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westernhistorygradconference – New Approaches: History in the 21st Century
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Call For Papers Extended! New Approaches: History in the 21st Century. The Fifth Annual Western History Conference. April 6, 2016. Thank-you to the various participants in the planning stages of this conference, including those of you who submitted abstracts, offered to lead workshops, volunteered labour and time, fundraised, and registered. At this time, New Approaches: History in the 21st Century is indefinitely postponed. The Conference Planning Committee. March 30, 2016. Registration is for all confe...
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Contributors | Teaching the Past
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Jennifer Bonnell is a Board Member and Program Coordinator with The History Education Network / Histoire et Éducation en Réseau ( THEN/HiER. Jennifer has published articles in. Journal of Canadian Studies. Aspects of her research on the Don River have appeared in the recent collection,. HtO: Water in the Toronto Landscape Toronto’s Waterfront. Coach House Books, 2008), and in. Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront. Laura Fraser is a Program Coordinator at The Historica-Dominion Institute. Canada’s largest not-f...
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Remembering Oka – ActiveHistory.ca
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July 5, 2010. July 9, 2010. Http:/ podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/cestlavie 20100613 33793.mp3. Podcast: Play in new window. July 11 2010 marks the 20. Anniversary of the Oka Crisis. The Quebec crisis pitted the Mohawk community of Kanesatake against the Francophone community of Oka over the expansion of a municipal golf course onto Mohawk burial grounds. Riot police stormed the occupation, resulting in the death of police officer Marcel Lemay. In addition to Lemay’s story, the documentary also emphasizes the import...
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UPDATES! Internal and external speaker + confirmed workshops! – New Approaches: History in the 21st Century
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Call For Papers Extended! New Approaches: History in the 21st Century. The Fifth Annual Western History Conference. Internal and external speaker confirmed workshops! February 23, 2016. March 15, 2016. We have confirmed Ian Milligan. Assistant professor in digital and Canadian history at Waterloo University, as our external keynote speaker. We have also confirmed Laurel Shire. Assistant professor in nineteenth century US history, as our internal keynote speaker. The following workshops are also confirmed:.
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500 Years of Building Communities and Changing Environments | Black Creek Community Walk
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Black Creek Community Walk. 500 Years of Building Communities and Changing Environments. Humans and the environment have been interacting for at least 500 years along the banks of the Black Creek. Back then there was a rather large aboriginal village, now called the Parsons Site. In the neighbourhood. This was one of many aboriginal villages in North Toronto before Europeans arrived. Until the early nineteenth century, when Europeans and Americans began to migrate into this area, both Algonquian. Althoug...
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Historical Particularism, Achieved Status and the End of Days | Great Lakes Ethnohistorian
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Teaching and researching anthropology in the Great Lakes State. Bad ‘anthropological’ movie reviews. Geertz on cultural anthropology →. Historical Particularism, Achieved Status and the End of Days. December 20, 2012. Any archaeologist worth their salt will tell you ‘No’, but I wanted my students to understand the evidence for themselves, and learn how to distinguish science from pseudoscience. The Mayan Calendar System. Indeed, the bulk of new age mythology that has developed around December 21. 2012 is...
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The World until Yesterday vs The Foraging Spectrum | Great Lakes Ethnohistorian
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Teaching and researching anthropology in the Great Lakes State. Geertz on cultural anthropology. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck? The World until Yesterday vs The Foraging Spectrum. January 31, 2013. In all of the discussion. Lately about Jared Diamond’s new book,. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies. I haven’t heard anyone bring up the book that keeps coming to. Mind, so I figured I should write a blog post about it. Last night I pulled out my copy of. Kelly the...