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CHA Reads 2019 – Mary-Ann Shantz on Flesh Reborn: The Saint Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century

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Mary-Ann Shantz defends Jean-François Lozier’s Flesh Reborn: The Saint Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century

As Andrea noted in her Introductory post for CHA Reads 2019, I am not a specialist in the field of the book I have chosen to champion as the best book in Canadian history this year, Jean-Francois Lozier’s Flesh Reborn: The Saint Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century. But I jumped at the opportunity to read, review, and champion this study because, in my experience teaching North American and Canadian history survey courses over the past decade, the history of northern North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and of colonial contact with the French, has become one of my favourite areas to teach. It is an area that engages, surprises, and challenges students; in particular, I have enjoyed sharing with students the work of scholars such as Kathryn Magee Labelle and Allan Greer, which dismantles misconceptions about Indigenous history (among settler students in particular), highlights Indigenous agency, and complicates and nuances students’ understanding of the nature of colonialism and its evolution over time. Jean-Francois Lozier’s book also furthers these objectives. At the same time, it represents a new and welcome intervention into scholarship through its re-framing of Algonquian, Wendat, and Iroquois decision-making, warfare, diplomacy, and community with a geographical focus on the St. Lawrence valley.

 

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CHA Reads 2019 – Dan Horner on Panser le Canada: Une histoire intellectuelle de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton

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Dan Horner defends Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon’s Panser le Canada: Une histoire intellectuelle de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton.

Valérie Lapointe-Gagon’s Panser le Canada is a lively and exhaustively researched history of the Laurendeau-Dunton Commission, known to many as the Royal Commission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism.

 

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CHA Reads 2019: An Introduction

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Welcome to our third annual CHA Reads! We’re back again this year, with five readers to review and reflect on the five books shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s (CHA) Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize in 2019.

Over the course of this week, five scholars will argue why their book should win the coveted award.

Based on the format of CBC’s Canada Reads, five different scholars have agreed to champion these five books. They are:

  • Dan Horner (Ryerson University)
  • Mary-Ann Shantz (MacEwan University)
  • Heather Green (St. Mary’s University)
  • Jessica DeWitt (NiCHE)
  • Emma Battell Lowman (University of Hertfordshire)

And Andrea will be acting as moderator.

Each scholar selected a book that was outside their particular field of expertise, so that the books could be judged on their merits alone. Because we are Canadians and academics, we have decided that this will be a friendly discussion, rather than a competition. To that end, each scholar has written a short piece explaining the merits of their chosen book and why they think it should win the top prize in Canadian history.

 

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Unearthed: Caitlynn Beckett

Editor’s note: This post is part of an occasional series entitled “Unearthed,” edited by Heather Green and co-sponsored by Unwritten Histories, in which emerging environmental historians in Canada discuss what brought them to the field, why they value environmental history, and how it connects with life outside of academia. Find all the interviews from this series here.

Caitlynn BeckettCaitlynn Beckett is currently a PhD student in Geography at Memorial University in St. John’s Newfoundland, where she also completed her MA in 2017. She is a settler scholar from Treaty 4 Territory and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her research interests include processes of mine remediation, environmental justice, impact assessment and community engagement in resource extraction across Northern Canada.

 

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My Top Picks for CHA 2019

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Of course I’m back again this year with my top picks fpr CHA 2019! Did you think I’d let you down? Now that the final program for CHA 2019 has been released, it’s time for me to  go over the panels that I think will be the most popular as well as the ones that I am planning to attend! AKA, how to stalk Andrea (please don’t stalk Andrea). Just remember that these are just my recommendations, and I wish there was a way to attend multiple panels at once.

One final note as always, before I get down to business: if you spot me running around, please don’t be afraid to come and say hi!

 

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A Beginner’s Guide to Live-Tweeting Academic Conferences

Co-authored with Krista McCracken

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It’s everyone’s favourite time of the year again: Congress! In advance of this year’s CHA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Krista and I thought that this would be a good time to talk about the practice of live-tweeting: what it is, how it works, and best practices. This blog post assumes that you have a basic familiarity with Twitter. If you do not, or want to have a refresher, definitely check out Andrea’s previous guide to Canadian History on Twitter. Enjoy!

 

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Cultivating a Conscientious Citation Practice

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I absolutely love citations. There is something beautiful about a perfectly formatted bibliography that just makes my heart sing. But aside from their aesthetic value, citations have tremendous transformative potential when it comes to academia, education, and the sharing of knowledge. So, in today’s blog post, I want to talk about why this is the case, and how you can maximize the potential of citations in your classroom.

This blog post was inspired by a recent Facebook post by the talented and lovely Joanna L. Pearce, which I will include below. While I was writing this blog post, I also happened to mention my plan to Krista McCracken, who was already planning to do a podcast episode on the same subject (in case you needed more evidence that our minds are psychically synced). So while I will be talking about citations in terms of education today, Krista will be speaking about citations and research; definitely make sure you check out that podcast episode.

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