We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a Business lunch meeting at the CHA meeting this May in Ottawa. During this meeting we will be promoting our new web-project Activehistory.ca and founding an Active History committee affiliated with the CHA. If you are interested in this project please attend our meeting [...]
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Active History Lunch at the Canadian Historical Association Meeting
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Active History Round Table at the CHA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Active History, Applied History, CHA, public history on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have organised a round table for this the CHA in Ottawa this Spring. The round table is scheduled on Wednesday, May 27 at 8:30am. The presenters include Kieth Jamieson, a Cultural Consultant, Adjunct Professor and Curator from the Mohawk of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Robin Elliott, Excutive Director of Murmur Toronto, [...]
David Zonderman and the Greatest Generation
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David A. Zonderman from North Carolina State University was unable to present his active history project during the conference do to a medical incident. He was able to return home soon after the conference and was given a clean bill of health. Please take a look at this presentation notes linked below:
active-history-presentation-notes
Active History Conference Blog
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Active History: History for the Future took place this past weekend at Glendon College in Toronto. The organizers are really happy with how it turned out and we would like to thank everyone who took part. We have asked the presenters and attendees to submit blog posts for this website. I will be adding them [...]
Glendon Map
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The conference is taking place in the Manor or Glendon Hall, which is #16 on this map (with the circular driveway)
Map – More information to follow
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Travel within Toronto: The easiest way to get to Glendon College is by taking the 124 bus from Lawrence station (Yonge subway line) to Bayview Avenue. Participants staying in the Best Western Roehampton or elsewhere near the college can take the 34 bus along Eglinton to Bayview and then the 11 up Bayview [...]
Program
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have now posted the program for Active History: History for the Future. I would also like to take this opportunity to encourage people to register for the conference, as we have limited space at Glendon and we will need to cap registration at 100 people.
Event Sponsors
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Active History: History for the Future has been made possible with the generous support of a number of organizations:
The History Department of York University
The History Department of the University of Toronto
The Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History
The Department of Canadian Studies at Glendon College
The Caledon Institute of Social Policy
The Centre for Ethics at [...]
Active History: History for the Future
Posted in Announcements, Uncategorized, tagged Active History, Glendon College, University of Toronto, York University on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Glendon College, York University, September 27-28th 2008
Call for Presentations
Active History: History for the Future is a two-day symposium designed to bring together university-based and community-based historians interested in assessing the ways in which historians engage with communities beyond the academy. Given that historians are also inevitably community members, it is important to consider [...]
