Past Activities of the Network

Second Canadian Workshop on the History of Humanitarian Aid, May 30, 2015.

Originally post on August 8, 2015, the report on the Second Workshop hosted by the Network can be found here.  Images from the Workshop, can be found in the gallery.

Visit of PhD candidate Jaclyn Granyck, Department of International History

THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE I GENEVA, at Carleton University, 30 April 2015 to discuss her work on Jewish humanitarianism and children around the First world War.  See her articles on “Waging relief: the politics and logistics of American Jewish war relief in Europe and the Near East (1914–1918)” and “The Influence Tactics of Jewish Societies within the League of Nations, 1919–1929”

Images of the workshop to welcome Kevin O’Sullivan – Carleton, 9 July 2014,  by W. Tait

For the images, click HERE

For an account of the event, click HERE

For  the announcement of the event, click HERE

For a program of the event of July 9 2014, click HERE

 

May 2014 : Canadian Historical Association Two Panels on the History of Humanitarian Aid, Brock University

1. Canada and the United States – Approaches to Humanitarianism and Development in East Asia, 1946-1974

Greg Donaghy (Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada): ‘Sound, Practicable, and Realistic:’ Canada and the UN Korean Relief Agency, 1950-54

Andrew Gawthorpe (King’s College, London): Samuel Huntington on Order and Change in Wartime South Vietnam

Will Tait (Carleton University): Rebuilding a Mission: the Canadian United Church in South Korea 1946-1958

2. Canada, the Global South, and International Development, 1957-2013

Animator: Kevin Brushett (Royal Military College of Canada)

Jill Campbell-Miller (University of Waterloo): The Entrenchment of Aid: The Diefenbaker Government and Aid to India, 1957-1963

Ted Cogan (University of Guelph): Selling Foreign Aid in the 1960s: Public Opinion, Civil Society and the Demise of SHARE/CANADA

Ruth Compton Brouwer (King’s University College, University of Western Ontario): ‘Canada’s Peace Corps’? CUSO’s Ambivalent Relationship with its US ‘Cousin,’ 1961-1971

Dominique Marshall (Carleton University): Local and Global Humanitarianism: The History of Oxfam in Newfoundland, 1965-2013

June 2013 – CHA – Victoria One panel on Cold War Humanitariansim and Development

Kevin Brushett (RMC): “words into Ploughshares: Robert McNamara, Lester Pearsonand Canadian International Development Assistance to the Global South, 1966 to 1976”

Laura Madokoro(Columbia): “Humanitarianism and Cold War Politics in Hong Kong”

Jill Campbell-Miller(Waterloo):“I find this aid field becoming all the time more complicated”: Canadian Aid in India, 1952-195

Will Tait(Carleton):From Miles for Millions to “If I had a rocket launcher”? Oxfam Canada’s Cold War and the Role of Religious Traditions

Commentator:Dominique Marshall (Carleton)

June 2012 – CHA One panel on International Encounters and the Nation-State: Humanitarian Aid at the Crossroads

Sarah Glassford, University of Ottawa Wartime Crossroads: Nationalism vs. Internationalism in the Canadian Junior Red Cross, 1939-1945

Ruth Compton Brouwer, King’s College, Western University: ‘Two Years That Last a Lifetime’: Returned CUSO Volunteers and Canadian Society

Dominique Marshall, Carleton University: International engagements: OXFAM employees from Britain and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s

Facilitator: Natalie Gravelle, York University

June 2009 – CHA Carleton University – One panel on Transnational Histories of Canadian Humanitarian Aid

Tarah Brookfield, York University: Canadian Youth, Charity, and Citizenship in the Cold War

Ruth Compton Brouwer, McMaster University: Ironic Interventions: Canadian Missionaries and CUSO Volunteers as Participants in Family Planning Programmes in India, 1930s-1970s

Sarah Glassford, University of Ottawa: “A sanctified name”: Power, Authority and the Canadian Red Cross Society during the Second World War

Dominique Marshall, Carleton University: The Beginning of OXFAM in Canada, from 1942-1971. A Study in the History of the Political Culture of Humanitarianism