December 2010

Happy holidays!

December 24, 2010

Happy holidays!

Reflecting on Kan’s “Shamanism and Christianity”: Making Sense of Family Conversion Narratives

December 22, 2010

Brittany Luby reflects on how her studies, particularly Sergei Kan’s “Shamanism and Christianity” inspired critical reflection of her own family’s conversion narratives.

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The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud

December 21, 2010

I don’t normally rush out to buy the Giller Prize winner. I’m regrettably not a big follower of recent Canadian literature. In fact, during the past year I’ve had little time to read fiction more generally. However, when a small press won the prize for the first time and the interviews with the author suggested [...]

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You Are Here: Not A Year-In-Review Post

December 16, 2010

While many writers will be surrendering their soapboxes to reflection and summation — perhaps as the basis for trying to predict where it seems we’re headed — I’d like to offer a different sort of historically-minded meditation: a brief you are here assessment informed by two somewhat interconnected statements that recently caught my attention.

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On Light and Dark: the historicity of colour and non-colour photographs

December 15, 2010

A brief discussion historicizing colour and non-colour photography.

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Strengthening Community through Digitized Local History

December 13, 2010

The Black Creek Living History project is a great example of how community history can be told over the internet.

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Summary of Teaching History in Diverse Venues

December 9, 2010

Thirty-six historians, educators, museum professionals and graduate students from across the country attended the first of what we hope will be an annual workshop offered by THEN/HiER in partnership with ActiveHistory.ca.

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New ActiveHistory.ca Paper – Cancun Summit: The True Reasons for the ‘Failure’ of the Green Movement by Jean-François Mouhot

December 8, 2010

As the 2010 UN Climate summit in Cancun seems unlikely to make any significant advances, the green movement has been blamed for failing to convince the public that action on climate change is both urgent and necessary, in particular because of its refusal of technologies such as nuclear energy and geo-engineering. However, looking at a [...]

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The “War on the Car” has a long history

December 6, 2010

Last week, newly-elected Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continued his campaign rhetoric by proclaiming that “the war on the car is over.” On the first day of his mayoralty, Ford announced he intends to halt construction of a light rail transit line on Sheppard Avenue. The mayor says a subway under Sheppard Avenue should be built [...]

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