Rana Mitter gave the 2022 Annual Lecture on Tuesday, April 7, 2022, in the Faculty Club Ballroom on ‘Internationalism, Identity and Ideology in the Shaping of Postwar China’.
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival, 1937-1945 (Penguin, 2013), which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His recent documentary on US-China relations since Nixon, “Archive on Four: The Great Wall” is available on BBC Sounds. He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the Historical Association. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
RGCS - Thursday, September 30, 2021
Works in Progress workshop: Didier Zuñiga (McGill Philosophy), ‘Consent, Extractivism, and the Ontological Occupation of Worlds’
RGCS - Thursday, October 28, 2021
Works in Progress workshop: Johanne Poirier (McGill Law), ‘Para-Constitutional Engineering and Federalism: Informal Constitutional Change through Intergovernmental Agreements’
RGGJ - Friday, October 29, 2021 – On Zoom
Book by Paulina Ochoa Espejo, On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and The Rights of Place (Oxford University Press, 2020). – Author joined
RGCS - Thursday, November 11, 2021
Works in Progress workshop: Agnes Tam (McGill Political Science), ‘Solidarity in Social Movements: A we-perspective’
RGCS - Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Works in Progress workshop: Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill Political Science) ‘The Grounds of Gratitude and the Dereliction of Justice’
RGGA - Thursday, November 25, 2021 – On Zoom
Lecture series: Clelia Rodriguez (University of Toronto) ‘El Salvador (The Saviour) of the World: A Racist Barometer’
RGGJ - Friday, November 26, 2021 – On Zoom
Book by Rihan Yeh, Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City (University of Chicago Press, 2017). – Author joined (Cosponsored with the McGill Refugee Research Group)
JC - Friday, December 3, 2021 – Hybrid event
Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology: Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn) ‘Being Human in the Digital Age – On Human and Artificial Intelligence’
RGGA - Thursday, January 20, 2022 – On Zoom (recorded)
Slavery in the Ancient Worlds Lecture series: Kostas Vlassopoulous (University of Crete) ‘Slave Agency and the Making of Ancient Societies and Cultures’
RGGJ - Friday, January 21, 2022 – On Zoom
Book by Hans Lindahl, Fault Lines of Globalization: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality (Oxford University Press, 2013). – Author joined
RGTGM - Friday, January 28, 2022 – On Zoom
Lecture series: Theodora Dragostinova (Ohio State University), ‘The Cold War from the Margins: Bulgaria on the Global Cultural Scene’
RGGJ - Friday, January 28, 2022 – On Zoom
Roundtable Discussion with Lea Ypi (LSE) and Maria Popova (McGill) on Ypi’s memoir, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320/320869/free/9780241481851.html Recorded discussion
RGTGM - Thursday, February 3, 2022 – On Zoom
Lecture series: Matthew Hendley (SUNY Oneonta), ‘Public Housing and the Quest for Political Legitimacy in Colonial Hong Kong under Governor MacLehose, 1971-1982’
Co-sponsored by the Montreal British Seminar
RGDST - Thursday, February 3, 2022 – On Zoom
Lecture series: Esra Akcan (Cornell University), ‘Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Architecture’
Co-presented with Spaces of Restorative and Transitional Justice research project
RGCS - Thursday, February 10, 2022
Works in Progress workshop: Christa Scholtz (McGill Political Science) ‘How Cooperative is 'Cooperative Federalism?’
