Josh Manitowabi to join panel on settler colonialism
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Spring course offerings available
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2026 Charles A. Sankey Lecture, March 22
Join us at our annual Dr. Charles A. Sankey Lecture in Masonic Studies, featuring Dr. Susan Mitchell Sommers, Professor of History Emerita, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA.
Reserve your tickets today: Tickets – Sankey Lecture Series in Masonic Studies
Learn more about the lecture series here.
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History Graduate Program Information Session
Join the Department of History and the Faculty of Graduate Studies on Thursday, January 22nd at 1:30PM, virtually via TEAMS for our Master of Arts in History Information Session.
You will meet with the Graduate Program Director, Dr. Jessica Clark and Graduate Studies Coordinator, Becky White-Cote who will discuss topics such as stream option, MA expectations, funding opportunities and more!
To RSVP, please visit: Graduate Info Sessions – Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs
Questions? E-mail [email protected]
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Call for Papers: Conference on Islam, politics, and slavery, July 2027
Conference
Enslaved Muslims and Muslim Enslavers: Islam, Politics and Slavery
6-7 July 2027
Organizers:
Stephan Conermann, Spokesperson and Principal Investigator, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn, Germany
Behnaz Mirzai, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Brock University, Canada
A two-day multidisciplinary conference titled “Enslaved Muslims and Muslim Enslavers: Islam, Politics and Slavery” will be held on July 6–7, 2027 at Brock University in collaboration with Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany. The conference will explore the impact of political Islam on the enslavement of various ethnic groups from the medieval to the modern period. Furthermore, it examines the enslavement of Muslims who were taken to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade.
The conference will bring together scholars to address topics related to slavery and Islam in the context of comparative studies. It aims to foster a deeper understanding of the political, social, religious and historical dimensions of the ‘Islamic factor’ within the slave trade with the aim of revealing its complexity. This conference offers an inter-disciplinary framework that transcends regional studies of slavery by including the Americas, Africa and the Middle East and beyond.
Proposals will be reviewed by the conference committee. Presented papers will be published in a special issue of an academic journal or edited volume.
Please submit a proposal (350 words) and a brief CV with relevant publications to Dr. Behnaz Mirzai: [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2026.
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Latin America and the Caribbean on the World Stage BA Honours Symposium- November 26
Join us to explore together Latin American and Caribbean contributions in the fields of science, technology, medicine, economics, spirituality, ritual, literature, and the arts to the world.
Come out and hear about student experience and talk research with researchers-in-training.
When: Wednesday, November 26 at 3:30 – 7:00pm
Where: GLN A 201
Organizer: Prof. Suescun Pozas
Presenters: Students in HIST 4P26All are welcome!
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OGS & SSHRC Information Session, Oct. 7
Join the Department of History and the Faculty of Graduate Studies on Tuesday, Oct. 7, to learn more about funding opportunities provided by OGS and SSHRC!
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Ali Macdonald joins Department as postdoctoral fellow
The History Department is delighted to welcome new Social Science and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow Alexandra (Ali) Macdonald. She comes to us from the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia), where she recently completed her Ph.D.
Dr. Macdonald’s research focuses on material culture in the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her scholarly interests, which draw on her background in both history and art history, include using period-specific methods and ingredients (such as original dyes and pigments) to recreate historical crafts. She has received various fellowships to support her work, including a recent postdoctoral fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Winterthur, Delaware) where she worked with conservationists to recreate indigo vats and analyse embroidery made in Connecticut in the eighteenth century.
During her two-year postdoc at Brock (January 2025 to December 2026), Dr. Macdonald will work with Dr. Jessica Clark on a project that draws on multiple research methods – the history of the senses, material culture studies, and the history of labour and the body – to examine the complex and often fraught history of indigo and other dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth century British world. The project is entitled “Imperial Sensorium: Bodies, Industrialization, and the Dye Industry, 1750-1850.”
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