Árnastofnun og Íslensku- og menningardeild Háskóla Íslands efna til málþings sem helgað er minningu Jenny Jochens (1928-2025).

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fascinating paper highlighting the contested status of the children of Roma ('gypsy') parents born in the US during the #birthrightcitizenship debates in 1866 - drawing in turn on historical discussions of the status of the children of 'Egyptians' born in Britain papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What’s happening in Nova Scotia? Mi’kmaq land protectors have held their ground for over a month. But a new law could change everything. APTN’s Angel Moore reports from Hunters Mountain and Veldon Coburn explains what’s at stake for Indigenous rights. Listen to the latest APTN News InFocus:

Most read in British Journal of Canadian Studies🍁 '‘The abiding condition was hunger’: assessing the long-term biological & health effects of malnutrition & hunger in Canada’s residential schools' by @ianmosby.bsky.social & Tracey Galloway @csnrec.bsky.social Read it #OA: bit.ly/BJCS-Galloway-Mosby

Save the Date: “Deep Mapping the ‘Uncharted Territories’ of Finnish Migrant-Settler History” @koneensaatio.fi Project Final Seminar Thursday, November 27, 2025, 13:00–16:00 Place: @infomigration.bsky.social & Online Program details and registration to follow. More info: www.samirasaramo.com

All are warmly invited to the Department of Historical Studies' 3rd Annual Queer History Month lecture. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr. Ronald Cummings, Professor of Caribbean Literature and Black Diaspora Studies in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University

We're one week away from our first #SpeakerSeries event! 🔗 Join us in-person or online: migration.ubc.ca/events/event... #MigrationResearch

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Roger believes there are many more ceramic pieces like these in antique shops or personal collections. We welcome anyone with similar pieces to contact us. Work like this is helping to fill in a huge blank spot in the history of Residential Schools. museum.novascotia.ca/blog/residen...

This piece has several flaws. First, the 1752 Treaty has been tested in court. It was the subject of the 1928 Sylliboy case (NS County Court) & 1985 Simon (SCC). William C Wicken wrote a book about this: The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory. None of this is mentioned in the article. #cdnmedia #cdnhist

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

***Upcoming Event: Birthright Citizenship - Future of the Past*** September 24, 2025 6:00 PM ET Zoom Join us for a discussion on birthright citizenship. The panel will focus on Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

OF COURSE the loudest critics of "cancel culture" are also the loudest advocates for government censorship! That was the WHOLE POINT - to characterize private criticism or intolerance as "censorship" in order to justify the government's crackdown on that speech

Talking about immigration is a cheap and divisive way to make “citizens” feel powerful at the expense of “migrants.” It is a core part of the legitimation strategies of all national sovereigns.

Since we first advertised these postdoctoral positions, the project looking at political violence in democracies has unfortunately become even timelier. Apply now to join this important project led by distinguished Professor @hannefjelde.bsky.social. Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

“We can starve the Arabs of Haifa and Jaffa [if we wish to do so]” David Ben Gurion, 1947. Important new article by Una McGahern in Journal of Genocide Research: The Practice of Siege Warfare: Reckoning with War, Genocide and Settler Colonialism in Palestine scholar.google.ca/scholar_url?...

Hell yeah

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

🆕 publication alert ✨ I’m delighted our paper on Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, with Luuk vd Baaren & Maria Gerdes is out now in Statelessness & Citizenship Review! 🔗 statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...

In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide? | Sindre Bangstad

Lockout @dalhousieu.bsky.social covered in the Globe and Mail. Seems like the whole country is watching the results of the Board's reckless decisions. #KeepDalStrong

From traders to magicians and allies, the Saami appear across medieval Nordic sagas. Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.

Delighted to see this piece in print: jach.law.wisc.edu/anti-mexican... Many thanks to the Journal of American Constitutional History for creating an online space for publishing legal historical work, esp. since making this piece accessible to scholars and advocates was my number one priority.

Seen at the Killam library at @dalhousieu.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong @dalfaculty.bsky.social

There it is: 9:30 a.m. August 20: Dal president Kim Brooks and her board just entered history as the first “leaders” of a U15 in Canada to lockout its faculty. They have no plan, no mandate, and not one clue. @dalfaculty.bsky.social does have a plan for them: get back to the table #KeepDalStrong

Has there been no scholarly obituary of Jenny Jochens?

Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.

***Save the Date*** The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is holding its next virtual mentorship event on Thursday, October 2 from 5:00PM to 6:15PM EST. The event is open to graduate students, early career historians, and independent scholars. Stay tuned for registration details!

"I am reminded of the death of a marriage. When there is an argument there is the hope for progress, because at least the parties are engaged with each other. When there is silence, when all sides have left the table, then you know the battle is lost." yassmin.substack.com/p/the-battle...

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

Marianne Hirsch is a brilliant critical theorist and inspiring colleague. A pillar of our critical community here at Columbia. apnews.com/article/colu...

In what may be a Canadian first, a human rights tribunal has affirmed the right of an immunocompromised person to seek workplace accommodations. Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces. pressprogress.ca/human-rights...

Canada has abandoned the path of reconciliation and nation-to-nation building in favour of a continuation of ruthless settler capitalism disguised as “elbows up” nationalism. This isn’t going to end well.

As the article points out, citizenship revocation has been a concerning global trend especially in the last decade or so. I've been disappointed that so few people ever spoke out against Shamima Begum being stripped of her UK citizenship, perhaps somehow arrogantly believing it did not affect them.

Coming Nov 2025, REVISITING HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADIAN HISTORY is a call to mobilize for social justice, critically examining topics like incarceration, women's rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and immigration. Available for pre-order: uofmpress.ca/books/r...

It's not new exactly (some of it known to those who've been doing research on slavery on this side of Canada - you know who you are 💛) but glad there is finally a thorough (and funded) research about this. archaeologymag.com/2025/07/forg...

One of the very many (failed) creative solutions to encourage and facilitate colonial settlement. "to get more Scots to settle in New Scotland at the time, the King offered for purchase the hereditary title Baronet of Nova Scotia, with the proceeds used to cover immigration costs for settlers."

I have literally only *just* realized that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the son of Mahmood Mamdani, whose 2020 book Neither Settler nor Native I just re-read a few months ago...

My mom Michele Landsberg wrote columns for decades - changing countless lives with her powerful prose and sparkling arguments. At 85, goddamn she still has it. Read this piece about her pop-up feminist protest against genocide. Mom, you’re my hero. archive.is/vc8me

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

Assistant Professor – Modern Canada. Deadline: June 15, 2025. #cdnhist #lakehead cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

"Treaties were signed between First Nations and the British Crown—a unique and special relationship held by no one else in this country. Even after Confederation, this is still the case—with the Honour of the Crown existing in perpetuity as the guidepost for non-Indig actions in the relationship."

Abraham Anghik Ruben's sculptures thematizing the Norse-Inuit contact are a must see for anyone curious about the Vinland sagas and the Circumpolar North in general.

colonial violence is compulsively framed as a spiritual crisis for the colonizer, rather than as a traumatic nightmare for the colonized.