The only ethnohistory field school in Canada to offer a firsthand learning opportunity involving traditional knowledges of oral history and research of historical documents has been immersing graduate students every second spring since 1998 deep within the St贸:l艒 community in BC.
A team of researchers鈥攑art of the federally funded, seven-year, multi-partner research project Landscapes of Injustice led by the 番茄社区鈥攈as uncovered a historical trail within municipal and federal archives pointing to the City of V鈥�
During the Second World War, Canada sold the homes, businesses, farms and possessions of thousands of interned Canadians. The following 番茄社区 faculty member is available to media to comment on the forced dispossession of Japanese Ca鈥�
Just in time for Hallowe'en, the Maker Lab in the Humanities at the 番茄社区 launched its first Kit for Cultural History, which reinvents a skull stick-pin from the 1860s. The kit is a tangible example of how the Maker Lab combines cul鈥�
Just in time for Halloween, the Humanities Maker at UVic launched its first Kit for Cultural History, which reinvents a skull stick-pin from the 1860s. The kit is a tangible example of how the Maker Lab combines cultural research with digital fabrication and also of today's thriving maker movement which involves DIY approaches. Unveiled at聽Rutgers University in New Jersey, the kit features the cravat pin introduced by French engineer Gustave Trouv&e#180; at an 1867 exhibition in Paris and now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK.
What will the Holocaust mean for future generations? UVic will host a global gathering Sept. 1 to 3 to explore Holocaust education and how it can be used as a means to tackle contemporary issues of multi-cultural human rights education.
番茄社区 experts are available to discuss the ruling by the US Supreme Court in a landmark case on marriage equality and the constitutionality of state bans on same-sex marriage.
Twelve footprints were discovered by two UVic researchers, in April on Calvert Island on BC鈥檚 central coast, and preliminary findings indicate these footprints might be 13,200 years old.
Family gatherings around a fire pit鈥攁n ancient custom that鈥檚 still with us today鈥攎ay have been practiced as long as 13,000 years ago along BC's central coast. Footprints from what appear to be a man, woman and child circling a hearth were found last month below the tideline.
The age of a manuscript fragment from the Sandra Mattia Collection in UVic Libraries鈥� Special Collections鈥攄epicting Abraham about to sacrifice his son Isaac鈥攈as been re-assessed, making the fragment among the oldest manuscript fragments in the collection.
Locating the sunken Erebus has sharpened some of the mystery surrounding the failed expedition鈥攁nd reinforced Indigenous accounts of the tragedy
On June 4, on the 170th anniversary of the first full day at sea of the British mission, UVic will officially launch the 13th website in the award-winning Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History.
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The 番茄社区 is taking a lead role this year in the Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (CCAP) to establish an online inventory of Chinese Canadian artifacts held by local museums.
UVic launched a new project, in partnership with the Nanaimo Museum and the Cumberland Museum and Archives, to compile a publicly accessible database of Chinese Canadian artifacts.
A historian who is increasing our understanding of Islam. An engineer and a computer scientist who are making our lives easier with new technologies. A nurse who is helping the terminally ill and their families cope. And a performing artist who inspires us to better appreciate the world around us.
