Experience time travel today! Or a form of it, anyway: this university library transformed a historical photo archive into an app that compares past landscapes to the present day. Read the full CBC article: esri.social/of8Q50RsrZO @GISinHEd Western University

The inhabitants of regions that are trapped in a cycle of low #employment and #productivity dynamism, and slow #growth relative to their performance in the past and to their country and European peers, are veering toward greater #Euroscepticism .
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Full article: Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

You can use GIS as a time machine! Esri's advanced GIS technology enabled Western University's Weldon Library Map and Data Centre to develop an app using >10,000 aerial photos to compare southwestern Ontario's past with the present.

Explore the app: esri.social/bgp150RlrmW

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Just arrived in my mailbox: Kiran and Craig Damian Smith’s new collection, Migration Governance in North America, to which Phil Triadafilopoulos and I contributed a chapter. Great to see it out! Published by McGill-Queen's University Press.

📢 #SSHA2024 Conference Deadline Reminder: Friday March 22 is the deadline to submit panel&paper proposals for the Social Science History conference in Toronto Oct 31-Nov 3 2024. See ssha.org/conference for info. Join us in the city formerly known as the Belfast of Canada 🍀

Great to hear Michelle Hamilton ⁦Public History, Western University Canada⁩ talking ⁦CBCLondonMorning⁩ about this important petition to Save Victoria Hospital Archives - London, Canada · Change.org. Please consider signing if you live in #ldnont #sxont change.org/p/save-victori…

Hot off the press, on one of the central issues of our time, comes an advance copy of Kiran and Craig Damian Smith's new volume, MIGRATION GOVERNANCE IN NORTH AMERICA. Essential reading for policy-oriented students, scholars, and practitioners.

The 44th edition of The Mirror is here! Fun fact: Did you know it's Canada's oldest undergraduate history journal, published annually here at Western. Congratulations to the dynamic team who made it possible, authors and faculty supervisors. #westernu

On behalf of the History Department, we wish to share the news of the passing of our colleague, friend, and former Dean of Social Science, Prof. Peter Neary. necrocanada.com/deces-2023/pet… #westernu

This is a terrible loss. Peter was very generous to me when I arrived at Western. We had a great chat at his home last August about the history of the Faculty of Social Science. I had hoped to see him again soon.

I am happy to announce a 3-year PhD scholarship on forced migration in the Middle East University of Glasgow! Come research an exciting array of topics, incl. borders, migration diplomacy, and refugee rentierism.

Non-UK students eligible. Deadline: 19 April.
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'Commentators in many spheres lament the poor level of public participation in local government. This flagship book holds the key to explain, and possibly remedy, the problem.” The latest in our 'Urban Governance' series, check it out!

Apr. 2: Join us & Urban Studies @ UofT to mark the end of this year's capstone course w/ the poster showcase, exploring work from students of all disciplines who have tackled urban issues w/ community partners in CA, U.S. & India. There'll be food, drinks & music too! schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/school-o…

Je suis très heureux de recevoir mon exemplaire du Dictionnaire Politique de la Scène Municipale Québécoise, auquel j'ai contribué en écrivant la postface. Toutes mes félicitations à Anne Mévellec mevellec anne et Sandra Breux Centre Urbanisation Culture Société de l’INRS !