Faculty

Beyond cruelty: agency, personhood and relationality in detention & deportation research

petros.psarudis@mcgill.ca — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:15:16 +0000

Professor Ulla D. Berg

Title: Beyond cruelty: agency, personhood and relationality in detention & deportation research

McDonald, Currie Lecture 2026

petros.psarudis@mcgill.ca — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:13:19 +0000

McDonald, Currie Lecture 2026 Security and the new re-globalization paradox Date and Time: March 12, 4:00 pm Place: 91˿��Ƶ Faculty Club Ballroom, 3450 Rue McTavish

Demand for Repression during the Algerian War of Independence

petros.psarudis@mcgill.ca — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:24:19 +0000

Demand for Repression during the Algerian War of Independence by Jean Lachapelle

Arts 160

ABSTRACT:

Rot: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland before the Famine

petros.psarudis@mcgill.ca — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:15:52 +0000

Rot: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland before the Famine
Padraic X. Scanlan (University of Toronto)

12:30-2:00 ARTS160

ISID Speaker Series talk by Dr Lizhi Liu ARTS 160

petros.psarudis@mcgill.ca — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:28:36 +0000

From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China

Planetary Health as Atmospheric Cultivation: Lessons from Nicaragua's Sugarcane Zone

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:56:03 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Alex Nading of Cornell University.

Refugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:48:18 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Tamirace Fakhoury of Tufts University.

Co-sponsored with the 91˿��Ƶ Refugee Research Group.

New ISID Policy Brief: Climate Resilience in Small Island States: Realizing the Major Macroeconomic Benefits from Adaptation Investments

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:51:01 +0000

ISID welcomes the publication of a new policy brief by Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez. In this brief, Saghir and Ijjasz-Vasquez examine how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are increasingly affected by the growing impacts of climate hazards, including tropical cyclones, storm surges, increases in temperature, heatwaves, droughts, coastal and riverine flooding, changing precipitation patterns, and sea level rise, among others.

The Risks from Breaking the Bridges the UN Built, the Benefits of Saving Them and How to Do That

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:07:04 +0000

A guest lecture by Neil Buhne, Professor of Practice, ISID.

Climate Migrants as the New Stateless Persons

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:04:53 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor James Hathaway of the University of Michigan.

Co-sponsored by the 91˿��Ƶ Refugee Research Group and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

Between International Financial Subordination and Turbulent Geopolitics: Financing Green Industrialization in the Global South

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:39:32 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Ilias Alami of Cambridge University.

Co-sponsored by CIPSS.

Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:50:44 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Paolo Boccagni of Trento University.

Co-sponsored by the 91˿��Ƶ Refugee Research Group.

Standing Against Genocide and Its Ripple Effects in Palestine and Beyond

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:33:47 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Nadia Abu Zahra of the University of Ottawa.

Performance and Place-Making: Collaborative Media Production with Displaced Youth in Iran

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:21:11 +0000

A guest lecture by Professor Nat Nesvanderani of Laval University.

Co-sponsored by the Critical Media Lab, the Institute for the Study of International Development, the 91˿��Ƶ Refugee Research Group and the Department of Anthropology.

Welcoming Eduardo Romero Dianderas

iain.blair@mcgill.ca — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:35:54 +0000

The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to welcome Eduardo Romero Dianderas to its full time academic staff.

Eduardo Romero Dianderas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Development, 91˿��Ƶ. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2022) and specializes in the study of media technologies, technical infrastructures, and global environmental governance in Latin America.