Book your calendars – the International Federation of Public History (IFPH) has launched their Call for papers (CFP) for the 2026 International Conference of Public History which will take place in September 2026.听

The 8th International Conference entitled, “The Public History of Difficult Pasts,” will be听 held in Lisbon, Portugal from September 7-11, 2026.听

Proposals are open now for panels, papers, and working groups:

Submit your panel proposal听.

Submit your paper proposal听.

Submit your Working Group proposal听.

All submissions are due by Nov 30, 2025.

For more information please follow the IFPH at:

Please join us for this free screening on Wednesday November 26th! .

Time / Date: Wednesday, Nov 26th, 6-8pm: Labour听Film听Night听with CCPH and Worker’s History Museum
Location: 杏吧原创 University, Paterson Hall 303 (College of Humanities Lecture Theatre)
Cost:The screening is FREE to attend but !

Thanks to our partners:

In a house full of secrets, centuries of forgotten matriarchs emerge to reveal untold stories of resistance and resilience.

At the end of her mother鈥檚 life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her haunted childhood home. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political rebels she never knew. Singh teams up with acclaimed filmmaker Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes, No Ordinary Man) for a politically charged cross-community collaboration that deftly interweaves Indigenous, Deaf, Japanese and South Asian histories, all connected through the home. A reckoning with memory, matriarchy and the enduring legacies of silenced voices, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. The Nest transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential. ()

杏吧原创 Connections: The film includes appearances from 杏吧原创 graduate student Sierra Hill (Public History MA ’26 / the Manitoba M茅tis Federation MMF) and Tamara Vukusic (杏吧原创 Journalism Alum) who will appear in conversation with filmmaker Julietta Singh on November 19, 2025.

Community Collaborators on听include:

The Manitoba M茅tis Federation (MMF) is the democratically elected National Government of the Red River M茅tis, also known as the Manitoba M茅tis. The Red River M茅tis are a distinct Indigenous Nation and people, with their own laws and democratic system of government, with which they became Canada鈥檚 negotiating partners in confederation and the founders of the Province of Manitoba.

The Manitoba School for the Deaf (MSD) is a pre-K鈥�12 school offering both bilingual-bicultural and bilingual-bimodal programming. It is a cornerstone of recognition, acceptance and promotion of Deaf culture in Manitoba, with an emphasis on education鈥檚 vital role in supporting Deaf children.

The Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba (JCAM) is a non-profit, charitable organization that serves as the representative organization for Japanese Canadians in Manitoba. Their mission is to educate the community about Japanese and Japanese-Canadian art, music, culture, language, heritage and history.

Two Engagement Opportunities on November 19, 2025:

(1) A Conversation w/ Filmmaker Julietta Singh, with Tamara Vukusic (杏吧原创 Journalism Alum) and Sierra Hill (杏吧原创 MA in Public History 鈥�26)听– Wed Nov 19th from 1-2:15pm for 杏吧原创 students & faculty听
Time / Date: Wed., Nov. 19, 1:00pm-2:15pm
Location:听Dunton Tower 2017, 杏吧原创 University
Who can attend:听杏吧原创 students, faculty and staff

(2) Ottawa Premiere of ‘The Nest’ at the Mayfair – Wed Nov 19th from 3-5:30pm for General Public and 杏吧原创 Community
Time / Date: Wed., Nov. 19, 3:00pm-5:30pm – NOTE: doors will open at 3pm and screening will start at 3:30pm.
Location: , 1074 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K1S 2W3
Who can attend: General Public, 杏吧原创 students, faculty and staff
Cost: FREE but please (*tickets are going fast! Please register)

*The Ottawa Premiere of The Nest is a Bonus Lecture in the 2025 Shannon Lectures – a series of thematically linked public lectures offered at 杏吧原创 University each autumn and made possible through the Shannon Donation, a major gift from a long-time friend of the Department of History

Questions? Please email 杏吧原创 Associate Professor, Michel Hogue

Download a PDF of Film Poster > PDF – The Nest (2025) film poster

Event: Ottawology Book Launch & Trivia Night at Glebe Central Pub
Time / Date: November 12, 2025 from 6:30pm 鈥� 8:30pm (EST)
Location: Glebe Central Pub, 779 Bank Street Ottawa, Ottawa , Ontario, Canada
RSVP: event is free to attend but please *EVENT is sold out*
Event Co-sponsored by The 杏吧原创 University Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Ottawology offers an original, accessible sociological account of social structures, socialities, ecologies, and everyday life in Ottawa.

“Ottawa is often understood only as the seat of the federal government, marked by the neo-Gothic parliament buildings on the hill, and the many government office buildings. Lively, erudite and exciting, Ottawology offers a unique and radical approach to studying the city, injecting it with intrigue and verve, and expanding collective, narrow understandings of Canada鈥檚 capital city. Tonya Davidson takes readers on a wide-ranging journey through a city populated not only by power brokers, but also workers, students, seniors, trees, eels, 听turtles, skaters and rabble rousers. Davidson applies her prodigious sociological imagination to critically explore an essential, but little understood, city.

