Announcement: CHA Annual Meeting 2027 | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada The Canadian Historical Association is delighted to announce that its 2027 annual meeting will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anisininew, Ininiwak/Nehethowuk, Nakoda,...

We are thrilled to announce that the CHA’s next Annual Meeting will be held June 14-16, 2027, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

We hope to see you there!

#CHASHC2027 #Winnipeg #cdnhist #history

Library and Archives Canada will eliminate 152 employee positions and 9 executive positions. 70 indeterminate positions were eliminated in 2025 prior to the announcement of the most recent budget cuts.

Singing Heavy Songs How heavy music heals and unites Indigenous people on both sides of a border.

Across the Blackfoot Confederacy, heavy music has become a conduit for release and repair. Reid Blakley traces how community-led festivals in Canada and the US are transforming pain into connection, mentorship, and healing.

https://www.newfeeling.ca/singing-heavy-songs/

For those interested in photo history, attached is a CFP for a study day on the history photomechanical images in Italy.

Proposals are due by the May 22 to cristiana.sorrentino@unifi.it & francesca.strobino@labafirenze.com

The study day will be held at the University of Urbino on October 1st.

CUPE 4600 got language related to AI in their most recent contract - including the right to not submit their work as graders to LLMs.

Cover of Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts by Emily Doucet. A sepia colored old photograph of Paris from above showing a landscape of buildings and a fading horizon. Landmarks such as the “Arc de Triomphe” and “Les Ternes” are marked in a red script. The title is centered at the top in white. “Inventing’ is in a sans serif font and ‘Nadar’ is written larger in an italicized script. The subtitle is below in a white serif font with the author’s name directly below.

Today on our blog we look at all the great new books coming from DUP this month, including "Inventing Nadar" by @emilygdoucet.bsky.social. See them all: buff.ly/cb6xrFO

I really notice how race shapes the conversation / engagement, especially when the presenter isn’t an ‘authority’. It feels like some viewers invest themselves in ‘guiding’ a ‘musical journey’ in a deeply paternalistic way.

Booking is now open for From Marginalization to Visibility: 2SLGBTQ+ Archives and Public Memory. The queer and trans history and archives hybrid conference takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 15-17, 2026. Visit arquives.ca/fmv2026 for more information.

From Marginalization to Visibility: 2SLGBTQ+ Archives and Public Memory is a queer and trans history and archives hybrid conference takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 15-17, 2026. Presentations are in both English and French.

https://arquives.ca/fmv2026/

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.”

Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer Immigration Department decision, which openly said it used Generative AI, cites job duties of applicant that bear no relation to her actual tasks. Updated March 25, 2026 at 4:56 p.m. March 25, 2026

Because why bother to leave something as important as making an immigration decision for someone to human beings when you can ask an AI to summarise it wrongly for you? its not as if it would negatively impact people already privileged by their citizenship, race, class status, amirite.
Bravo, Canada

CFP: Critical Feminist Histories in Canada | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada This conference is hosted by the Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History and will take place at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, from October 2-4, 2026. The deadline to submit proposa...

Deadline: April 10, 2026. #cdnhist

Photography Ethics Symposium, Queens University Belfast, June 3-4 2026

Program and registration here;

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Shekon Neechie An Indigenous History Site

On the impact of federal government cuts to institutions linked to heritage research and preservation for Indigenous scholars and communities, please read the excellent Mary Jane Logan McCallum: shekonneechie.ca.

@nichecanada.bsky.social has just published my "5 minute read" about the reduction/closure of #ParksCanada library services. Take a look.

#envhist #cdnhist

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In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Artists Lay Bare The Dangers And Biases Of Artificial Intelligence “Imaging after Photography” can be seen at the Moody Center for the Arts on the campus of Rice University through May 9, 2026. Admission is free.

“This project is about this moment that we're in when we can't know if we're looking at an image, if it originated in three dimensional space or was synthetically created, and what is the effect of that on our relationship to information, to reality, to truth, to the world at large.”

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Canadian History

Department of History at Queen's University

Applications should be received by 1 May 2026.

