On 28 March 2017, McGill University’s historian of Latin America, Dr. Catherine LeGrand, met with students and faculty of Carleton University to discuss Catholic Missions, Liberation Theology, and Humanitarianism in participation with the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History. The audio of this workshop may be found here. Details of this event can be found on the CNHH website.
Panel originally presented at the Canadian History Association Congress, University of Calgary, June 1st, 2016. Special thanks to Sandy Barron, PhD student (Carleton University), for providing the audio recording of the panel.
In this episode of History Slam, Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Graham speaks to Dr. Alicia Ely Yamin about her new book Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity: Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter.
CNHH member Dr. Dominique Marshall recently gave a French language interview with University of Laval’s CHYZ on the history of children’s rights and humanitarian aid. Interview originally given on 25 February 2016.
Presented by the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University and part of the lunch-time Brownbag lecture series, this talk was delivered by Joanne Lebert of Partnership Africa Canada (PAC). Fully titled: “Conflict Minerals, Gender and (In)Security in Africa’s Great Lakes Region: the limitations of the sexual violence paradigm,” this talk was hosted on 4 March 2015.
“The borderlands that separate genuine helpfulness from meddling—or worse—are an unruly region in the realm of thought…riddled with questions of consent and of who-knows-best. This episode is called Just Trying to Help and it takes us to a small, densely populated island in the Caribbean, where wealthy foreigners have been ‘just trying to help’ for decades: the troubled nation of Haiti.
It is the latest in our series Ideas from the Trenches where producers Tom Howell and Nicola Luksic showcase the work of PhD students across the country. Marylynn Steckley is a PhD graduate from Western University. She spent 6 years in Haiti with her family both as an NGO worker and researcher.” 55 minutes. SSHRC Storyteller winner.
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This is a recording of a roundtable on the Canadian politics of charity through the history of citizen engagement and the historical relationships between state and charity and public and private.
The panel was chaired by Lara Campbell (SFU), the roundtable featured Sarah Glassford (UPEI), Ian Mosby (McMaster), Will Tait (Carleton), Shirley Tillotson (Dalhousie), and Jonathan Weier (Western).
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