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 […]
The U.S. Studies Program invites you to: “Perverted Justice: (Homo)Sexuality and Female Juvenile Delinquency in U.S. Popular Culture, 1920-1940” Anastasia Jones When: 6 March 2014, 11:30am – 1pm. Where: Vari Hall 2183 Anastasia Jones is a Toronto-based historian who earned her B.A. at Concordia in 2006 and her Ph.D. at Yale in 2013. In 2009, […]
Senior graduate student in environmental history, Dagomar Degroot, was interviewed Today in the Toronto Star: Read article: Toronto winter blues: why the cold may be getting you down
The History Matters series, it is a collaboration between the Toronto Public Library (TPL), ActiveHistory.ca, members of York University’s Graduate History Program, and starting this year Heritage Toronto. The purpose of these free public lectures is to provide opportunities for professional historians and graduate students to present their research outside the context of academia and […]
Congratulations to our colleague, Boyd Cothran, whose short article, “The Valentine’s Day Treaty,” was published today by The New York Times, as part of its Disunion series on the Civil War. Boyd’s article explores the Valentine’s Day settlement negotiated in 1864 between California lawyer Elijah Steele and the Klamanth-Basin people. The agreement was based on […]
Dear members of the history department, Historians will want to join me in congratulating our colleague Thabit Abdullah on the appearance of his Mandarin translation of A Short History of Iraq Here a brief description of the book: Since the war in Iraq in 2003 and the consequent occupation of the country by British and […]