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Woman with her child and husky pups, Killiniq, Nunavut. July 24-August 9, 1960. Rosemary Gilliat Eaton / Library and Archives Canada / e010835964 ; Restrictions on use: Nil
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Are you ready for a mega-roundup? We’ve divided this roundup into weeks, each with its own section.
Panoramic View of the Grand Pré Historic Overlook, Unesco World Heritage site and famous for being the site where thousands of Acadians were deported by the colonial British Government in Halifax, just a short drive away from Acadia University. Taken by Rachel Bryant.
Welcome back to Unwritten Histories, everyone! Lee is out of the hospital, Andrea and I are no longer sick, and to celebrate, we’re giving you some comprehensive coverage of this year’s Atlantic Canada Studies Conference which took place in the beautiful and historic Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Located just steps away from the Grand-Pré UNESCO World Heritage site, it seemed a very apropos location to be discussing the state of Atlantic Canada studies. Acadia did a great job hosting, and pulled off a fantastic conference.
Before I start my coverage of this spectacular event, a caveat: there were so many great panels, many of them happening concurrently, and it was physically impossible to attend all of them. Therefore, I can only include details of the ones I went to personally (although in a few cases my good friend and University of Saskatchewan PhD Candidate Michelle Desveaux went to other panels to take some notes for me; but even then, we still missed most of the conference due to the impossibility of attending everything). For those of you who wanted to hear more about panels that I did not attend, I apologize. If I could split myself into four people and attend every single concurrent panel I absolutely would have, because everything sounded amazing. I particularly regret missing panels that featured Rachel Bryant, Chantal Richard, Natasha Simon, Nicole O’Byrne, Sarah Spike, and Tina Loo, to name only a few.
Apologies to everyone who was hoping for a blog post today, but Lee is still in the hospital and awaiting surgery, Andrea is there to support him, and I am still sick. So we’re continuing the hiatus until next week, when I will hopefully be back with coverage of the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference.
Thanks to everyone who has been in touch with well wishes! If you want to get in touch with Andrea and/or Lee, or find out how you can help support them through the next few weeks, you can contact me via twitter (@steph_pettigrew) or of course you can message Andrea (@andreaeidinger)
We hope to be back very soon!
Hi folks. So apparently April 2018 is going for worst month ever, because we’re back in the hospital with my husband. And adding to the fun is the fact that Stephanie has also been ill, and I’m still sick. So there won’t be a roundup this week, and likely no blog post either. Hopefully next Sunday we’ll back back up and running. I’m really sorry about this. Either Stephanie or I will post updates as soon as we can! Thanks for your understanding!
Hi folks — Pro bono editor/husband here …. Andrea seems to have come down with a cold, and so the next blog post will be delayed by a day or so. I’m feeding her soup, tea, and lozenges. She feels guilty for not posting. Send good vibes. Cheers, L
A young boy holding lollipop. Gar Lunney. April 1961. Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired
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Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French. To see the releases from last month, click here.
***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***
N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.
Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.
This month I read articles from:
Canadian Red Cross – Human Suffering is Greater. ca. 1939-1944. Library and Archives Canada, R1300-1190. Copyright expired.
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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. This latest entry features the fierce Sarah York-Bertram – feminist, activist, and sex work historian.
A scholar from Treaty Six Territory, Sarah York-Bertram is a PhD Candidate in York University’s Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies programme. She studies histories of sex work, the affective basis of social responses to the sex trade, and the erasure of sex workers’ histories from public memory specializing in the geographic area of the Canadian Prairies. She won a Joseph Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship for 2015-2018 in support of her dissertation project Stopping Traffic: Historicizing Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada’s Prairie West, 1880-1940
Also a qualitative and community-based researcher, Sarah has worked on studies of feminist pedagogies in relation to intercultural learning, educational access and justice, harm reduction, parenthood in the context of HIV/AIDS, and digital queer communities and activisms. She has also coordinated the Neil Richards Exploring Cultures Group and various other queer and feminist-focused groups in Saskatoon and Toronto.
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