Research in HSS at MUNL has never been more important, so to share and shape our creativity, stories, policies, ethics, and innovations, which, together, ensure a more critically engaged and just world.

1. HSS Understanding Our Worlds Series
2. Research Tips
3. Bring Your Mug Gatherings

HSS Understanding Our Worlds Series

This round table series puts leading thinkers in HSS in conversation with other faculty, graduate students, and members from our communities, at home and abroad. Join us at the Nexus Centre or online.

A Roundtable on 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism and Politics in Challenging Times

Respondents:
Quinn Albaugh (Queen’s University)
Elizabeth Baisley (Queen’s University)
Ailsa Craig (Sociology, Co-founder of Quadrangle)
Sarah Gordon (Folklore)
Gaayathri Murugan (Political Science)
Alessio Ponzio (History)
Moderated by: Scott Matthews (Political Science)

Date: Friday, March 28, 2025
Time: 4 - 5 p.m. (NST)
Location: SN4022 + Online

Please register for the Zoom link here.

A Roundtable on Over-working and Under-utilizing Animals: Reframing Non-human and Human Relations

Respondents:
Sarah Martin (Political Science and Geography)
Charlie Mather (Geography)
Sam Morton (Geography)

Date: Friday, April 4, 2025
Time: 4 - 5 p.m. (NST)
Location: SN4022 + Online

Please register for the Zoom link here.

A Roundtable on the Challenges of Teaching the Holocaust and Genocides Today

Featuring:
Doris Bergen (University of Toronto)
Respondents:
Philippe Basabose (MLLC)
Justin Fantauzzo (History)
Maria Mayr (MLLC)
Alessio Ponzio (History)

Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 3 - 4 p.m. (NST)
Location: SN4022

A Roundtable on For Emplacement: Political Ontology in Two Acts (Duke University Press, 2025) with Mario Blaser (Archaeology, Anthropology and Geography)

Respondents:
Charlie Mather (Geography)
Óscar Moro Abadía (Archaeology)
Robin Whitake (Anthropology)

Date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Time: 12 - 1 p.m. (NST)
Location: SN4022 + Online

Please register for the Zoom link here.

Previous Activities

These lunchtime sessions feature faculty, graduate students, and other research specialists sharing research-related advances and skills.

Choose Your Own Adventure! Library Advances for HSS Research

Speaker: Wendy Rodgers (Humanities Research Liaison Librarian, QEII Library)

Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Time: 1 - 1:50 p.m. (NST)
Location: SN 4022 & Zoom

Please register for the Zoom link here.

Priorities and Productivity Boot Camp

Speaker: Dr. Amanda Bittner (Professor, Department of Political Science)

Date: Monday, April 28, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. (NST)
Location: SN 4022

With limited spaces, priority will be accorded to HSS PhD students and junior faculty. Please register at nexus@mun.ca

Bring You Mug Gatherings

Inspired by Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019), these gatherings have no set agenda. The idea is that scholars need unstructured “off time” moments to find connection and creativity.

Pop by for a chocolate. Take your coffee or tea to go. Bring your Mug!

Check back shortly for more stops in HSS for the Fall 2025 semester.

Previous Activities

HSS Understanding Our Worlds Series

Research Tips

Bring Your Mug Gatherings

Writing Groups

Writing groups at the Centre in the Winter 2025 semester:

The Humanities Writing Circle, organized by the Graduate Philosophy Society, meets in the Nexus Centre Mondays and Wednesdays. Please contact iaksoy@mun.ca for more details.

The Qualitative Methods Workshop, based in the Department of Sociology, hosts a writing workshop from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Thursdays, January 16th, February 20th, and March 27th. Please contact sgoli@mun.ca for more information.