Proud to announce that UNB alum Noah Schwarz was awarded @acadiensis.bsky.social 2025 David Alexander Prize for best undergrad essay on the history of Atlantic Canada.
"Boss Narratives: Regeneration and Heritage in Marysville, NB," was written for HIST 3305, Deindustrialization in North America.
Mercedes Peters, wearing a jean jacket and long dress, speaks to a full room in the Alden R. Clark Theatre. Her presentation can be seen on the screen at the front of the room: "'She didn't leave anybody out': Rita Smith, Mi'kmaw Family, and the Coming Together of Glooscap First Nation."
We're extremely grateful to have hosted the brilliant Mi'kmaw historian Mercedes Peters last Friday. It was a full house at the NB Sports Hall of Fame, where - in a lovely coincidence - Mercedes' dad Jason Peters is honoured for his contributions to Indigenous sports!
This is tonight! We really hope you can make it!
Very exciting!!
A group of people seated at a table in front of posters featuring various members of New Brunswick's Black community. Left to right: (1) a person with a black sweater, and black hair tied up in a bun. (2) A person wearing a blue shirt, with long, silver hair. (3) A person wearing a hijab and a dark grey shirt. (4) A person with short black hair, wearing a black t-shirt. (5) A person with long, black hair, wearing a black sweater.
For the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, Professor @agentlazero.bsky.social participated on Saturday, March 21st on a panel titled "The Art of Belonging" at the UNB Arts Centre. This event was sponsored by the Human Rights and Equity Office.
Way to go, Dr. Tozer!
In today’s post Fred Burrill @fburrill.bsky.social explores the “housing crisis” and the role of capitalism within it.
This post is part of a forthcoming series exploring tenant activism and responses, stay tuned!
Historians in the news!
Our very own @willismonroe.com spoke to the BBC yesterday about the ancient Sumerians and the origins of the 60-minute hour.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
On the blog, Jay Lalonde, Tegan Rowlings, and Zachary A. Tingley cast a critical eye on the Nova Scotia Government's decision to cut funding to the history and heritage industries:
If you weren't able to make it out to last week's awesome talk by @mhenaway.bsky.social on the history of the BDS movement, you can read in-depth coverage from Lavoie at the @nbmediacoop.bsky.social and watch the presentation in its entirety here:
nbmediacoop.org/2026/03/19/a...
An event poster for the 24th UMaine-UNB History Graduate Student Conference, featuring an image of the red bricks at the front of Sir Leonard Tilley Hall, the logos of the University of Maine, UNB, the Department of Historical Studies, and sponsor info (UNB Arts, UNB, UNB School of Graduate Studies, and UNB's Atlantic Canada Studies Centre). Key Info: Conference title, "Resistance and Resilience: Challenging the Norm" March 28 & 29, 2026, UNB Tilley 205 Keynote: "Blurring the Lines: Comic Books and Political Ecology in the Post-Second World War Northeast Borderlands." By Dr. Marck McLaughlin
The UMaine-UNB History Graduate Student Conference is right around the corner! We're looking forward to learning from these awesome grad students.
Please note that this evening's roundtable discussion on academic BDS, which had been scheduled for 5PM in Tilley Hall, has been postponed due to weather.
Stay tuned for re-scheduling info!
@agentlazero.bsky.social spoke recently to the Brunswickan on the impact of proposed cuts to public education:
thebruns.ca/unb-professo...
Amazing news from a very important member of our department, @agentlazero.bsky.social.
Congratulations, Dr. Tozer!
"Debt of a Nation," the remarkable first book of our affiliate @agentlazero.bsky.social, has been nominated for the prestigious Wilson Book Prize. A fantastic accomplishment!
wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/news/2025-wi...
Excellent @nbmediacoop.bsky.social coverage of our recent event with Dr. Barbara Lorenzkowski, co-organized with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.
nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/23/o...
