{"id":68822,"date":"2020-10-23T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=68822"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:22:46","slug":"brock-talks-to-focus-on-origins-of-acclaimed-student-history-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/10\/brock-talks-to-focus-on-origins-of-acclaimed-student-history-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Talks to focus on origins of acclaimed student History project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of how 10 Brock History students came together during the pandemic to build an <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/05\/history-course-gains-international-scholarly-attention-for-groundbreaking-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">internationally acclaimed digital project<\/a> is at the centre of the next Brock Talks event.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Oct. 29, Associate Professor of History Danny Samson will share how this student-led project on the history of 18th century Acadia came to be.<\/p>\n<p>Samson will discuss how to encourage students to create and share their own historical works with a public audience hungry for stories about the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/community\/brock-talks\/\">Brock Talks<\/a> is an ongoing collaboration between the Faculty of Humanities and the St. Catharines Public Library. The series features six talks from September to April.<\/p>\n<p>Samson\u2019s talk, \u201cMaking\/Teaching History in the Pandemic,\u201d will be held virtually on Zoom beginning at 7 p.m. It is free to attend, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/brock-talks-makingteaching-history-in-the-pandemic-tickets-124409888325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-registration is required<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of how 10 Brock History students came together during the pandemic to build an internationally acclaimed digital project is at the centre of the next Brock Talks event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,37],"tags":[605,7540,506,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68823,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68822\/revisions\/68823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}