/channels/taxonomy/term/3577/all en /channels/channels/event/darren-reid-postdoctoral-fellow-history-classical-studies-mcgill-university-consorting-evil-genius-351347 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:38:35 +0000 webfull 193187 at /channels /channels/channels/event/mhamed-oualdi-sciences-po-paris-connecting-mediterranean-and-atlantic-slaveries-18th-19th-centuries-351341 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:24:15 +0000 webfull 193181 at /channels /channels/channels/event/dr-daniel-beer-lunchtime-seminar-civil-death-radical-protest-and-theatre-punishment-under-alexander-290549 &������;����;��&������;����;��&������;����;/��&������;����; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:45:10 +0000 webfull 141921 at /channels /channels/channels/news/shortlist-announced-prestigious-cundill-history-prize-290160 <p>After much anticipation, a shortlist of eight impressive titles was announced this week for the prestigious Cundill History Prize, an international history-writing prize administered by the Faculty of Arts at ���ϲ����� University. With $75,000 USD awarded to the winner and $10,000 USD to two finalists, the prize evidences ���ϲ�����’s commitment to supporting leading scholarship produced around the globe.</p> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:33:45 +0000 webfull 141483 at /channels /channels/channels/news/prof-john-zucchi-receives-sshrc-insight-development-grant-project-failed-migrations-late-19th-289137 <p>Prof. John Zucchi has won a SSHRC Insight Grant for his new research project “Late Nineteenth Century Failed Group Migrations: Why did prospective migrants subscribe to migration scams?” which focuses on migrants particularly from Quebec and Britain to Brazil. Generally, migrants relied on pre-existing migratory networks. Prof. Zucchi, however, is interested in exploring an understudied group of people, who responded quickly to advertisements that promised unrealistic opportunities.</p> Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:03:18 +0000 webfull 140339 at /channels /channels/channels/news/2017-18-h-noel-fieldhouse-award-distinguished-teaching-awarded-professor-krapfl-286855 <p>Professor James Krapfl received the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2017-18. The award is given each year by the Faculty of Arts to a professor in recognition of outstanding teaching achievements. Professor Krapfl will accept the award at Convocation on June 4, 2018.</p> <p>Congratulations!</p> Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:21:03 +0000 webfull 137600 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-krapfl-wins-fellowship-imre-kertesz-kolleg-jena-germany-286854 <p>Professor James Krapfl will spend six months in the academic year 2018-19 as a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. He will be working on his project “The Other 1968: A Cultural History of East Central Europe in the Prague Spring Era,” which compares mentalities and patterns of political engagement in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland at the grassroots level in the late 1960s.  Affiliated with the Friedrich Schiller University, the Kolleg is an institute for advanced study focusing on twentieth-century east central and southeastern Europe. </p> <p>Congratulations</p> Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:19:39 +0000 webfull 137599 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-heaman-wins-2018-canada-book-prize-286762 <p>Professor Elsbeth Heaman won the 2018 Canada Prize of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (English language category) for her latest book <em>Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada</em>, 1867-1917 (���ϲ�����-Queen's University Press, 2017). The prize is "awarded to books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada."</p> <p>Congratulations!</p> Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:57:32 +0000 webfull 137502 at /channels /channels/channels/news/new-book-prof-zucchi-mad-flight-quebec-emigration-coffee-plantations-brazil-286761 <p>In his new book <em>MAD FLIGHT? The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil</em> (���ϲ�����-Queen’s University Press, 2018), Professor John Zucchi reconstructs the 1896 rush of one thousand Quebeckers to find riches on the coffee plantations in Santos (Brazil), and how this adventure ended for many in poverty, tragedy, and even death. Most survivors returned penniless to Canada. The Mad Flight was widely reported in newspapers at the time, but is completely forgotten today.</p> Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:54:18 +0000 webfull 137501 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-downey-publishes-book-lacrosse-identity-and-indigenous-nationhood-285166 <p>Professor Allan Downey’s first book, <em>The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood</em>, has been published by University of British Columbia Press in February 2018. The game of lacrosse has been a central element of many Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities.</p> Sun, 18 Feb 2018 03:23:31 +0000 webfull 135503 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-greer-publishes-book-natives-empires-and-land-early-modern-north-america-285165 <p>Professor Allan Greer’s new book <em>Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America</em> was published by Cambridge University Press in January 2018. In the book, he examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England.</p> Sun, 18 Feb 2018 03:08:43 +0000 webfull 135502 at /channels /channels/channels/news/prof-madokoro-wins-book-prize-elusive-refuge-chinese-migrants-cold-war-285149 <p>Congratulations to Prof. Laura Madokoro, who has won the 2018 award for Best Book in the Social Sciences from the Association for Asian American Studies for her ground-breaking monograph <em>Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War</em> (Harvard University Press, 2016). Her book explores the fates of Chinese citizens forcibly displaced from the mainland to Hong Kong.</p> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:43:05 +0000 webfull 135485 at /channels /channels/channels/event/piotr-h-kosicki-university-maryland-catholics-barricades-poland-france-and-revolution-1891-1956-284606 <p>Public lecture given by Piotr H. Kosicki (Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland). </p> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:43:51 +0000 webfull 134908 at /channels /channels/channels/event/lecture-roosevelts-last-100-days-setting-world-path-peace-283941 <p>Lecture given by Dr.</p> Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:40:51 +0000 webfull 134165 at /channels /channels/channels/event/kim-tallbear-university-alberta-biopolitics-and-beyond-new-directions-indigenous-studies-283861 <p><br /></p> Mon, 15 Jan 2018 04:03:10 +0000 webfull 134073 at /channels