#CFP for "Symposium on Black Methods in Science, Technology, and Innovation Research in Canada and Beyond" closing today -- there's still time to submit!
Young nature lovers will love this Animal illustrated series ! It mixes fun-filled animal facts with intricately detailed illustrations about Arctic animals. Each volume contains first-hand accounts from authors who live in the Arctic, along with interesting facts on the behaviors and biology of each animal.
Immigration, trade, inequality, residential schools, war, fertility, Presidential elections & much more are analyzed in 21 economic history papers at this year's meeting of the Canadian Economic Association - May 24, 31 & June 1 at Toronto Metropolitan University
Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"
Alice Munro, the Canadian writer, has died at age 92. In 2013, she became the first Nobel winner cited exclusively for short fiction — an achievement that came after her retirement from her 60-year writing career. Prior to that, she had won Canada's Giller Prize twice, then disqualified herself in 2009 to make way for younger writers. Ms. Munro “brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels,” the jury of the Man Booker International Prize declared in 2009, awarding her the prize for her overall contribution to fiction. Here's a tribute to her from the Globe & Mail. [Story may be paywalled]
Some #BookHistory: French lawyer & author Marc Lescarbot (d.1641) (‘ML’) had a client involved in an expedition to Acadia, New France. He invited ML, who accepted. 1606 July: They reached Port Royal (now in #NovaScotia )… with ML’s #books in tow: the 1st known library* in what is now #Canada.
Depending on your definition of ‘library’, of course. Let’s say, ‘Lescarbot’s books are regarded as the first known collection of European-style codices in what is now Canada’. @bookhistodons
A YOUNG WOMAN ON THE THRESHOLD between student and adult, between her early childhood in China and her life in Canada, and even between English and Mandarin, is haunted by memory and her younger self as her mother drifts into illness. B PLUS
Are you in, the #UK, #Canada, or the #USA? I need some assistance from one reader in each of those countries, please.
What do you get out of this? A free book! An actual physical book! You can take your pick between the Starship Teapot books or the Vigilauntie Justice books.
What do I get out of this? To test my new website and fulfilment system!
Comment below or DM me and I'll send you instructions and a link.
Journalist: The last time I spoke with Brian Mulroney, I asked him about his legacy. He told me that was for historians to judge now. So how would you, a political scientist, judge his legacy?
I'm not an historian of Canadian federal politics in the 1980s and 1990s, but I know several other historians who are. They're not hard to find. Do you f'in homework CBC. @histodons
Les membres du Groupe d’histoire de Montréal sont heureux·ses de solliciter des candidatures pour le concours de stage postdoctoral 2024-2025. La bourse postdoctorale de 40000$ sera octroyée pour une période de neuf mois. Les candidat·es doivent soumettre leur dossier avant le 15 avril 2024 à 17h. Pour plus d’informations, nous vous invitons à consulter: https://ghm.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/STAGE-POSTDOCTORAL-GHM.pdf
Pay for graduate students and postdocs have been stagnant for DECADES in Canada.
"Budget 2024 is currently being finalized - let decision makers know graduate students and postdocs are important! Email, call, and tweet before March 8th for maximum impact."
Huge. The higher education story to watch - not just in Canada but internationally.
RE: tuition hikes for out-of-province Canadian and international students for the only three English universities in Quebec: 'We are undertaking...legal action because we believe that these measures are illegal and if upheld, will threaten McGill’s mission,' Deep Saini, President and VC @mcgillu