This is a guest post from Darin Barney, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship, Dept. of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University. It is a slight variant of a talk given March 18th, 2014 as part of the McGill for Humanities Speaker Series. Last month, Premier Christy Clark of British Columbia made […]

This is a guest post by Jonathan Armoza. The first session of the McGill For Humanities Speakers happened on January 23rd at the Arts Council Room (Arts 160) in the Arts building.  Professor Maggie Kilgour of the English department is leading these discussions.  The format for the first three of four sessions is a set of speakers […]

From mcgillforhumanities.com: In times of economic crisis like the present, it is easy to attack the Humanities as irrelevant. Today, students are under pressure to take courses that lead directly to instant jobs. And yet Humanities classes are still packed. Why? What does that tell us about what students, and indeed society, need? Join us for a […]