David Koffman discusses the Canadian Jewish Difference
David Koffman discusses the Canadian Jewish Difference
Listen to the podcast with David Koffman and Yehuda Kurtzer on Identity/Crisis: The Ideas Behind the News.
Listen to the podcast with David Koffman and Yehuda Kurtzer on Identity/Crisis: The Ideas Behind the News.
With support from the Government of Canada, two new Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) have been appointed at York University and two existing have been renewed this year. The new CRCs will undertake new research into "re-righting" and "re-writing" the Indigenous history of North America and investigating Black life in Canada. This year’s awards were announced June […]
York University Historian Rachel Koopmans and conservator Leonie Seliger are featured in an article by The Art Newspaper about their latest discovery. Read the full article here.
Congratulations to Joan Judge - awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship for her project “China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge, and Common Reading in the Long Republic, 1894-1955”. The Guggenheim Fellowship is one of the most prestigious research awards in scholarship. For more information, head to their website. Congratulations Joan!
We are pleased to be able to announce a new publication by David Koffman, which also features a contribution by Kalman Weiser – an edited collection entitled No Better Home? Jews, Canada and the Sense of Belonging (Toronto, 2021). David S. Koffman (ed.) No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging. Toronto: University […]
Join Us for the 2021 Lecture This year’s Avie Bennett Historica Canada public lecture will be given by Professor Esyllt Jones from the University of Manitoba. While COVID-19 has generated intense recent interest in the Great Influenza (1918-1920), that event was long referred to as the 20th century’s “forgotten” pandemic. With no “Great Men” to […]
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory Co-sponsored by the History of Indigenous Peoples (HIP) NetworkFriday, March 5, 2021 | 2:30PM - 4:30PMRegister in advance for the webinar here. For more information, head to the Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture Series page.
An extended version of CBC's conversation between Alex Mason and Professor William Wicken, author of "Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial" and "The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History" can be accessed below.