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a prestigious book award for Bettina Bradbury
It gives me enormous pleasure to report that our colleague, Bettina Bradbury, has been awarded at the annual conference of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) in Ottawa the François-Xavier Garneau Medal for her book Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in 19th century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) (http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173224). The François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded […]
Congratulations to our colleague- Adrian Shubert- University Professor
Dear colleagues It gives me enormous pleasure to share this piece of news. The chair of the Senate Committee on Awards, Dr David Leyton-Brown, informed Senate that our colleague Adrian Shubert would be named University Professor. Here’s the citation composed by the Senate Committee on Awards (http://secretariat.info.yorku.ca/files/senate-agenda-20150528.pdf) Professor Adrian Shubert has a stellar reputation as […]
Congratulations to our colleague Craig Heron-new book
It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Craig Heron’s latest book: Lunch-Bucket Lives. Remaking the Workers’ City (Between the Lines, 2015) Here’s a brief description of the volume: The book examines a half-century of profound change in the daily lives of working people in what is perhaps […]
Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 47: Pollution Probe and the History of Environmental Activism in Ontario
Environmental activism has a long history in Canada. Like others around the world, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canadians became involved in a number of environmental non-governmental organizations. Picking up on a prevailing spirit of protest during the era, several environmental problems surfaced as popular political issues: air pollution, water pollution, solid waste […]
“Bodies of Water, Not Bodies of Women: Canadian Media Images of the Idle No More Movement – Article in Honour of Myra Rutherdale”
“Bodies of Water, Not Bodies of Women: Canadian Media Images of the Idle No More Movement” is a commemoration of the late Myra Rutherdale, Associate Professor of History at York University, who presented a version of this essay at a Canadian Studies conference in Jerusalem in the spring of 2013. Her graduate student Erin Dolmage and […]
Pheroze Unwalla Interviewed on BBC re: Battle of Gallipoli
View interview Scroll ahead on the podcast to 2:54: 58 p.m. to listen to the interview.