Upcoming Events

Humanities and Social Science Research in our faculty 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 our research culture in HSS  and in our province, the Nexus Centre includes diverse programming. In addition to the four strands of activities below, we are excited to launch two programs for the Fall 2025 semester:

  • The Fall Fellowship Program


    Our inaugural four fall fellows have been working collaboratively with meetings in the summer and fall. They will share some of their thinking in two guerilla pop-up sessions on Friday, November 28th as part of MUNL's Research Week activities: All are welcome!

 

 

  • The Fall Interdisciplinary Graduate Course  

 

  1. HSS Understanding Our Worlds Series
  2. Research Tips and Conversations
  3. Bring Your Mug Gatherings
  4. Research & Writing Groups and Colloquium Series
  5. Quoi de Neuf? [French Language public lecture series]
  6. 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. 

 

Details: Thursday, Nov.6th from 4-5pm: A talk by Stella Antiwiwaa (visiting scholar from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana) on Deconstructing Eurocentric Universalism in Greek Literature, SN4022 and online.

Details: Friday, Nov. 21st from 4-5pm: A Roundtable with Lisa-Jo Van den Scott (SOCI) on Where Does Work Happen? The Relevance of Space and Place for Work, SN4022 and online.

Responding: Alyson Byrne (Business, MUNL), Jingchun Xu (Architect, UK), Shuyue Liu (PhD Candidate, U Nottingham) & Hanxu Zhang (PhD Candidate, U Bristol).

Research Tips & Conversations

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

 

Details: Thursday, Dec. 4th from 12-1pm: A Roundtable with Rick Szostak (Emeritus, U Alberta) on Interdisciplinarity?, co-sponsored by Ocean Frontier Institute, Core Science 1203 and online.

What does it mean to be interdisciplinary? What is at stake intellectually and practically? Prof Szostak will share some of his more recent thinking that began with this manifesto.

Responding: Emmanuel Haven (Business Administration & Director, Interdisciplinary PhD Program), Andrew Dixon (ID PhD Candidate) & Kris Poduska (Physics & Associate Scientific Director of Transforming Climate Action).

Details: Monday, December 8th from 12-1pm: From Dissertation to Book: A How-to with Helen Kara, academic writing coach, online only. 

Have you wondered how to best prepare to transform your dissertation project into a book? Spaces are limited to the first 12 participants. Join us!

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!

 

Quoi de Neuf [What's New]?

Join us for this public-facing lecture series, funded by the French Services Grant Program under the Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Many more lectures will be announced shortly. Follow us on Instagram.

Sessions are in person in the Centre and online, typically on Wednesdays, from 7-8pm from October 2025 – June 2026.

All Francophiles and Francophones are welcome!

 

 

 

 

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