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22 Apr 2025
Our updates have migrated—like any good historian, we go where the sources (and students) are!
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2 May 2025
News! Prof. Kristen Bos is playing a leading role in a groundbreaking, Indigenous-led project awarded $22 million by the New Frontiers in Research Fund. Read more: utm.utoronto.ca/historical-s... #historicalstudies #IndigenousKnowledge #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousResearch
8 Apr 2025
#UofT’s Technoscience Research Unit announces $22M grant from New Frontiers in Research Fund for Indigenous and community-based approaches to pollution risk with partners across Canada and Aotearoa.
Read more: bit.ly/43Fwmrm
ALT Left to Right: M. Murphy and Kristen Bos.
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2 May 2025
Led by the Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) and partners across Canada and Aotearoa (New Zealand), the project uses Indigenous knowledge systems and environmental justice in creating sustainable, community-based approaches to chemical risk. technoscienceresearchunit.or…
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27 Feb 2025
Don't miss this important Panel Discussion: Far-Right Christianity in the Americas
March 7, 2025 | 1:00–3:00 PM | MN5128
Speakers:
🔹 Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
🔹 Benjamin A. Cowan
🔹 Matthew Philipp Whelan
📍 Attend in person or join us on Zoom: uoft.me/FarRight
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6 Mar 2025
Update: Unfortunately due to illness this event is CANCELLED. We hope to reschedule soon. Thank you for understanding.
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📣 Attention #UTMstudents!
Are you interested in getting involved in practical, cutting-edge research with UTM’s faculty? ROP applications are now OPEN for the 2025-26 academic year!
Apply for an ROP course at: uoft.me/ROPstudents
#utmexperience #experiencematters #rop
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📢Applications Now Open! HIS498Y5 is an academic internship course for eligible History specialists, majors, and minors who can apply these skills in work settings such as museums, archives, and historical societies.
Apply at: uoft.me/internship-history-h…
#utmexperience #utm
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20 Nov 2024
Looking for updates from Historical Studies? You'll find our department over here: linkedin.com/company/histori…
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UTM Historical Studies retweeted
4 Nov 2024
🎭 NOV 8 | 1-4PM Margaret Edson’s play W;t is at the centre of this discussion on medicine & theatre, which will focus on the interface of science & humanities — and the role performance-based approaches could play in the future of medicine.
Register at bit.ly/TS11-08.
ALT Poster image: Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632.
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UTM Historical Studies retweeted
28 Oct 2024
Taxes de vente: une exemption inégale entre Autochtones
#UTM @Hist_Studies prof Brian Gettler comments on strained relations between the Mohawks and the Quebec government in the 1990s. Read via @RadioCanadaInfo 🎙️ bit.ly/4eT4mn1
[Article is in French]
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UTM Historical Studies retweeted
18 Oct 2024
“Mairi Cowan examines beliefs about #witchcraft, #demonology, and the influence of the Church, illustrating the colony's precarious social dynamics during that time.” Listen to a NEW episode of the @ChamplainSoc #podcast @ bit.ly/WTYo1124 @McGillQueensUP @Hist_Studies
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17 Oct 2024
You are invited to the inaugural talk in our newest History & Religion lecture series titled Past Sense!
Title: Cowboy Apocalypse: 13 Ways of Looking at a Gun
Speaker: Rachel Wagner
Date and time: Thursday, October 24, 4:00 pm
Please register shorturl.at/PQPye
ALT You are invited to the inaugural talk in our newest History & Religion lecture series titled Past Sense! Title: Cowboy Apocalypse: 13 Ways of Looking at a Gun Speaker: Rachel Wagner Date and time: Thursday, October 24, 4:00 pm Location: CDRS (MN3230) Please register on Eventbrite
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16 Oct 2024
TODAY!!
HSS Professor Meet and Greet! Oct 16, 11am–1pm MN4207
Want a chance to get to know some of your professors? HSS is hosting a professor-student meet and greet TODAY! Have some free lunch and great chats! 🙂 We hope to see you there!
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2 Oct 2024
New book to be released in Jan '25!
"Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness" by Jordache A. Ellapen, Assistant Prof of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies in Historical Studies
Order online: dukeupress.edu/indenture-aes…
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1 Oct 2024
Yesterday, many faculty & staff in the Historical Studies Dept wore orange shirts in observance of #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation. We are committed to listening, learning & fostering greater respect for #Indigenousperspectives in all our spaces. #orangeshirtday2024
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30 Sep 2024
🎭OCT 4 | 1-4PM Prof Monika Havelka (@UTM_GGE) joins this seminar which focuses on dystopian courtroom drama, "The Trials." They'll also host the directors and cast of the #UofT production that took place at @HHTheatre this past March!
Register at bit.ly/TS10-04.
ALT Poster image: Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632.
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UTM Historical Studies retweeted
25 Sep 2024
🎬📸 'Foto robada' es un documental que relata la masacre de las bananeras, un crimen cometido por el Ejército Nacional de Colombia en 1928, cuando abrió fuego contra cientos de trabajadores bananeros de la compañía United Fruit.
🗓 29 de septiembre
🕘 9:00 p.m.
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30 Sep 2024
We're proud of @coleman_kevin_p for co-producing "Stolen Photo," a new documentary with @SenalColombia that premiered this weekend! It recounts the 1928 banana massacre when the Colombian National Army fired on hundreds of United Fruit Company banana workers.
30 Sep 2024
I'm a klutz on social media....! I accidentally deleted my Tweet announcing #StolenPhoto.
My apologies @underlineinc @GemaKloppe @rachelbnolan @BrittoHistory @renaticas @lucho_van @yo_herran
Grateful if you could, reshare.
Trailer
youtube.com/watch?v=hvs0_sVf…
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UTM Historical Studies retweeted
25 Sep 2024
💫 We're delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023-24 Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award!
Prof. @ElspethHBrown (Historical Studies) and Prof. @sarahrsharma (ICCIT) were both selected to recognize the breadth, impact and excellence of their research. Congratulations!
ALT Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award: Recipients Elspeth Brown and Sarah Sharma
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20 Sep 2024
Congrats to Dr. Elspeth Brown (@ElspethHBrown) on receiving the prestigious Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award celebrating her achievements in research & scholarly work. We are proud! More: bit.ly/47yifE6
#research #researchawards #researchexcellence #impact
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