Announcing the Mississauga Library System Speakers’ Series
In this post, we announce an upcoming speakers’ series in March, April, and May 2011 at the Mississauga Library System.
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Remembering the Holocaust
27 January 2011, Holocaust Memorial Day, marks the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
An Invitation to a Free Oral History Workshop in Montreal
An invitation to a free oral history workshop sponsored by the Montreal Life Stories Project and Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Alliance Against Modern Slavery: Benefit Concert and Inaugural Conference
Alliance Against Modern Slavery Benefit Concert and Inaugural Concert at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Resources for teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.
Happy holidays!
Happy holidays!
Summary of Teaching History in Diverse Venues
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.
New ActiveHistory.ca Paper – Cancun Summit: The True Reasons for the ‘Failure’ of the Green Movement by Jean-François Mouhot
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 previous period of “boom and… Read more »
Upcoming Talks
Upcoming talks in Toronto this week.
New Book Review: In the Province of History
Paul Bennett, director of Schoolhouse Consulting, reviews McKay and Bates’s ‘In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia’