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Rachel Koopmans Gives Annual Thomas Becket Lecture
The below is taken from the Canterbury Christ Church University website. CANTERBURY PILGRIMS AND ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERIES Next week will be more meetings than events, but it is great to know that preparations for Becket 2020 are continuing to develop on a wide range of fronts. Among these will be the conference at Canterbury Cathedral in […]
Congratulations to Edward Jones-Imhotep on his new book
Dear Colleagues: I am very happy to announce that Edward has just published a new co-edited volume. The details are below. Please join me in congratulating Edward on this wonderful accomplishment. Thabit Announcing the publication of Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History from UBC Press! As a special introductory offer, UBC is offering 40% off […]
Dr. Vanessa S. Oliveira Appointed as Assistant Professor of African History at the Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston, Ontario).
The Tubman is pleased to announce that Dr. Vanessa S. Oliveira has been appointed Assistant Professor of African History at the Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston, Ontario). Dr. Oliveira obtained her PhD in History from York University in 2016. She is a long-time member of the Harriet Tubman Institute, where she is presently a […]
Congratulations to Arthur Haberman on his new book
Dear Colleagues: It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of a new book by our colleague Arthur Haberman. The book is entitled 1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast. Here is the publisher’s description: The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a […]
Prof. William Wicken Discusses His Course, “Murder in the Archives”
Article courtesy of YFile – October 26, 2018 Mario Concordia was convinced that the manslaughter conviction handed down to Italian immigrant Frank Buono in the 1920s was indefensible. William Wicken Concordia, now a first-year student at Osgoode Hall Law School, researched the 100-year-old case in detail as part of History 4515, Murder in the Archives, […]
Exploring ‘plutopias’ at the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture
YFile Article: October 25th, 2018 A talk drawing from the extraordinary stories of the American- and Soviet-created “plutopias” will be the focus of the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History on Monday, Oct. 29. Presented by York University’s Department of History, the lecture “Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” […]
History and politics professors launch new books on Canadian Confederation
Source: YFile Article – October 22, 2018 York University’s history and politics professors continue to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial with the launch of two edited collections featuring Confederation scholarship. These collections were completed as part of an array of projects to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, projects that were executed under the leadership of history Professor David Koffman, […]