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HBHL Symposium 2025: a week later, the energy still shines!

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 23:53:31 +0000

Over 300 attendees gathered at 91�� on May 6 and 7 for the HBHL Symposium 2025, a vibrant two-day celebration of cutting-edge neuroscience and brain health research.

This year’s event featured inspiring keynote talks by Damien Fair (University of Minnesota), Lucina Q. Uddin (UCLA) and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (91��), who explored topics from neuropsychiatry and brain network dynamics to social determinants of brain health.

ICAM 2026

admin — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:51:33 +0000

International Congress on Academic Medicine

April 16-19, 2026 | Rogers Centre, Ottawa ON

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, 91��. 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.

Two Award Winners at ISID!

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:24:09 +0000

Congratulation to ISID Professors Francesco Amodio and Jacob Blanc! Professor Blanc was awarded H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching by the Faculty of Arts, and Professor Amodio was awarded the Faculty of Arts Distinction in Research Award.

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.

Dr. Michael E. Mann Public Environment Lecture

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:44:27 +0000

The 91�� Bieler School of Environment is excited to invite you to a free annual lecture, this year with Presidential and Distinguished Professor, Dr. Michael Mann from the University of Pennsylvania.

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

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 91�� on Oct. 23 during the University’s annual Homecoming festivities. Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC national radio program Ideas, will moderate the event.

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

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

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

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.

Birks Annual Lecture Series

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:34:27 +0000

First Public lecture by Professor Israel Finkelstein. Bible and Archaeology – The View from 2025.

Birks Heritage Chapel, Birks Building, 2nd floor.

Birks Annual Lecture Series

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:45:02 +0000

Second Public lecture by Professor Israel Finkelstein, The archaeology and settlement history of Jerusalem in biblical times.

Birks Heritage Chapel, Birks Building, 2nd floor.

Heroes in Contemporary Popular Culture

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:36:45 +0000

Heroes in Contemporary Popular Culture: Figures, Forms, and Functions.

Co-host by 91�� and Concordia University.

Birks Heritage Chapel, Birks Building, 2nd floor, 91��.

Numata Lecture

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:54:20 +0000

Lecture by Professor Rachel Pang, Indigenous Understandings of Community, Territory, and Identity in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhist Life Writing

Birks Building, Room 100 (SCR)

6th annual conference on pre-modern Japanese religions

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:40:43 +0000

6th annual conference on pre-modern Japanese religions: ‘The Sounds and Colours of Japanese Rites’.

The School of Religious Studies, Room 100 (SCR), 91��.

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HBHL Symposium 2025: a week later, the energy still shines!

ICAM 2026

Welcoming Eduardo Romero Dianderas

Two Award Winners at ISID!

Sophia Weiqi Li, Winner of the 2025 Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize

Dr. Michael E. Mann Public Environment Lecture

2025 Beatty Lecture with Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson to deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture

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

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

Birks Annual Lecture Series

Birks Annual Lecture Series

Heroes in Contemporary Popular Culture

Numata Lecture

6th annual conference on pre-modern Japanese religions

Isabel Wilkerson to deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture

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