Tag: Black Canadian history

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – June 2018

June 8, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

Cover Image June Upcoming Publications

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.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re a bit late with the June edition, largely due to the month of May being such a busy month with the CHA Reads series followed immediately by both Andrea and I attending CHA & Congress in Regina. I’ve made it up to you by searching the internet for anything I could have possibly missed in the first quarter of 2018, and will even publish a 2nd “Upcoming Publications” post in a few weeks for July! That’s two in one month!

***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.

Atlantic Canada Studies Conference – May 4-5, 2018

May 8, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

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.

Women Making History in Canada

March 27, 2018 / Andrea Eidinger / 2 Comments

Young woman reading by the light of a kerosene lamp. Shilly Shally Lodge, Gatineau Park. N.D. Rosemary Gilliat Eaton / Library and Archives Canada, No. R12438

Can you believe that it is already Unwritten Histories’ second anniversary? I can’t. I remember the days when this was a wee little baby blog that only my friends read. 🙂 So of course, Stephanie and I wanted to do something special for the occasion. But saying nice things about this blog is pretty boring. So instead, we are going to use this opportunity to highlight the work of women-identified, who are either graduate students or recent graduates, who are making history. We are obviously fans of men-identified scholars and the work that they do. However, we recognize that women continue to be underrepresented in senior academic ranks and leadership positions, face widespread gender bias in student evaluations, and perform a disproportionate amount of service work and emotional labour. We also recognize that there is incontrovertible evidence of bias against female scholars and the fields of women/gender/feminist history in Canada.

While Unwritten Histories can’t solve these problems, but what we can do is to highlight the amazing work being done by by these scholars. The scholars we have listed below have all made substantial contributions to the field of Canadian history. The list is organized alphabetically. Each profile contains a short biography and a list of selected publications. The name of each scholar is also linked to their Twitter accounts, in the event that you would like to keep up with their work.

A couple of quick caveats. First, the term “woman-idenfied” basically refers to all scholars who identify as female. The use of this term is deliberate, so as to include both cis-gendered and trans women. Second, we limited this list explicitly to graduate students or recent grads who are engaged in the field of history specifically. Finally, we would like to point out that this is a partial list at best. Since, we can only include so many people in one blog post, we had to limit our list to ten. But hopefully we can do a part two!

So without further ado, here are the profiles:

Canadian History Roundup – Week of August 13, 2017

August 20, 2017 / Andrea Eidinger / 0 Comments

Image of a woman holding a basket of apples while standing in an orchard.

Red Star Line. Southampton-Canada via Cherbourg. Poster advertising travel between the US and Canada by ship. 1936. Sterne Stevens. Marc Choko Collection. Library and Archives Canada, e010780453. CC BY 2.0