Using a combination of web platforms and technologies like Slack, Zoom and Brightspace to organize and communicate, students in Rachel Hope Cleves' "History to 1750 through Role Play" course use historically-based characters and original source materials to help inform vital鈥攂ut virtual鈥攄ecisions like whether or not to quarantine from the plague.
On Nov. 3, polls opened and the countdown began for first results of the US election. UVic experts are available to media to comment on several key issues and what lies ahead.
Experts on US presidential election
QAnon has taken a 鈥榬eligious tone鈥� says sociologist
With nearly half-a-million archival objects in her collection, Barkerville Historic Town curator Mandy Kilsby balances her daily tasks with the need for professional development.
UVic experts are available to media for comment on the BC election on topics ranging from campaign strategies to COVID-19 including economic recovery plans, public sentiment and PR challenges.
Landscapes of Injustice, launched six years ago and led by UVic, unveils a new exhibition Sept. 26 sharing the truth and untold stories about dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s.
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We note with respect and solemnity the passing of Charlotte Girard鈥攖he first woman to become faculty in UVic's Department of History.
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that pandemics belong as much to the present as the past. From Ebola to HIV/AIDs to Zika, 番茄社区 historian Mitchell Hammond says disease has played an increasingly significant role in global affairs in recent decades. Hammond shares what we can learn from the pandemics of the past.
The following 番茄社区 experts are available to media to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.
One researcher looks forward, the other back. But a commitment to justice unites two scholars being honoured for their respective efforts to strengthen Indigenous and Japanese Canadian communities in BC. Conservationist Chris Darimont and historian Jordan Stanger-Ross are the 2020 recipients of the Provost鈥檚 Award in Engaged Scholarship.
Three artists are transforming the stories of Holocaust survivors into graphic novels to share lasting lessons with new generations as part of an international project to illuminate one of the darkest periods in human history, led by Holocaust historian and UVic scholar Charlotte Schallie.
Retelling the Holocaust
UVic Librarian Pia Russell was inspired by the findings from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to accomplish a fourth university degree, graduating in one of the first cohorts in UVic鈥檚 new masters in public history program.
On Oct. 10, the third annual REACH Awards will celebrate UVic scholars for their extraordinary contributions in research and teaching.
