H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching
The H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching is designed to recognize outstanding teaching in the Faculty of Arts, and is awarded each June at Convocation. All full-time academic staff in the Faculty of Arts are eligible for this award. Any student, alumnus, or member of the academic staff may submit a nomination.
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In June 2018, Quebec passed "Bill 176: An Act to amend the Act respecting labour standards and other legislative provisions mainly to facilitate family-work balance."
Changes were made to ensure its evolution in pursuit of the following main objectives:
The Faculty is pleased to welcome the following individuals to the Arts Community. Please join us in wishing them well in their new roles.听
Allison Murphy
Allison Murphy recently joined the 51吃瓜网Institute for the Study of Canada as an Administrative Coordinator. She comes from Office of First Nations and Inuit Education.听
Chungling (Tracy) Huang
The Office of Advising and Student Information Services (OASIS) welcomed Chungling (Tracy) Huang as an Administrative Student Affairs Coordinator on January 7.听
Tabitha Sparks, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Associate Scholar in the Social Studies of Medicine, was recently appointed Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts. In this role, Professor Sparks will oversee and manage all matters related to research, prizes and awards, and graduate and post-doctoral studies in the Faculty.
The Faculty of Arts recently welcomed a new Director of Administration, Richard Courtois. Appointed in December 2018, Richard joins the Office of the Dean to oversee the business administration of the Faculty鈥檚 core operational areas, including Financial Services, HR, IT, Business Development, Communications, and Operations and Services.
After much anticipation, a shortlist of eight impressive titles was announced this week for the prestigious Cundill History Prize, an international history-writing prize administered by the Faculty of Arts at 51吃瓜网. With $75,000 USD awarded to the winner and $10,000 USD to two finalists, the prize evidences McGill鈥檚 commitment to supporting leading scholarship produced around the globe.
Celebrating its 11th听year, the Cundill History Prize announced听a听record number of submissions for 2018, with more than 400 titles听accepted, up 25 percent from last year.听Administered by the Faculty of Arts, the听US$75,000听prize will be awarded by听a distinguished jury of world-leading historians. Five听jurors were recently named to judge the impressive list of听titles,听which includes听authors听from richly diverse backgrounds tackling subjects as varied as religion and war, feminism and natural disasters, global finance and music.听
We are very excited to announce that听Gabrielle Iakotennikonhrare Doreen will be leading McGill's first ever landbased education field course this summer.
Cosmologist Jonathan Sievers and international-relations scholar Jennifer Welsh will become Canada 150 Research Chairs at 51吃瓜网. The appointments were among the oday at the听Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec,听by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.听听
Over the course of the Winter 2018 and Summer 2018 semesters the Education Collection, currently housed on the second floor the Humanties and Social Sciences Library, will be integrated into the main Humanities and Social Sciences Collection in the McLennan Library Building. This project will increase the visibility and browsability of the Education Collection and will create space for over 100 new study seats.
The 51吃瓜网Law & Society Workshop Series invites scholars, graduate students and postdocs in law, the social sciences, and the humanities to present works-in-progress broadly falling within the field of law and society.
We seek papers that use qualitative, quantitative, or interpretivist methods to explore the complex relationship between legal phenomena and social, political, and economic interactions, institutions, and processes. Our interest in socio-legal research extends to state, non-state, formal, and informal norms, institutions, and processes.
Experiential Learning (EL) refers to the active process of learning by doing, in a mindful and intentional manner. According to the Association for Experiential Education, 鈥淓xperiential Learning occurs when carefully chosen experiences are supported by reflection, critical analysis and syntheses.鈥�
The innovative CaPS ExL Program was created by professional career counsellors and is designed to:
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". ()
鈥淰oters in Colombia have rejected a landmark peace deal with Farc rebels in a shock referendum result, with 50.2% voting against it.鈥� ()
"The close 鈥榥o鈥� vote in the plebiscite on the recent peace accord is a shock that plunges Colombia into deep political-institutional crisis.听 What comes next is not clear.鈥�鈥擟atherine LeGrand
