Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting), On behalf of this year’s Awards Committee, Ben Kelly, Rachel Koopmans and Kalman Weiser, I am delighted to report that the following students have won prizes for the 2016-2017 competition. Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ (HIST […]
DEPARTMENT AWARDS Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ (HIST 1040: The Presence of the Past, Jennifer Bonnell) Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 2000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘Perceptions of the Falklands War’ (HIST 2400: British History from the Tudors to Thatcher, Nick Rogers […]
Michael Primiani is a fourth-year History major and a student in Prof. Jennifer Bonnell’s History 4840: Public History course. This past semester, he worked with Stacy-Allison Cassin, the W.P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship at Scott Library, to research, curate and develop a digital exhibit focusing on three coffeehouses and the role they played in the […]
YFile Article: April 18, 2017 Choi Po King of the Chinese University of Hong Kong will give the inaugural Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies on April 27 at York University. Bernard Luk A beloved teacher and colleague at York, Professor Luk (1946-2016) was an internationally recognized authority on the history of […]
Manprit Gill, a fourth-year History Major and a student in Prof. Jennifer Bonnell’s History 4840: Public History course, has curated a new exhibition at the Archives of Ontario. Titled Echoes from the Past: Remembering the Leslie M. Frost Natural Resources Centre, the exhibit displays selected records from the Frost Centre collection, acquired by the Archives […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Sydney Kanya-Forstner (October 24, 1940 – March 31, 2017) was a much esteemed colleague in the Department of History for no fewer than thirty-four years. Born in Budapest in 1940 and educated in Toronto at Upper Canada College, he gained his Honours B.A. in History at Trinity College, University of Toronto in […]
YFile Article – March 29, 2017 Justice Murray Sinclair, senator and former chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada, will examine what Canada can learn from Indigenous societies around the world on March 30 at York University’s annual Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture in Canadian History. Sinclair’s talk, “Indigeneity, the World, and […]
<!–Notes ACF –> I am very pleased to announce that the Provost has recently approved formally the transfer of Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep, currently Associate Professor in the Dept. of Natural Science in the Faculty of Science, to LA&PS History. Prof. Jones-Imhotep’s research focuses on the intertwined histories of technology, trust, and social order in modern […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, I’m sure you’ll all be interested to read that our colleague Sakis Gekas has recently been awarded of a prestigious fellowship by the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Greece and work at the University of Crete. Y-File this morning features an article explaining Prof. Gekas’ project in more […]