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Russian anti-gay legislation sparks critical thought--Sochi and beyond
Liz Smith Recent events in Russia are certainly at the forefront of a number of important geopolitical conversations. Things that might stand out include: the detaining of the 'Arctic 30' Greenpeace activists, granting temporary asylum to American...
Superstition on the battlefield: The culture of death among Canadian soldiers in WWI
Terry Soleas Tim Cook, a renowned Canadian Historian of the First World War, spoke today at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at Brock University. His lecture, “ The borders between life and death: Stories of the supernatural and...
A conversation through time: a case study of Anne Clifford
Samara Bissonnette In a twenty-first century university conference room, Dr. Leah Knight brought her audience back through time to the North in the English Renaissance. Her in-depth studies of one Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, were brought to...
Promises fulfilled
Looking at the legacy of thousands of black slaves who fled to Canada in the 1800s Laura Czekaj , Canada Foundation for Innovation Visit Innovation.ca for more stories about humanities and social science research supported by the Canada Foundation...
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...