18 DEC 2020 · How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with AgentNDN and Elysse Deveaux about decolonization, memes, and semiotics. What are the tools can use to interrupt colonialism and colonial structures?   More about AgentNDN: Agent NDN is a Listuguj Mi'gmaw PhD student, lecturer, musician, author, memer, and an outspoken social critic on Twitter and Facebook. His interests are varied and include everything from occultism and conspiracy studies to cognitive science and psychedelics, but most of his energy gets directed towards learning and teaching about the past and present of settler colonialism on Turtle Island.  Connect with him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheAgentNDN    More about Elysse: Elysse Deveaux is an intermedia educator and researcher with over 10 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker and media producer for social and educational organizations (Twenty-One Toys, University of Toronto's iThink Education Initiative). Their current graduate research focuses on curriculum development for critical media literacies at the K-12 level, with an emphasis on visual pedagogies and representations in digital culture. Connect with Elysse at synapsemedia.org SUBSCRIBE to the Imagining a New We video channel.    Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/   Learn more about the Imagining a New We video series at https://www.ImaginingaNewWe.com/videos See all the Pandemic Pedagogy videos at https://www.imagininganewwe.com/videos/pandemic-pedagogy Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We'! https://www.amazon.ca/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862831 https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom #DecolonizeCanada #ImaginingaNewWe #Whatsameme?

18 DEC 2020 · How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with Georgina Riel/Waabishki Mukwa Kwe, an Ojibway educational consultant and artist, about how can get  caught in language and to reaffirm colonial ideas of history, the past, and people in ways we didn't realize. In particular, we talk about the idea of "artifacts" when teaching Canadian history, especially in relation to teaching about indigenous people, and how "artifacts" insinuate a dead culture.  Learn more about Georgina and RIEL Cultural Consulting:  On Facebook: https://bit.ly/2Keu3oR On Twitter: https://twitter.com/georginariel See more about Georgina's art collaboration Riel + Berg Art and Culture here: https://www.andyberg-art.com/untitled SUBSCRIBE to the Imagining a New We video channel.  Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Learn more about the Imagining a New We video series at https://www.ImaginingaNewWe.com/videos Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We'! https://bit.ly/38dDCfH https://amzn.to/38a8CgC #IndegenizeHistory #DecolonizeHistory #ImaginingaNewWe

14 DEC 2020 · In this Source Saturday conversation I speak with Amber Lloydlangston (Curator of Regional History), Olivia Musico (community collector), and Ghaida Hamdun (co-founder of Black Lives Matter London) about Museum London's Black Lives Matter exhibit. The Black Lives Matter wall exhibit is a display of 117 posters that were used during the Black Lives Matter protest held in London, Ontario on June 6, 2020. Olivia Musico, Ghaida Hamdun, and Keira Roberts collected and co-curated this exhibit in collaboration with Amber Lloydlangston and in this conversation we talk about the process of curating the exhibit and the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement in London, ON as well as around the world. See the the Black Lives Matter exhibit here: https://bit.ly/2WdPwjY Museum London: https://bit.ly/3gL5VGj Twitter: https://bit.ly/37iznQC Black Lives Matter London: https://bit.ly/2K49V8S Instagram: https://bit.ly/3oMCmqo Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We':  https://amzn.to/3aol7bl https://bit.ly/3mgXRhv #BlackLivesMatter #MuseumLondon #ChallengeCdnHist.

13 NOV 2020 · In this video, Dr. Glassford talks about a letter sent home from London in 1943 to demonstrate how prominent emotional labour and creating networks of home was for many women in the Red Cross. We talk about gender, and gendered expectations of care and service during the war, and how women’s experiences and expectations may have grated against these. Buy “Making the Best of It” here:  https://www.ubcpress.ca/making-the-best-of-it More about Sarah: Sarah Glassford is a social historian and an archivist in the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. She is the author of Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross, and coeditor of *A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. * Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We':  https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862831 https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom #MeaningfulLearning #RemembranceDay #ChallengeCdnHist

13 NOV 2020 · In this video, Jennifer talks about how she used oral histories to refute the dominant historiographical notion that Jews did not participate in homefront war activities. In fact, Jewish women’s participation in home front activities carried a much different meaning and weight than it did for other women due to their Jewishness. In our conversation, she showed quotes from her oral history participants and paired them with photographs with little information attached, to demonstrate how the histories of Jewish women’s experiences during the war can be lost without speaking to the women themselves. Buy “Making the Best of It” here: https://www.ubcpress.ca/making-the-best-of-it Connect with Jen on Twitter:  More about Jen: Jennifer Shaw is a PhD candidate in the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of Jewish women and girls on the Canadian home front during World War II, and how their activities affected the wider Jewish community. In addition to her studies, she is a mom to four active kids, and works as a research assistant both in Western’s medical school and for a University of Toronto professor. She sleeps when she can find the time. Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We':  https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862831 https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom #MeaningfulLearning #RememberanceDay #ChallengeCdnHist

