Annual Meeting

The CHA hosts an annual meeting in May/June in coordination with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is held in a different Canadian city each year. Between 350-500 historians gather to share their research on themes representing the full diversity of the discipline and to network with colleagues. Presenters must be members of the society. The CHA offers travel grants to allow students and the precariously employed to attend the annual meeting.

2022

2022 CHA Annual Meeting – Online

“Reconsidering History”

Call for Papers

Canadian Historical Association’s 100th Anniversary Meeting

May 16-18 2022

The 100th anniversary of the Canadian Historical Association offers us an opportunity to step back and reflect collectively on disciplinary structures and power, key historiographical and methodological developments, the changing place of theory, pedagogy and graduate training, precarity in the profession, and our ongoing relationships with wider publics as well as the communities we study. Our centenary meeting, “Reconsidering History,” comes at a particularly conflictual moment in time when history is hotly contested, even weaponized, in an increasingly polarized political environment. What then is the historian’s public role and responsibility?

The Programme Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association invites individual paper or session proposals in French and in English from scholars in any field and in any era that address the conference theme “Reconsidering History”, broadly defined. Session proposals (including a chair) are strongly preferred. All sessions are of 90 minutes duration and panels typically have three or four presenters. Roundtables and workshops are also welcome. Our annual meeting will be held virtually as part of the 2022 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

To facilitate the program committee’s evaluation process, we ask that you identify one of the nine conference streams in which your proposal would be best situated. The first five streams invite us to think about:

Disciplinary Structures and Power – this stream reconsiders the past and present of the history discipline, such as its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, efforts to decolonize historical practice, issues of equity and precarity, and graduate training.
Historians, Historiography and Theory – this stream considers the contributions of individual historians, schools of thought or key projects, and wider historiographical trends as well as theoretical frameworks.
Methodology and Sources - this stream focuses on historical methodologies, digital tools, as well as specific sources or archives. Methodological workshops are also welcome.
Pedagogy and History Education – this stream evaluates the ways that history is taught in schools at all levels and in other settings. It also considers summer field schools, debates over curriculum, and other pedagogical innovations.
Historians and the Public – this stream reconsiders the many ways that historians go public with their research, their relationship to the communities they study and contemporary social movements, as well as the essential work of public history institutions such as museums, archives, libraries, historical societies, and other public-facing projects.

The other four streams are loosely grounded in historical time. This initial set of temporal groupings is based on past experience with CHA conferences and may be adjusted depending on the mix of submissions that we receive. Apply to the one that best applies to your proposed session. Should your proposal span these periods, choose the one that works best.

Prior to 1800
19th Century
Early 20th Century
Post-1945

The CHA has an electronic submission system, and all proposals are to be submitted through this site, at https://cha-shc.ca/submissions/2022-cha-call-for-papers. Applicants will need to sign in (if you have been a member of the CHA within the last five years) or create a user profile to access that section. Proposals consist of contact information, a 250-word panel abstract (if applicable), a 250-word abstract for each presentation, and a 1-page curriculum vitae for each presenter (not necessary for chairs). The program committee reserves the right to rearrange panels, or to reassign them to a different program stream, if necessary. Please note that all presenters and chairs must be members in good standing to participate at the CHA Annual Meeting.

The deadline for proposals is December 10, 2021.

If you have any questions about this call for papers, please contact the Program Committee Chair, Steven High, @ Steven.high@concordia.ca.

2021

2021 CHA Annual Meeting – Online

2021 Program

2021 CHA Prize Winners

Click on the image for History and Classics Titles

2020

2020 CHA Annual Meeting – Western University

Bridging Divides - Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism

The CHA Annual Meeting was cancelled due to COVID-19

Cancelled Program

AGM Minutes

2019

2019 CHA Annual Meeting – University of British Columbia

Conversations across time, place, and culture

2019 Congress Logo
June 3-5, 2019

A Beginner's Guide to the 2019 CHA Annual Meeting

Have a look at the CHA's program.

