Speaker: Dr. Hamied Haroon Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST Dr Hamied A Haroon (He/Him) Medical Imaging Research Scientist (paid passion) The University of Manchester Disability EDI & Accessibility Activist (unpaid passion) Dr. Haroon’s research focuses on novel and advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning and analyses techniques to try […]

      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).

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The Dan David Prize is the world’s largest history prize. Each year this international prize recognizes up to 9 outstanding early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, awarding each $300,000 to acknowledge their achievements and support future work. We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2025 Dan

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,

Examining issues of diversity and intersectionality in the creation of women’s history lesson plans for Ontario educators See the latest entry in the Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future Graduate Student Committee blog @ https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/03/07/37052/     

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

The Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past – Reimagining the Future symposium will take place on Jan. 15, 2024. This symposium is organized by the Office of the Associate Vice President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Laurier as part of the Laurier Legacy Project. The purpose of this symposium is to listen, learn, and engage with research

The dossier, produced in collaboration with the Réseau québécois en études féministes, has been available online at the Cinémathèque québécoise collections since October 19. It contains over 12 hours of previously unpublished video interviews with Léa Roback and Madeleine Parent (taken from the filming I did with them between 1988 and 2000), as well as

NCPH awards recognize excellence in the diverse ways public historians apply their skills to the world around us. The purpose of the award program is to promote professionalism and best practices among public historians and to raise awareness about their activities. Awards are presented to recipients during the annual meeting. See https://ncph.org/about/awards/.

The CHA hosted a virtual roundtable Tuesday, April 18 on Donald Smith’s award-winning book, Seen but Not Seen. Speakers included Jan Noel, and Hamar Foster. Donald Wright chaired the session and Donald Smith responded. The Globe and Mail described Seen but Not Seen as both “timely and welcome,” adding that if Canadians “will see themselves in this

The Musée de la civilisation (the Museum) is issuing a call for proposals to professional heritage, cultural, artistic and tourism promoters for the historical, heritage and architectural enhancement of Place-Royale, located in the heart of the Old Québec heritage site inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. Every