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Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War UK Nomination for Canada's Pierre Savard Award

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War UK Nomination for Canada's Pierre Savard Award
Dec 12, 2023

Summary Pierre Savard Awards
Pierre Savard (1936-1998), well-known historian, Professor and Canadianist, contributed greatly to the development of Canadian Studies. He was President of the ICCS from 1983 to 1985.

1) Book written in French or English

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2) Book written in a language other than French or English

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The Pierre Savard Awards are designed to recognize and promote outstanding scholarly monographs on a Canadian topic. The awards form part of a strategy that is aimed at promoting, especially throughout the Canadian academic community, works that have been written by members of the Canadian Studies international network. The awards are intended to designate exceptional books that contribute to excellent scholarship in Canadian Studies and may be given only once to the same person. There are two categories:

1) Book written in French or English;

2) Book written in a language other than French or English.
Linked Funders 00 University of Hull
People Joy Porter
Outputs Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change
Projects What Would Nixon Do?:The Forgotten Republican Roots of American Environmentalism’
Research Centres/Groups Treatied Spaces
URL https://iccs-ciec.ca/pierre-savard-awards/
Treatied Spaces Awarded Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for Canada Research Chair Damien Lee

Treatied Spaces Awarded Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for Canada Research Chair Damien Lee
Feb 29, 2024

Summary The Treatied Spaces Research Group welcomes Canada Research Chair Damien Lee as a Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor for 10 months from June 2024. A member of the Fort William First Nation and citizen of the Anishinaabe nation, Professor Lee is a global expert on Indigenous political and legal orders. Whilst with TSRG, he will be completing his next book "Wiitkamaganak: Adoption and the Resurgence of Anishinaable Citizenship Law" (UoT Press) and developing joint plans for a yet larger project, "A First Indigenous History of North American Adoption" that reconceptualises North American history using the lens of Indigenous and settler-Indigenous adoption.
Linked Funders The Leverhulme Trust
People Joy Porter
Projects Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship - Damien Lee
Research Centres/Groups Treatied Spaces
Why was Beverley a haven for criminals?

Why was Beverley a haven for criminals?
Nov 25, 2024

Source Hidden East Yorkshire
Summary Why was Beverley a haven for criminals? is a programme within the Hidden East Yorkshire series. It explores crime and justice in medieval Beverley. It engages with the exhibition on Sanctuary at Beverley Minster. This is a Radio Humberside programme and it is available on BBC Sounds.
People Stephanie Brown
Projects Medieval Murder Map
Research Centres/Groups Cultures of Incarcertion Centre
Centre for Violence, Victimology and Vulnerability (CV3)
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0j5jj5q
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SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and strong institutions