The Program at a glance

2018

2018 CHA Annual Meeting – University of Regina

Gathering Diversities

Program

The Program at a glance

2017

2017 CHA Annual Meeting – Ryerson University

From Far and Wide: The Next 150

2016

2016 CHA Annual Meeting – University of Calgary

The Stories

The Program at a glance
Sunday & Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Recording of the Panel on Access to Information: Historical Research under Bill C-59

2015

2015 CHA Annual Meeting – University of Ottawa

Rethinking History

Listen to the podcast of CHA President Dominique Marshall's address entitled "Children's Drawings and Humanitarian Aid".

History Slam: Canadian Mysteries with John Lutz and Ruth Sandwell - http://activehistory.ca/2015/07/history-slam-episode-sixty-five-canadian-mysteries/

History Slam: Metis and the Medicine Line with Michel Hogue - http://activehistory.ca/2015/06/history-slam-episode-sixty-three-metis-and-the-medicine-line/

History Slam: Congress Recap with Michel Duquet, executive director of the Canadian Historical Association, and Benoit Longval, a graduate student at the University of Ottawa, about the graduate student experience at Congress, the pros and cons of roundtables, and the logistics of the CHA. http://activehistory.ca/2015/06/history-slam-episode-sixty-two-congress-recap-2015/

Dean Oliver's Keynote - http://activehistory.ca/2015/06/podcast-isnt-all-history-public-knowledge-wisdom-and-utility-in-the-great-age-of-storytelling/

Roundtable on Charitable Organizations and Citizen Engagement - http://activehistory.ca/2015/07/podcast-public-private-political-charitable-organizations-and-citizen-engagement/

History Slam: Commemorations in the National Capital Region: Evolution and Findings - http://activehistory.ca/2015/08/podcast-commemorations-in-the-national-capital-region-evolution-and-findings/

History Slam: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights - http://activehistory.ca/2015/08/history-slam-episode-sixty-seven-the-canadian-museum-for-human-rights/

History Slam: First Nations, Calgary Stampede, and the 1923 Raid on City Hall - http://activehistory.ca/2015/09/history-slam-episode-seventy-first-nations-the-calgary-stampede-and-the-1923-raid-on-city-hall/

2014

2014 CHA Annual Meeting – Brock University

Boundaries of Historical Inquiry

Participants share their experience at the CHA Annual Meeting.

You can listen to this podcast on ActiveHistory.

2013

2013 CHA Annual Meeting – University of Victoria

Intersections and Edges

Lyle Dick's Presidential Address
http://activehistory.ca/2013/07/podcast-lyle-dicks-cha-presidential-address/

Tweets during Lyle Dick's Presidential Address
http://storify.com/jomac1867/chashc2013-president-s-address

Active History
Sean Graham of ActiveHistory interviews the president of the CHA Graduate Student Committee; Jo-Anne McCutcheon, treasurer of the CHA; and Jodey Nurse from Guelph University http://activehistory.ca/2013/06/history-slam-episode-twenty-three-congress-recap/#more-11367

2012

2012 CHA Annual Meeting – University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University

Scholarship at a Crossroads

CHA Keynote Address

2011

2011 CHA Annual Meeting – Fredericton (University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University)

History, Memory, People and Place

2010

2010 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal (Concordia University)

Telling Stories/Storytelling

2009

2009 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa (Carleton University)

Authority in the Past, Authority of the Past

2008

2008 CHA Annual Meeting – Vancouver (University of British Columbia)

2007

2007 CHA Annual Meeting – Saskatoon (University of Saskatchewan)

2006

2006 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto (York University)

2005

2005 CHA Annual Meeting – London (University of Western Ontario)

2004

2004 CHA Annual Meeting – Winnipeg (University of Manitoba)

2003

2003 CHA Annual Meeting – Halifax (Dalhousie University)

2002

2002 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto (University of Toronto)

