Yan P. Lin Centre, McGill University
Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
Including:
Research Group on Global Antiquities
Research Group on Transitions and Global Modernities
Research Group on Constitutional Studies
Research Group on Global Justice
Research Group on Democracy, Space, and Technology: See videos here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6HkZF2ePnShBiPkW73MJeg
Lee, Excessive Beneficence: Regulating Generosity in the Modern Natural Law School of Hugo Grotius
Lin Centre 10th Anniversary: Steven Pincus, 'The South Asian Origins of American Independence'
Lin Centre Annual Lecture 2025: Anthony Kaldellis (Chicago), ‘Constantinople 1453...’
RGCS Lecture: Sean Ingham, UCSD, “The Democrat’s Dilemma," March 20 2025
RGCS Lecture: Avigail Eisenberg, “Misunderstanding Self-Government,” February 6 2025
McGill RGCS Lecture: Richard Bellamy "The Rule of Law as the Democratic Rule of Persons," Nov 7 2024
RGCS Lecture, October 24, 2024: David Schmidtz, "Living With Purpose"
Lin Centre Annual Lecture 2024: Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge), Is the Disorder of Our Time Unprecedented?
RGCS Lecture: Kevin Elliott (Yale), "Democracy for Busy People." March 14, 2024
RGCS Lecture: Joseph Carens (Toronto), "Reality and Political Theory" February 22, 2024
RGCS Lecture: Emily Nacol, A "More Onerous Citizenship": Political Theory in Plague Time,
RGCS Lecture: Kevin Vallier, "From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution"
RGCS/ Smith Around The World Lecture: Ryan Griffiths, "Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political Realism"
RGCS Lecture, April 6 2023: Ryan Muldoon, "Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, and Discovery"
RGCS Lecture: Asha Rangappa (Yale), "Presidential Paradox," January 26 2023
RGCS Lecture: Jonathan Rodden, Stanford, “Political Geography, Polarization, and Representation”
RGCS Lecture: Sharon Krause, “Montesquieu, Arendt, and the Constitutio Libertatis” Oct 13 2022
ANNUAL LECTURE BY RANA MITTER
Infrastructures in/of Commons - talk with Helga Tawil-Souri
RGCS Lecture, Dale Turner “Words are Deeds”:Indigenous spirituality &the limits of language 3-17-22
Don Wyatt - The Mitigation of Punishments: An Unexamined Aspect of Chinese Slavery in Antiquity
RGDST Talk, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, "Expanding Agency: Women And Modern Architecture And Design"
FREE, COMING OF AGE AT THE END OF HISTORY
Slave agency and the making of ancient societies and cultures
RGCS Debate with Chiara Cordelli and Richard Garnett
Constitutionalism in Latin America- Marcela Prieto, Sergio Verdugo, Claudia Heiss, Javier C Salas
Closing remarks : Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli
"The Boundaries of constitutional inclusion" with Éléna Choquette, Vrinda Narain, Mariah Zeisberg.
" Constitutional transformations’’ with Samuel Bagg and Elizabeth Beaumont
Graduate student panel with Wenyang Gao, Jimmy Lim and Vertika.