voxhistorica

May 09

Program of the 2013 CHA Annual Meeting at UVic / Programme de la Réunion annuelle 2013 de la SHC à l’Université de Victoria

http://www.cha-shc.ca/vm/newvisual/attachments/893/Media/FinalProgramOnlineMay8.pdf

May 07

Op-Ed: MPs don’t really want to talk about history / Tribune - Les députés ne veulent pas vraiment parler de l’histoire

by/par Christopher Dummitt

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/really+want+talk+about+history/8345253/story.html#ixzz2ScXPVlR8

The New History Wars?: Avoiding the Fights of the Past

by/ par Sean Kheraj

http://activehistory.ca/2013/05/11059/#more-11059

May 06

The History Wars in Canada / Les guerres de l’Histoire au Canada

http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2013/05/the-history-wars-in-canada/#_edn1

Daniel Caron - I am the best friend they’ve got / Daniel Caron - Je suis leur meilleur ami

Article in the / dans le Ottawa Citizen May 3 mai  2013 

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Record+breaking/8335572/story.html

May 03

Inaugural Meetings of Asian Canadian Studies Network / Colloque inaugural du Réseau canadien d’études asiatiques

http://www.cha-shc.ca/vm/newvisual/attachments/893/Media/AsianCanadianStudiesprogram.pdf

Stephen Harper’s Conservatives to lead review of Canadian history / L’histoire sous la loupe conservatrice

http://o.canada.com/2013/05/02/stephen-harpers-conservatives-to-review-canadian-history/

 

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=6120246&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=41&Ses=1


Apr 30

How to archive for the future? Ensuring the Present benefits from a Relevant Past / Comment archiver pour demain? Assurer les avantages actuels d’un passé pertinent

Daniel J. Caron, Deputy Head and Librarian and Archivist of Canada / Administrateur général et Bibliothécaire et archiviste du Canada

and/et Eric Mechoulan,Université de Montréal

April 23 avril 2013
Berkman Center for Internet & Society

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/04/caron

Open letter: Thou shalt not commit sociology (or critical thinking of any kind)

http://www.straight.com/news/376826/open-letter-thou-shalt-not-commit-sociology-or-critical-thinking-any-kind

Apr 29

2013 CHA Prizes - Prix 2013 de la SHC

The CHA is pleased to inform its members of the shortlist for the 2013 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize.  The Macdonald Prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history, published in 2012, judged to have made the most significant contribution to the understanding of the Canadian past. The prize, sponsored by Manulife Financial in the amount of $5,000, will be awarded at the association’s annual general meeting at the University of Victoria on Tuesday, June 2, 2013. This year’s shortlisted books are :

La Société historique du Canada est heureuse d’annoncer à ces membres la liste courte des livres en lice pour le prix Sir John A. Macdonald 2013. Le prix est remis à l’ouvrage en histoire du Canada, publié en 2012, jugé comme apportant la contribution la plus significative à la compréhension du passé canadien. Le prix, parrainé par la Financière Manuvie au montant de 5 000 $, sera remis à la Réunion annuelle de la Société à l’Université de Victoria le mardi 2 juin 2013. Les livres en lice sont :

Michael Boudreau, City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
 
Bruce Curtis, Ruling By Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality – A Historical Sociology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.

Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey and Andrew Parnaby, Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
 
William C. Wicken, The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

The CHA is pleased to inform its members of the shortlist for the 2013 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize.  The Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, sponsored by the CHA in the amount of $1,000, is awarded annually to the best book in history other than Canadian. The winner will also be announced at the Annual Meeting in Fredericton. This year’s shorlisted books are (in alphabetical order):

La Société historique du Canada est heureuse d’annoncer à ces membres la liste courte des livres en lice pour le prix Wallace K. Ferguson 2013. Le prix Wallace K. Ferguson, parrainé par la la SHC au montant de 1 000 $ est attribué annuellement au meilleur livre en histoire autre que canadienne. Le lauréat sera annoncé au Congrès annuel de la SHC à Fredericton. Les livres en lice sont (par ordre alphabétique):


Stephen Brooke, Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Jeremy Brown, City versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.


Tomaz Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial : American Military Justice in Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.