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Friday, October 28, 2022

Jennifer Evans Delivers Special Lecture on Queering History

History Professor Jennifer Evans recently gave a talk at the University of Tennessee. A short excerpt is included below with the full article by Eli Boldt, "Historian and Professor Jennifer Evans talks queering history as a methodology of investigating the past" available online. Jennifer Evans delivered a lecture on Wednesday called “What Does... More

Monday, September 26, 2022

Dominique Marshall Participates in CHA Roundtable

The Canadian Historical Association (CHA) has just posted the recording of a recent roundtable on  "Rethinking the Undergraduate Canadian History Survey" on their YouTube channel. The participants were as follows: Laura Ishiguro, Jamie Murton, Angela Tozer, Dominique Marshall, Mark Leier, Michael Dawson, and Chair: Funké Aladejebi. Thanks to the... More

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Cultural Heritage Crime Conference 2022 is Taking Place Now! (August 1-3, 2022)

The Cultural Heritage Crime Conference (CHCC) is a global festival composed of locally hosted sessions designed to shine a spotlight on heritage crime issues. In England, Historic England estimates that 200 heritage crime occur each day. Heritage crime is linked to organized crime and arms, narcotics, and human trafficking. Recent conflicts in... More

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

John Walsh Participated in a CHA webinar

The Canadian Historical Association (CHA) has uploaded two webinars on its YouTube channel for those who were unable to attend the CHA Annual Meeting this year or those who did not attend the two plenaries. Plenary on the Future of the History PhD at Canadian Universities: The CHA Task Force on the Future of... More

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Stephen Osei-Owusu Discusses the Most Recent Shannon Lecture Series

The following excerpt is from Nick Ward's article, "Sharing Complex Histories of Conservation" where Stephen Osei-Owusu gives us more details on the recently wrapped up Spring 2022 edition of the Shannon Lecture Series. (The next Shannon Lecture Series will take place this fall.) The full article can be found online. Running from May through... More

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Rod Phillips to speak on wine and art in San Diego

Professor Rod Phillips will give a lecture and lead a wine tasting at San Diego’s Timken Art Museum in August.  His lecture is titled Intoxicated by Art: Wine and Art in the Age of Temperance (https://www.timkenmuseum.org/calendar/event/wine-masters-intoxicated-by-art-wine-and-art-in-the-age-of-temperance/), and it will explore representations... More

Friday, May 6, 2022

Three History Faculty Members are 2022-23 FASS Award Winners

Each year, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences comes together at the vin d'honneur to celebrate our faculty's recent accomplishments. Please visit the FASS site for more details on the event and the honorees. And the History Department would like to take this opportunity to congratulate three of our own faculty members: Professor John... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Shannon Lectures Series Spring 2022 Schedule Announced

The Shannon Lecture Series will run again this spring, beginning on May 27th. We hope to see you there! Introduction to the Series Relations between humans and non-human inhabitants of the environment are old of several millennia. The history of these relations involves regulations of all sorts about use and preservation, contested or... More

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF 2021) – Includes Screening of Michael Ostroff’s Documentary

As part of The Canadian Labour International Film Festival in November, the Institute of Political Economy will be screening a selection of this year’s films. After this content becomes available on November 25th at 7:00 pm, you will have 2 hours to start watching. Once you begin, you’ll have 24 hours to finish watching.... More

Friday, August 27, 2021

Tonight: We Still Demand: The Past, Present, and Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism Event

The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) is hosting an amazing event Friday August 27th at 1pm ET titled “WE STILL DEMAND: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF 2SLGBTQIA+ ACTIVISM” with support of the Anti-69 Network, Fredericton Pride, and activist scholars Tom Hooper, Gary Kinsman, and IIS faculty member Patrizia Gentile. The... More

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Patrizia Gentile’s Book Nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History

Patrizia Gentile‘s book Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. Congratulations Professor Gentile! The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the... More

Monday, March 29, 2021

David Webster to Talk About his New Book on April 8

Can activists make a difference? The story of Canada & East Timor, where activists succeeded in changing Canadian self-determination, suggests they can. Please join us to hear the story from Adjunct Research Professor David Webster, author of the new book Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor 1975-99, and Elaine Briere, founder of... More

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