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YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE NiCHE Conversation 6.7: Exhibiting Dawson: Visual Narratives of Interconnection w/ Patricia Roussel

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

The cover of the forthcoming book Colonial Negatives: Picturing History and Identity in Morocco by Patricia Goldsworthy. Bottom half of the image has an image of an oil seller in Fez surrounded by Muslim and Jewish Moroccans. The image highlights the religious diversity of the crowd, and demonstrates the dynamic nature of the Jewish district

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!

Feds slashed farm research. An internal email suggests they don't know what Canada's losing Senior officials at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) did not know how their decision to close three research stations on the Prairies would impact the department's research program when they an...

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 document details proposed restructuring at Queen’s - The Queen's Journal As Queen’s unveiled its Bicentennial Vision for 2041, a leaked consultant document obtained by The Journal outlined specific structural changes on a similar timeline. Announced in the Queen’s Gazette ...

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

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announces closure of research operations, jobs cuts Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says it has identified savings opportunities and is closing seven research operations.

TOLD YA.

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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

Women of Photography Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.

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.
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My hand on the corner of a hard cover book. The cover has several rows of jars on it, with a teal bar in the middle reading 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present' edited by Robert Spinelli & Robyn S. Lacy.

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...

Imagining Sex, Imagining Us: Pornography, Transnational Print Culture, and the Invention of "Gay Europe" - Carleton University Art Gallery

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

Canadian Union of Public Employees 4600 RALLY TO KEEP CARLETON HUMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 , NOON IN THE QUAD cupe4600.ca/bargaining/ai-guardrails

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!

The moments Mohawk historian Cody Groat has his eyes on Historian Cody Groat always has his eyes on political affairs and there is no shortage of consequential issues affecting Indigenous Peoples.

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

The culture war comes for Alberta’s books Book bans must be challenged both at school board meetings and in public debate. School libraries exist for students, not to enforce fear or ideology. By censoring imagination and critical thinking, A...

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.

A picture of a pile of my books which have just arrived, complementary copies destined for copyright holders and kind friends.

They’ve arrived! It’s out!

Rally for AI Guardrails at Carleton TAs are calling for AI guardrails at Carleton. CUPE 4600 TAs have been fighting for fair AI protections since September. If you are concerned about protecting your TA work from AI, join us on Thursday...

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: Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century Call for papers Memories of Eresure-Appel à contributions Mémoire de l’effacementDownload

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

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Annual Conference 2026 Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…

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

Open Letter: Re Demanding AI Guardrails at Carleton - CUPE 4600 Loading…Loading…

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.

The New Way of Seeing: In Anya Berger's Archives by Emily Foister December 18, 2025 – "In an untitled fragment from the summer of 1974, after her separation from John, she begins: 'To live alone is, first and foremost, not to be seen. No interested eye observes you....

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

From the article: Flyer for a concert associated with William Berger’s WFMU radio show “Lo-Fi” at Lismar Lounge, New York City, 1988, designed by Terry Folger (Berger).

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: