Hey it’s me, a racialized person born in Alberta to an immigrant parent, with trans and queer friends, saying that the UCP does not get to determine who belongs here. All of us, and the Albertans yet to come, deserve to be here. And we must stand with Indigenous people to honour treaty promises.

For many Canadians this may draw a 'meh,' so what, but archives, especially community archives, are a tangible link to collective memory and the past, in the past few years I've witnessed many reserves starting their own archives, photographs and stories, here the cuts will hurt, community...

The CHA's annual meeting program is now online! We are so excited, and hope to see you in Charlottetown in June. Stay tuned - registration opens next week. #cdnhist

LAC was already limping along on life support for years and now this.

40 years old. What an incredible album. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

#ottawa Book talk, wednesday feb 18 @ 7 pm, Tonya K. Davidson 'Ottawology' - What is Canada's capital like for those that live there? Perfect Books 258A Elgin St

PHRC’s Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures & Heritage | Join us this Thurs, 19 Feb 2026, 5:30pm (GMT/UTC) for a talk by Donna West Brett, who will look at the rise of the photobook and its cultural and political uses. Attendance free but registration required: shorturl.at/YvVTs. All welcome!

CFP: "Critical Feminist Histories in Canada/Approches critiques en histoire féministe au Canada" conference at Queen's University, 2-4 October 2026. Please share widely! @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

We're pleased to welcome Dorothy Wright-Wallace, a respected historian and community leader in Chatham-Kent known for her decades of work preserving local Black history, as the inaugural Visiting Elder in the Black Canadian Studies program at the University of Guelph! Learn more: uoguel.ph/aaqq0

Out today: "A Grammar of Modern Exploration," a short piece in the latest issue of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. I share how I developed new language in my book to highlight modern exploration's epistemic and colonial activities. Gift link: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Our NiCHE Conversation with Patricia Roussel is now on YouTube! Roussel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the centrality and evolution of Dawson City, Yukon’s heritage industry and how collaborative heritage is being employed there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0b... #envhist #cdnhist

yes to all this

I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.

The Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) has issued a Call to Action in response to the discontinuation of the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP). Please read here: archivists.ca/Latest-News-...

For those in and around Ottawa, tomorrow!

Asked a friend who is a top ag researcher if these historic research stations still have value: he says the ROI at these sites is estimated at 35:1 and they’re highly responsive to farmer needs. This seems like a mistake www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/n...

Leaked consultant's report at Queen's University points to a push to massively downsize the humanities and social sciences as well as the eradication of disciplinary based departments. I wouldn't be surprised if my university has the same consultants. www.queensjournal.ca/leaked-consu...

Currently peer reviewing an article that uses the term 'archive(s)' in the title, the key words, several times in the abstract, and c.50 times in the main text, yet fails to cite a single recognised archivist, archival theorist, or archives journal. This keeps happening. #archives

Elbows up but kneecapping the heritage sector

TOLD YA. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Why I wrote this. techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-e...

Registration is open for the 2026 Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world. womenofphoto.com

My editor copy is finally here from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social ! I'm so happy to see it irl, & I'm so proud of everyone's hard work! 🎉 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

Very much looking forward to hosting João Florêncio in a few weeks here @carleton.ca. Free and open to the public. cuag.ca/event/imagin...

Sometimes I forget that the greatest gift we give our students is the example of passionately loving our own curiosity

Reminder to folks in the Ottawa area that my union is organizing this rally to demand that Carleton agree not to use AI to replace human teachers or violate our rights. We would love to see you there! Thursday at noon. Please dress warmly!

ICYMI check out this fascinating APTN interview with historian Cody Groat. Topics include the repatriation of cultural ancestors, the 10th anniversary of the TRC, and pipelines... and of course, his new book, Always a Part of the Land. Watch here: buff.ly/ZANKioZ Pre-order the book: buff.ly/lzWm6U3

Alberta’s book ban treats reading as a danger rather than a discipline. In an age of endless screens, the government is censoring the one medium that asks children to slow down, think, and engage with difficult ideas—importing US culture-war panic while mistaking imagination for harm.

They’ve arrived! It’s out!

If you're in the Ottawa area, please come out to our rally at Carleton University on Jan. 22 at noon, in support of AI protections for education workers. You absolutely don't have to RSVP to come, but if you feel comfortable, it helps us plan. Dress warm, bring a sign, bring a friend:

register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

CFP posted on the blog - Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century For more information:

We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist

I'm a member of CUPE 4600, the union of contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants at Carleton University, and we have just launched an open letter demanding AI guardrails in our work. Please sign and share if you can.

More gems from the family archive of John and Anya Berger, as discovered and compiled by their daughter Katya. Here, on her uncredited contribution to the concept of ways of seeing. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...

working at a university

What was Lo-Fi? Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you feel like teaching photography as an art practice and as a historical matter, here is your position at Boulder:

This is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.

due to a new federal initiative Carleton is hiring 5 to 10 "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs" at the rank of Associate or Full Professor if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out) carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!

Photography’s ’that has been’ quality is now competing with normative assumptions of the post-edited self on what is and isn’t ethical to show in portraiture … when your frame of reference is fascist aesthetics, the ugliness ( and ridiculousness ) of power deserves to be pictured.

ICYMI!! Our book is out in the world, & we're so proud! If you want to grab a copy, use code SPIN2909 for 50% hard copies from now til the end of Jan! 🏺 #archaeology #deathstudies

New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars! utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...

more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum

It's really something to watch the corporate sector admit that GenAI is an applied failure, while universities double down on massive integration to benefit from the same "productivity gains" as corps - layoffs + decimation of programs + destruction of critical thinking.

This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.