This summer, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montr茅al (CIRM) is happy to welcome once again lecturer and researcher in Sociolinguistics Fabio Scetti until September 15th!
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Published on: 9 Jul 2023
June 7th, 2023 | In this article, Isabella Aung shows how civil activism in Myanmar against the military junta is being increasingly led by women. Despite overwhelming odds, they are beginning to have impact.聽Southeast Asia has been facing a significant聽authoritarian turn聽in the past decade. This political trend puts women activists at risk for the simple reason that聽autocrats fear women聽and have traditionally taken extreme measures to eliminate feminist challenges to authoritarian power.
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Published on: 7 Jun 2023
How do we encourage respirology residents to consider climate change when they develop treatment plans? What tools do future elementary school teachers need to bring environmental education into their classrooms? What latest advancements in synthetic biology could help students develop solutions to real-world sustainability issues?
Published on: 25 May 2023
May 23rd, 2023 | This article explores the 鈥榞ood American soldier鈥� as a gendered ideal type shaped by, and reproductive of, myths about American military success, romantic notions of small-town working and white America, notions of heterosexual virility, and ableist stereotypes about personal resilience.
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Published on: 23 May 2023
May 19th, 2023 | In this article, Dr. Marie-Jo毛lle Zahar analyzes the Women鈥檚 Advisory Board (WAB) to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, a unique mechanism designed to include women in peace processes. Has the WAB fulfilled its objective? Based on ethnographic material, and primary and secondary sources, we argue that the WAB fostered a sentiment of exclusion among some of its members and of the broader spectrum of Syrian women鈥檚 organizations. The article further suggests that the WAB failed to meaningfully include women in the Syria peace process.
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Published on: 19 May 2023
As 海角社区 prepares to launch its own sustainable lab certification program, six research teams tested the waters to see what it takes to go green.
Six laboratory teams at 海角社区 recently completed a year-long endeavor to get certified with My Green Lab, an internationally recognized online program the provides lab users with actionable ways to implement meaningful change. From waste reduction to fieldwork, this certification system gives researchers clear ways to assess their current lab practices and make improvements.
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Published on: 18 May 2023
Cell biology researcher Dieter Reinhardt explains why his lab is cool with turning up the temperature of their freezers
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Published on: 15 May 2023
May 9th, 2023 | Despite the global norm favoring women鈥檚 participation in peace negotiations, women continue to face constraints in accessing, influencing, and benefitting from peace settlements.
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Published on: 9 May 2023
April 25, 2023 | In this article, B茅n茅dicte Santoire argues that the post-Soviet space has been erased from the WPS literature because 鈥� as elsewhere in the social sciences 鈥� the end of the Cold War rearranged the East/West geopolitical imaginaries into a Global North/Global South divide. Consequently, this epistemic gap creates an incomplete picture of the WPS agenda as a whole.
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Published on: 25 Apr 2023
April 5th, 2023 | Dr. Luna KC and Dr. Chrystal Whetstone argue that grassroots Global South women, despite their marginalisation, are global gender norms actors and deserve greater decision-making power on the local and international stages. They show how the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and the broader WPS agenda focus on global gender norms construction in Nepal and Sri Lanka.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2023
March 23rd, 2023 | In this article, Isabella Aung discusses the importance of policy making around languageand education in building a common national identity, using the case study of Myanmar from 1962 to the present day. By comparing the Burmanization process by different Burmese governments to French nation-building through schools and schooling in the 1800s, this paper argues that the successful sustenance of diverse states draws from effective long-term diversity managementthrough education reforms.
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Published on: 23 Mar 2023
Helium is probably not the first thing that comes to mind for most people when they think about recycling 鈥� unless they鈥檙e experimental chemists working in 海角社区鈥檚 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facilities.
Published on: 16 Mar 2023
Biological research is crucial to understanding the environmental impacts of the climate crisis, but oftentimes this research involves disrupting the environment it is trying to understand and protect. This is why the聽聽decided to focus on how to make their research more sustainable.
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Published on: 28 Feb 2023
February 14, 2023 | Following Kevin Page's complexity seminar, Caroline Wilson wrote about the Canadian government making a significant shift in the right direction in terms of their commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment. She also mentioned that the method of application of policies has to be justified in the program monitoring and evaluation phases. Caroline Wilson is a Master of Public Policy candidate at 海角社区.
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Published on: 16 Feb 2023
February 16th, 2023 | In this book, St茅fanie Von Hlatky gives a detailed account, based on fieldwork and interviews, of how Women, Peace and Security norms are militarized and put at the service of operational effectiveness.
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Published on: 16 Feb 2023
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