Our Advisory Board member @agentlazero.bsky.social reminds CBC NB that anti-colonial politics isn't just about reorganizing the deck chairs on the Titanic: it's the whole, continuing structure that has to be changed.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A poster featuring a photo of Mostafa Henaway, and the following info for the event where he is the featured speaker "The Emergence and Legacy of Palestine Solidarity: Revisiting Quebec's Histories of Anti-Imperialist Struggle in the Face of Ongoing Genocide" Tuesday, March 10, 5-7PM Tilley 102 9 Macaulay Lane This talk examines the trajectories of Palestine solidarity in Quebec and Canada within a broader international context. It traces key moments in the development of solidarity politics—from labour and left support for Palestine in Quebec during the 1970s, including the framing of Palestine within a wider anti-imperialist tradition, to the emergence of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the consolidation of an anti-apartheid analytical framework in 2004. It will examine how solidarity with Palestine has functioned—and must continue to function—as a central terrain for articulating a wider anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial politics. Mostafa Henaway is an organizer and writer, and active in Palestine Solidarity and anti-war movements since 2000. He is the author of Essential Work, Disposable Workers: Migration, Capitalism and Class (2023) and a PhD Candidate at Concordia University.
Mark your calendars: scholar and Palestine solidarity organizer @mhenaway.bsky.social will soon be coming to speak at UNB:
"The Emergence and Legacy of Palestine Solidarity: Revisiting Quebec’s Histories of Anti-Imperialist Struggle in the Face of Ongoing Genocide."
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
Don Wright explores climate change and climate denial as part of the Time of Monsters series, examining how historians approach current manifestations of right-wing populism.
This series is ongoing and asking for submissions. Check out all the posts and find more info on our website!
Tomorrow night! We hope to see you for our 10th annual Black History Month lecture, featuring Dr. Nicholas R. Jones.
Thanks to Matthew Sears for co-writing this piece with me for the @theglobeandmail.com: it was fun! Our focus is on the broader meaning of a quote from 5th c. BCE historian and general Thucydides' Melian Dialogue used by Mark Carney in his Davos speech. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Our colleage Matthew Sears on Thucydides and the relevance of classical texts for understanding Carney's Davos speech and our current moment:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Calling all undergrads! Consider submitting your work to the UNB History Society's journal, Timepieces.
It's a great way to get your work out there and to build your academic CV.
A poster featuring an image of Dr. Jones and his book, Cervantine Blackness, and giving the details of the talk and event. Thursday, February 5th, 5:30 PM at the Fredericton Public Library, in Chickadee Hall. Nicholas R. Jones is a Tenured professor at Yale University. His latest book is Cervantine Blackness. This lecture takes its audience on a journey that explores Miguel de Cervantes' portrayal of black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa, challenged entrenched paradigms and inviting a reevaluation of the complexities surrounding racialized blackness and black social life in Cervantes' literary corpus.
We're excited to share the details of our Department's upcoming 10th Annual Black History Month lecture.
Our featured speaker will be Dr. Nicholas R. Jones (Yale), lecturing on "Cervantine Blackness as an Ethics of Care."
A poster advertising an open call for auditions for a production of Euripides' Bacchae at UNB. Auditions will be held Monday, January 12, 8pm-10pm and Tuesday, January 13, 9:30am-12pm, in Carleton Hall, Room 217.
Welcome back!
Have you always wanted to take to the stage? Do you love dark classical tragedies? Let 2026 be the year!
Auditions are next week - everyone welcome, everyone cast!
Curious about the history of the region where you live, study, and work? Register now for HIST 4342: History of the Atlantic Provinces Since Confederation, taught by @fburrill.bsky.social, Director of UNB's @acsc-unb.bsky.social.
C4P for the 24th UMaine-UNB History Graduate Student Conference is now live. The theme is "Resilience and Resistance: Challenging the Norm."
Please circulate, and if you're a grad student, consider applying!
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
Congratulations to our awesome undergraduate student Sabina Leduc, who has won the Miramichi Historians' Prize in New Brunswick History for her work on the impacts of mill closure on Doaktown, Nackawic, and Juniper, NB.
Way to go, Sabina!