Special Section: “At the Crossroads: The Place of History in Health Professions Education Research” Co-Edited by Jennifer Gunn and Lucy Vorobej While the Canadian Journal of Health History serves as a discipline-centric forum for scholarly dialogue, historians of health care have also long crossed into other fields, notably to teach health care professionals. To date, […]

In their effort to preserve the legacy of Canada’s immigration history and to support continued excellence in research in Canada on migration to and settlement in Canada the Canadian Immigration Historical Society (CIHS) in cooperation with the Locally Engaged Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Department of History at Carleton University jointly offer the Gunn Prize, a $1,000 prize for a

The result of cooperation between Jura and Quebec, the CEQF Prize is awarded for outstanding work that questions and reveals exchanges and interactions within the Francophonie. This distinction, awarded by an international jury, is organized by the Centre suisse d’études sur le Québec et la Francophonie (CEQF), in partnership with the Republic and Canton of

The Royal Canadian Airforce is celebrating it’s 100th anniversary this year. You are invited to join the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary on November 14-15, 2024 for a two-day academic conference dedicated to the socio-political history of the RCAF. Speakers and panels include government officials, academic experts, RCAF

      Bridging the Gap – The Current State of Historical Societies in Canada In the context of the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) in 2022, and in the wake of the research project Agents mémoriels, un engagement d’hier à aujourd’hui, the CHA and the Fédération Histoire Québec (FHQ) took the

CALL FOR PAPERS Organized as part of the work of the York-Quebec University Research Chair on Franco-Aboriginal Relations in the Americas Monastère de l’Hôpital Général de Québec – May 23, 2025 PDF of the announcement (in French).

Since the end of April, the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, is experiencing a climate disaster of major proportions, with thousands of people homeless.  The community of undergraduate and graduated students in History at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) was directly affected. Several people lost their homes,

Reimagining Canada Editors: Gregory Betts (Brock University); Carl Everton James (York University) and Ian McKay (McMaster University) Canada, in all its messy manifestations, is in transition, but where is it going? With foundational myths eroded, identities fragmented, allegiances contested, the idea of Canada in the hearts and minds of those who live there is under

Reproductive Justice, Teen Mothers, and Integration into Education Mallory Davies This is the seventh entry in a monthly series on Thinking Historically. See the Introduction here. Coined by activist American women of colour in the 1990s, reproductive justice is an activist framework that provides an intersectional understanding of reproductive autonomy. Reproductive justice invokes the “sexual autonomy and gender

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The 94th edition of Congress will take place at George Brown’s St. James and Waterfront campuses in downtown Toronto from May 30 to June 6, 2025, marking an innovative milestone in the history of Congress, as the first college to host the event. By bringing together nearly 10,000 scholars, apprentices, graduate students, policymakers, and community

The association Rédheja, “Réseau pour le développement européen de l’histoire de la jeune Amérique 1607-1865” (https://redehja.hypotheses.org/category/presentation/qui-sommes-nous) is launching the “Prix Élise Marienstras-Rédehja” in honor of this distinguished historian and Americanist, a pioneer in the field of research on the young American republic in France. The aim of the prize is to pay tribute to French

Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded Partnership Grant focused on K-12 history education in Canada. Led by Dr. Carla Peck at the University of Alberta, Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future aims to nurture a community of interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral inquiry among academic historians, education researchers, Indigenous scholars, graduate students, museums educators,

November 14-16, 2024 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada    The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) invites panel and/or paper proposals for its 27th biennial conference devoted to the theme “Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Crises and Contested Futures: Canada in an Interconnected World.” Today ethnic studies scholars confront complex dynamics in dealing with such mainstays of the