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Guest Post: Family History and Immigrant Identity: The Perks and Pitfalls of “Insider” Status

July 2, 2019 / / 0 Comments

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Note from Andrea: Today we have a very special guest post from Kassandra Luciuk! This post originated as remarks that she delivered at the Coptic Canadian History Project’s Third Annual Conference, “Who Am I? Who Are We? Family, History, and Immigrant Identities,” as a discussant for the “Familiar Dilemmas and Ethnic History” panel. The panel itself included presentations by Pamela Sugiman (“The Stranger in my Family’s History: Reflections on the Telling of Japanese-Canadian History”); Roberto Perin (“Perin Peregrenations”); and Gabriele Scardellato (“The Catelli Clan in Montreal, 1845-1895”.)

Kassandra Luciuk is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

 

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New Project: A Crowdsourced List of History Journals

June 25, 2019 / / 0 Comments

If you’ve been reading this blog for quite some time, you may remember that back in September 2016, I put together a guide to peer-reviewed Canadian history scholarly journals.My goal in creating this guide was to respond to frequent student questions about how to determine whether a source they were using for their paper was in fact peer-reviewed. Several students have specifically requested a list of journals that frequently published Canadian history material as a useful tool.

Creating additional guides for other areas has been at the back of my mind ever since. I even got a request for one on medical history that I totally intend to get to one of these days. But as is so often the case, other issues took precedence, and before I knew it, it was June 2019. I had been throwing around the idea of creating a guide for journals covering North American history before 1800-1850. But as anyone who specializes in this area knows, trying to define the parameters of such a list is a potential nightmare. When I was discussing this with Keith Grant, Stephanie Pettigrew, and Daniel Samson, Stephanie raised the idea of a crowdsourced a list. Basically, we would provide the spreadsheet, and would encourage folks to help fill it in however they would like. And so, a new project was born! And don’t worry, we will be coming out with the guide soon, along with a lengthy discussion about why it’s so hard to define.

 

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Historians’ Histories: Carly Ciufo

June 18, 2019 / / 0 Comments

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. Today we’re joined by the wonderful Carly Ciufo!

Carly CiufoCarly Ciufo is a doctoral candidate of the LR Wilson Institute for Canadian History in the Department of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Prior to returning to academia, she held positions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Tentatively titled, “Can Museums do Human Rights Work? Human Rights Museums and the People who Build Them,” her dissertation investigates the degree that those who work in, with, and against human rights museums are, in fact, doing human rights work. She is also the elected graduate student representative on the Canadian Historical Association Council, with shared responsibility for the teaching and learning portfolio.

 

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Reflections on CHA 2019

June 11, 2019 / / 3 Comments

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Another year, another CHA Annual Meeting in the books. As I did in 2017 and 2018, I wanted to take some time to reflect on my experiences at this year’s conference.

As always, a big thank you goes to the CHA, the 2019 Program Chair, Michel Ducharme, and the 2019 Program Committee (Barrington Walker, Bradley Miller, Caroline Durand, Damien-Claude Bélanger, David Meren, Denis McKim, Elizabeth Mancke, Eryka Dyck, James Moran, Jo McCutcheon, Jocelyn Thorpe, Lara Campbell, Laura Ishiguro, Paige Raibmon, Pierre-Yves Saunier, and Robert McDonald). In many respects, this was an important Congress for me personally. The first ever CHA Annual Meeting I ever attended was at UBC in 2008. It also happens to be the institution where I am currently teaching a Canadian history course.

 

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CHA Reads 2019 – Twitter Discussion

May 31, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Here are is the link to the Twitter Moment, collecting together all of our conversations! And let’s keep these conversations going!

 

 

 

Don’t forget to check out the other posts in the series:

 

CHA Reads 2019 – Emma Battell Lowman and Adam Barker on Le Piège de la Liberté: Les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux 

May 30, 2019 / / 0 Comments

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Emma Battell Lowman and Adam Barker defend Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren’s Le Piège de la liberté: Les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux

I don’t know about you, but it’s not often I read a book cover to cover these days. Though I’m always reading, that kind of sustained engagement tends to elude me – whether because of the time pressures of academic work or because mental health challenges can make reading at length uncomfortable and difficult. So, I’m grateful to Andrea for organizing of CHA Reads 2019for helping me prioritize such a pleasurable task as reading a good book I might otherwise not have picked up. And make no mistake, it’s absolutely worth picking up Denys Delâge & Jean-Philippe Warren’s 2017 Le Piège de la Liberté: Les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux.

 

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