History Slam

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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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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History Slam Episode Twenty: The Nantuck Brothers and Justice

May 1, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham In August 1899, Dawson and Jim Nantack were executed in Dawson City, Yukon for the murder of two prospectors. On November 4, 2010, their remains were uncovered by a backhoe operator during construction of a sewage treatment plant. The discovery led to a renewed interest [...]

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History Slam Episode Nineteen: The Dorset Seen Exhibit

April 30, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham Last Friday night in Ottawa, buses traversed the city as part of an art gallery crawl. The unofficial launch of Northern Scene, Swarm allowed art fans to view 15 different exhibits around the national capital region, with the event being capped off by a series [...]

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History Slam Episode Eighteeen: Tom McSorley on Nanook of the North and Grub-Stake

April 29, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham As we kick off Northern History Week, we thought it would be fun to go back and look at some of the earliest films depicting life in northern Canada. In this episode of the History Slam podcast, I chat with Tom McSorley of the Canadian [...]

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History Slam Episode Seventeen: The Rise of American Restaurants, and Northern History Week

April 17, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham “Remember when you first went out to eat with your parents? Remember, it was such a treat to go and they serve you this different food that you never saw before, and they put it in front of you, and it was such a delicious [...]

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History Slam Episode Sixteen: Inclusive Histories and Katrina Srigley

April 3, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham During the CHA Annual Meeting last year in Waterloo, I went to the book launch for Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada, during which Sylvia Van Kirk addressed the crowd. The one thing that really stuck [...]

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History Slam Episode Fifteen: Placing Memory

March 20, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham Over the past few months, the City of Ottawa has started to make progress on its redevelopment of Lansdowne Park. The plans new condos, retail outlets, and major renovations to Frank Claire Stadium in order to welcome a CFL franchise to the capital next spring. [...]

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History Slam Episode Fourteen: Tim Stanley

March 6, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham B.C Premier Christy Clark has spent the better part of the last week apologizing for the provincial Liberals’ classified plan to win the “ethnic vote.” While the scheme had clear ethical issues by using provincial staffers for political purposes, what has garnered the most attention [...]

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History Slam Episode Thirteen: Musician Del Barber

February 20, 2013

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Last Saturday night in Ottawa, a young musician took the stage at the National Arts Centre and sang about a dream he had had. The dream was interesting because all his favourite historical figures – from Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie – [...]