Group of diverse people looking at the camera: 5 sitting down and 6 standing behind them. Text overlay reads: Scholars-in-Residence is Back! 28 in person projects. Topics include the politics of Islamic art and Muslim creativity in Toronto, childhood in the age of "Sharenting", medieval literary transmission, interrogating GenAI chatbots, how ChatGPT summarizes its sources, and the hidden histories in Scarborough’s landscape and so much more!! For four weeks in May, participants get: Free accommodation in on-campus housing Free dining plan $1,000 Jackman Scholar Award Deadline to apply is 11:59pm February 23, 2026.

👋Are you an upper-year undergrad in humanities and humanistic social sciences at #UofT? As part of SiR2026 you can:

◾Get a $1000 award
◾Contribute to original research
◾Develop skills
◾Build relationships with peers and professors

👉 Everything you need to know https://uoft.me/sir2026

IN PERSON: Inside Toronto’s Architectural Treasures | Programs and Events | Miles Nadal JCC Store MNjcc strives to be an inclusive, welcoming hub for a healthy community, anchored in Jewish values where all downtown Toronto feel they belong

Early June I'm giving 3 public talks examining history & stunning interiors of Toronto's former Eaton's College St Store, St Anne's Anglican Church (2024 fire destroyed), & Old City Hall. Deets & link to buy tickets (in-person, live Zoom, or get recordings): app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...

A hand holds a book outside at a distance from a large building with a tower and flag. The book appears above a sidewalk. The book title is Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America by Sarah E.K. Smith. The book cover shows twelve individual paper plates. On each, a state or province from North America is rendered in red, green, or blue.

New book! 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵: 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 by NACDI co-founder @smithsarah.bsky.social is now out with @ubcpress.bsky.social.

The book examines how visual art shaped North American relationships during the rise of free trade.

www.ubcpress.ca/trading-on-art

🌸 It’s our favourite time of the year! 🌸

We have over 70 Japanese cherry trees - also known as sakura trees - blooming on the grounds of Robarts Library for you to enjoy. With rain forecasted for tomorrow, today may be the best day to vist. 🌺

✨ Please remember to treat the trees with respect. 🙏🌳

Preserving the past, rethinking the future: A&S students reimagine Ontario’s historic buildings

Extra extra! 🗞️
Check out the article from @uoftartsci.bsky.social on my 4th-yr students!

Working with the Ontario Heritage Trust, students conducted original research & proposed new uses for Ontario's historic buildings 🍁👏

Read on below!

@uoft.bsky.social

www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/preserv...

Five women sit in a semi-circle in front of an audience. They are seated on stools with a backdrop of white walls punctuated by three large windows.

A scene from last night's "A Celebration of Women in the Art World" at Cowley Abbott, with panelists Lydia Abbott, Shelli Cassidy-McIntosh (Olga Korper Gallery), Kathryn Minard (Art Advisory), & Joyce Zemans (York University).
Went with some of my undergrad interns—a fabulous experience for all! ☺️

Students look closely at paintings on a table and on easels in a room with white walls, storage racks, and a low ceiling with fluorescent lights.

Visiting the @uoft.bsky.social Art Museum vault with students to examine & discuss historic Canadian paintings ✨🎨

Students stand in the storage facility of the City of Toronto Archives. Shelves stretch the full length of the photo and up to the ceiling, 40 ft in height, making the students look small.

Timeline cleanse c/o my class visit to @torontoarchives.bsky.social 🥰
Behind-the-scenes access to the vast resource centre.

Canadian Studies Network Prizes

*Best Undergrad Essay/Thesis

*Best MA (or Equivalent) Thesis or MRP

*Best PhD Dissertation

*Best Edited Collection

*Best Book

csn-rec.ca/prizes-award...

@wlupress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social

Calling all architectural history & heritage folks in Canada! 📣

Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...

