), Laura Madokoro (Carlton University), Lorenz Lüthi (۲ݮƵ Univesity)

Friday, February 2nd, 2024 – Faculty Club Billiard Room

Erick R. Scott (University of Kansas) "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World"

Friday, March 15th , 2024 – Arts 150

Maura Hametz (James Madison University) “Terrorists or Martyrs: International Justice and the 1930 Il Popolo di Trieste Trial”

Friday, March 22nd, 2024 – Leacock Building 110

Elizabeth Leake (Tufts) “Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Remaking of the International Order”

Friday, April 19th, 2024 – Arts 160

Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ (Harvard) “The Making of a Socialist World: Cultural Connections between Poland and Vietnam After 1955”

Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology events 2023-2024

Coordinator: Ipek Tureli

Monday, October 2nd to Friday, October 27th, 2023 – Macdonald-Harrington Building 114

Exhibition “Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority”

Thursday, October 5th, 2023 - Macdonald-Harrington Building 101-102

Workshop “Biocompatible Porous Concrete” with ۲ݮƵ University's Biomass Production Lab

Thursday, October 12th, 2023 - Macdonald-Harrington Building 101-102

Workshop “Radical Gardens for Radical New Relations” with Nouveaux Voisins

Thursday, October 12th, 2023 - Macdonald-Harrington Building 114

Exhibition “Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority” Vernissage

Thursday, October 19-20, 2023

Symposium “Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority”

Hosted by Vikram Bhatt (۲ݮƵ University) and Ipek Türeli (۲ݮƵ University)

Participants: David Theodore (۲ݮƵ University), Carmela Cucuzzella (UdM), Gonzalo Lizarralde (UdM), Zeenat Niazi (Development Alternatives Group), Jesus Navarrete (Inter-American Development Bank), Balakrishna Menon Parameswaran (World Bank Group), Marie-Pierre McDonald (BC2), Tasneeem Chowdhury (University of Illinois at Chicago), Rachelle Navarro Åstrand (Sweco Sverige AB), Varun Thautam (Varun Thautam Architects), Georgia Cardosi (UdM), Leila Marie Farah (Toronto Metropolitan University), Rune Kongshaug (Produktif), Meltem Yilmaz (Hacettepe University), Arièle Dionne-Krosnick (۲ݮƵ University), Martha Schwindling (Studio Martha Schwindling), Cassidy Johnson (University College London), Martien de Vletter (Canadian Centre for Architecture), Meredith Gaglio (Louisiana State University), Bushra Nayeem (University of Kansas), Lee Stickells (University of Sidney) and Witold Rybczynski (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday, November 17th to Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Focus Bidayyat: New Beginnings

This series consists of five screenings, three panels and two workshops at ۲ݮƵ University and the 2023 RIDM Film Festival.

Supported by World Records, RIDM, the Critical Media Lab, FRQSC, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 – Peel Street Cinema

Night-time Design for/with Marginalized Communities: Queering the Night Screening

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 – Macdonald Harrington Building 508

Night-time Design for/with Marginalized Communities: Queering the Night Workshop

Thursday, February 1st, 2024 -Leacock Building 232

On Gaza – A Speaker Series

Gaza Crisis: Background and Implications – talk by Mouin Rabbani

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 - Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall 108

On Gaza – A Speaker Series

Gaza Crisis: Journalism under Siege

Participants Sherif Mansour,MENA Program Coordinator

Ghousoon Bisharat, Editor-in Chief, +972 Magazine

Nidal Rafa, Independent Journalist and Producer, Jerusalem

Mahmoud Mustafa, Independent Journalist and Human Rights Activist, Gaza

Moderator: Amahl Bishara, Tufts University

Co-sponsored by: The Critical Media Lab, Department of Anthropology and Department of Anthropology & Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University

Thursday, March 12th, 2024 - Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall 108

On Gaza Series – A Speaker Series

Poetry as Resistance

Mosab Abu Toha, Writer and author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022)

Mahmoud Al-Shaer, Writer and editor of Majallat 28

Moderated by:

Rula Abi Saab, Professor of Islamic History at the Institute of Islamic Studies, ۲ݮƵ University

Research Group on Human Nature and Values in the Digital Age 2023-2024

Coordinator: Jocelyn Maclure and Chris Howard

Monday, February 26th, 2024 – Leacock 429

Work In Progress Session : “AI Ethics’ Institutional Turn” by Jocelyn Maclure & Alexis Morin-Martel

Cosponsored by the Jarlslowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology

Wednesday, April 3th, 2024 – Virtual

Book Seminar on The Privacy Fallacy. Harm and Power in the Information Economy by Ignacio Cofone (۲ݮƵ)

Research Group on Global Pasts events 2023-2024

Coordinator: Griet Vankeerberghen

Thursday, September 7th, 2023 – Peterson Hall 116

Lecture Series: Véronique Chankowski (Directrice de l’Ecole française d’Athènes), "Illicit trafficking in antiquities: what can scholars do?"

Thursday, November 9th, 2023 – Peterson Hall 116

Lecture Series: Alexandre Farnoux (Sorbonne), "Greek Art in turmoil, Paris 1919-1939"

Thursday, February 1st, 2024 – Arts W-215

Maria Feliciano, “Rethinking ‘Medieval’: The Early Modern Repurpose of Medieval Textiles in the Iberian Peninsula”

Friday, March 15th and Saturday, March 16th, 2024 – Concordia University

43rd Annual Conference of Canadian Medieval Art Historians

Co-sponsored by the Research Group on Global Pasts

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