Faculty

Artful Naturalism: Special Exhibition at the Redpath Museum (17 Jan - 21 Feb)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:08:46 +0000

Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899), former principal of �鶹��ý��վ, was a notable geologist, president of Montreal’s Natural History Society, and founder of the Redpath Museum.

Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:45:20 +0000

Please join the Department of Anthropology for a talk by Agnieszka Pasieka, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal.

Partition (2025) Screening and Q+A

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:11:05 +0000

�鶹��ý��վ's Department of Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of International Development Present:

Book Launch: Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:47:41 +0000

Book launch for Prof. Samuele Collu, more details to follow.

Book Launch: Toward a Small Data Archaeology: Otomí, Aztec Imperial, and Spanish Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:10:53 +0000

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 March 21, 2026, at Thomson House.

"For Lack of a Dictionary": Poetry Reading, Book Signing, and Discussion with Rosalind Morris

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:29:26 +0000

Synopsis:

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.

Call for papers - Perimeters Graduate Conference

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:06:13 +0000

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

Notoriously messy and elusive, the “field” is a thorny problematic for many of us before, during, and after fieldwork. This conference invites papers that sit with this trouble in order to engender new ways of thinking and theorizing the “field.” Some of our questions include:

- How do we find and make sense of the contexts we step into?

Collaboration with Mexico's School of Anthropology (ENAH) Field School

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:15:17 +0000

During the summer of 2025, the Guiengola Archaeological Project, directed by Guillermo Ramón Celis--Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Anthropology Department at �鶹��ý��վ--mentored twelve students from Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). Together, they surveyed a neighborhood of Guiengola, a fortified Zapotec city in southern Oaxaca that was occupied during the period when Europeans first arrived in the region.

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

A discussion of Unstable Ground with Rosalind Morris.

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:30:33 +0000

"A discussion of Unstable Ground with Rosalind Morris"
Co-Presented by the Department of Anthropology and the Critical Media Lab
Wednesday November 26th, 12:30pm-2:15pm, Peterson Hall 116

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.