Talk and Screening of the Labyrinth; Historical Thinking Summer Institute; DH2017 in Montreal; Shannon Lecture Series 2017; Call for Proposals; Essay Prize; …
Below are events taking place soon as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will now be sent out each week with upcoming events and announcements.) Departmental events are also posted on our website.
Events
July 11, 2017
Talk and Screening of In The Labyrinth
Janine Marchessault, professor of Cinema and Media Studies at York University, presents a lecture on In the Labyrinth and the other important film projects that were presented at Expo ’67 in Montreal. (She will be one of the speakers at this year’s Shannon Lecture Series.)
Comprised of footage of human activity filmed around the world, In the Labyrinth, created by Roman Kroitor, Colin Low and Hugh O’Connor of the NFB’s experimental documentary studio, Unit B, was commissioned and produced for the three-chamber, multi-screen Labyrinth Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. Projected on a large cruciform installation of five screens, it redefined film as environment within the larger context of the Expo, which featured a proliferation of experiments with the spatial relationships between screens and between audience and screen. (The version presented on July 11 is a single-channel, in-cinema version created by the NFB in 1979.)
Tuesday, July 11 2017, 6:30-8:00 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office (350 King Street West)
This event is free and open to the public. Visit the event page for more information or to book tickets in advance: http://www.tiff.net/events/janine-marchessault-on-in-the-labyrinth/
July 17-22, 2017
Historical Thinking Summer Institute
The Historical Thinking Summer Institute is designed for teachers, curriculum developers, professional development leaders, historians, museum educators and curators who want to enhance their expertise at designing history programs, courses, units, lessons, projects, or educational resources that explicitly focus on historical thinking.
Attendees of the 2017 Historical Thinking Summer Institute will participate in a variety of activities including presentations and workshops, learning activities at the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum, discussions of readings, guest lectures, and group work to explore six historical thinking concepts: evidence, significance, continuity & change, cause & consequence, perspective-taking, and the ethical dimension of history. For more information visit http://www.canadashistory.ca/HTSI.
August 8-11, 2017
Co-organised by McGill University and the Université de Montréal, DH2017 will take place August 8-11, 2017 in downtown Montréal, Canada on the campus of McGill University. This is the premiere annual conference of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). The theme of DH2017 is “Access/Accès”. Registration will close on August 1st.
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is an umbrella organisation whose goals are to promote and support digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, dissemination, and beyond, in all areas reflected by its diverse membership. Visit the website for more information: https://dh2017.adho.org/
September-December 2017
Shannon Lecture Series for 2017
The History Department’s Shannon Lecture Series for 2017, will commence on September 22, 2017 with more details to be posted as they become available. This year’s lecture series looks at Expo 67 as the highlight of Canada’s centennial. A world’s fair held in Montreal, it dazzled the world with its daring architecture, innovative exhibits, and high-minded theme, “Man and His World.” Many Canadians regarded it as Canada’s coming-out party, a moment when the young nation burst into the international limelight and strutted its stuff to universal acclaim. Substitute “Quebec” or “Indigenous Peoples” for “Canada” in the previous sentence and it would be equally true – Expo 67 was a rich, multivalent spectacle that generated diverse messages. In Canada’s 150th anniversary year, the Carleton Department of History is revisiting Expo 67 to reflect upon the meaning of it all. A select group of lecturers will address key topics such as Expo’s intellectual origins, how it became a proud emblem of modernization for both Canadian and Quebec nationalists, its impact on Indigenous rights and culture, and its iconic stature in the histories of architecture and cinema. X out the dates in your calendar to experience exposition by Expo experts that will expand your mind exponentially. Visit the Shannon Lectures website for more information as it becomes available: https://carleton.ca/history/news/shannon-lecture/.
Announcements
Call for Proposals: A Workshop in Transnational Feminism
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2017
Workshop Dates: 10-12 May, 2018
Organized by the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University, this two-day workshop will bring together scholars from Canada and around the world to address the methodological and epistemological challenges of writing transnational feminist histories. While this workshop is open to scholars in disciplines other than history, proposals from non-historians should indicate the ways in which their paper addresses questions of women’s activism in the 19thor 20th centuries from an historical perspective.
We welcome proposals of 250 words by 30 September 2017. Invitations to present at the symposium will be issued by 15 October 2017. Given that the workshop will involve discussing papers in depth, participants will be required to submit papers of approximately 8000 words by 1 May 2018 to allow for pre-circulation. After the symposium, presenters will be invited to submit papers for the consideration of the editors of the L.R. Wilson Rethinking Canada in the World Series with McGill-Queen’s University Press. The edited volume will stand as a key contribution to ongoing critical work on transnational feminism as well as women’s activism in Canada and abroad.
The Wilson Institute will provide assistance towards lodging and travel re-imbursement for accepted speakers.
Applicants should submit their proposals and a one-page CV to the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History with the subject line Transnational Feminism to: wilsonch@mcmaster.ca. If you have any questions, please contact Amanda Ricci, riccia1@mcmaster.ca.
Viv Nelles Essay Prize
The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University is proud to, once again, award the $1,000 Viv Nelles Essay Prize. This prize is awarded to the graduate student term paper that best places Canada in a transnational framework.
To be considered for the award, a paper must be nominated by a graduate student or his/her instructor and submitted electronically, to the institute, no later than 30 January 2018. The winner will be selected by the Institute’s Director, in consultation with Wilson fellows and associates. Each winner will receive a $1,000 award. A plaque with their name engraved commemorating the achievement will also be displayed at the Wilson Institute. We will present the award in Spring 2018 at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in Regina.
Questions should be directed to Dr. Maxime Dagenais, Research Coordinator, Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University at maxdagenais@gmail.com.