Month: October 2016

CfP: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I through Today

Call for Papers

Remembering Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance and Civil Liberties in World War I Through Today

Oct. 19-22, 2017: A Symposium on resistance and conscientious objection in WWI
 

Co-sponsored by Peace History Society

(2017 Peace History Society Conference)

 

The World War’s profound effect on the United States is often overlooked. Although the United States actively took part in the conflict for only 18 months, the war effort introduced mass conscription, transformed the American economy, and mobilized popular support through war bonds, patriotic rallies, and anti-German propaganda. Nevertheless, many people desired a negotiated peace, opposed American intervention, refused to support the war effort, and/or even imagined future world orders that could eliminate war. Among them were members of the peace churches and other religious groups, women, pacifists, radicals, labor activists, and other dissenters.

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CARFMS 2016 Student Essay Contest

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEE AND FORCED MIGRATION STUDIES (CARFMS)

2016 STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) seeks to foster an independent community of scholars dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of Canadian refugee and forced migration research. The Association aims to engage students as active members of the Canadian refugee and forced migration research community, and invites students to participate in the sixth annual CARFMS Student Essay Contest. There are two categories: one for graduate and law students; and, one for undergraduate students.

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Professor Cranford Pratt Hoped for “Humane Internationalism” in Canada’s Policy Toward Africa

Professor Cranford Pratt, a scholar on African history and politics, succumbed to complications owing to pneumonia this past September 4, 2016 in Toronto.  Beyond his teaching career in both Canada and Africa and the more than twenty published academic articles and books, Professor Pratt worked toward streamlining Canada’s sometimes inconsistent foreign policy toward Africa in the 1970s and argued against continued trade relations with apartheid South Africa.

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