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Congratulations to Carolyn Podruchny, Paul Lovejoy and Jonathan Edmondson on their SSHRC Partnership Development Grants

Dear Colleagues: It gives me great pleasure to congratulate our colleagues, Paul Lovejoy, Carolyn Podruchny and Jonathan Edmondson for news of their successful SSHRC Partnership Development Grants.  Paul’s project is entitled “Boko Haram: Islamic Protest and National Security”; Carolyn’s is entitled “Aandse: Anishinaabe ways of knowing and the transformation of university-based knowledge creation and transfer”, […]

Edward Jones-Imhotep discusses how Cold War anxiety and citizen science fuelled Canada’s massive UFO report files on CBC Radio

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Congratulations to Joan Judge on her book “Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long 20th Century”

Dear Colleagues: Our department continues to prove that it is the envy of others with Joan Judge’s latest edited book:  Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long 20th Century (Cambridge).  Please join me in congratulating Joan on her latest book which was co-edited with M. Hockx and B. Mittler.  A description of the book […]

Molly Ladd-Taylor Discusses “Parenting Advice from Uncle Sam” on NPR

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York hosts symposium on Famine Irish refugees in Canada

YFile Article: May 27, 2018 For more than 500 years, Irish men, women, and children have crossed the Atlantic Ocean to reach Canada. Yet, never during that time had people arrived in such great distress as those immigrants and refugees fleeing the Great Irish Potato Famine in 1847. A two-day symposium held at York University […]

A Conference in Honour of Nicholas Rogers

Outgoing director, Michele Johnson, reflects on far-reaching impact of Tubman Institute

Source: YFile – May 3, 2018 Equity and social justice are defining values at York University. The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University is emblematic of this deep commitment. This Organized Research Unit (ORU), launched in 2007, is dedicated to overcoming injustice and inequity that are linked to […]

The Freedom Narratives Project & Project Director, Professor Paul Lovejoy

Freedom Narratives Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” The freedom narratives project personifies this African proverb, “the hunter’ being European colonisers who have long dominated the literature on slavery for centuries. This insular approach misses […]

U.S. state-run sterilization policies targeted the poor in the 20th century

Source:  YFile: April 23, 2018   Cover of the book Fixing the Poor In Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century, author and history Professor Molly Ladd-Taylor uses institutional and medical records, court cases, newspapers and professional journals to reconstruct the stories of those targeted by eugenics programs between 1907 […]

Congratulations to Luiza Samoilescu on her exhibit at the Archives of Ontario

Luiza Samoilescu, a fourth-year History student in Prof. Jennifer Bonnell’s History 4840: Public History course, has curated a new exhibition at the Archives of Ontario. Titled “Dressed Up: 70 Years of Marketing Women’s Fashion,” the exhibit showcases the history of women’s fashion in Canada as depicted through the Archives’ T. Eaton Company Ltd. (Eaton’s) catalogue […]