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 early fall, and will share some of their thinking in an open session in early December 2025.
  • 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: Friday, September 12th from 4-5:15pm: A Roundtable Launching *Town* (Black Panel Press, 2025) with editor Nancy Pedri (ENGL), designer Paul Tucker and its eight artists! SN4022 and online

Join us for this celebration, as we launch Town and resume Nexus roundtables!

 

Details: Wednesday, September 17th from 12-1pm: “Evil Geniuses?” A Roundtable with Josh Lepawsky (GEO) on Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right', SN4022 and online

Responding: Angela Carter (CRC in Equitable Energy Governance and Public Policy, POSC); Keif Godbout-Kinney (PhD Candidate, SOC); Mél Hogan (Film and Media, Queen’s U) & Anne Pasek (CRC in Media, Culture and the Environment, Trent U).

 

Details: Friday, September 26th from 4-5:15pm: On Living with the More-than-Human: A Roundtable with Karla Jessen Williamson (U Saskatchewan), SN4022 and online

Responding: Michelle Rebidoux (Religion and Culture, MUNL), Stacie Swain (Religion and Culture, Gender Studies, MUNL) & McKinley Winters (Chair, Nutrition North Canada).

Details: Monday, September 29th from 12:30-1:45pm: On The Price of Gold (2025) with co-authors John Sandlos (HIST) and Arn Keeling (GEO), SN4022 and online

Responding: Pamela Klassen (Religion, U Toronto), Katlia Lafferty (Dene Writer, Legal Scholar, Advocate), Tina Loo (History, UBC), Sarah Perry (History, McMaster) & Max Viatori (ANTH, MUNL).

Research Tips & Conversations

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

 

Details: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th from 11am-12pm: features a panel discussion on documentary filmmaking in academia. Panelists will share clips of their work and their own forays and challenges with the medium.  SN4022 and on Zoom.

Panelists: Karine Abadie (MLLC), Dominique Bregent-Heald (HIST), Julia Polyck-O’Neill (ENGL), Barry Stephenson (RELS) and Nicole Whalen (PHIL).

 

Details: Wednesday, Oct. 1st from 11:30am-12:45pm: Research Grant Funding for HSS Graduate Students with Matt Millner (HSS Grants). SN4022 or register for a online link.

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]?

Check back here shortly for more details about 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.  

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