Job - Assistant Professor in Rural North American History - University of Guelph The History Department at the University of Guelph invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in Rural North American History. The appointment will commence on J...

Job – Assistant Professor in Rural North American History – University of Guelph - @uguelphhist.bsky.social

Assessment of applications will begin on February 24, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.

niche-canada.org/2025/01/27/j...

#cdnhist #ruralhistory #envhist

C'est une séance bilingue ! Joignez-vous à nous :

Prochain congrès de la Société pour l'étude de l'architecture au Canada search.app/3PqiiQcTm9AM...

Calling all architectural history & heritage folks in Canada! 📣

Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...

Good pup 🙏

A stone sculpture of a turtle sits on a black podium in the centre of a reflecting pool. The curved towers of Toronto's City Hall frame the background in front of a blue sky.

Turtle sculpture & reflecting pool by Solomon King in the newly opened Spirit Garden, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto.

It faces north toward City Hall & a list of names of the 18 residential schools that operated across Ontario.

Poignant stop on a heritage walk w/ my @uoft.bsky.social students.

Looking forward! 😊

A poster for the Peter H. Brieger Memorial Lecture, which I'm delivering. The title is "Impressive Money: An Art History of Print before the Press," and it's taking place on January 21 at 5pn in the Jackman Humanities Building. The poster shows a gold coin next to a metal allow pilgrim badge in the shape of a gold coin, and next to it a baked clay impression of that pilgrim badge.

Will you be in Toronto on January 21? Do you like art? Do you like money? Then come to this public lecture I'll be giving at the University of Toronto!

arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...

A Future for Artists Learn about the future of art in Canada and share your thoughts by participating in our survey.

Calling all artists!

The Sobey Art Foundation is working with artists to explore new structures of support. A Future for Artists survey aims to gain a better understanding of the working conditions and needs of professional artists.

Take the survey today: www.afutureforartists.ca?fbclid=IwZXh...

Mapping Alaska Native Land and Language — Teaching Arctic Environments

I wrote an essay for the Teaching Arctic Environments project organized by @issygapp.bsky.social thanks for the opportunity to think with this map. Check it out if you want to read my attempt at critical cartography 🤓

www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone/ma...

Map of southwestern Ontario showing rail routes connecting multiple communities

Imagine … taking a train from Brantford to Goderich … or from Glencoe to Strathroy … or from Palmerston to Elora … or, well, to just about anywhere (our rail network in 1901).

Yes! Flagging this for the break 🧊

The path to Panarctic: The emergence of an extractive frontier in Arctic Canada, 1948–1958 The intensive efforts of the Geological Survey of Canada in the middle of the 20th century solidified the southern understanding of the Arctic archipelago as a potential extractive frontier. This m...

I didn't have much time for writing over the last five years, but one piece I did finish, just published in print (and Open Access), is this article with Leah Fusco on "the emergence of an extractive frontier in Arctic Canada, 1948-1958": doi.org/10.1111/cag....

Knew you'd know! 😊

any worthwhile books or articles about children and architecture in history, especially domestic architecture?

@designhist.bsky.social has been doing some work on Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's playgrounds & how kids fit into her overall design philosophy. Not exactly what you're asking but maybe still of interest. Keith, any texts to share?

Oh, terrific!

Gobbling up this thread! So sad I couldn't make it today but great to see some of the highlights 😁

Tonight

Just out! Special issue on queer and queering heritage (with a fantastic manifesto to boot)!
I have a little something in there, too, thinking about what it means to think about “queer” as an adjective or a verb in heritage practice australia.icomos.org/publications...

HTA Podcast: Sensing Architecture, Part 2 - Art and Architectural History How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? In Part 2 of my conversation with Alex Bulmer, we visit St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in downtown

Part 2 of my podcast with Alex Bulmer is now live!

How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? With your ears, your nose, your feet, your fingertips.
#Architecture
#Accessibility
#Blindness
carleton.ca/aah/2024/hta...?