/channels/news_feeds/all/term/arts_fac/rss en /channels/channels/news/experts-digital-sovereignty-370654 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The French government announced on Jan. 27 the rollout of its new videoconferencing platform, Visio. The domestically developed platform was created to replace U.S. tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams across all state services by 2027 as part of the French government’s broader push for digital sovereignty. Officials say the shift will also cut software licensing costs and strengthen security and confidentiality.</p> <p>���������Թ� experts are available to comment on this topic:</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/gettyimages-2226205524.jpg?itok=pZ7SNorB" width="160" height="90" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">28 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:53:06 +0000 webfull 215233 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-alexander-manshel-has-won-melus-book-award-370482 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Manshel for winning the MELUS Book Award!</h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/manshel_writing_backwards.jpg?itok=JyhS0XPw" width="160" height="85" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:28:53 +0000 webfull 214989 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-erin-hurley-receives-sshrc-partnership-engage-grant-370478 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Erin Hurley for receiving a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant!</h2> <div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/hurley_headshot_2023.jpg?itok=pgqjbaXo" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:10:08 +0000 webfull 214985 at /channels /channels/channels/news/carmen-faye-mathes-has-been-awarded-2025-keats-shelley-association-essay-prize-370450 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Carmen Faye Mathes!</h2> <p><a href="/english/staff/carmen-mathes">Professor Mathes</a> has been awared the 2025 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize for her essay “Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address.”</p> <p>The committee writes:</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/mathes_headshot_banner.jpg?itok=o9DYODHd" width="160" height="86" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:44:54 +0000 webfull 214957 at /channels /channels/channels/news/three-mcgill-researchers-receive-sshrc-partnership-engage-grants-370328 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div> <div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/sshrc_partnership_grant_recipients_january_2026.png?itok=ZYFAeRvX" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">14 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:32:44 +0000 webfull 214806 at /channels /channels/channels/news/ricardo-wilson-2025-26-mordecai-richler-writer-residence-369991 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The <strong>Department of English</strong> is delighted to announce Professor <strong>Ricardo Wilson </strong>as the 2025-2026 <strong>Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence</strong>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/richler2026_rwilson_banner.jpg?itok=BxeJW69N" width="160" height="80" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:19:50 +0000 webfull 214450 at /channels /channels/channels/news/camille-owens-receives-honorable-mention-children-369782 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Camille Owens!</h2> <h3>Professor Owens received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association of America for her book <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479812929/like-children/"><em>Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America</em></a>.</h3> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/owens_faculty_spotlight.jpg?itok=85z5Zdr8" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:25:46 +0000 webfull 214209 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgills-bachelor-arts-and-science-program-celebrates-20-years-interdisciplinary-scholarship-369294 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2><em>Happy 20th birthday, B.A. &amp; Sc.!</em></h2> <div> <div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/basc.png?itok=Z1lCghwn" width="160" height="106" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">25 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:58:56 +0000 webfull 213645 at /channels /channels/channels/news/prof-sandeep-banerjee-cbc-ideas-369289 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Professor Sandeep Banerjee was a guest in the<strong> </strong>CBC Ideas episode "How this 19th-century Indian feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head."</h2> <h2 class="bl-tpl"><strong><a class="button--outline" href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16168730-pandita-ramabai-a-19th-century-indian-feminist-travelled-world">Listen to the episode</a></strong></h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/banerjee_headshot_low.jpg?itok=5qdIFiPM" width="160" height="160" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">24 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:51:45 +0000 webfull 213639 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-manshels-writing-backwards-was-awarded-2026-perkins-prize-368695 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Alexander Manshel for being awarded The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize!</h2> <p><strong>2026 Perkins Prize Citation:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/writing-backwards/9780231211260/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAacjfQyhS7G7wpc8XtZWxts9C59RLas8xMhFeBXRWk-8fvoej-vbGL2R7329qQ_aem_IJMAxTRYtq4qKTiGaQgyeA">Alexander <span><span>Manshel, <i>Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon</i>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.</span></span></a></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/manshel_writingbackwards_square.jpg?itok=hL6PYt7M" width="160" height="160" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">3 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:44:33 +0000 webfull 213003 at /channels