Interested in an opportunity to embark on a transformative eight-week research experience in Cali, Colombia in May and June 2025?
 
Program Highlights:
•    Earn 6.0 units at the 400-level
•    Tackle real-world challenges in climate resilience and social justice
•    Collaborate with Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (UAO) and Afro-Colombian communities
•    Immerse yourself in Cali’s vibrant culture
•    Funding provided to support travel and living expenses

Congratulations to Dr. David McDonald on receiving the 2023-2024 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award for his course, Living Lake Ontario: From the Local to the Global.

The Dean’s Teaching and Learning Excellence Award recognizes high-impact activities or curriculum designs that enrich the student learning experience through evidence-based teaching strategies. 

Novel Idea and Queen's University invite you to a book launch of Accidental Queer written by Professor Marc Epprecht. 

Event Details:

When: Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Where: Novel Idea, 156 Princess Street, Kingston

Time: 7:00-9:00pm

Please RSVP to Noah Gabigogo at noah.gabigogo@queensu.ca by October 3rd, 2024. 

Refreshments will be served.

The Department of Global Development Studies is very excited to announce that Dr. Reena Kukreja  and Dr. Susanne Soederberg have been named as finalists for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 2024 Impact Awards.

Allyson Dafoe, DEVS PhD candidate and teaching assistant was one of more than 40 Queen’s instructors, teaching assistants, and staff members who were recognized as 2024 Champions for Mental Health for creating supportive learning and campus environments. These champions have been nominated by students across faculties and schools, and in Student Affairs, for showing compassion, encouraging a sense of belonging, inspiring health-promoting behaviours, and promoting student mental well being.

We are pleased to announce that Damai Siallagan has been named the 2024-2025 Queen’s University Pathy Foundation Fellow. Damai is a recent graduate of the B.A., Honours program in Global Development Studies and History.

Since the 1990s Marc Epprecht has helped lay the groundwork for critical masculinity and African queer studies with such publications as the award-winning Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa.

March 19, 12:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Robert Sutherland Room 202

Please join us in sharing research-in-progress or proposed by graduate students working on African themes across diverse departments at Queen’s. This will also be an opportunity for us to show our respects to one of the founders of African Studies at Queen’s, and indeed, in Canada.

In the context of the climate crisis, the seeming intractability of political-economic reliance on resource extraction is a major global socio-ecological problem and critical site of decolonizing struggle. However, a closer look at extractive regions, especially those on Indigenous lands, or traditional territories, reveals community-driven alternative approaches to resource governance and livelihoods.