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History Slam Episode Twenty-Three: Congress Recap

June 12, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download The 2013 Social Sciences and Humanities Congress was held recently in Victoria, which of course included the CHA Annual Meeting. In a beautiful city, with a beautiful campus, and spurred on by beautiful weather, the conference was quite a success. A hearty congratulations to Penny Bryden and her [...]

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Ripple Effects: Great Lakes Water Levels

June 4, 2013

By Daniel Macfarlane Lake Huron and Lake Michigan recently reached record lows. The other Great Lakes are also below average levels. Headlines such as “Two Great Lakes hit lowest water levels in history” or “Low water levels in Great Lakes cause concern” have been splashed across browsers and newspapers. Docks barely reach water, boats can’t [...]

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A Quarter Millennia of Local Food

May 21, 2013

By David Zylberberg It is currently spring in Ontario, plants are blooming and many people are expectantly awaiting the cherries, strawberries or tomatoes. Yesterday a pamphlet arrived in my mailbox advertising the home-delivery of seasonal organic produce, which emphasized the virtues of it being locally grown. At the same time, I see others suggesting that [...]

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Commemorating the Unprecedented; Canada, the Arctic Council, and the History of the Present

May 15, 2013

By Andrew Stuhl Today marks an important turning point in Canadian history. Or does it? This morning Canada assumes the chairmanship of the Arctic Council. Formed in 1996, the Council promotes cooperation, coordination, and interaction among the Arctic states and with the region’s indigenous communities. It is a high-level governmental forum that, while limited in [...]

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Archives as Laboratories

May 14, 2013

By Merle Massie Over the past two years, I lurked in the halls and wandered wide-eyed through the conferences of my social and natural science colleagues. An interdisciplinary institutional postdoctoral fellowship, funded by MISTRA (The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) and routed through the University of Saskatchewan, ensured my place at the lunch table [...]

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The New History Wars?: Avoiding the Fights of the Past

May 7, 2013

The new history wars are not battles over the meaning of Canadian history. They are battles over public financing of historical research and historical preservation.

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“American Commune”: two views of a documentary about the 1970s counterculture

May 6, 2013

By Colin Coates and Daniel Ross “The rise and fall of America’s largest socialist utopian experiment” -Program blurb from the 2013 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival This post, inspired by the documentary film American Commune (2013) by Rena Mundo Croshere and Nadine Mundo, takes two different looks at the history of a 1970s countercultural [...]

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History Slam Episode Twenty-Two: Madeleine Kloske

May 3, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham On Wednesday night there was a screening of four documentary films as part of Northern Scene in Ottawa. The evening’s feature film was Dan Sokolowski’s Degrees Northand it was preceded by three shorts: Andrew Connors’ Come Back Little Star, Daniel Janke’s Finding Milton, and Lulu [...]

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From Exploration to Climate Change: Northern History in the Anthropocene

May 2, 2013

By Tina Adcock I groaned when I saw the headline. “Google Street View braves Canadian Arctic to chart little-known territory,” it read. “Iqaluit mapping expedition sees Google staff hike along remote city’s snow-covered trails and risk wrath of polar bears.” Even the writers and editors at the Guardian aren’t immune to the occasional bout of [...]

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History Slam Episode Twenty-One: Marketplace at Northern Scene

May 2, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham For the first four days of Northern Scene, the Panorama Room at the National Arts Centre was transformed into a marketplace featuring some of the region’s top artists. In this episode of the History Slam I talk with three of those artists about their work [...]

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