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

ArQuives Job Alert Development Officer The Development Officer will drive fundraising initiatives and activities for The ArQuives, including implementing the annual giving campaign, cultivating and maintaining relationships with new and existing donors and supporters, and collaborating on future plans for a Capital Campaign aligned with our Strategic Plan. Full-time 37.5 hours per week $60,000/year + health benefits Apply by 29 March 2026.

Job posting for a Development Officer at @arquives.ca, one of the largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world.

Hours: 37.5h/week
Salary: $60 000/year + health benefits

Deadline: 29 March
Start date: 27 April

More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-...

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Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie - University of Agder David Bowie (1947-2016) is one of the most influential and visible artists in the history of popular culture. Ten years after his death, interest in his work is stronger than ever.

Upcoming conference: “Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie. Bowie is one of the most influential and visible artists in the history of popular culture. Ten years after his death, interest in his work is stronger than ever. Sept 29-30, 2026, Univ of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.”

Please share widely! Open to grad students working in any area of Cdn history (with a preference for projects about southern ON). The award includes $5K research funds, a residency at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, and the opportunity to give a public lecture.

Poster advertising the short film about Joy Parr’s scholarly impact, featuring the title The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology

I’ve made a short film about the impact and legacy of the phenomenal #CdnHist #histSTM #EnvHist historian, Joy Parr featuring new and established scholars. Check out The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life via this link! www.joyparr.com/tributes/

2026 David Neufeld Memorial Lecture: Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin 27 March 2026 - Virtual - The 2026 lecture will feature Drs. Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin speaking about the How I Survived podcast in partnership with the NWT Recreation and Parks Association.

ICYMI:

The 2026 David Neufeld Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social on March 27th.

Register to attend!

niche-canada.org/2026/02/19/2...

#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

Heritage, Graves, and the Afterlife of Colonial Infrastructure: The Case of the Rideau Canal The Canadian park-making process breathes new life into colonial infrastructure projects in an attempt to further legitimize Indigenous land dispossession.

"If we think of the canal as more than a military project ...as a piece of colonial infrastructure built by settlers on unceded & stolen Algonquin land, it becomes clear that this canal was also an especially effective settler colonial project." - @gabtm.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2021/06/15/h...

Hey it’s me, a racialized person born in Alberta to an immigrant parent, with trans and queer friends, saying that the UCP does not get to determine who belongs here. All of us, and the Albertans yet to come, deserve to be here. And we must stand with Indigenous people to honour treaty promises.

For many Canadians this may draw a 'meh,' so what, but archives, especially community archives, are a tangible link to collective memory and the past, in the past few years I've witnessed many reserves starting their own archives, photographs and stories, here the cuts will hurt, community...

Annual Meeting | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada The CHA hosts an annual meeting in May/June in coordination with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is held in a different Canadian city each year. Between 350-500 historians gat...

The CHA's annual meeting program is now online! We are so excited, and hope to see you in Charlottetown in June. Stay tuned - registration opens next week. #cdnhist

LAC was already limping along on life support for years and now this.

"It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?" Talk Talk's The Colour Of Spring at 40 | The Quietus Wyndham Wallace pinpoints the moment Talk Talk emerged from their synth pop chrysalis, on third album The Colour Of Spring.

40 years old. What an incredible album.

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Poster for a book talk by Tonya Davidson on wednesday february 18th 7 pm to 8.30 pm, 258A Elgin St, Ottawa Ontario

#ottawa Book talk, wednesday feb 18 @ 7 pm, Tonya K. Davidson 'Ottawology' - What is Canada's capital like for those that live there? Perfect Books 258A Elgin St

Spring 2026 #1 Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Donna West Brett University of Sydney, Australia ‘A Strange Tissue of Space and Time’: Modernist Photobooks & Propaganda Booking is …

PHRC’s Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures & Heritage | Join us this Thurs, 19 Feb 2026, 5:30pm (GMT/UTC) for a talk by Donna West Brett, who will look at the rise of the photobook and its cultural and political uses. Attendance free but registration required: shorturl.at/YvVTs. All welcome!