INVITED GUEST: Daniel Weinstock, Full Professor, McGill University

Daniel Weinstock is the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He also held a James McGill Professorship at McGill from 2013 to 2019. He was the Director of McGill’s Institute for Health and Social Policy from 2013 to 2020. Before moving to McGill in 2012, he was a Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the Université de Montréal, where from 2000 to 2012 he held both Tier 1 and Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs. He was the Founding Director of the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal.His work and teaching have been recognized by a number of major prizes. He spent the 1998-1999 academic year as a Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton. In 2004, he was made a Prize Fellow of the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Foundation, and in 2008, he received the Prix André-Laurendeau from the Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences. He was awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Public Policy Research in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2023.REFERENCING FOR CITATION PURPOSES: Zanazanian, P. (Host) & Weinstock, D. (Guest). (2026, May) How history lives within us: Full Professor Daniel Weinstock from McGill University talks history. History in the Now Conversations ⁠https://historyinthenow.com/podcast/⁠*This podcast, History in the Now Conversations, emerges from my research which can be found in my book: Zanazanian, P. (2025) Historical Consciousness and Practical Life: A Theory and Methodology. University of Toronto Press. For more information, visit: ⁠⁠https://historyinthenow.com/book-historical-consciousness-practical-life/⁠⁠.