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Rethinking water, the stuff of life, through art at Congress
Stuart Reid, director/curator, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University As hosts of Congress 2014, all of us at Brock have been busy preparing an engaging and thought-provoking “Congress Plus” program for both our out-of-town and local guests. As...
Adrien Arcand, Ernst Zundel and anti-Semitism
By Daniel Drolet A new book on Canadian journalist Adrien Arcand details his involvement in the rise of Holocaust deniers around the world. In fact, says author Hughes Théorêt, Arcand was a mentor to Ernst Zundel, a prominent German-Canadian...
Early 20th-century Montreal through the eyes of a Jewish immigrant
By Daniel Drolet For the first half of the 20th century, Yiddish was Montreal’s third language, after French and English. A new book by University of Ottawa professor Pierre Anctil explores the work of Jacob Isaac Segal, a Montreal poet from that era...
Première screening from the Lost Stories project
Ronald Rudin, Trudeau Foundation Fellow, Professor of History, Co-Director, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University Screening of Thomas Widd's Lost Story May 28, 2014 at 10:15 a.m. International Centre 120 Brock...
First World War shaped values of Canadian children: author
Susan Fisher says writing Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War had an unexpected personal benefit: It helped her understand the world in which her parents grew up. Fisher, whose book has won this year’s...
Ronald Wright reminds us that history can help us prevent the “Progress Trap”
Photo courtesy of wikimedia Ryan Saxby Hill Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences “Humans understand each other by watching behaviour through time” - Ronald Wright I was lucky enough to attend the International Conference on...
How do we talk about the Liberal Arts?
Ryan Saxby Hill Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Several hundred researchers, educators and students gathered at St. Thomas University from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1-2 to discuss the future of the liberal arts. For St. Thomas...