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Activities

Please check this page regularly for updates.ÌýActivities will continue to be added throughout the year.

Celebrations

Digital initiatives and multimedia

Concerts

Exhibitions

Conferences and congresses

Talks and tours

Courses and publications

Competitions

Indigenous perspectives

En français

Built environment

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
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ - venue to be advised


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


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