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brian_gettler

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Settler #historian. Prof, University of Toronto, member of the Montreal History Group (https://ghm.uqam.ca/) and Associate Editor, Canadian Historical Review.

Thinking about Indigenous peoples, capitalism, the state, and colonialism, especially the fiduciary and fiscal varieties. 🎶 and 🚴 too. Posts in English. En français itou. #histodons #histoire | tfr

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brian_gettler, to histodons French
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Nouvelle parution : Écrire la ville. Pouvoirs, urbanités et modernités dans l'espace québécois (XIXe-XXe siècles).

Il s'agit d'un ouvrage collectif du Groupe d'histoire de Montréal. Entre autres, le livre comprend mon chapitre : « Activité économique et formation des classes sociales à Wendake, 1800-1950 ». @histodons

https://pressbooks.pub/ghmmhg/

brian_gettler, to histodons
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On January 15th, I will be taking part alongside several other scholars in a symposium organized by Wilfrid Laurier University on legacies of racism and colonialism in Canadian universities. My talk will focus on the use in 1860 of funds held in trust for First Nations to bail out McGill College.

Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past - Reimagining the Future (9am-2:30pm, EST, online)
@histodons

Registration: https://wilfrid-laurier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x4KTA2a4R7G10z9N1zxUWA#/registration

pjw, to academicchatter
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Hi,
I have a question about academic job applications.
Is it a pretty universal rule that your recommendation letter writers should be senior to you in academic rank? Obviously this is true for people applying out of their PhDs and Post-Docs, but is it also true of tenured but-not-full professors? What are the general rules of thumb here?

#1stGenerationAcademic
#philosophy #academia #academicchatter @academicchatter

brian_gettler,
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@pjw @academicchatter Good question! I'd say ideally, yes, privilege more senior letter writers at associate. Of course, this depends on career stage. At some point, the group of senior people shrinks while some associates have earned widespread respect. From limited experience on hiring committees for senior positions, I'd say candidates should favor senior colleagues as referees but might include a letter from a colleague at a similar career stage. I'd be curious to learn what others think.

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Academic Job!

Assistant Professor, Classics (3-year term)

Come work with us in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga! We're a good bunch who generally don't bite.

Feel free to reach out for more information.

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississauga-Assistant-Professor-Contractually-Limited-Term-Appointment-Classics-ON/576290017/
@histodons

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Check out the DH project on the economic, social and political history of the banana industry in Latin America from my colleague Kevin Coleman. @histodons

https://visualizingtheamericas.utm.utoronto.ca/

brian_gettler,
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@histodons For a brief write-up on the project from the university's PR people: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/new-visualizing-americas-project-reveals-complex-socioeconomic-history-banana

brian_gettler, to histodons
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The Indigenous History Group of the Canadian Historical Association is running an online book panel event on Tuesday, November 28, 6:00-7:30pm EST. The panel, moderated by Sean Carleton, is a conversation with Lianne Leddy and Annette W. de Stecher about their recent award-winning books.

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdu6spj0pHdWo2dMzEbFCWN5vahamAjd5

Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: https://utorontopress.com/9781442614376/serpent-river-resurgence/

de Stecher, Wendat Women's Art: https://www.mqup.ca/wendat-women-s-arts-products-9780228010678.php
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brian_gettler, to academicjobs
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🚨 TT Job! 🚨

Environmental History, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia

Open geographic, thematic, and temporal field

https://www2.unbc.ca/79306/assistant-professor
@histodons @academicjobs

sps, to random
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Hey -

Virtual presentation tomorrow at 1900 Eastern on Indigenous refuge in early Canada by historian Jean-François Lozier (Canadian of History):

https://carleton.ca/mds/cu-events/promised-lands-indigenous-refuge-in-early-canada-and-beyond-shannon-lectures/

brian_gettler,
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⬆️ Check this out tomorrow. Lozier writes perceptive and nuanced histories of French-Indigenous relations. This will doubtlessly be a great talk. @histodons

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brian_gettler, to histodons
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The American Indian Experience database (Bloomsbury/ABC-CLIO) is open access through the end of November (registration required). @histodons

https://www.abc-clio.com/nahm-2023/

brian_gettler, to econhist
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I'm updating the syllabus for my "Indigenous Economies and Empire" grad seminar. What books/articles (re: anywhere in the world and any period) would you include? #histodons @histodons @econhist

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@aarbrk @histodons @econhist That's a good suggestion - thanks. In fact, this is the sort of thing I need since I often neglect "the classics" when putting together syllabi.

brian_gettler, to histodons
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A moving text by my colleague Paul Cohen in memoriam to Natalie Zemon Davis. Paul addresses both Natalie's singular scholarly contributions and her importance to those who were fortunate enough to know her. @histodons

https://www.history.utoronto.ca/node/4594

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Natalie Zemon Davis, one of the greats, has passed. I was fortunate to meet her on several occasions - she was an emeritus professor in my department. Beyond her formidable published body of work, mostly focused on early modern France, I was always struck by her generosity and genuine interest in others' research, regardless of field or stature. RIP. #histodons @histodons

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Very useful historical collection of digitized primary sources: Oklahoma State University Libraries' Tribal Treaties Database. In beta, the database includes agreements between tribal nations and the United States (1778-1886), including links to both scans of the original treaties from the National Archives and versions published after the fact. @histodons

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Buchanan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Canadian History, Queen's University. 2-year . Deadline: November 15. @histodons

https://www.queensu.ca/history/sites/default/files/Buchanan%20Post%20Doctoral%20Fellowship%202023.pdf

brian_gettler, to histodons
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My next band: This Extraordinary Society of Thieves and Swindlers @histodons

Source: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4182692

brian_gettler, to histodons
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New book:

Bill Waiser and Jennie Hansen, Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land

https://ecwpress.com/products/cheated

@histodons

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@histodons For Waiser and Hansen's write up of their new book, "Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land," from this week's Globe: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-how-wilfrid-lauriers-liberals-grabbed-reserve-lands-in-the-prairie/

brian_gettler, to econhist
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The Business History Review has just published a thematic issue on Business, Capitalism, and Slavery. For a limited time only, the articles are open access. @histodons @econhist

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/latest-issue

brian_gettler, to histodons
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The Group's Muffins and Methodology speaker series returns next week with:

Mary Chapman, Sydney Lines, Camilla Lopez & Meghna Chatterjee, “Early Chinese in Montreal: Methods Behind a Student-Generated Exhibition”

Thursday, Oct. 5, 12-1:15pm (EDT) on Zoom (registration required) @histodons

https://tinyurl.com/mhg-ghm1

brian_gettler, to histodons
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My next band: the Fantom Fingers of Microfilm. Who's with me, ? @histodons

brian_gettler,
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@cdanby @histodons Me too!

brian_gettler, to random
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I haven't seen any interviews with her, but / should really be speaking with Kassandra Luciuk about the SS veteran invited to Parliament. Luciuk is a historian (Dalhousie) of the Ukrainian community in 20th-century . She demonstrates that some Cold-War Canadian officials were quite happy for right-wing Ukrainian migrants to use violence against communist labour leaders, also from Ukraine, already in the country.

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/llt/1900-v1-n1-llt07545/1094778ar/

brian_gettler,
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2/ This week I've read/heard many discussions in the media of SS veterans' migration to , but none with historians. What I've seen are conversations with politicians. Fine, this is a contemporary political debate. Still, all of these conversations claim that "we don't know enough" about the history. But scholars know more than politicians! If I were a journalist, I'd start with Luciuk, but other (of migration, anti-communism, intelligence, politics) could help too. @histodons

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3/ I just came across this from the CBC. The piece from the National features a historian with some expertise on SS veterans' migration to - Jan Grabowski. More like this, please! @histodons https://youtu.be/Ucm8cSoCGXw?feature=shared

brian_gettler, to histodons
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"On a tear, and undeterred by mere facts." Donald Wright, president of the CHA, describes the maddeningly inaccurate and stupidly conspiratorial claims re: made by the leader of the federal Conservatives, the man who will likely become 's next PM.

"[W]hat we deserve is an honest recognition that history is complicated, and always has been.... no one wants to live in a society where there is only one version of the past." @histodons

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/wright-poilievre-is-wrong-no-one-is-deleting-canadian-history

brian_gettler,
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@dairpo @histodons It's a fairly innocuous piece. Wright mostly just points out the obvious - changing the images in passports doesn't erase history. And that this whole talking point in the right's culture wars is absurd: societies re-evaluate their stories over time, this is what history is.

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Today in seminar we did one of my favorite classroom activities: collectively reading random 19th-century handwritten sources. And there's more to come over the next several weeks! It's glorious geeking out in a group. @histodons

brian_gettler, to histodons
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"In Shortt, the history of banking was little more than a chronicle of great Scottish businessmen in history."

Not a typo, a #CdnHist joke from Robert Sweeny. #histodons @histodons

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Apropos of nothing: my absolute favorite footnote (we all have one, right?). @histodons

"And to anyone who would dispute that 14,500 years is “effectively forever,” I would ask that you count down with me from 14,500:

14500, 14499, 14498, 14497, 14496, 14495, 14494, 14493, 14492, 14491, 14490, 14489, 14488, 14487, 14486, 14485, 14484, 14483, 14482, 14481, 14480, 14479, 14478, 14477, 14476, 14475, 14474, 14473, 14472, 14471, 14470, 14469, 14468..., 3, 2, 1"

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2017/07/13/a-theory-in-practice-back-to-the-bering-land-bridge/#_ftn11

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Last week, #histodons of #Canada lost a luminary: Elizabeth Mancke, professor of empire and governance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British North America, especially Atlantic Canada, at the University of New Brunswick.

In memoriam, the Canadian Historical Review has made her historical perspectives piece "The Age of Constitutionalism and the New Political History" (2019) open access. #CdnHist @histodons

https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/chr.2019-0028

writingmonicker, to academicchatter
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Things I didn't realize about the :

(This will be a very long list by the end of the year if I keep it up. We'll see.)

  1. Your statements are basically done after the first few deadlines. I always thought I'd customize extensively for each school.

Nope.

On a week like this (with so many apps due Sep 15), you just don't have time. You have to trust that you already put in the work with your base template. It's a mental shift from fellowship apps.

@academicchatter @sociology

brian_gettler,
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@writingmonicker @academicchatter @sociology One thing I found helpful for campus visits: find downtime and zone out. Meetings with anyone who has no input in the hiring process are perfect (librarians, family care office, etc). Be polite, but don't focus, don't ask questions, recover some free time for yourself. Also, if you can navigate by yourself from meeting A to B, you can get a walk in while not having to interact. All this helps bring the temperature down between interviews, talks, etc.

brian_gettler, to histodons
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In my and Markets in class this week we're looking at Catherine Desbarats's "On Being Surprised: by New France's Card Money, for Example" (2021). Every time I read it, I appreciate the article even more. @histodons

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786788

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Really enjoying this. It's both an impressively erudite and remarkably accessible retelling of that centers peoples and obliterates a number of national myths. Highly recommended and worth imitating for historians (like me!) working in other national contexts. @histodons

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Really enjoying this. It's both an impressively erudite and remarkably accessible retelling of that centers peoples and obliterates a number of national myths. Highly recommended and worth imitating for historians (like me!) working in other national contexts. @histodons

brian_gettler, to histodons
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What you put on the cover of your publication if you want me to pick it up. @histodons

brian_gettler,
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@CRSG @histodons But of course!

brian_gettler, to histodons
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My colleague, Kevin Coleman, has put together this fantastic event examining the history of capitalism through the production and consumption of a single commodity, the banana.

Thursday, September 14, University of Toronto Mississauga

In-person registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/visualizing-the-americas-launch-event-tickets-701166707497

Online registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtc-2tpj4rHdT4eUiA70yPqbUDY31PuSr_?_x_zm_rtaid=LWv7b8kYS6G9OT9xJmRn8Q.1693237494959.0719d21d0c45554415b3450e5070eed6&_x_zm_rhtaid=239#/registration

@histodons

brian_gettler, to histodons
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"1923: Race, Empire, and Settler Colonialism Across the Pacific"

What looks like a fantastic online symposium featuring brilliant scholars reflecting on the contemporary significance of global racial exclusion during the 1920s.

Saturday, September 9

@histodons

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1923-race-empire-and-settler-colonialism-across-the-pacific-tickets-671627514977?aff=oddtdtcreator

brian_gettler, to histodons
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On passing counterfeit notes (1826) - a case in which the convicted party ultimately claimed to have purchased them and the box in which they were concealed in "specie and bills" from "a man named Page, in Dunham, Lower Canada [Quebec]." We know that cross-border counterfeiting networks existed, though we know relatively little in terms of specifics. @histodons

Source: The Quebec Mercury, February 7, 1826

Article titled "Counterfeits Detected" that originally appeared in the New Haven Herald on January 24, 1826. Part 2 of 3.
Article titled "Counterfeits Detected" that originally appeared in the New Haven Herald on January 24, 1826. Part 3 of 3.

brian_gettler, to histodons
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Worthwhile research on contemporary and (to reduce 1, give 2).

As an historian, specifically one who studies the development of prejudice re: marginalized communities and proscriptions around the provision of cash, nothing could be more obvious. Money is a form of power, as is withholding it or making the impoverished jump through humiliating hoops to get limited in-kind prestations. This is anything but new. @histodons

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120

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brian_gettler,
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@histodons Today, I learned that a man whose handwriting I know well took his own life nearly 200 years ago, purportedly torn up over the death of a close friend. He was refused a Christian burial, though he was recognized, if only very obliquely, with a blank space in the cemetery's registry. It may seem strange, but this death, that took place in 1831, has me down. RIP.

brian_gettler,
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@cobalt @histodons This was in Canada, what is now Toronto and was then York, a town of some 5,000 people over which Church of England clergy had remarkable power. I don't know the finer points in this case but those who took their own life would, in addition to not having a religious ceremony, often be buried in unconsecrated ground.

lewriley, to edutooters
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Hi educators of the Fediverse! I regret to report that I am developing syllabi for the fall semester. I feel the need to add a statement on generative AI, and I'm interested in what others are doing/thinking about this. If you have a statement you'd be willing to share, I'd be grateful. Here's my current draft:

Use of generative AI tools (ChatGPT, e.g.) to assist you with your work for this course is off-limits for at least two reasons. First, developing your scientific writing and critical thinking skills is part of what we're trying to do here, and relying on someone or something else to do that work undermines your development as a writer and thinker. Second, the large language models on which generative AI writing tools are built are trained on the writing of other people, and they offer no way to cite the sources of the writing they produce.

(This is followed by a standard paragraph on plagiarism.)

@edutooters #HigherEd #AI

brian_gettler,
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@lewriley @edutooters Have a look at this (someone posted it here a week or so ago): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RMVwzjc1o0Mi8Blw_-JUTcXv02b2WRH86vw7mi16W3U/edit?usp=drivesdk

brian_gettler, to histodons French
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J'adore les clins d'œil dans les notes de bas de page. Comme quoi ça vaut la peine de les lire.

Source: Sophie Imbeault, « Que faire de tout cet argent de papier ? Une déclaration séparée au traité de Paris » (2013)

#histodons #histoire #HistQC @histodons

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She takes a while to get there, but in the closing paragraph of the last chapter of her ambitious and deeply erudite "Civilization: From Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian History," Elsbeth Heaman makes a pithy and, in my view, wholly convincing argument that in #Canada (and, I would say, in many other places) we need more #history. #histodons #CdnHist @histodons

brian_gettler,
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@histodons More worth considering from Heaman: “Conservatives look everywhere for the friends versus enemies distinction and use it to concentrate power and wealth amongst their friends. Liberals look for some check on that concentration and some ways to build up alliances. Conservatism shores up property to insulate it against challenges, often calling itself liberal in the process. That's my thesis. Conservatism is entrenched in the material order of the world...”

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@histodons "... and liberalism a framework for negotiating with it for purposes of enlargement according to natural sentiments of sympathy and self-protection against domination."

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