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CfP: Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française

December 6, 2016 / Sean Eedy

Appel à textes

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.

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

December 2, 2016 / Sean Eedy

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.

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.

CfP: History of Peacekeeping: New Perspectives DEADLINE EXTENDED

November 29, 2016 / Sean Eedy

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.

Presentation during the ceremony at the home of the Ambassador of Chile.

Canadian Veteran Humanitarian Honoured by Chilean Embassy of Ottawa

November 15, 2016 / Sean Eedy

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.

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

November 7, 2016 / Sean Eedy

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.

Humanitarian Response Network of Canada Research Grants

November 6, 2016 / Sean Eedy

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:

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

November 1, 2016 / Sean Eedy

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.

CfP: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I through Today

October 27, 2016 / Sean Eedy

Call for Papers

Remembering Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance and Civil Liberties in World War I Through Today

Oct. 19-22, 2017: A Symposium on resistance and conscientious objection in WWI

Co-sponsored by Peace History Society

(2017 Peace History Society Conference)

The World War’s profound effect on the United States is often overlooked. Although the United States actively took part in the conflict for only 18 months, the war effort introduced mass conscription, transformed the American economy, and mobilized popular support through war bonds, patriotic rallies, and anti-German propaganda. Nevertheless, many people desired a negotiated peace, opposed American intervention, refused to support the war effort, and/or even imagined future world orders that could eliminate war. Among them were members of the peace churches and other religious groups, women, pacifists, radicals, labor activists, and other dissenters.

CARFMS 2016 Student Essay Contest

October 24, 2016 / Sean Eedy

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEE AND FORCED MIGRATION STUDIES (CARFMS)

2016 STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) seeks to foster an independent community of scholars dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of Canadian refugee and forced migration research. The Association aims to engage students as active members of the Canadian refugee and forced migration research community, and invites students to participate in the sixth annual CARFMS Student Essay Contest. There are two categories: one for graduate and law students; and, one for undergraduate students.

Invitation to Book Launch

October 17, 2016 / Sean Eedy

All members of the CNHH community are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of historian Laura Madokoro‘s (Assistant Professor, McGill University) new book, Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War.

The launch will take place on 29 October 2016 from 4 to 6 pm at Bar Robo, 692 Somerset West, Ottawa (at the Chinatown Gates).