Journalism professor Randy Boswell served as guest editor of a newly published collection of essays on the theme of war and remembrance, published by the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies.
Among the contributors to the latest edition of Canadian Issues/Thèmes Canadiens, titled “The Battleground of Remembrance: Struggles at the Intersection of Canadian War History and Public Memory,” are John English, director of the University of Toronto’s Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Laura Brandon, the former curator of war art at the Canadian War Museum, and Western University military historian Jonathan F. Vance.
“Former prime minister Stephen Harper and his governments of the past decade did not invent the impulse to revere wartime sacrifice,” Boswell writes in the volume’s introduction. “But the Harper era generated considerable debate and discussion about whether there can, in fact, be too much remembering, and whether the commemorative urge is sometimes exploited for ulterior purposes.”
Boswell is also guest editing the next ACS history publication, which will examine the divergent perspectives on who, exactly, were Canada’s “founding” peoples.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 in Journalism News, News
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