The Preamble

Hello everyone!

The HSA & DESA have teamed up to bring you a spring extravaganza that you won’t soon forget.

At the time, the turn of the 20th century was regarded by some as a new beginning in Europe, featuring new inventions, sumptuous material goods, and artistic and literary innovation! But there were others who viewed this time as a dangerous and indulgent period, involving excess, flaneurs and liberated ladies. Either way you slice it, there is no denying that La belle époque was a hoot and a half.

As the semester comes to a close, we’d love to celebrate spring as if the century were coming to a close! Let your inner Olympia and Oscar Wilde run… WILD!

This event is ABSOLUTELY FREE! Free drink tickets will be given out to the first 100 guests to arrive, and we will be serving complimentary hors d’oeuvres (we are nothing if not decadent).

Please RSVP on the Facebook event.

See you there!

This coming Thursday the French Atlantic History Group welcomes Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Professeur in the department of Etudes anglophones at the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII), and a specialist in the early American republic and the Atlantic world.
Please note the unusual time.

Workshops on Social Science Research (WSSR)

Spring 2016 registration is open!

The WSSR provide a diverse range of opportunities for discussion and the sharing of ideas, knowledge, and experiences. Our workshop guest lecturers include current and former political leaders and elected representatives from various levels and branches of government, senior-level bureaucrats, Officers of Parliament, and academics who are at the top of their fields, all with years of experience in the Canadian and international contexts.

Also, in collaboration with both the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the WSSR offer top-level training in both qualitative and quantitative methods. These workshops range from introductory-level research methods to workshops in advanced qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.

The WSSR are available to everyone to take either for credit or non-credit. Spring registration is now open but hurry, early-bird registration rates end at midnight on April 15th!

Find out more here: WSSR Spring 2016 Workshops

Call for Submissions 

The HSA is opening applications for our 2016-2017 executive committee! 

Joining exec is a great way to get involved and meet new people in your major/minor.

Send an email to mcgill.hsa.communications@gmail to ask for the nomination kit and specify which position you would like to run for. This year, all positions are open:

President
VP Communications
VP Events
VP Academics
VP Finance

It requires a short platform explaining why you’re interested, as well as 20 signatures from other history students students.

Applications deadline has been extended to MARCH 18TH and can be sent to mcgill.hsa.communications@gmail.com.

Feel free to email us with any questions!

The 8th Annual Montreal Classics Colloquium (April 7th-8th) is coming up, and McGill is looking for speakers! Every year McGill’s CSA, in conjunction with U de M, Concordia, and UQÀM, organizes a colloquium to discuss a myriad of topics concerning the ancient world. Currently, we are looking for speakers (both undergraduate and graduate students) willing to present their research. Speakers may present on any topic related to the Ancient Mediterranean world.

This may be a topic on which you have written a paper, or can just be something that you are interested in and have worked on independently. Presentations should be 20 minutes in length, and may be in either French or English. If interested, please submit a 250-500 word abstract to classics.students.mcgill@gmail.com, and feel free to contact us with any questions. The deadline for submissions is March 18th at 11:59 pm. For more details, you can also take a look at last year’s program and poster.

If you have not submitted a ‘Program Advising/Audit Form’, please do so at your earliest convenience. The deadline date has been extended to Friday, April 1st, 2016.