Bridging the gap between modern theories and the study of the past

23 January 2024 Contributor Blog
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Written by guest blogger Agata Bloch “The ‘Miserable Vassals’ of the Empire: The Androgynous Codes of Behaviour of Black and Indigenous Peoples in Late Colonial Brazil (1775-1808)” is my research article that offers an exploration of colonial history with a focus on the application of modern gender concepts. I originally intended to examine the role […]

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Are we headed for a “big short”? The supply of early childhood educators in Canada

15 January 2024 Contributor Blog
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Written by guest bloggers Brad Seward, Beth Dhuey, and Annie Pan. If you have children (or know someone who does) I won’t need to convince you that the cost of childcare is no small expense. In the past these costs could be so prohibitively expensive that some parents would need to weigh the financial trade-offs […]

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A Few Thoughts on the Theatre of Solidarity

8 January 2024 Contributor Blog
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Written by guest blogger Theo Ioannou. My recent article “‘How Could We Not Go to Mosul?’: Empathy, Anagnorisis, and the Politics of Recognition in Orestes in Mosul” makes the case for a type of theatre that fuels solidarity by bringing remote suffering (or the suffering of others) within our interpretative frames, using the structured apparatus […]

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Mankind’s Endless War between Fiction and Real History

4 January 2024 Contributor Blog
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Written by guest blogger Zoltan A. Simon My paper in the Cartographica journal (Volume 57, Issue 1 2022) is a summary of a forty-six-year long research on the historical Robinson Crusoe, his real island, and a true history in Costa Rica. Between the lines, it is challenging the scholarly consensus that assumes the identity of […]

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How to Win a Genocide Case: Lessons Learned from the Litigation of the Rohingya Minority Genocide

19 December 2023 Contributor Blog
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Written by guest blogger Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen. Six and a half years passed since the harrowing attacks on the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, attacks that amounted to genocide. As a human being, my reaction to the reports on these atrocities was shock and horror. I was disheartened by the “calculated cruelty“, (to use the words […]

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The Big Picture on Canadian Rural Policy

13 December 2023 Contributor Blog
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Rural communities loom large in the Canadian imaginary. As our great green places and the frozen north, rural and remote Canada is vast and diverse. Unfortunately, this imagined rural fails to capture the true diversity and dynamism across rural Canada. Colonial perceptions of vast, uninhabited space or a false urban bias of rural decline shape […]

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit 2023: COP 28 and Governing our Planetary Emergency

7 December 2023 Contributor Blog
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Written by guest blogger David Simon. It’s crunch time for our small planet and all life on it. Climate and environmental changes will continue to increase for a considerable period, even if global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions peak over the next few years. The frequency and severity of extreme weather events are increasing around the […]

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Helping physiotherapists improve their knowledge, confidence, and skills to provide virtual care: Check out the free web-based TREK Musculoskeletal Telehealth Toolkit

5 December 2023 Contributor Blog
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Musculoskeletal conditions are very common in Canada and are the leading cause of disability. They result in limited mobility, disrupted work productivity, and reduced participation in society. Yet, in-person physiotherapy for musculoskeletal conditions is not universally accessible, especially for people living in rural and remote regions or with time-intensive occupational or caring responsibilities. Reduced access […]

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Ideas of Atonement

7 November 2023 Contributor Blog
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All Christians put their faith in the cross of Christ, but that doesn’t mean all believe alike. I remember learning this. That’s how my life as a researcher started. Christians use the word “atonement” to denote the belief that Jesus saved people’s souls through his crucifixion. I’m Greek Orthodox, and we don’t have a word […]

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J.J.R. Macleod Reconsidered

31 October 2023 Contributor Blog
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Written by guest blogger Alison Li. Pop Quiz. Fill in the blank. Banting and _________ were awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin. If you are like many Canadians, you might have filled in “Best” as your answer. Unfortunately, you would have been wrong. You can, however, take comfort in the fact […]

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