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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The registration page for the Canadian Committee on Women's & Gender History conference "Critical Feminist Histories in Canada" (2-4 October 2026 at Queen's University) is now live! More info, including a draft program, is available at the link below.

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2026 Conference Registration | CCWGH-CCHFG

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

it’s amazing how often the solution to endlessly multiplying pedagogical problems turns out to be restoring an actual pedagogical relationship between instructors and students

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Looking for a change of scene, intellectual community, and a place to write? The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social has just launched a Visiting Scholars Program! More info here: wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/discover/our...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

salience is the new fit

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SHCY @shcy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Society for the History of Children and Youth offers annual grants to scholarly event organizers. SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2026–27. The application deadline is May 1. Find more information here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...

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Event Grants - Society for the History of Children and Youth

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SHCY @shcy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Nominations for SHCY's 2026 Grace Abbott Book Prize, Fass-Sandin Article Prize, and Laura Lovett Dissertation Prize are now open! The deadline for submission is April 15, 2026. More information is available here: www.shcy.org/awards/curre...

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Current Opportunities - Society for the History of Children and Youth

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@nacdi.bsky.social & the Wilson Institute for Canadian History -event this week -- “Canada and Cuba’s Cooperative History: Thinking Through the Current Crisis.” DATE: Thursday, March 19, 2026 TIME: 11am-12:30pm EDT LOCATION: Zoom Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nacdi-now-...

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Looking forward to welcoming Dr. LK Bertram to McMaster for the 2026 Messecar Lecture on "AI, Historians, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution" on March 27!

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Happy to announce the shortlist for this year's Wilson Book Prize, awarded by the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social. Congratulations to the authors!

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Please share widely! Open to grad students working in any area of Cdn history (with a preference for projects about southern ON). The award includes $5K research funds, a residency at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, and the opportunity to give a public lecture.

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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

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2026 Conference: Critical Feminist Histories in Canada/Approches critiques en histoire féministe au Canada | CCWGH-CCHFG

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 08/07/2025

"Survivors will face a poisoned environment—a toxic biosphere of war—for just about forever." "No life without water: How Israel’s actions in Gaza echo past genocides," by Mark Zeitoun, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Danilo Türk, and Reem Abu Shomar.

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No life without water: How Israel’s actions in Gaza echo past genocides

Israel’s long-term disruption of water services in Gaza redefines the limits of acceptable suffering of civilians. This weaponization of water echoes historical genocides and threatens to normalize…

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Things are disastrous, but we’re hoping that learning together, celebrating public knowledge + the gloriously noncompliant, can be ✨✊❤️‍🩹🌱. We’re hosting our first zoom info session this Friday at noon ET; sign-up @ the bottom of the page:

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Join Us For Misfits: A Fall Course From The Cross-Reference Coalition

We’re thrilled to share the Call for Applications for a fall course from the Cross-Reference Coalition: a new, interdisciplinary community learning project from the Metropolitan New York Library Counc...

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Roberta Lexier @robertalexier.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

THIS WEEKEND!! Friday: The Death and Life of Canadian Social Democracy (an @albertaadvantage.bsky.social intervention) www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... Saturday: panels by @cjsw.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @briarpatch @theorchard and more www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv...

Poster advertising:
Progressive Publics, a two-day symposium connecting public scholarship & independent media.

Calgary
June 13, 6pm - Royal Canadian Legion #1
June 14, 12pm - Mount Royal University

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I was way ahead of my time

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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It's almost as if the two are connected somehow; probably just a coincidence

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We'd love to see some #skystorians at this virtual book launch & discussion of some of the very newest work in #histchild #histyouth #histsex! Do register below, and we'd really appreciate shares/RTs 🗃

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

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SHCY @shcy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r

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SHCY @shcy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Registration and program information for the 2025 SHCY Conference will be available soon! The cost to attend will be $50.

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Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @mathildevm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Remember the deadline on April 4th for sending in your abstract to this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference, "Children and Climate Change"!! Conference dates: 25-27 June Place: Aarhus, Denmark Keynotes: @sheinalew.bsky.social and @kalexand.bsky.social conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025

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SSCIP 2025

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Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 26/02/2025

We are all under attack and we are fighting for our universities. This week @tungohan.bsky.social raises the alarm about the neoliberal, right wing attack on higher education in the wake of program suspensions at York U. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/fig... #AcademicSky #dei #reconciliation

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Fighting for Our University

(This is a reissue of the episode with audio issues corrected) Last week, at the end of the day on a Friday, York University announced the suspension of...

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Childhood history conference in Aarhus (DK)--theme "Children and Climate Change" (other topics welcome too). 📆Conference dates: 25-27 June 📆Deadline for abstracts: 4 April 👩‍🎓 Keynotes: @kalexand.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

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Call for Abstracts

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This Canadian historian would love it if these "you're erasing #history" folks asked themselves why they're so locked in on erasing JAM's violent #colonial legacy. It's like, getting weird at this point nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

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Historians ask Doug Ford to save names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Ryerson, Dundas on Toronto schools

The historians are calling on Premier Doug Ford to prevent the TDSB from removing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Ryerson and Dundas.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The NEH has decided to comply with fascist dictat. www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...

