https://depot.erudit.org//id/004417dd Search the Channel search https://depot.erudit.org//simple-search https://depot.erudit.org//id/004450dd Title: 2018 CHA Prizes / Prix 2018 de la SHC <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2019-12-12 <br/> <br/>Abstract: The CHA is pleased to inform its members of the 2018 shortlists for its Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to the understanding of the Canadian past, the prize is sponsored by Manulife Financial in the amount of $5,000; and the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which recognizes the outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history. There prizes will be announced at the CHA Annual Meeting at the University of Regina on Tuesday, May 29. This year’s shortlisted books are (in alphabetical order by author): Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:22:06 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004449dd Title: Historians in the News / Les historiens font les manchettes <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2019-12-12 <br/> <br/>Abstract: “Historians in the News” acknowledges some of the many successes of historians in Canada, including their engagement outside academia and with the public. If you know of someone who has obtained employment in or outside of the academy, delivered a public lecture, given an interview, written an editorial or a notable blog entry, won a non-academic prize or a teaching award, or has been awarded an honorary degree, let us know! Here are a few developments that members have told us about over the past months: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:19:49 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004448dd Title: Obituaries / Nécrologie <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2019-12-12 <br/> <br/>Abstract: The Brock community lost an important figure this week with the death of John Sainsbury, retired Professor Emeritus in the Department of History. Sainsbury, who died Tuesday, Nov. 14, was 71. Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:12:48 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004447dd Title: La crise historique polonaise <br/> <br/>Authors: Asselin, Marie-Dominique <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2019-12-12 <br/> <br/>Abstract: En décembre 2015, deux mois après l’élection du gouvernement polonais Droit et Justice (PiS) se dernier enfreignait la constitution par rapport à la nomination des juges de la Cour constitutionnelle, tribunal responsable d’examiner les recours contre les lois votées par le parlement. En d’autres mots, cette cour doit s’assurer que les lois passées par le gouvernement ne vont pas à l’encontre de la constitution et des droits de la personne. Cette série de nominations frauduleuses mit ainsi, de façon définitive, la hanche dans le système démocratique polonais et fut rapidement suivie de la création de politiques historiques pour mettre un frein à la recherche et l’enseignement de l’histoire de la Pologne durant l’occupation allemande. Depuis, Le PiS a pris possession des institutions publiques et des médias afin d’avoir un contrôle total sur la diffusion d’informations historiques. Rappelons que le gouvernement congédia et remplaça par des historiens conservateurs et affiliés au PiS les directeurs de l’Institut de la Mémoire nationale (IPN), Dr Krzysztof Persak, à l’été 2016 et celui du musée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à Gdansk, Dr Pawel Machciewicz en mars 20171. Dans les deux cas, le PiS justifia ces congédiements en expliquant que les historiens ne respectaient pas la vision du passé du parti au pouvoir. Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:09:00 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004446dd Title: At the Intersection of Syria and Canada <br/> <br/>Authors: Wright, Donald <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2019-12-12 <br/> <br/>Abstract: It was my daughter’s idea. She had seen the heartbreaking images of Alan Kurdi, the little boy who had drowned trying to escape the war in Syria, his lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach. Dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, he was still wearing his sneakers.A few weeks later Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February 2016, a number that has since grown to 40,000. When the local CBC reported that several hundred refugees would be coming to Fredericton in less than a month and that the Multicultural Association was desperate for volunteers, we also learned that we were not social workers or care providers, as First Fredericton Friends we were to be just that: friends. Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:06:47 GMT