Graduate Student Committee

 Who We Are:

 Welcome!

THEN/HiER’s Anglophone Graduate Student Committee was created to connect graduate students in English-speaking Canada who are interested in issues related to the teaching and learning of history and history education. This focus on history education can be broadly defined to include modes and sites of memory, remembrance, heritage, and schooling both in formal settings and informal sites of learning. Click here for Le comité des étudiants francophones des cycles supérieurs.

Become a member to receive THEN/HiER’s monthly newsletter, to contribute comments to our blog, and post news, events, videos, and  podcasts on the site. Visit this page monthly for new opportunities to participate in projects initiated by the Graduate Student Committee.

 

New Opportunities:

 

• Interested in reading New Possibilities for the Past and having a conversation about it? THEN/HiER is hosting a blog “event” where three graduate students will have an opportunity to read the new edited collection New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping history education in Canada edited by Penney Clark and published by UBC Press (2011) and have an e-conversation about the collection’s strengths, weaknesses, and ways to bring the ideas forward. One student will also interview an author in (or editor of) the collection as his or her weekly contribution. Deadline to apply March 5th. Click here or email Samantha Cutrara for more details
• Graduate Student Resources! Resources for Teaching Assistants, Call for papers, Links for jobs and fellowships.
  
• We are looking to expand! In particular we are looking for representatives in, or from, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and Yukon. Email Rose Fine-Meyer or Samantha Cutrara for details.
  

  

 

Ongoing Opportunities:

 

• Teaching the Past Blog
• Enseigner l'histoire Blog
• Graduate Student Projects Program
• Visiting Doctoral Student Program

 

 

News & Links of Interest:

 

• Alberta: The exhibit, "Prairie Life: Settlement and the Last Best West, 1930-1955" at the Art Gallery of Alberta, in Edmonton, explores representations of the Canadian Prairies at the beginning of the oil boom is on until Janurary 29th
• British Columbia: Based on her PhD thesis and on-the-ground experience in Palestine and Israel, Sedi Minachi explores the narratives of peace educators who use dialogue to create a culture of peace within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in "Peace Education in Israel and Palestine" on Janurary 23rd at the Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Vancouver Central Library
  
• Manitoba: Proposals for the Keewatin Country Graduate Student History Conference 2012 is due January 31. Keewatin Country Graduate Student History Conference 2012.
• New Brunswick:  Dr. Ottilia Chareka Memorial Lecture in Education and Social Justice:
  "I'm Stuck! 'Social Justice' and other Labels that Shape our World" - This inaugural lecture in Education and Social Justice will explore the concept of labels and argue that we need to move from labelling to acting if `social justice` is going to have any meaning and relevance at all.

  

  Presented by Dr. Carla L. Peck from the University of Alberta. Thursday January 26th, 2012 at 7:00 pm Marshall d'Avray Hall, room 261, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
  

• Newfoundland and Labrador: Book Launch for "Sonny's Dream: Newfoundland Folklore and Popular Culture" Is on Janurary 25th (7pm to 9pm) in Bitters at Memorial University. Sponsored by the Department of Folklore.
  
• Nova Scotia: 3rd Annual Dalhousie Undergraduate Arts and Social Sciences Conference takes place on February 10th-11th http://dalarts.ca/conferences
• Nunavut: The Nunavut Teachers' Association is gearing up for the second Nunavut-wide Teachers Conference - February 13-17, 2012 in Iqaluit.
  
• Ontario: HerstoriesCafe partnership with Heritage Toronto present Adrienne Shadd: "Searching for Heroines: Black Women and Community in 19th Century Hamilton-Wentworth" at the St. Lawrence Hall January 31st at 5:45 pm.
  
• Quebec: The Dept.of History at Concordia University's Department Colloquium Series presents on Friday, January 20, 2012 (12:00-14:00): "Doing Transnational History: Early Women's Movements and the Life of Enestine Rose" by Dr. Bonnie Anderson. Held in Rudé Seminar Room (LB-1014).
• Prince Edward Island: The new curriculum materials for Grade 3 Social Studies have arrived in the Education Learning Commons at the University of Prince Edward Island
• Saskatchewan: January 16 (Mon) - Richard Gwyn, Author and Political Columnist, "The Great Canadian Tragedy: John A. vs Louis Riel," 4:30 pm, Convocation Hall at the University of saskatchewan
• Yukon: Whitehorse Historical Audio Walking Tours

 Contact Samantha to post an event for your province.

 

Anglophone Committee Members:

 

• Rose Fine-Meyer, OISE/University of Toronto, Co-Chair
• Samantha Cutrara, York University, Co-Chair
• Laurence Abbott, University of Alberta
• Mary Chaktsiris, Queen's University
• Lindsay Gibson, University of British Columbia
• Caitlin Johnson, Saint Mary's University
  
• Heather McGregor, University of British Columbia
• Cynthia Wallace-Casey, University of New Brunswick