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Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed on Trump’s misguided ideas of Fourth of July in the .

Published on: 6 Jul 2020

Daniel Weinstock, a founding member of the Lin Centre's faculty and a member of its Research Group on Constitutional Studies, has been appointed as the next holder of the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the Faculties of Law and Arts.

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Published on: 2 Jun 2020

The Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Law are delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Weinstock has been appointed to the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, effective 1 June 2020.

Published on: 1 Jun 2020

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Dear members of the Faculty of Arts community,

On Monday, May 11th, the Provost that Ï㽶ÊÓƵ will be delivering its academic programs and courses for the Fall term, which will begin as scheduled in September.

I’d like to highlight the content of that message by reiterating the following:

Classified as: Faculty of Arts, Internal announcements
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Published on: 12 May 2020

Dear members of the Faculty of Arts,

As we end the Winter 2020 semester, a semester like no other at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, I’d like to wish you all the best for the exam period and the summer beyond. You have all demonstrated such goodwill and adaptability, and each one of you has been essential to keeping our big ship afloat and realizing the Faculty’s academic mission in this uncertain situation.

Classified as: Faculty of Arts, Internal announcements
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Published on: 21 Apr 2020

Professor Jarrett Rudy passed away on April 4, 2020, two weeks after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery.

Published on: 5 Apr 2020

Dear members of the Faculty of Arts,

I’d like to take the opportunity to thank the entire Arts community for their patience and positive morale as we respond to the collective call to address the global pandemic of the Covid-19 virus. It has been a challenging two weeks of adaptation, Faculty of Arts is in a very good place as we respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus on our students, faculty, and staff.

Classified as: Faculty of Arts, Internal announcements
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Published on: 31 Mar 2020

Dear Members of the Faculty of Arts community,

We have all experienced a stressful week of adjustment and adaptation as we take action to face the COVID-19 global pandemic. While there is still much uncertainty and more change to come, I want to thank you all for your resilience and patience in these trying times.

Classified as: Faculty of Arts, staff, Internal announcements
Published on: 20 Mar 2020

Dear Members of the Faculty of the Arts,

We are in an unprecedented situation as the Faculty of Arts community at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ responds to the Quebec Government’s call to action to contain the propagation of COVID-19. All of us in the Faculty – students, staff, instructors, – are doing our part to comply in a responsible manner that ensures the reliable flow of information, so as to maximize the health and well-being of our communities.

Classified as: Faculty of Arts, mcgill arts, Internal announcements
Published on: 19 Mar 2020

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Dear Members of the Faculty of the Arts,

The past few days have been stressful for you as the students, instructors, researchers and administrators who make up the Faculty of Arts community at McGill as we respond to the call to action to contain the propagation of COVID-19. This update is to reassure you that the Faculty and University are making every effort to do so in a responsible manner, and to summarize all of the information being communicated.

Classified as: Faculty of Arts, COVID-19 Update
Published on: 19 Mar 2020

CIFAR today announced itsÌýnewest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from McGill, bringing the total number of McGill researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the world’s first national strategy of its kind. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities, and mobilizes over 150 researchers across the country.

The latest group of McGill professors to join Mila as Canada CIFAR AI Chairs in the Arts are:

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Published on: 9 Dec 2019

Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.

Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music

Classified as: Research, Artificial intelligence, music, song, Department of Linguistics, science, NSERC, frqs
Published on: 21 Nov 2019

Professor Jamil Ragep (Institute of Islamic Studies)Ìýis the recipient of the 2019ÌýTurkish Academy of Sciences Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities.ÌýThe award will be presented by the Turkish President Erdogan at a ceremony in Ankara on December 30.

Ragep is the Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies.Ìý

For more information on the prize:Ìý

Published on: 20 Nov 2019

Three finalists for the 2019 Cundill History Prize were announced last night at an event at Massey College, Toronto. The finalists, all female, are UCL Professor of German History, Mary Fulbrook, Harvard Professor and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, and Julia Lovell, Professor ofÌýModern China at Birkbeck College at the University of London. These three extraordinary authors approach difficult subjects, opening sometimes uncomfortable conversations around the past to help us better understand their repercussions today.

Classified as: Featured
Published on: 17 Oct 2019

Congratulations to Prof. Kristy Ironside, who was recently been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a grant of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Societé et culture. The grants will help Prof. Ironside to start her new research project International Copyright Law in the Political Economy of Russia and the Soviet Union.

Published on: 26 Sep 2019

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