The Montreal History Group
The Montreal History Group is a multi-university, bilingual research collective
composed of students, independent scholars and faculty whose research spans the
mid-18th to 20th century and generally focuses on Montreal or uses the city for
comparative purposes.
Recent News:
► Talk:
Donald Fyson will give a talk entitled "La Conquête et
les élites canadiennes: mythes et réalités" at the Chapelle du Musée de
l'Amérique française, 10 November at 5:30pm.
Information
► New Member: The Montreal History Group welcomes its newest member,
Brian Gettler. Brian is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of
history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research focuses on the
economic and social history of Aboriginal peoples in Québec and Ontario.
Brian
Gettler
► Conference:
Andrée Lévesque,
Bettina
Bradbury,
Sylvie Taschereau and
Denyse
Baillargeon will give papers at the
Mais qui sont les
Montréalaises? conference. This conference is part of the Women's
History Month and will take place on 24 October from 9:30am to 4pm at 1550
Metcalfe, 14th Floor, Montreal.
Information and
Programme.
► Visitor: Ciaran Toal, Ph.D. candidate (Queen’s University, Belfast) is a
visitor to the Montreal History Group from 12 to 24 October, to pursue research
about the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting of 1884,
which was held in Montreal. This research is part of a larger comparative
project with Cork entitled
Space and Spectacle: Science and Religion at
the British Association.
Ciaran Toal
► Talk:
Sean Mills, "Repenser les années 60 au Québec,"
CEFAN (Université Laval), 1
October.
► Book Launch:
Sean Mills et al, eds.
New
World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness
(Toronto: Between the Lines, 2009) will be launched Friday September 18th at
5:00pm at The Artel, 205 Sydenham St., Kingston, and Friday October 2nd at
5:00pm at Touski Café, 2361 rue Ontario Est, Montréal. For more information:
Between the Lines (416-535-9914).
► Conference: "Histoire et idées du patrimoine, de la régionalisation à la
mondialisation - 5e Rencontre internationale des jeunes chercheurs en
patrimoine" (Rimouski, 27-29 August 2009), organized by
Karine
Hébert and Julien Goyette. Info:
Karine Hébert
► Publication:
Denyse Baillargeon. "La médicalisation de la
maternité au Québec comme enjeu de pouvoir(1910-1970)." in
Pourvoir
médical et santé totalitaire : conséquences socio-anthropologiques et
éthiques, ed. Hachimi Sanni Yaya (Québec: Presses de l’université Laval,
2009): 177-203
► Publication:
Nicolas Kenny. "From Body and Home to Nation
and World: The Varying Scales of Transnational Urbanism in Montreal and
Brussels at the turn of the 20th century."
Urban History 36,2
(August 2009), 223-42.
► Publication:
Denyse Baillargeon.
Babies for the
Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970. (Trans.
W. Donald Wilson; Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009).
► Publication: Karen Dubinsky, Catherine Krull, Susan Lord,
Sean
Mills, and Scott Rutherford, eds.
New World Coming: The Sixties
and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (Toronto: Between the Lines,
2009).
► Grant:
Donald Fyson, Tamara Myers and
Mary Anne
Poutanen were awarded a
SSHRC standard research grant
(2009-2012) for their project entitled "Criminal Justice and Gendered Bodies in
Quebec City and Montreal, from the 1840s to the 1930s".
► Publication:
Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme,
eds.
Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal
Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).
► Publication:
Magda Fahrni. "Reflections on the Place of
Quebec in Historical Writing on Canada." in
Contesting Clio’s Craft: New
Directions and Debates in Canadian History. ed. Christopher Dummitt and
Michael Dawson (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2009):
1-20.
► Prize:
Sean Mills was awarded the 2009
John
Bullen Prize by the Canadian Historical Association and the
Eugene Forsey
Prize in Canadian and Working-Class History for his Ph.D. thesis,
"The Empire Within: Montreal, the Sixties, and the Forging of a Radical
Imagination, 1963-1972" (Queen's University, 2007).
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