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Professor Barrington Walker
Professor Barrington Walker, Department of History and Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, will discuss the relationship between his legal historical work and contemporary education and advocacy at a time when we are increasingly seeing anti-Black racism as a systemic rather than an individual problem. This event is for registered participants… Read more »
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Professor Allan Bartley on The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom
Professor Allan Bartley, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, will speak about his recently published book (2020) on The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom. This event is for registered participants only. Upon registration you will be sent Zoom information. Please Note: This event has been approved… Read more »
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Professor Daniel Broyld, ‘Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery.’
Join us for a Zoom discussion with Professor Daniel Broyld, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University. This discussion is on the topic of ‘Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery.’ This event is registered participants only. Upon registration you will be sent a link with Zoom information…. Read more »
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History with Professor Heidi Bohaker
Professor Heidi Bohaker, of the University of Toronto, will discuss her book Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance. This study of Anishinaabe law before the Europeans is the Osgoode Society’s members’ selection for 2020. On registration you will be sent the link for the event.
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Our 2021 Events will be posted soon!
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The Osgoode Society Annual Meeting of Members
This is a reminder that The Osgoode Society will hold its Annual General Meeting of Members on November 30th at 5:30 pm via Zoom. The Osgoode Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: The Osgoode Society Annual Meeting Time: Nov 30, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93480886008?pwd=TDRNSkhpVG5NS1Jhd3N1WU41T3B0UT09 Meeting ID:… Read more »
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History – Professor Nina Reid-Maroney, ‘Vigilance: Black Activism and Chatham’s Demarest Rescue, 1858.’
We will be resuming our evening legal history talks in the fall. They will be conducted over Zoom and there will be a question and comment period after each talk. Nina Reid-Maroney, Professor of History, Western University, titled ‘Vigilance: Black Activism and Chatham’s Demarest Rescue, 1858.’
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History – Prof. Jim Walker, “Legacies: The Impact of Black Activism on the History of Rights in Canada”
We will be resuming our evening legal history talks in the fall. They will be conducted over Zoom and there will be a question and comment period after each talk. Jim Walker, Professor of History, Waterloo University: ‘Legacies: The Impact of Black Activism on the History of Rights in Canada.’
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CONFERENCES
Listing as of April 3, 2020 Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, London, Ontario, June 1 – 3, has been cancelled American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 11-14, 2020 . Consult the ASLH website – aslh.net. 39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, Auckland, 9th-12th December 2020 Call for Papers-“One Empire, Many Colonies,… Read more »
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History -Anna Jarvis and Filippo Sposini Present their Research
Join us for an evening of new insights into Canadian legal history. This event will explore the work of our 2019 McMurtry Fellowship recipients. Anna Jarvis, Black labour, loyalism, and the law in late eighteenth-century British North America In 1783 five siblings of the Jarvis family of Stamford, Connecticut, were forced to flee the City of New… Read more »