Month: November 2016

CfP: History of Peacekeeping: New Perspectives DEADLINE EXTENDED

Call for Papers:

History of Peacekeeping: New perspectives
L’histoire du maintien de la paix: Nouvelles perspectives
Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario
November 3rd and 4th 2017

NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION

The organizing Committee for the conference is currently looking to fill a particular subject area – The role of NGOs in peacekeeping and peace support operations. If any one is interested we encourage submissions on this subject in particular from any perspective (historical, political science, sociological, psychological). The new deadline for submission is December 15, 2016.

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Canadian Veteran Humanitarian Honoured by Chilean Embassy of Ottawa

Dr. John W. Foster honoured at the home of the Ambassador of Chile.

 

 

The Latin American Working Group is working in collabortion with the CNHH in order to collect, organize and publicize its historical activities.  Its website, “Si Hay Camino”  is already rich in material.  Most of its archives are deposited at the Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) of York University, and the collection of books and archives has an online Finding Aid. In parallel, the CNHH is working with Carleton University Archives and Research Collections, to transfer John Foster’s personal papers there, to add to the papers of another veteran director of Oxfam Canada, Meyer Brownstone.

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Creche for the Children of Hospital Workers in Lusaka, Zambia, 1980-1981.

by Victoria Hawkins

Cross posted with Match International Women’s Fund.

During her BA in History at Carleton University, Victoria worked as a research assistant for the Canadian Network of Humanitarian History.[1]  She seconded the University Archives and Research Collections in the inventory of this new collection, which will be available to the public soon.

 

Highlight of the Archives of the Match Fund Newly Arrived at Carleton University.

 

The MATCH International Women’s Fund’s archives include some files of specific projects conducted overseas in regions such as Africa and South America since the beginning of the Canadian NGO 40 years ago. There were many interesting projects in South America, especially out of Peru. For instance, a number of projects for the improvement of the lives of women were implemented in the shantytown Belen, outside of Lima, namely with a Mother’s Club. But most of the materials on these projects were in Spanish making them difficult for me to interpret more deeply.

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Humanitarian Response Network of Canada Research Grants

The Humanitarian Response Network of Canada (HRN) is a vibrant community of practice made of 32 Canadian humanitarian organizations. The HRN seeks to share lessons learned with the view to strengthen the quality and efficiency of humanitarian action by creating a conversation around key humanitarian policy issues and practices.

 

To support these efforts, the HRN is running a pilot program to provide six grants of $2,500 each to support graduate student research on issues relating to humanitarian policy and practice, including, but not limited to, research on:

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CfP: Power, Publics, and the United States in the World

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) invites proposals on “Power, Publics, and the U.S. and the World” for its 2017 Annual Conference, to be held June 22-24 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View in Arlington, Virginia. Proposals must be submitted by December 1, 2016.

The production, exercise, and understanding of American power in the world takes many forms and touches myriad subjects. From exploring questions of strategy and statecraft to unpacking definitions of community, territory, and rights, scholars have illuminated the practice of American power and the many social and cultural processes that shape it. Members of various publics, domestic and foreign, also have commented on and constituted U.S. power. In policy and fiction, cultural production and political arrangement, scholars and their publics have worked—sometimes in tandem, sometimes at cross-purposes—to make meanings of the U.S. in the world.

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