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►Jeudis d'histoire: Christabelle Sethna (Université d 'Ottawa)

The Mounty Bounty: Archive Fever and the RCMP

February 16 (McGill University)
McGill University:
Ferrier Building
840, Dr. Penfield ave
room 230

poster.pdf

►Talk: Didier Nourrisson (IUFM/ Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France):

Histoire de la publicité: un aller-retour franco-américain.

Université de Montréal, February, 13
The conference will begin at 4:30 pm:
Lionel-Groulx Building
3150, Jean-Brillant
room C-2059

Presented by the Montreal History Group and the Chaire de Recherche du Canada sur le pluralisme en santé

Event poster.pdf

Past Events

► Jeudis d'histoire: Laurent Turcot (UQTR):Civilité et politeness: la construction sociale des comportements en ville (16e-18e)

Book: new release: Andrée LévesqueChroniques d'Eva Circé-Cote lumière sur la société québécoise 1900-1942. (Éditions du Remue-ménage)

► Book: new release : Sean Mills, Contester l'empire - Pensée postcoloniale et militantisme. (Les Éditions Hurtubise). French translation of The Empire Within Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal. (McGill-Queen's University Press)

► Book: new release: Bettina Bradbury, Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. (UBC Press)

► Prize: Andrée Lévesque was awarded the 2011 Clio Prize - Québec from the Canadian Historical Association for her book Éva Circé-Côté, libre-penseuse, 1871-1949, Montreal, Editions remue-ménage, 2010

► Prize: Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert was awarded the 2011 Hilda Neatby Prize - French Article from the Canadian Historical Association for her article « Québécoises et Ontariennes en voiture! L’expérience culturelle et spatiale de l’automobile au féminin (1910-1945) », Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, 63, 2-3 (automne 2009 – hiver 2010), p. 305-330.

► Prize: Sean Mills: received Honourable mention from the Canadian Historical Association ( Sir John A. Macdonald Prize) for his book The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties. Montreal, McGill-Queen's, 2010.

►May Day Conference: May 5-6, 2011
Empire, Gender and the Culture of Difference
Thomson House, McGill University, 3650, McTavish Street
Empire, Gender and the Culture of Difference
► Jeudis d'histoire: April, 7 (McGill University) Michel Ducharme (University of British Columbia) Être ou ne pas être libre: les débats entourant le concept de liberté au Canada (1776-1838).

► Talk: Magda Farhni et Sylvie Taschereau gave a talk: "Réflexions sur… les périodes troubles de la Grande Crise et de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale dans la région montréalaise", Grande Bibliothèque, February, 22, 7:30 p.m., auditorium de la Grande Bibliothèque.

► Conference: Sean Mills gave a keynote lecture entitled : "Canada, Québec, and Global Decolonization" Rethinking Post/Colonialism, at the 32nd Annual Conference of the GKS, Grainau, Germany, 26 February 2011.

► Jeudis d'histoire: March, 17 (Université de Montréal)
Mary-Ellen Kelm (Simon Fraser University):
Performance in a (Post) Colonial Space: Rodeo as 'Contact Zone', 'Third Space', or 'Middle Ground'

► Conference: Karine Hébert will give a paper entitled: «L'appropriation du patrimoine dans le Québec du XXe siècle. Un enjeu d'affirmation citoyenne» at the conference: Pour une histoire des groupes de pression dans le Québec du XIXe et XXe siècles, Université Laval, 10 and 11 March, 2011

► Round Table: Karine Hébert has participated to a round table «D'une génération à l'autre: jeunesse d'hier à aujourd'hui» at the 4e colloque étudiant en histoire de l’Université de Sherbrooke, D’une frontière à l’autre. Penser, définir et représenter la notion de frontière, Université de Sherbrooke, February 18, 2011

► Jeudis d'histoire: March, 17 (Université de Montréal)
Sonia Cancian (Concordia University/Université de Montréal):
"Families and Lovers Correspond in Postwar Italy and Canada: A New Reading of the Immigrant Letter."

► Conference: Sean Mills gave a paper entitled "City, Nation, and Empire: The Urban Texture of 1960s Montreal" as part of the City Talks distinguished speaker series, at the University of Victoria on February 17th, 2011.

► Jeudis d'histoire: February 3, 2011
Beatrice Craig (Université d'Ottawa):
Histoires de marchés. Du producteur à la consommatrice.

► Prize: Sean Mills was awarded the Quebec Writers Federation First Book Prize for his book entitled: The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties. Montreal, McGill-Queen's, 2010.

► Conference: Amélie Bourbeau gave a paper entitled "Religion et profession: les réseaux nord-américains de travailleurs sociaux catholiques montréalais, 1930-1970" at the 17th Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, held in Burlington on November 4-7, 2010.

► Prize: Mary Anne Poutanen and Rod MacLeod were awarded the 2010 Founders' Award by the Canadian History of Education Association, for their article entitled "Proper Objects of this Institution: Working Families, Children and the British and Canadian School in Nineteenth Century Montreal" (Historical Studies in Education 20:2 (Fall 2008)). The prize is awarded for the best article on the history of education in Canada.

► Prize: Karine Hébert was awarded the 2010 Founders' Award by the Canadian History of Education Association, for her book entitled Impatient d'être soi-même. Les étudiants montréalais, 1895-1960 (Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2008). The prize is awarded for the best book on the history of education in Canada.

► Conference: Brian Gettler, Magda Fahrni, Jarrett Rudy, Brian Young and Sonya Roy gave papers at the 63rd Congrès de l'Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française, held in Ottawa on October 21-23, 2010.

► Conference: Sean Mills will give the keynote address at the 'Just watch me!' 40th Anniversary of the October Crisis conference, to be held at Carleton University on October 15th, 2010. His address is entitled "Memory, Narrative, and October 1970."

► Conference: Amélie Bourbeau gave a paper entitled "Transmission enrayée? Les catholiques et la sécularisation de l'assistance privée, 1930-1970" at the 77th congrès de la Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique, held in Montreal on September 24-25, 2010.

► Prize: Amélie Boubeau was awarded the John Bullen prize attributed by the Canadian Historical Association. The prize honours an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian university.

► Prize: Brian Young was awarded the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies. This is the most prestigious award granted to a scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to scholarship and the development of Canadian Studies internationally.

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