/isid/taxonomy/term/5/all en /isid/channels/event/selfish-determination-libertarians-proprietary-communities-and-decolonization-357670 <p>A guest lecture by Professor Raymond Craib of Cornell University.</p> Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:44:52 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1549 at /isid /isid/channels/event/revolutionizing-global-development-learning-black-women-cooperators-across-americas-357669 <p>A guest lecture by Professor Caroline Hossein.</p> Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:43:05 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1548 at /isid /isid/channels/news/professor-jacob-blanc-wins-aus-most-outstanding-professor-award-357377 <p>Congratulations to Professor Jacob Blanc, jointly appointed in History and the Institute for the Study of International Development, for winning the 2024 award for Most Outstanding Professor from the Arts Undergraduate Society!</p> <p>Read about it <a href="/arts/article/professor-jacob-blanc-aus-professor-award?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=May-2024---Arts-News&utm_source=Envoke-All-contacts&utm_term=Discovering-the-French-Language-Centre%2C-A-New-Philosophy-Cou">here</a>.</p> Thu, 16 May 2024 20:18:58 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1546 at /isid /isid/channels/news/new-policy-brief-climate-adaptation-finance-356735 <p>ISID is pleased to release a new policy brief entitled "Climate Adaptation Finance:  the Gap Between Needs and Resources Continues to Grow", by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir along with his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez. </p> <p>Read about it <a href="/isid/files/isid/channels/attach/pb-2024-01.pdf">HERE</a></p> Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:54:17 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1544 at /isid /isid/channels/event/isid-professor-practice-mentoring-event-and-idssa-career-fair-356515 <p>ISID invites you to a career day event, involving ISID Professors of Practice and employers invited by the International Development Studies Students Association.  All welcome</p> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:05:46 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1542 at /isid /isid/channels/news/isid-congratulates-professor-jacob-blanc-his-new-book-prestes-column-355449 <p>Professor Jacob Blanc of the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of History has had a new book published with Duke University Press.  In <i>The Prestes Column</i>, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927.</p> Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:42:54 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1539 at /isid /isid/channels/event/media-representations-gaza-screening-and-discussion-353001 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:51:47 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1526 at /isid /isid/channels/news/enkhuun-byambadorj-winner-2023-albert-hirschman-prize-348670 <p>ISID congratulated Enkhuun Byambadorj, winner of the 2023 Albert Hirschman prize for best undergraduate essay in international development studies.  The selection committee for the prize writes:</p> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:29:14 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1517 at /isid /isid/channels/news/teaching-assistants-international-development-studies-348532 <p>The Institute for the Study of International Development is looking for graduate teaching assistants for the Fall 2023 term and for various courses in the international development studies program.  Applicants must be graduate students in good standing at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº.  Full details can be found here <a href="/isid/jobs/teaching-assistants">/isid/jobs/teaching-assistants</a>, and applications made through Workday, the university's human resources management system.</p> Wed, 31 May 2023 18:33:26 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1514 at /isid /isid/channels/news/marie-perle-nkosi-outgoing-president-idssa-and-black-grad-valedictorian-348301 <p>ISID congratulates Marie-Perle Nkosi, president for the 2022/2023 year of the International Development Studies Students Association and one of three Black Grad Valedictorians at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº this year!  Read the full details and an interview with Marie-Perle in the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Reporter:  <a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/in-conversation-with-marie-perle-nkosi-black-grad-valedictorian/">https://reporter.mcgill.ca/in-conversation-with-marie-perle-nkosi-black-...</a></p> Fri, 12 May 2023 13:34:58 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1513 at /isid /isid/channels/event/authoritarian-turn-and-dehumanization-roots-fall-peruvian-democracy-346998 <p>After a long-standing political crisis, on December 2022, Peru's government has once again taken an authoritarian turn.</p> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:56:18 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1511 at /isid /isid/channels/event/trends-and-prospects-development-346625 <h2><b>Trends and Prospects in Development</b></h2> <h3><b>A Conference organized by the Institute for the Study of International Development</b></h3> <h3><b>Thomson House Ballroom</b></h3> <hr /> <h4><u>30 March 2023</u></h4> Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:42:52 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1510 at /isid /isid/channels/news/new-policy-brief-climate-adapation-africa-locally-led-and-nature-based-solutions-346063 <p>Climate change continues to cause damage in Africa. It triggers food insecurity, poverty and displacement. The impacts of climate change are being exacerbated by rapid urbanization, geopolitical tensions, headwinds caused by the invasion of Ukraine and its impacts on agricultural exports and fertilizers.</p> <p>ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez discuss these issues in ISID's first policy brief of 2023.</p> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:34:47 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1509 at /isid /isid/channels/event/state-building-and-borderlands-informal-control-turkish-state-everyday-level-344731 <p>A guest lecture by Dilan Okcuoglu, a non-resident visiting fellow at CUNY Middle East and Middle Eastern American Centre, and a consultant at the Council on Strategic Risks.</p> Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:08:24 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1502 at /isid /isid/channels/news/two-years-after-coup-myanmar-has-slid-civil-war-345899 <p>Read ISID's Director Erik Kuhonta's recent op/ed on the situation in Myanmar in the Globe and Mail:  <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-two-years-after-the-coup-myanmar-has-slid-into-civil-war/">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-two-years-after-the-coup...</a></p> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:08:50 +0000 iain.blair@mcgill.ca 1508 at /isid