Dear members of the department, I’m sure you will all want to join me in congratulating our colleague Willie Jenkins on the appearance of his latest book, Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) Here’s how the press describes the book: Willie’s book, Between Raid and Rebellion: […]
Calling all academics who like to find the joy–and hilarity–in their research! Bright Club York is coming, and we’re looking for an enthusiastic bunch of scholars who focus on Canadian Studies to participate. Bright Club is the thinking person’s comedy night, where academics shed the confines of their elbow-patched blazers and become stand-up comedians in […]
Inventing Stanley Park, by Sean Kheraj has received a nomination for the 2013 City of Vancouver Book Award. Congratulations to Sean Kheraj for his nomination and the deserved recognition of his work. The winner will be announced at the Mayor’s Arts Awards Gala at Science World on Friday November 22, 2013. For more details please […]
Dear historians, It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that Bettina Bradbury and Adrian Shubert have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. I am pleased to share the citation composed by the Royal Society of Canada The Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada have elected 84 new Fellows, including one Foreign […]
I’m sure you will all wish to join me in congratulating our colleague, Sean Kheraj, for winning the Petro Canada Young Innovator Award. There is a description of the award and Sean’s research project in YFile. If you have not read the story, please go to http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2013/08/26/two-york-researchers-receive-petro-canada-young-innovators-awards/ Marcel
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/on-its-125th-anniversary-reflections-on-the-lasting-power-of-stanley-park/article13942124/
Dear Historians, In June 2013, the Harriet Tubman Institute hosted a public history conference on the History of Urban Music in Toronto (this event was co-presented with the History department). We have since uploaded each of the day’s six sessions (two of which are public history roundtables with practitioners, journalists, music producers and radio and […]
Dear Colleagues: For those who missed it yesterday, one of our recent PhD graduates, Ian Mosby, has been featured in newspaper, radio, and television stories across the country regarding his recently published article in Histoire Sociale/Social History, “Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952.” The full […]
The final installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the NiCHE website. The final episode explores the history of the Alberta tar sands. Tar Sands in Alberta (ca. 1900-1930). Source: Library and Archives Canada, 12-2 L.10 A48 (21B). The exploitation of the northern […]
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