13 NOV 2020 · Dr. Amy Shaw discusses her co-edited collection on women and girls in Canada and Newfoundland during WW2. *Dr. Shaw underscores that by listening to the women themselves – the archival sources and oral histories that are available – we can complicate the ways we understand wartime for women in Canada and Newfoundland. We also talk about a photograph from the Royal Canadian Navy and how camaraderie and safety was presented to young women and their parents as being aspects of military service. Buy the book here: https://www.ubcpress.ca/making-the-best-of-it More about Amy: Amy Shaw is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge and a research associate with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies. She is the author of Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War and coeditor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We':  https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862831 https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom #MeaningfulLearning #RemembranceDay #ChallengeCdnHist

9 NOV 2020 · In this video I speak with Dr. Matt Luckett about the digitization project of his grandparents' letters during World War Two. Dr. Luckett's grandfather, Elmer Kurtz Luckett, was a steam engineer in the United States Navy who lived though the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In our conversation, we talk about the 600 letters he has digitized and read and the ways using letters like these provides us a glimpse into the lives of the people who served and their families. When understanding these lives, we can understand more about ourselves. See the archive of Luckett's letters here: https://lucketthistory.com/grandpas-l... Connect with Matt of twitter here: https://twitter.com/lucketthistory More about Matt: Dr. Matt Luckett studies and writes about the American West, World War II, and American History in general. He completed his Ph.D. in American history at UCLA in 2014. He is the academic coordinator for the Master of Arts in the Humanities (HUX) Program at California State University Dominguez Hills, and also teaches at Sacramento State and Sierra College. His first book, Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing and Culture in Western Nebraska, 1850 - 1890, will be released by the University of Nebraska Press on November 1, 2020. Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We' today: https://www.amazon.ca/Transforming-Ca... https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-... #MeaningfulLearning #RemembranceDay #ChallengeCdnHist

9 NOV 2020 · The Canadian Letters and Images Project is a digitized collection of letters from military conflicts that involved Canadians. In this video, I speak to Dr. Stephen Davies the director of the Project about two letters from this collection. See the Mayse's collection here: https://www.canadianletters.ca/collections/all/collection/20728 Read the letters we talked about in the video here:  Will's letter to his wife: https://www.canadianletters.ca/document-60881?position=104&list=u6N6BOVreYG06sqeiEUs_8SGJo6R0RKBQs8CT68_vIA Betty's letter to her husband: https://www.canadianletters.ca/document-50683?position=116&list=YORvGbY6x0YaeDks640BlYSvw_k2WYqAqG4Z2P1cBWA Visit The Canadian Letters and Images Project website here: https://www.canadianletters.ca/ Connect with the Project on twitter here: https://twitter.com/cdnletters More about Stephen: Dr. Stephen Davies is originally from Hamilton, Ontario. He did a BA at McMaster University, a MA at the University of Warwick, and a PhD at McMaster University. He has taught at Memorial University, Nipissing University, Concordia University, the University of Ottawa, and he currently teaches at Vancouver Island University. He created The Canadian Letters and Images Project in 2000 and has been the director since then. Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We' today: https://www.amazon.ca/Transforming-Ca... https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-...  #MeaningfulLearning #RemembranceDay #ChallengeCdnHist

9 NOV 2020 · What is happening behind the scenes in the news media during the contentious US election? How can historians help us understand this moment? In this video, I speak to journalism historian Professor Emeritus Michael Palmer from Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, France about the 2000 election. Using this history, we talk about the current election and the pressures international news agencies are under to deliver when there is yet to be a definitive result. Professor Palmer’s book International News Agencies: A History is published by Palgrave Macmillan and can be purchased where ever you buy books. However, the e-version is also readily available for download through most university library systems. https://www.amazon.ca/International-News-Agencies-Michael-Palmer/dp/3030311775

24 OCT 2020 · Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching? Dr. Kyle Falcon introduces us to audio recording of séances from the 1930s. In our conversation, we talk about the intersection between technology and gender, and the ways spiritualism was a prominent belief in the early-20th century. Check out the sources we talk about here: https://ubu.com/sound/occult.html specifically No. 11 and 12  Connect with him on social media: https://twitter.com/kylejfalcon Follow Samantha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSCutrara The Source Saturday conversations are also available as a podcast: https://anchor.fm/samantha-cutrara Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We' today: https://www.amazon.ca/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862833  https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom #MeaningfulLearning #Spookyhistory #ChallengeCdnHist