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First event in an annual series, "Reimagining Rural Resilience: Changing Landscapes and Lifescapes"
Fireside chat | Open to everyone
Reimagining Resilience in Bay of Fundy Dykelands
Speakers: Dr. Danika van Proosdij and Dr. Jonathan Fowler of SMU
February 26, 2026
6:00-8:30 p.m.
Unilever Lounge (SB 422), Sobey Building
Saint Mary's University in Halifax
Thursday, Feb. 26: Reimagining Resilience in Bay of Fundy Dykelands 🌊 Join us for this friendly fireside chat with SMU researchers Dr. Danika van Proosdij and Dr. Jonathan Fowler. All are welcome, 6-8:30 pm in SB 422 and online via Zoom. Learn more: loom.ly/frzoba0. #NovaScotia #ClimateResilience
09.02.2026 19:54 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Curious about the links between Scottish Highlands and the Maritimes? They’re more complicated than you might think. Please join us.
26.01.2026 19:36 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
So great to have seen you Jeremy!
24.11.2025 09:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to the newly elected Fellows of The Royal Society of Canada, including Dr. @karlykehoe.bsky.social of @historysmu.bsky.social! 🙌 Read @src-rsc.bsky.social's announcement: bit.ly/3JZLfga #SMUHistory #AtlanticCanada #rscBRAVOsrc #artswithimpact
05.09.2025 01:59 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Stay connected with UnborderED Knowledge / Savoirs Sans Fontières to bridge the gap between talent and opportunity for people with lived experiences of forced migration. Follow us for the latest updates, opportunities, and stories from our community of scholars, researchers, and advocates.
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Restez connectés avec UnborderED Knowledge / Savoirs Sans Frontières pour contribuer à combler l’écart entre les talents et les opportunités pour les personnes ayant vécu une migration forcée. Suivez-nous pour découvrir les dernières actualités, opportunités et témoignages de notre communauté de chercheur·euse·s, d’étudiant·e·s et de défenseur·euse·s.
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Stay connected with UnborderED Knowledge to bridge the gap between talent and opportunity for people with lived experiences of forced migration. Follow us for the latest updates!
BlueSky: @unbordered-ssf.bsky.social
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LinkedIn: @UnborderED-SSF
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13.08.2025 18:13 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much to the Chestico Museum and Archives in Port Hood, NS, for hosting my talk, “Scotland Displaced: Resilience in Cape Breton’s Backland Communities.”
The best audience with the most informed questions. And pretty great brownies and biscuits too! ❤️🇨🇦🏴
25.06.2025 21:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to have you here in Nova Scotia @smuarts.bsky.social
19.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@historysmu.bsky.social @icuf.bsky.social
A quick coffee with @karlykehoe.bsky.social and then off to NS Archives to see this baby in the flesh (so to speak) #Halifax #CrimeanWar #warmemorial #Welsford-Parker
19.06.2025 15:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Totally agree. It will come out in PB and be MUCH cheaper but only next year.😕
12.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One People, Two Islands: The Entanglement of the Islands of Eigg, Scotland and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1790-1830 | Canmore
For friends following our work on #Scottish #Highland settlement sites in #CapeBreton - you can check out our final report here: canmore.org.uk/collection/2...
Big thanks to Historic Environment Scotland for the brilliant partnership.
09.06.2025 11:12 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Attention #Scottish #History folks - a wonderful new publication from @sallytuckett.bsky.social! Transatlantic Threads published by @edinburghup.bsky.social
26.05.2025 12:54 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
Poster for a talk: The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, Saint Mary's University. GRI lecture series 2025. Fogs love this shore: Living with Fog in Atlantic Canada, by Dr. Sara Spike, Instructor, Department of History, Dalhousie University. March 14, 2025. 2-4pm. Room MN 219. Contact Mathias.Rodorff@smu.ca for Zoom details.
I'm giving a talk on Friday March 14 about the history of fog in Atlantic Canada @smuarts.bsky.social
The stories people tell today about fog echo centuries of evocative sensory descriptions and emotional narratives, showing us how fog has always shaped daily life and culture along these coasts ☁️
10.03.2025 23:58 — 👍 41 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
03.03.2025 23:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Submissions are now open for the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 - for an academic book on an Irish / Irish Diasporic historical subject published by an Irish resident in 2024 as their first scholarly book #IrishHistory. Closes 1 March.
usihs36.com/2025/02/03/i...
03.02.2025 15:29 — 👍 76 🔁 63 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful to see this officially added to Canmore! This project spotlights the value of interdisciplinary conversations and community involvement. Very happy to have played a part in the Cape Breton survey
22.01.2025 13:31 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much, Andrew, for getting this material up and running on #Canmore!
22.01.2025 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One People Two Islands: The historic entanglement of the islands of Eigg, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1770-1830 | Canmore
Thank you to Historic Environment Scotland for adding Rear Beaver Cove (settlement of #Barra people in #CapeBreton, 1820s-c.1919) to Canmore. The first Canadian site to be surveyed and included in Scotland's national collection of archaeological and historical sites. canmore.org.uk/collection/2...
21.01.2025 20:48 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
One of my favourite memories during my time @uhihistory.bsky.social - departmental impromptu sledging at Dornoch beach! Thanks @davidworthington.bsky.social
12.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the most hilarious moments. We were all laughing and having so much fun on our cardboard for sledges!🙂
12.01.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wishing all of my friends and family in #Scotland a happy #Hogmanay! 🏴🇨🇦 🥃 🍾🥂
31.12.2024 17:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A couple of drinks #recipes found in from the papers of Cape Breton’s McNab family. In case anyone is looking for ideas.🥂🎄
20.12.2024 00:03 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Stuart Dunmore on his brilliant new book! @edinburghup.bsky.social
04.12.2024 12:25 — 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Historian of the global Irish diaspora. Assistant Professor, McMaster University.
Author, Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War (NYU Press, 2025)
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/people/lynns2
Historian of early modern Scottish medicine but interested in disability history. Still running on sitcoms and coffee.
Thoughts my own.
Research, graduate training and teaching on Scottish history and Scottish culture, with special emphasis on their global dimensions - at the University of Guelph.
News & Events: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottish
Assistant Professor of History | University of Cambridge | Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-nicholas-pruitt
Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Arkie. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contributing Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Other words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, Foreign Policy, UnPopulist
Writing a book on global right-wing Christianity (Broadleaf)
He/Him
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society of Biology, American Association for Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi. I study biodiversity to save more of it. EDI.
Bio prof @uottawa. Nature photography, running, sailing. Photos (c) JK.
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Hudson Chair in 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 Relations
History and Public Policy @Mulroney Institute @St. FX
Editor @International Journal
Mostly Canada in the World
Social scientist. Policy nerd. Researcher + p-t instructor @dalhousieu.bsky.social. Honorary research fellow (former asst prof) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EAi-lH4AAAAJ&hl=en
Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.
Current projects: social & cultural history of the marriage bar; history of women typists
She/her
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/
Research/writing services:
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New Brunswick's popular history magazine, launching Summer 2026. Call for contributors is open!
The Oar is the annual periodical of the Fredericton Region Museum, located on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik.
PhD student in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics and historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
An interdisciplinary research centre that broadly focuses on the study of Northeastern North America, and is organized around a community-engaged research model as a decolonial research practice. (Visual art by Wolastoqey artist Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
https://linktr.ee/UnbordeED
Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
CVARF Engagement Officer at Archaeology Scotland, affiliated researcher @UofG interested in early modern uplands, shieling practice, hunting and estates, and 17th c. Glencoe. I also dabble in contemporary archaeology - edgelands and archaeologies of waste.
