Please check this page regularly for updates.ÌýActivities will continue to be added throughout the year.
Built environment
Summer 2017
From the to the foot of
Le Joyau royal et le Mille doré byÌýPhilippe Allard and Justin Duchesneau
Summer 2017
Public artwork to be installed at the
, winner of the Growing our Community student design competition
Celebratory event September 2017
Ottawa
Celebrations
Black History Month
Events throughout February
Full schedule
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March 13-26, 2017
Full schedule
April 8, 2017
June 16-18, 2017
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Submission of the final report of the Provost's Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education
June 21, 2017
August 21, 2017
Citizenship Ceremony
October 30, 2017
Competitions
Baxter Family Competition on Federalism
Competition finalists will present their papers at the:
Baxter Family Symposium on Federalism
Graham Sommer Competition for Young Composers
Spring 2017
Schulich School of Music
Late summer/early fall 2018
Concerts
Opera McGill - 60th Anniversary - Die Fledermaus
January 26-28, 2017
The complete Livre d'orgue de Montréal
March 4, 2017
Opera McGill - 60th Anniversary - Opera Binge Festival
March 10-11, 2017
Various locations
Music in Nouvelle France
March 19, 2017
Canadian Music Concert
March 23, 2017
August 19, 2017
Featuring:
Ìý• Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Ìý• Orchestre Métropolitain
Ìý• McGill Symphony Orchestra
McGill Symphony Orchestra: Canadian Composers
Featuring works by Claude Champagne
September 22 and 23, 2017
McGill Jazz Orchestra: A Tribute to Canadian Jazz
October 16, 2017
McGill Symphony Orchestra: Canadian Composers
Featuring R. Murray Schafer's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
October 20 and 21, 2017
Illuminations: Brian Cherney at Seventy-Five
October 27-28, 2017
and
A Canadian Celebration: La Brasserie
November 10, 2017
Canadian Music Days concerts
Ìý• November 16, 2017
Ìý•ÌýNovember 17, 2017
Ìý•ÌýNovember 18, 2017
Ìý• November 19, 2017 (afternoon)
Ìý•ÌýNovember 19, 2017Ìý(evening)
Canadian Landscape: A celebration of Canadian choral music
November 22, 2017
McGill Symphony Orchestra: Canadian Composers
Featuring Moe Touizrar'sÌýBright, Blue, and Shimmering
November 24Ìýand 25, 2017
Concert of Canadian Music
March 21, 2018
Conferences and congresses
Canadian Exceptionalism: Are we good or are we lucky?
2017 Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
February 9-10, 2017
Baxter Family Symposium on Federalism
March 22, 2017
March 23-24, 2017
Montreal and Quebec City
Read Prof. Johanne Poirier's article '' published in Le Devoir on March 20, 2017.
85th annual congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas)
May 8-12, 2017
October 11-13, 2017
October 12-15, 2017
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: The Contribution of the Private Sector
October 24, 2017
November 13-15, 2017
Courses and publications
Winter (January - April 2017)
Ìý• LAWG 539 – Constitutional Drafting and Revisions: "Modernizing the Canadian Constitution"Ìý-Ìý
ÌýÌýStudents in this course participated in a simulated Constituent Assembly in Ottawa –Ìýsee photos from the event.
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Summer (MayÌý- July 2017)
Ìý• QCST 336 – Quebec Studies Summer Seminar: Montreal 375th anniversary edition
Fall (September - December 2017)
Ìý• ENGL 441 –ÌýHistory of Canadian Literary Cuisine
40th anniversary special edition
April 4, 2017
:ÌýApril 28, 2017
: April 26 - May 6, 2017
Heaman, E. A.
Cooke, N. and Lucas, F. (eds.) .
Amiraux, V. and Boudreau, J. Vivre ensemble à Montréal. Épreuves et convivialités.
En français
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March 13-26, 2017
Full schedule
40th anniversary special edition
April 4, 2017
85th annual congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas)
May 8-12, 2017
Exhibitions
Building Canada: One Law at a Time
Feburary 20Ìý- December 23, 2017
Remembering: Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
April 7Ìý- November 30, 2017
• Film screeningÌý: April 24, 2017
•Ìý: April 28, 2017
•Ìý: April 26 - May 6, 2017
• : May 6, 2017
Mapping 375 years of Progress:ÌýRare Montreal maps from 1556 to 1946
May 11-22, 2017
about the Library's collection of digitized maps
May 29 - October 27, 2017
Sherbrooke Street West
Expo 67
October 2 - December 21, 2017
The Canadian Jewish Experience
October 11 – November 5, 2017
Artists Among Us
November 1, 2017
Indigenous Perspectives
Film screening:Ìý
April 24, 2017
Submission of the final report of the Provost's Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education
June 21, 2017
June 16-18, 2017
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Talks and tours
February 16, 2017
Art After Dark @ McGill: Nuit Blanche 2017
March 4-5, 2017
April 22, 2017
Tim Cook: "Birth of a Notion: The Vimy Idea, 1917-2017"
April 25, 2017
Charlotte Gray: "A Personal Portrait of Canada at 150"
April 27, 2017
May 16, 2017
Informal outdoor science talks by researchers from McGill and other Montreal institutions
May 17 - October 12, 2017
Various downtown locations
May 25, 2017
See photos from the event
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May 30, 2017
Les midis Ville-Marie
June 7, 2017
Canada C3 voyage visits the Repath Museum
June 11, 2017
Les midis Ville-Marie
June 28, 2017
Les midis Ville-Marie
July 19, 2017
Les midis Ville-Marie
August 9, 2017
Les midis Ville-Marie
SeptemberÌý13, 2017
Les midis Ville-Marie
OctoberÌý4, 2017
Julian Armstrong and Nathalie Cooke: "Foodways and fisticuffs: the larger than life personalities who shaped Quebec cuisine"
October 4, 2017 - BOOKED OUT
October 11, 2017
Charles Taylor: The 2017 Beatty Memorial Lecture
October 12, 2017
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October 14, 2017
Rabbi Adam Scheier on the Canadian Jewish Experience
October 25, 2017
Veronica Strong-Boag: "Where was Democracy? The Case of Woman Suffrage in Canada"
November 1, 2017
, Colgate Seminar Room
Canadian Music Days: Paper presentations
November 18, 2017
, room A832
Round Table: What is Canadian in Canadian music?
November 19, 2017
Elsbeth Heaman: "Making History in 1860s Canada"
November 22, 2017
Victoria Slonosky: "Climate in the Age of Empire: Weather observers in colonial Canadaâ€
November 27, 2017
Digital initiatives and multimedia
Three collections:
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Mapping 375 years of Progress:ÌýRare Montreal maps from 1556 to 1946
May 11-22, 2017
about the Library's collection of digitized maps
Interactive collection of photos spanning a century of Montreal streetscapes
December 12, 2016 - January 1, 2017
Light show projected onto the eastern slope of
Youth
Baxter Family Competition on Federalism
Competition finalists will present their papers at the:
Baxter Family Symposium on Federalism
Graham Sommer Competition for Young Composers
Spring 2017
Schulich School of Music
Documentary series showcasingÌýthe next generation of Canadians who will shape the country's future