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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies invites Applications for Full-Time Position

June 16, 2016 / Sean Eedy

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Geneva, Switzerland

invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of INTERNATIONAL HISTORY

starting on 1st February 2017 or on a mutually agreed-upon date.

The Institute is seeking candidates about to be appointed associate professor or already at the rank of associate professor with a few years of experience. Candidates must hold a PhD in history or equivalent. The successful candidate is expected to have an outstanding research and teaching record. We seek to bolster our teaching and researching capacity by recruiting someone able to make a significant long-term contribution on the broad themes that are within the remit of the department. This corresponds to the following fields:

Canada’s Transnational Humanitarians: Aid, Advocacy, Development, and Faith in the Pre-Digital Age

June 1, 2016 / Jill Campbell-Miller

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2016, University of Calgary

June 1st, 2016

Chair: Nicole Marion (Carleton University)

Nassisse Solomon (Western University): Combating the “Eclipse in Ethiopia”: Humanitarian Efforts of the Sudan Interior Mission During the Italo-Ethiopian War

Dominique Marshall (Carleton University): Humanitarisme et réseaux d’information transnationaux: flux de renseignements entre Oxfam UK, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam Québec et l’hémisphère sud, 1955-1975

Will Tait (Carleton University): Canadian Food Aid and the Transnational Evangelical Movement, 1970-1986

The audio is divided into five files and is organized by speaker. Nassisse Solomon’s paper is preceded by Nicole Marion’s introductory comments regarding the panelists, the purposes of the panel as a whole, and the kinds of work conducted by the Network. As the papers ran long, there is no question and answer phase following Will Tait’s presentation.

Sarah Glassford Publishes on the History of the Red Cross

May 27, 2016 / Sean Eedy

The Canadian Network on Humanitarian History is pleased to announce the publication of Sarah Glassford‘s first monograph, Mobilizing Mercy: a History of the Canadian Red Cross, from McGill-Queen’s University Press. Dr. Glassford is a social historian of Canada, having received her PhD from York University in Toronto. She is also a founding member of our Network and has previously blogged on Humanitarianism in the classroom.

Matthew Bunch Blogs on the First and Second World Food Congress

May 27, 2016 / Sean Eedy

Matthew Bunch, member of the CNHH and founder of the Freedom from Hunger Project, recently made the Network aware of not one, but two blogs written and posted to his website. The first, from 7 March 2016, discusses the First World Food Congress held in 1963, the conditions surrounding its creations, and its effects. The second, published earlier this month, discusses the Second World Food Congress (1970) and the construction of youth as activist. Both may be of interest to Network members and can be found via the provided links. These are both posted to the Network’s growing resource list of Canadian Blogs and may, alternately, be found there.

1984: The Parable of Ethiopian Famine and Foreign Aid

May 11, 2016 / Sean Eedy

by Nassisse Solomon

Ethiopia has recently resurfaced in international headlines, in light of yet another looming apocalyptic scale famine. It is being widely reported that Ethiopia is facing its worst drought in 50 years. [1] A result of three failed rainy seasons, coupled with an El Nino effect warming the Pacific Ocean and affecting global weather patterns.[2] Changes in weather patterns that have resulted in punishing heat waves and drought throughout the horn of Africa region, and in Ethiopia becoming one of the worst afflicted countries.[3] With just weeks remaining before the start of the main cropping season in the country, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is calling for urgent funding to assist farmers in sowing their fields to abate drought stricken areas from falling deeper into hunger and food insecurity.[4] With a future saddled by the “uncertainty of what nature has called down upon it”[5], Ethiopia, as CBC’s Margaret Evans among many others have characterized it, is once again “on the edge.”[6]
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CNHH in Conversation with Dr. James Orbinski

April 26, 2016 / Sean Eedy

by Christine Chisholm and Will Tait

On March 24, 2016 Dr. James Orbinski, former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, scholar of global health and practicing physician was invited by Carleton University’s Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS) to present the keynote lecture for the official launch of the program. Dr. Chris Brown, director of BGInS, kindly arranged for a meeting with Orbinski before the lecture with CNHH members Dr. Dominique Marshall and PhD candidates Christine Chisholm and Will Tait from Carleton’s Department of History.

Reminder: Third Workshop on the History of Humanitarian Aid

April 15, 2016 / Sean Eedy

With conference season looming, this is just a gentle reminder that registration is open for the Third Workshop on the History of Humanitarian Aid. Please join us for what promises to be a productive and informative meeting of some of the brightest minds in our field. There is no fee to attend and participate, though registration of your attendance is required.

“Eye-opening if not revelatory”: Teaching and Learning Humanitarian History

April 1, 2016 / Sean Eedy

by Sarah Glassford

Before taking this course I thought that humanitarianism was just

a nice way of asking for money. You donate and someone tries

to solve a problem. But through the readings and the emergency

relief assignment/exercise it has become clear that the job is less

straightforward than that. – Haley K.

Those of us who research and write in the area of humanitarian history are well aware of the complexities of aid, both on the giving and receiving ends of the equation. But when we have a chance to teach that history, what preconceptions do our students bring to the classroom, and what do they take away with them at the end of the course? Continue reading

Active History History Slam Podcast: Human Rights Frameworks and Why They Matter

March 23, 2016 / Jill Campbell-Miller

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.

History Slam Episode Eighty: Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter