@AidHistoryCan

A multidisciplinary network interested in the history of humanitarian and development aid, archives, and NGOs.

aidhistory.ca
Joined November 2017
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The CNHH is moving to Bluesky, follow us at @aidhistory.bsky.social
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🚨New Blog: Project on the International Red Cross Movement and the Cold War Divide, the 1940s–1980s – Canadian Network on Humanitarian History aidhistory.ca/project-on-the…
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🚨New Blog Post! aidhistory.ca/international-…
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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694425 Feb 2025
Starmer’s cuts to UK aid budget are ‘cruel and shameful’, say experts theguardian.com/global-devel… @AidHistoryCan @theMcLeodGroup

Starmer’s cuts to UK aid budget are ‘cruel and shameful’, say experts

Reduction to 0.3% of gross national income in order to fund defence spending has been decried as a ‘move to appease Trump’

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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694422 Jan 2025
This @HistoryWO article will interest @Lerrning colleagues bsky.app/profile/historywo.b…
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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694424 Jan 2025
This @LRB review will interest @AidHistoryCan friends/ @dwebsterhist @LydiaWytenbroek @KevinOSull @HistoryOfRights @theMcLeodGroup lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/…

Susan Pedersen · Slim for Britain: Solidarity Economy

No one who has lived in Britain would contest that Oxfam (and Save the Children, War on Want, Live Aid and the other big...

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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694420 Dec 2024
Launch of The Cadieux-Léger Fellowship. For doctoral students conducting research on topics relevant to @GAC_Corporate - deadline to apply: January 13, 2025. @CUGradStudies @carletonhgsa @gsacarleton @AidHistoryCan @CU_NPSIA @cu_peco : emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.…
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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694426 Aug 2024
Last Spring, I met with Yvon Pomerleau, Dominican friar and collector of African graphic novels, when he donated them to @arc_carleton . He explained how it all began. My small account is here: createsend.com/t/t-314B05F16… @IAS_Carleton @AidHistoryCan @librarylandia
Yvan Pomerleau in his rooms at the Dominican convent of Montreal, February 2024 Photo: Dominique Marshall

ALT Yvan Pomerleau in his rooms at the Dominican convent of Montreal, February 2024 Photo: Dominique Marshall

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Julia Irwin@juliairwin18 Jun 2024
Reminder: nominations for SHAFR’s elected positions are due next Monday, June 24!
Julia Irwin@juliairwin7 May 2024
SHAFR is seeking nominations for several elected positions. Please consider nominating a colleague (or yourself). Nominations are due June 24 and should be emailed to the chair of the Nominating Committee, Julia Irwin. More info below.
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🚨 The Cadieux-Léger Fellowship 🚨Check out this fellowship opportunity. Deadline: June 25, 2024 #aidhistory emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.…
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🚨 International Policy Ideas Challenge 2024 - Call for proposals 🚨 Check out this call@for proposals! #aidhistory international.gc.ca/world-mo…
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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694417 Jun 2024
Proud to be a @CndHistAssoc affiliated committee
Canadian Network on Humanitarian History@AidHistoryCan13 Jun 2024
Take a look at the latest @AidHistoryCan Bulletin here: aidhistory.ca/topics/bulleti… #aidhistory @Dominiq92516944
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Take a look at the latest @AidHistoryCan Bulletin here: aidhistory.ca/topics/bulleti… #aidhistory @Dominiq92516944
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Julia Irwin@juliairwin10 Jun 2024
I was lucky to read a review copy of Maximilian Klose’s excellent new book — highly recommended for fellow historians of humanitarianism and US foreign relations!
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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694417 May 2024
The 2 Summer jobs below might interest @cu_peco @cha/shc @CU_History @carletonhgsa graduate students
CUASA - Carleton U Academic Staff Association@cuasa13 May 2024
CUASA is hiring for three positions! Details: Member Services and Communications Officer: cuasa.ca/msco-job-ad-2024/ Collective Bargaining Support Assistant (Research): cuasa.ca/cbsa-research-job-a… Collective Bargaining Support Assistant (Finance): cuasa.ca/cbsa-finance-job-ad…
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Sonya de Laat@SonyadeLaat15 Feb 2024
Very excited to share this new publication; a great collaboration focused on global health imagery: journals.plos.org/globalpubl…. #pictureethics #aidhistory #fakes #ethics @AidHistoryCan @Nassisse1 @Ethox_Centre @HumEthNet @McMasterGHO

Assembling a global health image: Ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers

Background Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote...

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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694429 Jan 2024
New article: Constructing the child as refugee: Visual representations of refugee children in digital news media - Eleni Theodorou, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs… @Lerrning @histchild @LPearsonCentre @AidHistoryCan @SonyadeLaat

Constructing the child as refugee: Visual representations of refugee children in digital news media...

This paper examines the visual representation of the refugee child in digital news media in Cyprus at two historical moments of significant immigration rise in ...

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Julia Irwin@juliairwin17 Jan 2024
Historians of disaster and other disaster studies scholars, please consider submitting to JDS -- and keep an eye out for our first issue, coming out later this year!
Journal of Disaster Studies@JDS_Disasters17 Jan 2024
The Journal of Disaster Studies editorial collective is happy to announce that our inaugural issue will be published in June 2024. We also invite submissions for our next several issues. If you work in disaster studies -- broadly defined -- please consider submitting an article.
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Dominique Marshall she/her@Dominiq9251694422 Nov 2023
50 years ago a Coup d'État destroyed the Chilean 🇨🇱democracy for 17 years. Many in🇨🇦organised in solidarity: the Canadian civil society would never be the same. New exhibit @CarletonLibrary thanks to @Carleton_Intl @echilecanada @calacs @CU_LACS| @AidHistoryCan @BenjaminBryce2
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