The Prix Gérard-Parizeau Committee is pleased to announce the launch of its 2025 competition. The Prix Gérard-Parizeau is awarded annually, on an alternating basis, to a researcher who has made a mark in his or her field in Québec, and who works in the fields of management, insurance and economics, and in history and related […]

Shannon Lecture Series Overview, Fall 2024/Winter 2025 Description: In partnership with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, this year’s edition of the Shannon Lecture Series is titled “Black Histories and Futures of Science and Technology.” The series offers critical insight into anti-Black racisms’ relationship with technology and how technology enables/d Black resistance, community building and

PDF We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the 13th Colloquium on Quebec Studies to be held at Bishop’s University on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2025. The title and overarching theme of the conference is Quebec Past and Present. We invite researchers, academics, and students from all disciplines in

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION McGill Professor’s Book on Black Liberation Movements in North America Wins Canada’s Top History Prize Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America to receive the Governor General’s History Award for Scholarly Research WINNIPEG, November 14, 2024 – In exploring Black activism in both Canada and the United States,

The editors of Hume Studies are planning to publish a special panel on “David Hume and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives.” We are especially interested in Hume’s relationship to neglected figures or to little-discussed Enlightenment themes, although all relevant topics are welcome. There is no word limit, but we highly prefer papers under 12,000 words, inclusive of

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

      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

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