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Whose History? A Public Forum on Harper's Review of Canadian History
Monday, June 3rd
8:00 pm
Legacy Gallery, 630 Yates Street at Broad and Yates.
Moderator: Dave Obee, Editor in Chief of the Victoria Times Colonist.
| Wayne Axford | Former President, B.C. Social Studies Teachers Association |
| Jim Clifford | Co-editor ActiveHistory.ca |
| Lyle Dick |
President of the Canadian Historical Association, |
| Greg Kealey | Retired Professor of History and former Provost and VP Research, UNB |
| Jocelyn Létourneau |
Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Political |
| Tina Loo | Canada Research Chair in Environmental History UBC |
| Michael Marker | Associate Professor of Educational Studies, UBC |
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association and the Department of History, UVic
Read more about Whose History? A Public Forum on Harper's Review of Canadian History.
UVic is hosting the annual CHA conference
Intersections and Edges/Intersections et limites
June 3, 2013 – June 5, 2013
The University of Victoria is proud to host the 2013 meeting of the Canadian Historical Association.
Extended Deadlines for Grad Applications
Thinking About Grad School in History?
Prospective Graduate Students for Sept. 2013:
We will continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis.
UVic's History Department is described by external reviewers as one of the best in the country and the university has consistently ranked in the top two Canadian comprehensive universities for the past six years (MacLean’s). UVic is the top-ranked Canadian university (without a medical school) in the Times Higher Education’s 2011 World University Rankings.
The department offers both a one-year course work and a two-year thesis MA option. The department includes 33 historians, with national and international reputations. We are particularly strong in a range of subjects in Canadian history and in early modern and modern Britain and Europe, and also have considerable strength in American, World and Asian history. The department also offers particular expertise in Indigenous, military, digital and public history. Among the course options available are three field schools (Ethnohistory with the Stó:lõ; the Holocaust Field School; The Colonial Legacies Field School: South Africa to the 21st Century); other options include Co-op (which alternates school and work terms) and a congruent Diploma in Cultural Heritage Studies for those interested in museum or heritage work.
For more information visit http://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/graduate/index.php or contact Dr. John Lutz, Graduate Director, jlutz@uvic.ca.
2014 South Africa Field School
Spend three weeks in South Africa and learn on-the-ground about impacts of colonial histories in everyday life and on rural and urban landscapes; sustainable rural development; apartheid and reconciliation; grassroots anti-poverty initiatives; community responses to HIV/AIDS; gender and development; land, labour and global economy; modes of historical memory.
Field school faculty: Dr. Elizabeth Vibert and doctoral candidate Megan Harvey, UVic History
3rd and 4th-year students from all disciplines are welcome to apply
Online Museum Offers View Into Chinatown
A new online resource offering visual insight into the lives of Chinese Canadians in Victoria and on the west coast launched April 4 at the University of Victoria Libraries. More than 50 people, including a dozen leaders of local Chinese organizations, attended the launch ceremony.
“Victoria’s Chinatown: Gateway to the Past and Present of Chinese Canadians” (http://chinatown.library.uvic.ca) provides visitors with access to hundreds of digital images illustrating Chinese experiences in Victoria and Pacific Canada. It includes historic photos and documents relating to Chinatown’s landscape changes, heritage buildings, community associations, numerous historic figures, the Chinatown Newsletter since 1993, and paintings of Chinatown by Victoria artist Robert Amos.
The digital collection is complemented with recorded interviews with a number of residents and contemporary community leaders.
“The website of Victoria’s Chinatown is a gateway to both Chinese Canadian experience and Canadian multiculturalism because it’s just our first step toward online preservation and presentation of diverse experiences of different Asian Canadian communities,” says UVic history professor Zhongping Chen, who spearheaded the effort with colleague John Price, also a history professor.
The digital resource is a joint project of UVic’s Asian Canadian Working Group and the UVic Libraries, in partnership with the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, and the Chinese Public School.
Funding for the project came from the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the B.C. Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development.
Upcoming Graduate Defences
The Final Oral Examination
For the Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(Faculty of Humanities--History)
Axel Schoeber
“Gérard Roussel: An Irenic Religious Change Agent”
April 16, 2013
9:00 am
University Centre, room A207a
The Final Oral Examination
For the Degree of
MASTER OF ARTS
(Faculty of Humanities--History)
Gordon Lyall
"The Pig and the Postwar Dream: The San Juan Island Dispute, 1853 - 1872, in History and Memory"
April 26, 2013
9:30 am
Clearihue B315
The Final Oral Examination
For the Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(Faculty of Humanities--History)
Lee Blanding
"Re-branding Canada: The Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1045 - 1974"
May 21, 2013
10:00 am
University Centre, room A207a
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