RGGA - Thursday, February 17, 2022 – On Zoom (recorded)
Slavery in the Ancient Worlds Lecture series: Don Wyatt (Middlebury College) ‘The Mitigation of Punishments: An Unexamined Aspect of Chinese Slavery in Antiquity’
RGGJ - Friday February 18, 2022 – On Zoom
Lecture series: Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins), ‘Social Death and Rastafari Reason’
RGTGM - Friday, February 18, 2022 – On Zoom
Lecture series: Michelle Louro (Salem State University), ‘Global Anti-Imperialim and Interwar India: Ideas, Institutions, and Life Histories’
RGDST - Monday, February 21, 2022 – On Zoom (recorded)
Lecture series: Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin), ‘Expanding Agency: Women and Modern Architecture and Design
Co-sponsored with the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
RGGJ - Friday, March 11, 2022, Arts 160
Lecture series: Anna Stilz (Princeton), ‘Climate Migration and Territorial Justice’
Cosponsored with GRIPP
RGTGM - Friday, March 11, 2022 – On Zoom
Lecture series: Covell Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School), ‘The Militarization of Everyday Life during China’s Cultural Revolution’
RGCS - Thursday, March 17, 2022, Faculty Club
Lecture series: Dale Turner (University of Toronto) ‘“Words are Deeds”, Indigenous Spirituality and the Limits of Language’
RGGA - Thursday, March 17, 2022 – On Zoom (recorded)
Slavery in the Ancient Worlds Lecture series: Robin D.S. Yates (McGill University) ‘Law and Slavery in the Qin and Han Empires: Evidence from New Sources’
RGGA - Friday, March 18, 2022 – Leacock 738
Lecture series: David Campbell Porter (McGill University) ‘Early Modern Service Elites: The Qing Banner System and its Eurasian Counterparts’
Co-organized with RGTGM
RGDST - Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 19, 2022 – Hybrid event
Conference on ‘Media and the Night’
Organized by Jess Reia & Will Straw
Information, schedule and speakers: https://theurbannight.com/media-and-the-night-les-medias-et-la-nuit-2/
JC - Friday, March 18, 2022 – 2001 McGill College
Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology: Simone Chambers (University of California, Irvine) ‘Wrecking the Public Sphere: New-authoritarians and the digital attack on pluralism and truth’
RGDST - Monday, March 21, 2022 – Thursday, April 7, 2022 – Macdonald Harrington Building
Exhibition: ‘Souq Stories: Reclaiming the Commons - Photographing Daily Life in Palestine’s Historic Markets’
Co-sponsored with the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
Presented in association with the McGill Refugee Research Group and Insaniyyat
RGDST - Tuesday, March 22, 2022 – Macdonald Harrington Building (recorded)
Keynote Lecture and Discussion with Souq Stories curators: Helga Tawil-Souri (New York University), ‘Infrastructures in/of Commons’
Co-sponsored with the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
Presented in association with the McGill Refugee Research Group and Insaniyyat
RGCS - Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2, 2022, Princeton
2022 Political Theory in/and/as Political Science Junior Scholars Workshop
Held at and organized in partnership with Princeton University
Information, schedule and speakers: https://www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/2022-workshop
RGCS - Thursday, April 14, 2022, Thompson House
Lecture series: Robert Sparling (University of Ottawa) ‘Between Corruption and Integrity: State Identity and the Paradox of National Debt’
RGGA - Thursday, April 21, 2022 – On Zoom
Slavery in the Ancient Worlds Lecture series: Paulin Ismard (Université d’Aix-Marseille) ‘Comparative History of Slavery: Issues and Methods’
RGGJ - Friday, April 29, 2022, Leacock 927
Lecture series: Margaret (Peggy) Kohn (University of Toronto), ‘Why be just? Solidarity and the problem of moral motivation’
RGGJ - Thursday May 26 and Friday May 27, 2022
2022 International Conference on ‘Transcending Settler Colonialism’
Annual conference co-organizers: Yann Allard-Tremblay and Catherine Lu
Co-sponsored by RGGJ and RGCS, ISCEI, CRE, GRIPP
Information, schedule and speakers: https://www.mcgill.ca/tsc-conference/
RGCS - Monday, August 15 – Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Power and Domination Research and Manuscript Workshop
Co-Organized by RGGJ, GRIPP, CRÉ and the McGill Department of Philosophy
Information, schedule and speakers: https://www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/events/power-and-domination-research-workshop
RGGA - Weekly recurring event – On Zoom
Translation and discussion of transmitted and excavated texts from Early China