This Winter semester, Jennifer Evans and PhD student Noë Bourdeau have team taught a fourth-year seminar on Trans History. On Saturday April 20th, students in that class will present their work to community in a partnership with the Ottawa Trans Library. Students have explored various topics and themes in their research from trans musicology to rural trans lives and activism. Some students have explored forms of artistic creation, from zines to podcasts. Taking history out of the university and into community helps students recognize the enormous responsibility we all have to making these stories known.

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Jane Freeland, who received her PhD in 2016 with an award winning dissertation on domestic violence in postwar East and West Germany, has taken on the position of book review editor of the journal . The journal is one of the highest impact addresses for work in the history of gender and sexuality, with a recent issue covering trans history in transnational perspective.

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This month, Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape will be released by . Written by Jennifer Evans together with former students Meghan Lundrigan and Erica Fagen, it is a landmark intervention in the field of memory studies, Holocaust studies, and public history.

As founder and co-president of the Memory Studies Association Jenny Wüstenberg notes, “this volume is an invaluable methodological guide for historians and others working with Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter/X, and more. With Holocaust memory now a fast moving and ever-changing target for scholars, Evans, Lundrigan and Fagen bring not only a fantastic breadth of knowledge and theoretical insight, but also sensitivity and nuance to a topic that lies at the heart of our most pressing discussions about democracy and its discontents, popular culture, and the role of memory in all of it. A massive achievement!”

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This #GivingTuesday donate to bring Ottawa’s history to life! On December 1st @carletonuniversity is supporting by doubling the impact of your donations dollar-for-dollar. With more than 35,000 people passing by each day this is one of the most dynamic ways residents and visitors can learn about little known and untold stories. The link can be found here:

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Jennifer Evans published an opinion piece in the on Tumblr and Facebook’s troubling new Community Standards policy.

Drawing on her SSHRC-supported research in the history of sexuality and photography, she argues that overreaction to charged images reflects age-old tensions around photography’s place on the border between art and obscenity, and who gets to decide which is which. She suggests that how we deal with the challenge of erotic self-expression says much about how we negotiate democracy itself.

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Since April 2014, ’s Small History NS feed and blog have reached hundreds of followers with daily news from rural and small-town Nova Scotia, c.1880-1910. Drawn from her dissertation research, these tweets chart seasonal rhythms of labour, leisure, land, and sea with updates such as:

The first wild strawberries…

A week’s catch of halibut…

The opening of a cheese factory…

Or a bicycle trip.

Many historians, particularly historians of women, have revealed how the small details of life can offer an entry point to something much bigger and more profound about the past. Deeply rooted in place, this small-scale public history project has proven to be a relatable way to engage the public in histories of how Nova Scotians lived in the late
nineteenth century.

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