Davidson鈥檚 Ottawa offers a fascinating template for how to scrutinize the interactions between the weight of history and the effervescent motion of everyday life in a city. She draws surprising connections, from the 听role of the civil service to the acceleration of suburban sprawl, and the one-time incredible success of the city鈥檚 bus-rapid transit system, to stories of nightlife, policing, play, libraries, rivers, and malls. Davidson traverses the city鈥檚 streets and hidden histories to show how social structures, sustainability, and social life intersect, creating an elegant chronicle of the city鈥檚 rich and fraught social life.” (2025)

鈥�Philately in Troubled Times鈥� is designed to enhance our understanding of how postage stamps have and continue to play a vital role in shaping national identity through their commemoration of historical events. Professor David Dean is principle investigator of this SSHRC-funded project. The objective is not only to generate new knowledge for the scholarly community but to
bridge the gap between academic scholarship and the very large, and increasingly diverse, global
community of philatelists and stamp collectors by embracing broader strategies of knowledge
mobilization. By demonstrating the value of applying historical theories and methods to
philately, the project aims to encourage collectors to think more critically about what is being
commemorated on stamps, how this came about, and the motivations behind collecting and
exhibiting. The goal is to establish trust, discussion, and dialogue by producing historical work 鈥�
a global database, checklists, case-studies – that will excite collectors, make an original
contribution to historical knowledge, and constitute a critical intervention in the field of public
history through by adopting a 鈥渃itizen science of the past鈥� approach. Ultimately, we hope this
will lead to future community-scholarly collaborations and co-productions in Canada and
beyond.

In Spring 2025 杏吧原创 graduate students Declan Da Barp (EURUS), Charlie Ham (Public
History), Charlotte Johnson (Public History), Joy Karinge (African Studies), Trevor Peeters
(EURUS), Patricia Rousell (Public History), and Jamie Wood (Public History) created the first
spreadsheet identifying the first historical commemorative stamps issued by every country in the
world, past and present. Between October 2025 and June 2026 the spreadsheet will be analyzed
by the project team, transformed into an interactive database, and work will begin on a number
of case studies. The team鈥檚 work will be facilitated by Project Manager Anna Kozlova, a PhD
candidate in the Department of History.

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Time/Date: Friday, September 26, 2025 from 1-2:30pm ET
Location: In-Person > 433 Paterson Hall 1125 Colonel By Dr
Location: Virtual >
Description: Henrique Schlumberger Vitchmichen is a PhD candidate at the Federal University of Paran谩 (Brazil) under the supervision of Professor , and a Visiting Scholar (April-Oct 2025) in the Department of History at 杏吧原创 University. On Friday September 25th, he will present his work on the activities of the Ukrainian Aid Committee in Brazil and Canada, focusing on their efforts to support Displaced Persons after World War II. Drawing on official documents from governments, committees, and humanitarian organizations such as the International Refugee Organization (IRO), his work also examines the personal struggles and challenges faced by refugees through their letters of appeal. The event is co-hosted by the (CNHH) and 杏吧原创 University Department of History.

Questions? Please contact 杏吧原创 Professor Dominique Marshall for more information
Event Listing:

Read more about Henrique鈥檚 research via the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History (CNHH):
Refugee Letters & the Ukrainian Committee for War Victims鈥� Relief in World War II

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Click HERE to download a PDF of the event poster > Revised Poster Schlumberger, 26 Sept. 2025

Public History Night at the Bytown Museum:
Visit the oldest stone structure in Ottawa right in the heart of downtown!

‘Public History Night at the Museum’ is the ongoing Public History event series from CCPH spotlighting different museums and new opportunities for cultural heritage and public history in Ottawa.

Time/Date: Wednesday September 24, 2025 starting at 4pm ET (NOTE: early start time)
Location: Bytown Museum, 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa ON, K1P 5P6
Registration Required (Y/N): no – however, tour will be limited to 15 attendees so please arrive on time!
Event Cost: FREE – Admission will be free to 杏吧原创 students and CCPH members attending
Questions? Please email CCPH Research Assistant Amie Wright听

Who can attend: Open to 杏吧原创 University undergraduate and graduate students and faculty interested in Public History. Open to history students/faculty, anthropology students/faculty, sociology students/faculty, curatorial studies students/faculty, journalism students/faculty and any student/faculty interested in learning more about public history in practice via museum education and special collections. Also open to CCPH members.听

Event Plan: The tour will start in the Bytown Museum library shortly after 4pm and then continue through the museum for special tour lead by Chloe Dennis, Bytown Exhibitions and Collections Manager and also 杏吧原创 alum. The tour will last 90 minutes including a question and answer period with Museum staff.听

Download a PDF Poster > Night at the Museum poster – Wed Sept 24

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Join us this Fall (Sept-Nov 2025) starting Monday Sept 22nd for the Shannon Lectures in History The Shannons are a series of thematically linked public lectures offered at 杏吧原创 University each autumn and made possible through the Shannon Donation, a major gift from a long-time friend of the Department of History.

