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McGill Summer Studies in Greece is back in 2025! Registration is now open to all students from McGill and Universities in North America. Details here: mcgill.ca/history/underg…

TODAY!

Colonial Histories, Culture Wars, and the ‘Truths’ about Empire: A Conversation with Alan Lester. 9 December 2024. 16:00-18:00 Morrice Hall Theatre, 3485 rue McTavish. All welcome! Light refreshments will be provided.

The winner of the 2024 #CundillHistoryPrize is… Kathleen DuVal (@KathleenADuVal) for ‘Native Nations: A Millennium in North America’, published by @randomhouse. A ‘sweeping’ 1000-year history of North America from the rise of ancient cities to the present day.

Join us next week for a talk by visiting Professor Carmen Alveal: "For an Agrarian History of Colonial Brazil."

This Saturday, HCS Prof. Malek Abisaab and Islamic Studies Prof. Michelle Hartman, will discuss their new book, What the War Left Behind. Register here: cc4p.ca/inaugural-conf…

Three days away!

Tickets below! 🎟️ Cundill Lecture with 2023 winner @taniabranigan: eventbrite.ca/e/the-cundill-… Cundill Fringe with students from @mcgill_HCS: eventbrite.ca/e/the-cundill-… Cundill Forum with 2024 finalists Gary J. Bass, @KathleenADuVal and Dylan C. Penningroth: eventbrite.ca/e/the-cundill-…

Join us for the 2024 Homecoming Lecture by Prof. Suzanne Morton on Student Campaigns at McGill. Very excited for this! Tickets here: alumni.mcgill.ca/aoc/events-tra…

Next Friday, the Research Group for Global Pasts will host Prof. Bérénice Bellina for our annual outreach lecture. All are welcome to attend! mcgill.ca/lin-centre/glo…

Tomorrow! Featuring History PhD Candidate Briar Bennett-Flammer, “Challenging the Chalice: Christian and Roman legacies in the artefacts of Vindolanda.”

Friday at 11! Dr. Tolly Bradford on Protestant Missionaries and the making of Treaty Six.

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

During this year’s Day of Truth and Reconciliation we are spotlighting some of the current research and various initiatives being undertaken by the Indigenous faculty members within our vast Faculty of Arts community. Discover more here: mcgill.ca/arts/article/s…

Out now: the 2024 issue of Chronos, the Magazine of the Department of History and Classical Studies. mcgill.ca/history/files/…

This week HCS Prof. Lynn Kozak, along with Eric Lewis, is co-organizing “Ancient Drama: Between Tragedy and Horror” at the Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, Greece (and online), featuring 6 days of panels, workshops, and performance. ancientdrama.gr/en/between-tra…

A symposium in honour of our late and much-missed colleague Gershon Hundert. Organized by the Department of Jewish Studies. More information here: mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/…

Exciting talk by HCS liaison librarian Dr. Kristen Howard @krchoward . Co-sponsored by HCS and the Montreal History Group.