Closing Date : 19/02/2017
Employment Type : Fixed Term
Duration : 01 March 2017 to 28 February 2018
Faculty / Organisational Unit : Humanities
School/Directorate : School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Division : Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute
Hours Per week : Full Time
Salary : £34,956 to £38,183 per annum
Location : Oxford Road, Manchester
Job Reference : HUM-09435
This position is open to academics outside the European Union as well as those from member states.
On December 12th and 13th 2016, the conference A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid, 1950-2016 was held at the Global Affairs Canada Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa. The aim of the conference was to explore the development of Canadian foreign aid over the preceding 60 years. (In footnote: 2016 was also the 60th anniversary of the publication of A Samaritan State?, among the first scholarly analyses of Canada’s foreign aid policy, written by Dr. Keith Spicer.) Prior to the official opening of the conference, archivists, historians, and members of the aid sector from Quebec and Ontario gathered for a workshop session. The aim of this session was to bring together colleagues from all branches of aid history; those gathered were experts in the archival, library, and document management sciences related to the production, preservation, and use of archives on humanitarian aid. The workshop therefore facilitated the sharing of tips, procedures, and best practices for researching the history of Canadian aid.
The workshop took the form of seven presentations followed by a brief question period.
First, a quick caveat for the uninitiated – there is no such thing, officially, as a ‘climate refugee.’ While a relatively new phrase, especially in the wake of recent ecological disasters, the idea that climate change would induce a new kind of conflict and migration in the global South has been gaining momentum since the mid-1980s (see El-Hinnawi, 1985). This narrative became firmly integrated into the collective conscience of UNEP and the UNSC in 2007 (Penny, 2007; Hartmann, 2010), followed quickly by Canadian policy-makers and development practitioners (see DND, 2010; Becklumb, 2013). Since then, the relationship between environmental changes, refugees, humanitarianism, and security has materialized in the notion of ‘climate security.’ This notion perpetuates a crisis narrative of politically unstable Third World peoples – colloquially referred to as climate refugees/migrants – fleeing their uninhabitable homelands and (inconspicuously) posing a threat to international security. The speculative nature of this notion brings the climate refugee into being only through “future conditional knowledge practices” (Gemenne & Baldwin, 2013, p. 267); thus, while there is a notable lack of empirical evidence on the phenomenon of climate security (Kothari, 2014), as the debate becomes further enmired in expressions of insecurity, the more the supposed climate refugee is cast as “something to fear and/or control” (Farbotko, 2010, p. 53).
Of potential interest for members of the CNHH, Library and Archives Canada has posted a call for projects for its upcoming DigiLab launch.
From the LAC website:
Appel à contribution – Les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du numérique
Un numéro de la revue Émulations. Revue des jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs en sciences
sociales à paraître en 2017 sera consacré au thème « Les acteurs religieux africains à l’ère du
numérique », sous la direction de Pamela MILLET MOUITY (École des hautes études en
sciences sociales) et Frédérick MADORE (Université Laval).
À partir du milieu des années 1990 et surtout depuis les années 2000, tout un champ d’études s’est
développé sur la façon dont la religion s’inscrit dans le numérique – sites web, forums, blogues,
médias de diffusion en ligne, réseaux sociaux, etc. Les auteurs de ces recherches ont développé
différents concepts tels que « religion online », « online religion » et « digital religion », pour
mieux appréhender les nouvelles formes de religiosités qui sont apparues grâce au web. Cependant,
peu d’études ont jusqu’à présent traité de manière significative de l’usage de l’Internet par les
groupes religieux du continent africain. Pourtant, la visibilité et la résurgence des pratiques
religieuses de toutes les confessions marquent le quotidien individuel et collectif, tant sur le
continent africain qu’au sein des diasporas. Dans cette nébuleuse, les nouveaux médias numériques
sont devenus des outils, voire des espaces majeurs où se donne à voir ce « religieux africain » dans
sa forme plurielle. Certes, le degré de pénétration et l’accessibilité d’Internet en Afrique demeurent
parmi les plus faibles dans le monde : 28,7 % de la population y ont accès selon des chiffres de
20161. À cela s’ajoutent de grandes disparités entre Afrique du Nord et Afrique subsaharienne,
ainsi qu’entre les différentes régions linguistiques. Malgré tout, son usage est en forte
augmentation : entre 2000 et 2015, le nombre d’utilisateurs est passé de 4 500 000 à plus de
330 000 000.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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