Undergraduate Students

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.

Lin Centre 10th Anniversary Lectures : Jill Frank & Steven Pincus

admin — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:46:54 +0000

Lin Centre 10th Anniversary Lectures : Jill Frank & Steven Pincus

Lin Centre 2026 Annual Lecture

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

Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:48:18 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Tamirace Fakhoury of Tufts University.

Co-sponsored with the �� Refugee Research Group.

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.

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.

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.

BOOK LAUNCH: Prof. Khalid Mustafa Medani, "Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa"

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 19:35:55 +0000

The Department of Political Science and the Institute of Islamic Studies invite you to our book launch celebrating Prof.

Debra Thompson - Return: On Blackness and Belonging in North America

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:41:47 +0000

Return: On Blackness and Belonging in North America

GRIPP - Charles Taylor Lecture Series – Philip Pettit Part Two : ‘Values’

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:07:40 +0000

Charles Taylor Lecture Series – Philip Pettit Lecture Part Two : ‘Values’

September 20 @ 16:00 - 18:00

GRIPP - Charles Taylor Lecture Series – Philip Pettit Part One : ‘Persons’

christina.rosania@mcgill.ca — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:04:21 +0000

Charles Taylor Lecture Series – Philip Pettit lecture Part One : ‘Persons’

September 19 @ 16:00 - 18:00