We've published a new piece in 'Global Environment', in which Valerio Caruso interviews Steven High on 'Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg.... #envhist #deindustrialisation
Thanks to Valerio Caruso for inviting me to speak and publishing it and the interview that followed on "Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies" in the journal Global Environment (open access)
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Congratulations to Dr. Karin Savard who defended her highly original PhD thesis this morning on « Les Images du travail et le travail des image a fil du temps : Tissage autour des archives des usines textiles Chardonnet et Rhodiacéta de Besançon. » at UQAM. Enjoyed serving as external examiner!
Fantastic round-table today showcasing the research of the 3 postdoctoral fellows currently based at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Camille Robert, Martín Giraldo-Hoyos, and Florence Darveau Routhier do fantastic work!
This is a unique case as the Liberal candidate was, until this by-election, the very popular Ontario NDP deputy leader. She brought her voters with her to the Liberals.
Thanks Larry - great to start the day with some laughter! Well said.
"Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries."
Huge thanks to Florence Darveau-Routhier and Sherbrooke's Collectif d'histoire, d'éducation et d'archivage populaire (CHEAP) for hosting the fantastic workshop this week on spatial struggles in urban history. Very inspiring research underway!
Three sensational researchers - not to be missed for those in Montreal!
Yet another Canadian history job posting - it has been the best year for such postings in a long, long time. This one from my alma mater of Lakehead University in my hometown.
universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
"The president’s raise alone would have been the rough equivalent of a 1.5 per cent raise for all of our contract faculty this year,” Robin Gendron, NUFA President
Read more: www.nugget.ca/news/nipissi...
Big congratulations to Isadora de Burgh Galwey for successfully defending her outstanding MA thesis this morning on "Domesticating the Betsiamites River: Modern Domesticity and Hydraulic Frontiers" !
My view on the election of Avi Lewis as leader of Canada's social-democratic NDP has also been published in Canadian Dimension (a magazine that I first subscribed to as a high school student in Thunder Bay):
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
I watched NDP leader Avi Lewis's victory speech - what a breathe of fresh air. Bold and unapologetic. Surely the most left-wing speech by a federal NDP leader in my lifetime. It is a vision I can get behind, which surprised me -as I am no fan of family dynasties. It is the rupture the party needed.
Julie Norman, a former director of COHDS, is launching her important new book “Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare” (published by polity press, with Maia Carter Hallward) at Concordia on April 10th from 1pm to 3pm in LB 1019 (Sunroom). Highly recommended!
storytelling.concordia.ca/event/montre...
I should have taken more sociology courses at university. Here I thought it was a rather dry discipline. Academic freedom is often thought of in purely individualized terms -- entire disciplines are now being ideologically targeted. Worth reading.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
🎨 ARTISTS in RESIDENCY.
We are pleased to welcome Nina Vroemen and Hervé Demers to the DePOT project, whose work will be featured at this year’s DePOT conference in Montréal, Canada.
Welcome and congratulations!
Read their biography and project description:
NEW BLOG! Read Nina Vodopivec's latest blog, examining how the experiences of Slovenian industrial (textile) workers were systematically silenced during the post-socialist transition, with their demands dismissed as “nostalgia” while deindustrialization was portrayed as inevitable.
Yes, I can - and about such Canadianisms as 'chesterfield' and phonetic masterpieces such as "Canadian raising" too. Vive la différence!
New DEPOT project blog on "Why Deindustrialization Still Matters? Silencing Industrial Workers in Postsocialist Contexts" from Nina Vodopivec. She speaks to the dangers of framing working-class displacement as loss rather than structural violence.
deindustrialization.org/why-deindust...
Sending my best.
Friday's Emerging Scholars conference at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling was an antidote to our times. It was beautiful and poignant - a warm embrace in difficult times. But it wasn't escapism at all, but about finding hope & strength together. Bravo to the student organizers!
Happy to announce the publication of The Politics of Industrial Closure: Transnational and Comparative Histories, which is a collective outcome of @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Huge thanks to Stefan Berger and all 26 contributors. It was a beautiful process of collaborative research and writing.
An important new study on the health impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Highly relevant to deindustrialization studies.
www.nber.org/papers/w34855
Frédéric Barriault is yet another person who has died far too young. Such sad news. I saw him present at the labour history conf. last fall --as usual, he was full of love, enthusiasm and tremendous insight. His PhD project on worker priests had the makings of a classic. Please read this if you can.
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...
