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 […]
Molly Ladd-Taylor and I are pleased to announce that Jonathan Edmondson, the Chair of the History Department, will be honoured this week by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He won the “Premio Internacional Genio Protector de la Colonia Augusta Emerita,” which translates as “International Prize Protective Spirit of the colony of Augusta Emerita.” He will […]
Department of History congratulates Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, on the recent publication of his book Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, 416 pp.). Here’s a full description of the volume: Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in […]
The History Department and the Graduate Program in History would like to congratulate Paul Lovejoy and the Tubman Institute most warmly for their highly successful 2011 Summer Institute, “Slavery, Memory, Citizenship,” which took place at York last week. (We’ve attached a PDF with full details of the programme.) With over a dozen keynote addresses by major scholars, presentations by […]
Department of History congratulates José Curto on the recent news that he has won a SSHRC Insight Development Grant of $60,000 for 2011-13 in the initial competition following the recent reorganization of SSHRC funding programmes. The grant will support a project entitled “Taking Graduate Students to the Archives: From Lisbon to Benguela”, which is designed to introduce York […]