The Canadian Historical Association 2014 John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history shortlist has been announced and one of our PhD graduates is on the list: Todd Webb, Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Todd […]
Toronto 1914 was a project undertaken by the students in Dr. Jessica van Horssen’s History 4570, Canada in War and Peace, 1911-1952 at York University. Historians generally agree that this period was one of transformation in Canadian History, and this assignment was to seek out what the City of Toronto was like before the changes […]
The Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women will be held in Toronto on May 22 – 25, 2014. Register now! YorkU Faculty and students @ the conference: Faculty Bettina Bradbury, “From Collective Genealogy to the Intersections of Law and Individuals’ Family Histories.” Stephen Brooke, “Feminism, Class and Sexuality in the Work of the […]
Congratulations to the Undergraduate History Students Association and the Classical Studies Students Association for an excellent conference that took place on March 1, 2014 at Vanier College. Twelve papers were presented by History and Classics students, and there was a sizeable audience who eagerly asked questions and discussed the papers. The quality of the papers […]
Dear members of the department, Sean Kheraj is one of the three nominees for the 2014 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History. This prize is awarded for the best scholarly book published on a British Columbia subject by a Canadian author. Inventing […]
Join editors L. Anders Sandberg (Environmental Studies) and Colin Coates (Glendon Canadian Studies and Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies) and Professors Stephen Bocking at Trent University and Ken Cruikshank at McMaster University, as they launch their new book Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region. This book invites readers to look for nature in […]
Department of History is pleased to announce that Peter Perdue (Yale University) will be joining us at York to deliver the 2014 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History. Wednesday, March 19 2014 4:15pm reception, lecture to begin at 4:45pm Schulich Private Dining Room, Main Floor Schulich Executive Learning Centre Professor Perdue is a leading scholar modern […]
Sean Kheraj announces the release of Nature’s Past Episode 41: Closing Federal Libraries. In 2012, the Canadian federal government began closing and consolidating many of its departmental libraries. More than a dozen research libraries have closed at Parks Canada, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Foreign Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration, Human Resources and Skills Development, the […]
Dear Colleagues, I’m sure you will wish to join me in congratulating our colleague in the LA&PS Department of History, and our hard-working Chair, Marcel Martel on the recent publication of his book Canada The Good: A Short History of Vice Since 1500. Canada the Good – A Short History of Vice Since 1500 […]
Looking at History through Social, Cultural and Political Contexts Saturday March 1, 2014. 9:30 am- 4:30pm Vanier Renaissance Room (VC 001) Agenda 9:30-9:50- Breakfast 9:50-10:00- Introductory Remarks Social 10:00-10:15- Sinthujha Kumarasamy 10:15-10:25- Question period 10:25-10:40- Adam Patrick 10:40-10:50- Question period 10:50-11:05- Alexander Rogers 11:05-11:15- Question period 11:15-11:30- Moira Scott 11:30-11:40- Question period Cultural 11:40-11:55- Helen […]