“What’s So ‘New’ About the New Multicultural Brazil?” by Jeffrey Lesser, history department chair at Emory University, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy (Duke, 2007) and other books on immigrants and minorities in Brazil. Lesser analyzes the changes in that country’s ethnic and cultural mix due to immigration policies that have attracted […]
For those who missed TVO’s The Agenda this past Friday evening, you can watch the fascinating discussion about the place of history in Canada today and the best ways of engaging with Canada’s past history, you can watch a video of our History colleague Craig Heron and the others discussing these questions on the TVO […]
Department of History congratulates Ben Kelly on the publication of his first book. Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (427 pp.) was published recently by Oxford University Press in Oxford for its series Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Here the press’s description of the volume: This book examines the contribution that petitioning and litigation made […]
Douglas Hunter, a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in History published his latest book, The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery (288 pp.). It was published recently by Palgrave Macmillan both in hardback and as an e-book. This is how the press describe the volume: The final […]
Department of History congratulates Josh Fogel, Canada Research Chair in Modern Chinese History, on the part he played in a very successful event at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto last Sunday. He gave a very well attended public lecture on “Sun Yat-sen and the International Arena on the Eve of the 1911 Revolution”, which marked the opening of […]
They say two heads are better than one. Jonathan Edmondson, chair of York’s Department of History, now has an extra one – a Roman bust. He received it from the National Museum of Roman Art in Spain as the 18th winner of the international prize, Protective Spirit of the Colony of Augusta Emerita (Genio Protector de la […]
Today’s Halloween is really a witch’s cauldron of traditions that includes a good measure of 19th-century Irish and Scottish celebrations, Christian interpretations of All Souls Day and thoroughly modern American commercialism, says Nicholas Rogers, a cultural historian at York University [Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies], and author of Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, […]
Department of History congratulates most warmly Marcel Martel, Avie Bennett-Historica-Dominion Institute Chair in Canadian History, for winning the 2011 Prize of the Quebec National Assembly (Prix de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec) of the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française for the book he co-authored with Martin Pâquet (Université Laval), Langue et politique au Canada et au Québec: […]
Department of History congratulates Marcel Martel and the organizing committee (Jennifer Stephen and Will Stos from York, plus Dimitry Anastakis of Trent U. and Matthew Hayday, U. of Guelph) for putting together such a stimulating conference last Thursday, Friday and Saturday on “Transformation: State, Nation and Citizenship in a New Environment”, a conference that explored the future of political history. […]
Slavery survivors, researchers and activists aim to put the issue of modern slavery on the map during tomorrow’s conference at York University. The second annual conference, organized by the Alliance Against Modern Slavery (AAMS), seeks to illuminate lesser known forms of contemporary slavery that are thriving at home and abroad. These include domestic slavery, debt bondage, child […]