Upcoming Events/Opportunities
Visiting Scholar Talk: "Classroom Incivility Going Viral on Social Media: One Professor’s Encounters" presented by Dr. Jon Anuik, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:00-2:30pm, Abbotsford campus, room K180. Light refreshments provided. Contact historyinfo@ufv.ca.
About the talk: Historians recognize the need to teach about the history and contemporary impacts of residential schools in Canada. Similarly, we know now that the opportunity to learn about the schools exists outside classrooms. In my talk, I draw from a special issue on social media and educational foundations to show how applications such as Instagram and X have an impact on teaching in the standard classroom. The concept of classroom civility, which was originally a pedagogical understanding in the conventional classroom, informs how one can understand how conflicts in class can continue in the digital realm. In this case, the conflict involved an assignment on residential schooling and reaction to it on X and Instagram. I share lessons in learning for how one can address incidents of classroom incivility related to instruction on residential schools that occur on social media.
The talk is based on the special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jcie/index.php/jcie
Annual History Honours Student Conference
May 22, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building K, room K180. Seats are limited. For more info and to reserve a seat, email historyinfo@ufv.ca.
History Dept. Annual Majors, Award Nominees, & Graduates Social (MAGS)
May 22, 2025, 5-7pm, Abbotsford campus. Email invites will be sent early May.
Past Events/Opportunities
History Department & AHS Trivia Night
March 19, 2025, 5:00-6:30pm, Abbotsford campus, building K, room K180.
Come and test out your trivia knowledge! Meet some new people, enjoy some fun history trivia and maybe win a prize! Food and drink provided. Registration required, email historyinfo@ufv.ca by March 10to reserve your seat.
History Department Winter 2025 Film Series
Join us on Friday, March 14, 2025, 2:30-5:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building D, room D119 for the second film, A Day in New York 1882. Snacks & beverages provided. For more info email Aleksandar.Jovanovic@ufv.ca or Ian.Rocksborough-Smith@ufv.ca.
Annual History Tea
March 11, 2025, 11:30am-1:30pm. Abbotsford campus. This event is by invite.
History Department Winter 2025 Film Series
Join us on Friday, February 7, 2025, 2:30-5:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building D, room D119 for the first film, Legendary Cities: Bangkok and Athens. Snacks & beverages provided. For more info email Aleksandar.Jovanovic@ufv.ca or Ian.Rocksborough-Smith@ufv.ca.
History Department Fall 2024 Film Series
Join us on Monday, November 18, 2024, 2:30-5:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building D, room D213 for the second film, Filthy Cities: Medieval London. Snacks & beverages provided. For more info email Aleksandar.Jovanovic@ufv.ca or Ian.Rocksborough-Smith@ufv.ca.
Visiting Scholar Talk: "Mother of the Equal Rights Amendment: How Martha Griffiths Made History" presented by Dr. Jennifer Frost, Associate Professor of History, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 11:00am-12:00pm, Abbotsford campus, room A225. Light refreshments provided. Contact historyinfo@ufv.ca.
About the talk: In 1970, Martha W. Griffiths, allied with feminists inside and outside Congress, moved the Equal Rights Amendment to the top of the US political agenda as a way to remove sex discrimination in law. She then maneuvered it through Congress, achieving what had not been done in the half-century since the ERA was first proposed. In this talk, I will explain how Griffiths and her allies made history and why it matters today.
History Department Fall 2024 Film Series
Join us on Monday, October 7, 2024, 2:30-5:00pm, Abbotsford campus, building D, room D213 for the first film, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town. Snacks & beverages provided. For more info email Aleksandar.Jovanovic@ufv.ca or Ian.Rocksborough-Smith@ufv.ca..