Lecture 1: September 22, 7:00-8:30pm, Dominion-Chalmers Centre
Fighting for Their Place and Recognition: Canadian Servicewomen and Women Veterans in Post-Second World War Canada

Lecture 2: October 6, 7:00-8:30pm, Dominion-Chalmers Centre
Cold War Consent? Military Experimentation and Research Ethics in Mid-Century Canada

Lecture 3: October 20, 7:00-8:30pm, Dominion-Chalmers Centre
The Transnational Making of United Nations Peacekeeping

Lecture 4: November 3, 7:00-8:30pm, Dominion-Chalmers Centre
This is not my story, but yours: The Russ Moses residential school memoir

Bonus Shannon Lecture: November 19, 3:00-5:30 pm, Mayfair Theatre (1074 Bank Street)
Ottawa Premiere, The Nest (2025)

Lecture 5: November 24, 7:00-8:30pm, Dominion-Chalmers Centre
Purging the Canadian military of 鈥渟exual deviants鈥�: The war on 2SLGBTQIA+ members and their partners from the 1960s to present.

The objectives of the Shannon Lecture series are four-fold:

• to explore and illuminate the social dimensions of the past, particularly with reference to the social history of Canada;
• to demonstrate the linkages between approaches to Canadian history and the wider body of international scholarship;
• to encourage cooperation and a sense of collegiality between the different communities of historians in Canada, whether in universities, public institutions, or private agencies;
• to popularize innovative historical methods, practices, or genres, and to convey them in lectures intended to engage a general audience in an informative and accessible manner
• More information: /history/shannon-lectures-history/

The Shannon Funds were donated by Lois M. Long in memory of her parents James Buchanan Long and Ida May (Davidson).

Convenor:听Jean-Michel Turcotte, historian at the Department of National Defense and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History

Description:听Post-1945 Canadian military history is rich and complex as it is shaped by thousands of members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), but also by their families, civilian workers, researchers and communities, who remain largely 鈥渦nknown鈥� in scholarship.听In partnership with the Directorate of History and Heritage,听the 2025 edition of the Shannon series, 鈥淩evisiting CAF Experiences,鈥� examines those 鈥渦nknown voices鈥� and proposes to explore various and entangled trajectories related to the CAF after 1945. As such, invited speakers will address aspects of the militarization of Canadian lives beyond the traditional narratives of soldiers 鈥渟erving鈥� in the Cold War and deployed in various peacekeeping missions. While Canadian military social history has mainly focused on the 1914鈥�1945 period, the lecture series aims to deepen our understanding of how the Cold War transformed the Canadian military and the Canadian people鈥檚 lives in profound ways.

The 2025 Shannon series extends the discussion raised in the recent book,听Cold War Worker: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State, edited by Isabel Campbell (McGill-Queens University Press, 2025). As the volume shows, the Cold War created global and Canadian demands for new technological, scientific, construction, and other labour. The experiences of those workers raise questions about the influence of settler-colonial masculine institutional values developed in the Cold War state and society. In line with those questions, our objective is to examine how the development of CAF in the context of the Cold War affected diverse Canadians, their families, and their communities in ways that were both predictable and surprising, and both beneficial and harmful. By doing so, speakers will reveal contrasting experiences of marginalized peoples (Indigenous peoples, women, LGBTQUIA+ and northerners) and elite white men (scientists and psychiatrists).听By comparing the experiences of different types of workers, families, and communities having contact with the military, this series will highlight how race, gender, and privilege affected people in varied and sometimes unexpected ways.

Unless otherwise indicated, lectures will take place at Woodside Hall in the 杏吧原创 Dominion-Chalmers Centre.听The lectures are expected to run from 7:00-8:30pm and will be streamed as well. More details to be posted as they become available.

Interested in postage stamps, national histories, and public history?

Available for fifteen hours paid research work in mid-April and early May?

Then read further!

View / Download PDF > PHITT Call for Researchers April May 25

Philately in Troubled Times is a SSHRC-funded research project led by Prof. David Dean which explores how postage stamps have played, and continue to play, a vital role in shaping national identity through their commemoration of historical events. The objective is not only to generate new knowledge for the scholarly community but to bridge the gap between academic scholarship and the global community of philatelists and stamp collectors.

David is seeking six 3^rd/4^th year honours or graduate students to work on an exploratory phase of the project. This will be a fifteen-hour commitment for which you will be paid $30/hr.

The work involves:

• attending a 1-hour Zoom meeting the week of April 14^th introducing you to the project and setting out the research agenda (day/time to be arranged)
• 10-hours of searching an online stamp catalogue for the first historical stamp issued by individual countries (the work to be completed by May 14^th)
• a 1-hour Zoom check-in meeting the first week of May (day/time to be arranged)
• attending a 3-hour in person debrief on Saturday 17 May (time and location to be determined but either on campus or in central Ottawa).

How to Apply: Interested students are asked to email David at david_dean@carleton.ca before noon on Friday April 11^th with a statement of interest, a copy of your transcript, and cv/ r茅sum茅.