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The Risks from Breaking the Bridges the UN Built, the Benefits of Saving Them and How to Do That

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:07:04 +0000

A guest lecture by Neil Buhne, Professor of Practice, ISID.

Performance and Place-Making: Collaborative Media Production with Displaced Youth in Iran

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:21:11 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Nat Nesvanderani of Laval University.

Co-sponsored by the Critical Media Lab, the Institute for the Study of International Development, the 91�� Refugee Research Group and the Department of Anthropology.

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 91�� 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 91�� Refugee Research Group.

Between International Financial Subordination and Turbulent Geopolitics: Financing Green Industrialization in the Globa South

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:39:32 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Ilias Alami of Cambridge University.

Co-sponsored by CIPSS.

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.

Climate Migrants as the New Stateless Persons

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:04:53 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor James Hathaway of the University of Michigan.

Co-sponsored by the 91�� Refugee Research Group and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

RGGJ Conference : Democracy and Design: Black Feminist Perspectives on Monuments, Clearings, and Fabrication

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:37:09 +0000

How can democracy be re-designed or re-fabricated to support human flourishing?

Lin Centre 2026 Annual Lecture

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

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

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

CIPSS Speaker Series: Marek Brzezinski (91��), "The Quality of Atrocity: Explaining Extreme Violence by State Military Forces"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:24:03 +0000

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025

"The Quality of Atrocity: Explaining Extreme Violence by State Military Forces"

Marek Brzezinski (91��)

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.

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.

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025: Elizabeth Bloodgood (Concordia University), "What Does Government Know? Regulatory Diffusion, Translation, and Governments’ Ability to Enforce Foreign Funding Restrictions on NGOs"

nathalia.duartecamara@mcgill.ca — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:40:15 +0000

CIPSS Speaker Series Fall 2025 "What Does Government Know? Regulatory Diffusion, Translation, and Governments’ Ability to Enforce Foreign Funding Restrictions on NGOs"