Women have been fundamentally affected by war and armed conflict, as victims and participants, throughout the long history of the lands that eventually became Canada. However, beyond the celebration of heroines like Laura Secord and Madeleine de Verchères (meant to be read as exceptional) they remain largely absent from our historical memory. To address this… Continue Reading

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS June 24-25, 2021 Sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) @PMTC2021 #PandemicMethodologies In the past year, archives and libraries have closed (either permanently or periodically), non-essential international travel has been heavily discouraged or impossible, and anyone who can has been encouraged to work from home. In these circumstances, historians have had to… Continue Reading

APPEL À PARTICIPATION Les 24-25 juin 2021 Parrainée par la Société historique du Canada (SHC) @PMTC2021 #PandemicMethodologies Au cours de l’année écoulée, les archives et les bibliothèques ont fermé (de façon permanente ou périodiquement), les voyages internationaux non essentiels ont été fortement découragés, voire impossibles, et tous ceux qui le pouvaient ont été encouragés à… Continue Reading

Deadline for proposals: January 30, 2021 Conference date: September 2021 Dialogues about Canadian coastal cultures, coastal places, and global oceanic connections have taken on a new tenor in a time of climate crisis that will dramatically and disproportionately reshape the future of such conversations. Growing international interest in coasts from a range of disciplines suggests… Continue Reading

Atlantic Canada Studies Centre, UNB Comme historiens du Canada atlantique basés au Nouveau Brunswick, nous sommes tour à tour captivés puis désemparés par la richesse des histoires, des études de cas et des expériences individuelles que nous observons dans le dossier documentaire. Cependant, ces écrits ne correspondent aucunement aux interprétations antérieures de la province ou… Continue Reading

Atlantic Canada Studies Centre, UNB As historians of Atlantic Canada based in New Brunswick, we are often captivated and by turns confounded by the richness of the stories, case studies, and individual experiences that we see in the documentary record, but which simply “don’t fit” within past interpretations of the province and larger national frameworks.… Continue Reading

Appel à communications Colloque d’histoire interdisciplinaire, Université McGill, Montréal, le 26-27 octobre 2019   Depuis des siècles, la partie septentrionale de l’Amérique du Nord, vaste territoire peu peuplé, a fonctionné comme un improbable carrefour international. Les voyages longue distance, souvent entrepris dans d’intimidantes conditions, ont longtemps servi à connecter des lieux et des peuples autrement… Continue Reading

Call for Papers Conference at McGill University, Montreal, 26-27 October 2019 This conference will look at the long-distance movement of people, goods and ideas that put Canada in touch with global circuits before there was a Canada. For centuries, the northern half of the continent functioned as an unlikely international carrefour. Long-distance travel under daunting… Continue Reading