2001

2001 CHA Annual Meeting – Quebec City (Laval University)

2000

2000 CHA Annual Meeting – Edmonton (University of Alberta)

1999

1999 CHA Annual Meeting – Sherbrooke, Quebec

1998

1998 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1997

1997 CHA Annual Meeting – St. John’s, Newfoundland

1996

1996 CHA Annual Meeting – St. Catharines, Ontario

1995

1995 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1994

1994 CHA Annual Meeting – Calgary, Alberta

1993

1993 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1992

1992 CHA Annual Meeting – Charlottetown, PEI

1991

1991 CHA Annual Meeting – Kingston, Ontario

1990

1990 CHA Annual Meeting – Victoria, B.C.

1989

1989 CHA Annual Meeting – Quebec City, Quebec

1988

1988 CHA Annual Meeting – Windsor, Ontario

1987

1987 CHA Annual Meeting – Hamilton, Ontario

1986

1986 CHA Annual Meeting – Winnipeg, Manitoba

1985

1985 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1984

1984 CHA Annual Meeting – Guelph, Ontario

1983

1983 CHA Annual Meeting – Victoria, B.C.

1982

1982 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1981

1981 CHA Annual Meeting – Hamilton, Ontario

1980

1980 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1979

1979 CHA Annual Meeting – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

1978

1978 CHA Annual Meeting – London, Ontario

1977

1977 CHA Annual Meeting – Fredericton, New-Brunswick

1976

1976 CHA Annual Meeting – Quebec City, Quebec

1975

1975 CHA Annual Meeting – Edmonton, Alberta

1974

1974 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto, Ontario

1973

1973 CHA Annual Meeting – Kingston, Ontario

1972

1972 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1971

1971 CHA Annual Meeting – St. John's, Newfoundland

1970

1970 CHA Annual Meeting – Winnipeg, Manitoba

1969

1969 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto, Ontario

1968

1968 CHA Annual Meeting – Calgary, Alberta

1967

1967 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1966

1966 CHA Annual Meeting – Sherbrooke, Quebec

1965

1965 CHA Annual Meeting – Vancouver, B.C.

1964

1964 CHA Annual Meeting – Charlottetown, PEI

1963

1963 CHA Annual Meeting – Quebec City, Quebec

1962

1962 CHA Annual Meeting – Hamilton, Ontario

1961

1961 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1960

1960 CHA Annual Meeting – Kingston, Ontario

1959

1959 CHA Annual Meeting – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

1958

1958 CHA Annual Meeting – Edmonton, Alberta

1957

1957 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1956

1956 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1955

1955 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto, Ontario

1954

1954 CHA Annual Meeting – Winnipeg, Manitoba

1953

1953 CHA Annual Meeting – London, Ontario

1952

1952 CHA Annual Meeting – Quebec City, Quebec

1951

1951 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1950

1950 CHA Annual Meeting – Kingston, Ontario

1949

1949 CHA Annual Meeting – Halifax, Nova Scotia

1948

1948 CHA Annual Meeting – Victoria & Vancouver, British Columbia

1947

1947 CHA Annual Meeting – Quebec City, Quebec

1946

1946 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto, Ontario

1945

1945 CHA Annual Meeting – Kingston, Ontario

1944

1944 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1943

1943 CHA Annual Meeting – Hamilton, Ontario

1942

1942 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto, Ontario

1941

1941 CHA Annual Meeting – Kingston, Ontario

1940

1940 CHA Annual Meeting – London, Ontario

1939

1939 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1938

1938 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1937

1937 CHA Annual Meeting – Hamilton, Ontario

1936

1936 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1935

1935 CHA Annual Meeting – Kingston, Ontario

1934

1934 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1933

1933 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1932

1932 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1931

1931 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1930

1930 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1929

1929 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1928

1928 CHA Annual Meeting – Winnipeg, Manitoba

1927

1927 CHA Annual Meeting – Toronto, Ontario

1926

1926 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1925

1925 CHA Annual Meeting – Montreal, Quebec

1924

1924 CHA Annual Meeting – Quebec City, Quebec

1923

1923 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario

1922

1922 CHA Annual Meeting – Ottawa, Ontario