CONTENT
- CNHH at Congress 2026, PEI or Virtual
- Annual Business Meeting & Events
- News from Members
- Archives News
- Common Initiatives from Members
- Blogs & Talks Published by the CNHH
- Welcome to New Members
- Staying Connected
I. CONGRESS 2026 UPEI
Monday 1 June, 15:30 to 17:00 ADT (AVC 207N)
Tools for Peace, Solidarity Movements, and Archives in Emergencies | Outils pour la Paix, mouvements solidaires et archives en situation d’urgence
- Dominique Marshall, Preserving Archives and Essential Records in Humanitarian Response – Dominique will join virtually. Write to her if you would like to do the same: dominique_marshall@carleton.ca
- Kevin Brushett, Canadian Solidarity Movements and the Wars for Central America, 1979-1989
- Chair | Présidence : Penny Bryden
II. CNHH ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETINGS & EVENTS
Monday 1 June, 12:00 – 1:30 ADT (MCDH 243)
CNHH Annual Business Meeting – Kevin Brushett will be in the room, and Dominique Marshall will hold the virtual meeting. Please contact them for more information Kevin.Brushett@rmc.ca or dominique_marshall@carleton.ca
- We will discuss, among other things, possible theme for a 2027 roundtable.
III. NEWS FROM MEMBERS
Message to the Membership: CNHH Member John Foster Passed Away, Saturday April 18th, 2026 Find the full notice here.
Recent publications from CNHH member
Kevin Brushett, Mirrors of a Generation. The Company of Young Canadians, Youth Activism, and Community Development, 1965–1976. McGill Queen’s, 2026.
Dominique Clement
- Book review: “Jennifer Tunnicliffe and Stephanie Bangarth, eds. – Revisiting Human Rights in Canadian History” (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2025). Canadian Historical Review (2026).
- “Revolution or False Promise: Canada’s Human Rights Past and Present.” Revue de droit parlamentaire et politique / Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law XX, No.2, 2026.
- “Critiques of Human Rights,” in Christina Szurlej, Human Rights in Canada and internationally (Toronto: Emond Publishing, 2026): 99-132.
Dominique Marshall, “Traditions in Canada’s Engagement with the Global Refugee Regime: The Work of Captain Leslie G. Chance, Civil Servant (1914–1958),” in Nathan Benson, James Milner and Delphine Nakache, eds. Canada and the Global Refugee Regime: Continuity, Change, Challenges and Critiques, McGill Queen’s, 2026, pp. 28-84.
Jodie Mason, Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2026.
David Webster, EVERYDAY DIPLOMATS: The Global Solidarity Movement for Timor-Leste, 1975-99, Edited by Hannah Loney, Zelia Pereira, David Webster, and Rui Graca Feijo. Sherbrooke (Quebec), Canada and Dili, Timor-Leste: Pressbook, 2025.
IV. ARCHIVES NEWS
Chris Trainor and Dominique Marshall are working with Oxfam Canada with the transfer of the archives of their main office to Library and Archives Canada, with the support of Lorna Chisholm, Senior Archivist, Private Archives and Published Heritage Branch.
Dominique Marshall is part of the team of the new and urgent Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project, based at Manchester University, and funded by the Leverhulme and the Wellcome Trusts.
The Humanitarian Archive Emergency is collating information on what’s at risk and welcomes your input. Nominate an archive, record, or dataset via this short (anonymous) form. Your response will help strengthen efforts to protect vital humanitarian knowledge.
Humanitarian Histories (HAP Summer Seminar) – about the Humanitarian Archives at the University of Manchester. Tuesday, 26 May. Additional dates announced. Register here.
V. COMMON INITIATIVES FROM MEMBERS
Nassisse Solomon and Sonya de Laat are collaborating with Danielle Dilkes from Western University on an open education resource centralizing histories of visual representations of humanitarian action and of disability narratives to provide critical educational resources on visual media and GenAI literacy.
VI. BLOGS & TALKS PUBLISHED BY THE CNHH SINCE THE LAST BULLETIN (June 2025)
Carole Therrien, One Life, One Love, One St. Martin: Middle Class Women Building Community Resilience in a Post-Disaster Setting (2017-2025), March 2026
Contribute!
If readers of the CNHH Bulletin would like to contribute to the “Essential Reads” series, or on any other subject relevant to our membership, please contact Sarah Glassford: Sarah.Glassford@uwindsor.ca . We would be thrilled to feature your reading recommendations, or your thoughts and experiences on other CNHH topics!
Bulletin Editor: Sonya DeLaat: delaat@mcmaster.ca
Webmaster Sean Eedy: SeanEedy@cunet.carleton.ca
VII. WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS
Mark Huack
Susan Armstrong-Reid
The full list of members is on the CNHH website.
VIII. STAYING CONNECTED
Social Media Connection Update!
The CNHH is now on Bluesky, follow us at@aidhistory.bsky.social
