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Employment opportunities The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM) is seeking applications to fill six part-time positions as part of its general activities or its Data for Society Hub: Communication Assistant... Communication Assistant (Events) Undergrad Research Assistant Graduate Research Assistant Front-End Developer Distributed Systems Developer Interested candidates have until March 16 to apply! Link in English: https://mcgill.ca/x/oWr

On March 10, sociolinguist Fabio Scetti (CIRM / Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier) will present a paper entitled How Portuguese is sold as a tool for the future: heritage languages stocked into their past as part of the University of Westminster’s English Language and Linguistics Research Seminar Series. Fabio Scetti is an international member of our Language, belonging, and plurilingualism axis. He has been an associate lecturer at the Laboratory of Sociolinguistics, Anthropology of Language Practice and Didactics of Languages-Cultures (DIPRALANG) since 2019.

Congratulations to urban studies professor Julie-Anne Boudreau (CIRM / Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) who was awarded a $100k grant as co-applicant for the project Sous le choc des incertitudes les impacts socioéconomiques de la pandémie sur les parcours de vie! It is part of the INRS internal financial support programme for research on COVID-19. Julie-Anne Boudreau is an associate member of our Immigration, living conditions, and religion axis. She is responsible for the Tryspaces research partnership on the presence of young people in public spaces.

CIRM Seminar | Artificial Intelligence Policy and Funding in Canada Ana Brandusescu, the McConnell Professor of Practice at CIRM since 2019, has just released a report that closely examines the AI ecosystem in Canada and its funding networks. Because so much of AI resides in the private realm, it is worth questioning how the innovation economy is influenced by private interests and private power and by extension, how AI public policy gets written, states Ana Brandusescu.... Full report: https://mcgill.ca/x/oP2 To mark this publication, The McConnell Foundation and CIRM have prepared an event featuring civil society experts on tech policy, public procurement, and open government. More details below https://fb.me/e/4Y93duJVS

Urban studies professor Guillaume Éthier (CIRM / UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal) was on ICI Première last month to talk about the Gentle City movement, an idea he finds interesting for its human dimension. Guillaume Éthier is a regular member of our Mobility, urban planning, and environment axis. He co-hosts the podcast Cadre bâti, launched this winter.

In his latest album "Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa", queer two-spirited artist Jeremy Dutcher breathes new life into an understanding of Wolastoqiyik culture where two-spiritedness plays an important social role. Julie Burelle tells us more in a text from issue 175 of Jeu, revue de théâtre, presented in collaboration with the SODEP https://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv//lart-de-se-remettre-/ Julie Burelle is an associate member of our "Digital Culture, Art, Literature and Performance" axis. She is the author of Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec (2019, Northwestern University Press), which was the subject of a CIRM seminar in November 2019.

Have you heard of placemaking? Urban studies professor Guillaume Éthier (CIRM / UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal is featured in the ESG UQAM | École des sciences de la gestion News Portal to talk about his work on what he defines as the occupation of little-used, under-used or abandoned urban spaces to bring them back to life by creating vibrant places that residents can easily reclaim (our translation). Guillaume Éthier is a regular member of our Mobility, urban planning, and environment axis. He is currently conducting a research partnership on placemaking as a means of reviving public spaces in the post-COVID-19 era with La Pépinière I Espaces Collectifs.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Ana Brandusescu, CIRM's Professor of Practice, and Renee Sieber, professor at the Department of Geography and Bieler School of Environment at McGill University, are seeking applications to fill two research assistant positions for a SSHRC-funded project called Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Rest of Us. Further detail https://www.mcgill.ca//call-applications-research-assistan

How do crime and gentrification polarize racially diverse neighborhoods? What are the repercussions at the political level? How do city dwellers position themselves in these conflicts? Inspired by Jan Doering’s book Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago (Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press), 2020), this bilingual seminar will bring together a panel of urban planners and race relations researchers to reflect on the interactions between crime, gentri...fication, and social justice activism in Montreal and Chicago. Facilitator: Philip S. S. Howard (McGill University) Author: Jan Doering (CIRM / McGill University) Panelists: Mélissa Côté-Douyon (Conseil des Montréalaises) Hélène Bélanger (ESG UQAM | École des sciences de la gestion/ CRACH - Collectif de Recherche et d'ACtion sur l'Habitat) Violaine Jolivet (Université de Montréal) Rémi Boivin (Université de Montréal) Maxime Roy-Allard (RCLALQ Droit Au Logement) David Austin (John Abbott College / McGill Institute for the Study of Canada) Sophie-Gabrielle Thiebaut (Ville de Montréal) REGISTRATION - https://bit.ly/registerCIRM MORE DETAILS - https://bit.ly/RaceCrimeGentrificationEN

"Although it is rather rare for municipalities to change their name completely, as Asbestos is currently trying to do, some cases are famous." In an La Presse article, Harold Bérubé gives us an overview of some name changes that have taken place in the past https://www.lapresse.ca//des-changements-de-noms-qui-se-fo Harold Bérubé is a full professor in the Département d'histoire - Université de Sherbrooke, as well as an associate member of CIRM's action-research axis "Digital Culture, Art, Literature and Performance".

How can we imagine a participatory socialism for the 21st century? This is the question raised by Thomas Piketty in "Capital and Ideology", a work around which Valérie Amiraux (CIRM / Université de Montréal) will facilitate a lecture on November 19. Questions formulated by members of the faculty and the student community will be selected and addressed to the author. https://www.umontreal.ca/thomaspiketty/... Valérie Amiraux is a full professor in the Department of Sociology at Université de Montréal, as well as holder of the Canada Research Chair in the Study of Religious Pluralism. She contributes to CIRM as a regular member of the action-research axis "Immigration, living conditions and religion".

What is the value of history in our adaptation to the COVID health crisis? REMINDER | There are only days until the 2nd webinar of "Rethinking the City in Times of Pandemic"! Don't forget to sign up to receive the connection link http://bit.ly/inscriptionCRIEM... Go to the event's page to get to know our participants https://bit.ly/2UaQXPi