Month: December 2016

REMINDER: CfA Global Humanitarianism/Research Academy, due December 31, 2016

GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM | RESEARCH ACADEMY
International Research Academy on the History of Global Humanitarianism

 

“I found it to be invaluable, and have made several lasting connections from my participation.” –Sonja DeLaat, CNHH Member.

 

This CfA was originally posted in October 2016 and may be found here along with the GHRA’s poster.

The international GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM | RESEARCH ACADEMY (GHRA) offers research training to PhD candidates and early postdocs. It combines academic sessions at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz and the Imperial and Global History Centre at the University of Exeter with archival sessions at the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. The Research Academy addresses early career researchers who are working in the related fields of humanitarianism, international humanitarian law, peace and conflict studies as well as human rights covering the period from the 18th to the 20th century. It supports scholarship on the ideas and practices of humanitarianism in the context of international, imperial and global history thus advancing our understanding of global governance in humanitarian crises of the present.

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CfP: Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française

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Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française

Le Québec et l’histoire des ‘autres’

Date limite pour proposition (500-1000 mots): 25 janvier 2017

 

Le passé des autres et l’expérience de l’histoire au Québec (XIXe-XXe siècles)

De l’interprétation par les Canadiens du XIXe siècle des révolutions française et belge à celle par les Québécois de la Révolution tranquille de l’histoire des pays récemment décolonisés, le passé des autres a été l’objet d’appropriations nombreuses. Si les représentations de ce passé sont en général bien connues, ses appropriations et ses utilisations le sont moins. L’objectif de ce projet est d’explorer l’appropriation d’événements, d’expériences ou de mythes de l’histoire étrangère par les Québécois à des fins à la fois de relectures de l’histoire du Québec et de mobilisation du passé pour transformer la société.

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Treasures of CIDA’s 30-Year-Old Photography Collections: A Visual Perspective on Canadian International Aid

by Sonya de Laat & Dominique Marshall

 

This blog has been prepared ahead of the workshop on the archives of CIDA on December 12 in Ottawa, held by the CNHH on the occasion of the Conference “A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid,  1950-2016” hosted by Global Affairs Canada

This article is cross-posted with Active History as of December 9, 2016.

 

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Rights and Realities Exhibit; Slide Number: 730-487-04; A woman repairs shoes in a tiny kiosk on the sidewalk in downtown Lima, Peru, 1995; (c) Global Affairs Canada/Stephanie Colvey

 

The ways in which the former Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has visually represented its projects and people to the general public has greatly informed public perceptions of aid and international affairs. From the end of the 1960s, CIDA’s photographs have been used in the communications products of the Agency and of partners (NGOs, schools, publishers, etc.), or in travelling exhibitions, publications and teaching materials. They also represent a resource for scholars and practitioners interested in exploring and sharing CIDA’s multifaceted histories. For forty-five years, CIDA administered the nation’s official development assistance (ODA). From large-scale mining and electricity projects to smaller scale education and health programs, CIDA was Canada’s main response to a global surge in international development initiatives that started in the 1960s. Simultaneously, CIDA was a vehicle for extending Canadian economic and political interests as well as its social values abroad. It became a key entity in defining Canada’s caring and helpful identity domestically and internationally.

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