6. Funding Restrictions
You may not use awards made under this notice to fund:
• projects that do not explicitly address one or more of the research categories, as required in the Humanities Significance section of the narrative
• projects that involve data collection without analysis
• projects for which a primary goal is evaluation of a single humanities program, product, or event, such as an educational initiative, podcast, exhibition, undergraduate minor, etc.
• projects for which a primary goal is to curate new collections, digitize existing collections, or create inventories or catalogs of collections that do not result in substantive analyses
• projects in which more than 1/3 of direct costs are for equipment, materials, and supplies
costs for activities performed by federal entities or personnel
promotion of discriminatory equity ideology
support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEl) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities
• environmental justice initiatives or activities
advocacy of a particular program of social or political actionl
• support of specific public policies or legislation
• lobbying
• projects that fall outside of the humanities; the creation or performance of art; creative writing, autobiographies, memoirs, and creative nonfiction; policy studies; and social science research that does not address humanistic questions and/or utilize humanistic methods

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Catherine Larochelle @cathlaro.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Historians should make it more difficult for students or the larger public to naturalize inequalities of wealth and privilege, or romanticize the poor and oppressed, who, depending on the circumstances, could become the oppressors — these, alas, are not fixed categories."

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

@annettejosephg.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & I are seeking submissions for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "Children & Childhood in the French-Speaking World." We are esp interested in contributions that deal with race, empire, and colonialism. CFP here: bit.ly/3EIeVvE

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#skystorians at the risk of abusing your generosity: can anyone recommend readings about ideas/definitions of childhood in West Africa in the 19th century? Please and thank you 🗃️

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) @clpn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The Childhood & Youth Network of @socscihistory.bsky.social (co-chaired by our members @kalexand.bsky.social, @edillenburg.bsky.social & Mary Jo Maynes) invites session/paper proposals for the SSHA conference. Proposals due 1 March. The conference will be held in Chicago in November.

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Shame on the American Historical Association for vetoing a motion, passed overwhelmingly by members, to condemn scholasticide. You would think that the deliberate annihilation of every university in Gaza would contravene the highlighted text below. www.historians.org/news/busines...

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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Continuous publication & open access & online-only, oh my! The new year is bringing exciting changes to the Journal of British Studies. Read more about these new developments here. www.nacbs.org/news/news-fr...

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News from JBS | NACBS

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

BONUS CONTENT: Read an interview in SHCY Digital Childhoods with the new Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth editors, Julia Gossard and Holly White shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/julia-go...

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Julia Gossard and Holly White on the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth - Digital Childhoods

An interview with the new editors of the JHCY

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Great program. Especially excited about week 2, which started as a strand of the @hexhistory.bsky.social conference on children, experience and agency. @kalexand.bsky.social @slowhistorian.bsky.social @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Elsevier, Wiley, et al have found ways to “ethos-wash” open access and make it profitable! www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Opinion | The Corporate Capture of Open-Access Publishing

Done wrong, the movement will just reproduce the old monopolies.

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Great interview with @kalexand.bsky.social and Simon Sleight. Check out their open access volume, part of the 6-vol Bloomsbury Cultural History of Youth.

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Interview with Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight about their edited collection, A Cultural Histor...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Pals! Ca. 1930 - 1940. digitaltmuseum.se/021018469767...

Black and white photo of a white boy in a cap, sweater vest, button up shirt, and knickers (like the vintage style of pants, not underwear) sitting on a wooden porch outside of a house. A pleasantly plump white and black shorthaired cat sits in a big soft loaf in his lap with its forepaws draped over the boy's left arm. They look like a very content pair.

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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Really important thread on how Nova Scotia benefitted from plantation slavery - elsewhere. (Lit in #cdnhist emphasizes that yes, there were enslaved people in Canada but slavery was different in the colonies of British North America. This work shifts our attention and focus in crucial ways).

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

And here, about the pedagogy of wonder — and helping students understand the politics of acquisition / procurement, how collections are built; and the economy of (non-extractive) learning

Something I’ve been implementing alongside visual-analysis assignments are wonderment exercises, where I invite students to sit and ask questions about artworks based on things they cannot know. To really show that the practice of sitting with and asking questions about what you don’t know is a skill, that it’s knowledge-producing, and that it could be the basis of art or a research project.

I’ve also shifted away from relying on the exhibition project, where we invite students to curate shows around a theme. Alongside that, I now like to assign acquisition reports. It might sound boring to them at first, but that’s the point: “If you think this is bureaucratic, that is where power and knowledge are reconsolidated and normalized.” They’re writing a proposal for why a museum should acquire work and what that would do long-term.

The other, I think bigger takeaway for me pedagogically is that teaching art history or American art or contemporary art is also about teaching advocacy and collaboration. I want students to see that they have a part to play right now in changing the way things are done and that there are tactics at their disposal. Some of the really exciting work has happened when I’ve understood my own internalizing of noncompensation. I remember having teachers say, “Go interview an artist. You’re a student, they’ll think it’s cute and they’ll talk to you (for free).” But there’s no follow-up about payment or talking about the ways that universities normalize noncompensation for artists and how this model hides and exacerbates class, gender, and racial hierarchies within economies of exchange. So I worked in my department to create a fund so that students get in the practice of raising money for artists.

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

IHR Lifecycles seminar, Tuesday 26th. September: Book Launch! To hear Simon Sleight and @kalexand.bsky.social in conversation about their new (open access) book, either at KCL on The Strand in London or through Teams. Event starts at 17:30 BST bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

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A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age

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