Events & Past Lectures

Nitinikiau Innusi/Exactly What I Said: Tshaukuesh Penashue & Elizabeth Yeoman Talk About Their Books

November 24, 2022

Please join us online as Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue & Elizabeth Yeoman speak about their books, Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive and Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds, and their experiences working together. Tshaukuesh was a leader of the Innu campaign against NATO low level flying and weapons-testing on Innu land in… Read More

Annual Gilbert Higgins Lecture – A Match to a Blasty Bough: How FFAW-Unifor Confronted Power and Shared the Wealth

Earle McCurdy

October 27, 2022

Please join us online on Thursday, October 27th, as Earle McCurdy presents a history of Fish, Food, and Allied Workers (FFAW-Unifor). The historic sense of NL as a fishing society has been described as a focal point of our cultural identity. In the next Gilbert Higgins lecture for the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society, Earle… Read More

“Immortal, Invisible”: Finding Evidence of Spirituality and Faithfulness in the History of Lived Religion

Bonnie Morgan

September 29, 2022

Please join us online  as historian Bonnie Morgan presents an illustrated lecture about her motivations for writing Ordinary Saints: Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland (McGill-Queen’s, 2019) and explores how the use of diverse research methods can help the historian understand patterns and expressions of religious belief. Ordinary Saints won the 2020 Canadian Historical Association’s… Read More