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

To promote research culture at MUNL and in our province, the Nexus Centre includes diverse programming. In addition to the four strands of activities below, we are excited to announce these two programs for the Fall 2025 semester:

• The Fall Fellowship Program (details here)

Please note that applications should be made by individual researchers (ASMs in HSS) within one of four research areas (you do not need to apply as a group of four).

• The Fall Interdisciplinary Graduate Course (details here)

Application deadlines for both opportunities is Thursday, May 1, 2025.

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

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 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.

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Research Tips

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

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

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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.

 

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Other Activities

International Student Connections (ISC) Hub - Information Sheet

Successful Integration and Support of Postsecondary International Students in Newfoundland and Labrador: Identifying Challenges, Finding Solutions - Final Report