The Tom and Christine Symons Archival Fellowship at Trent University assists both graduate students and established researchers who need to travel to and establish temporary residence in Peterborough. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and full details may be accessed here.

Do you use digitized photos, manuscripts, or audio/visual archives in your research? If so, you are eligible to fill out the survey described below. Researchers of all types who use library-digitized collections may answer this short anonymous survey about how they find and use collections of library materials that have been digitized and put online. Results

Title: Why Does Labour Matter? The Past, Present, and Future of Labour and Labour Studies  Location and date: Université du Québec à Montréal, 14-15 November 2025 In 1976 the Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) launched its journal Labour/Le Travail, hoping to “foster imaginative approaches to both teaching and research in labour studies through an

The University of Oslo has recently launched the Great Viking Survey, a wide-ranging study to explore how people across the world perceive and engage with the Vikings as history and heritage, and to map the many ways in which contemporary media and academia shape these views. This online survey invites anyone, anywhere, over 18, to share their thoughts

The Professional Division of the American Historical Association is seeking to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent/sessional faculty. It has developed two surveys, one for non-tenure-track faculty and one for department chairs. Faculty and chairs at Canadian institutions are encouraged to respond. More information about the survey and its goals can

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