The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize. (In alphabetical order). Crystal Gail Fraser, By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. University of Manitoba Press, 2024. Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian […]

On Thursday, May 8th, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences announced that Congress 2026 (in its typical format) has been cancelled. FHSS’s full announcement can be accessed here. Congress 2025, including the CHA’s 2025 conference, will continue as planned and is not affected by this news. Since the CHA’s annual conference is held as part of

The following email from Karine Morin was received by the CHA on Thursday, May 8, 2025: I am writing to inform you that after over a year of discussions with a potential institutional host for Congress 2026, our negotiations have unfortunately come to a halt. Across Canada, institutions are facing mounting economic pressures. Additionally, rising

The Dalhousie Graduate History Society Conference will take place on Saturday, May 3rd. It can be attended virtually or in person. The conference program and Teams links may be accessed here.

This workshop will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, on July 25, 2025. Abstracts are due May 2, 2025. More information can be found here.

This meeting will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, from July 22-24, 2025. Abstracts are due May 30, 2025. More information can be found here.

The Italian Association for Canadian Studies has put out a call for papers for its 2025 conference, Bridges and Barriers: Rethinking Connections and Disconnections in Contemporary Canada. The conference will take place from November 26-28, 2025, at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. The official languages of the conference are English, French, and Italian. Deadline for

The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., is conducting its annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. Deadline for submissions: June 20, 2025. Full details can be found here.

The NACBS and its affiliate, the Northeast Conference on British Studies, have put out a call for papers for their November 2025 conference in Montréal. The deadline to submit proposals is April 27, 2025. All information can be found here.

Dear Members of the Canadian Historical Association, To honour our historic ties to the CHA, we’d like you to come celebrate with us! The Association of Canadian Archivists is extending membership rates for our 50th anniversary conference to all CHA members! The conference, running from 10-12 June at Carleton University in Ottawa, will be a celebration of

On 27 March 2025, United States president Donald Trump signed the executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” a broadside attack on rigorous historical interpretation at the Smithsonian museums and other federally managed historical sites. It takes particular aim at histories that consider racism, gender, or hierarchy as important categories of analysis and

The Fédération Histoire Québec is pleased to announce its symposium, “Femmes d’histoire & Histoire des femmes,” which will take place in Montreal on November 7 and 8, 2025. Organized in collaboration with the Mémoire des femmes committee, the symposium will focus on women’s history in Quebec. Deadline for submissions: June 6, 2025. For further information,

The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association invites you to a roundtable discussion of Rowan Dorin’s Ferguson-Prize-winning book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023). No Return is the most recent winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which recognizes

Do you have ideas about how to improve Canadiana? If so, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) would like to hear from you! CRKN invites you to participate in a virtual group interview to help it understand how you use Canadiana and other digital collections websites, and how to better serve your needs as it plans

The Beaverbrook Vimy Prize, offered by The Vimy Foundation, gives young people aged 15 to 17 from Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of those who shaped history. When: August 1-11, 2025 Deadline: March 12, 2025 To apply or learn more, visit https://vimyfoundation.ca/programs/beaverbrook-vimy-prize.

The Graduate History Students’ Association in the Department of History at Queen’s University is pleased to invite submissions for its 22nd Annual McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference, which will be held on March 29th and 30th at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This year’s theme is Histories Unbound: Pathways of the Past. For more information, see the

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