The Montreal History Group has received a grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (Support for Research Teams) for 2025-2029! The Montreal, City of Empires (1800-2000) project will bring together researchers, collaborators, students, and postdoctoral fellows from several Quebec and Canadian institutions. Project summary (translation):This scientific program spans a two-century period (1800–2000) and offers […]

The winter calendar of the Montreal History Group will be busy! This Friday at 12 p.m., we welcome Emma Awe (Carleton University) during a Muffins & methodology entitled Queer Terrorist v. Fuzzbox: 1980-1990s Montreal-based radical queer zines & the “civil war against lesbians and gay men”. To attend (on Zoom), it is necessary to register […]

For the coming months, we have the chance to welcome Louis Rivet-Préfontaine as a postdoctoral researcher at the Montreal History Group. His project, carried out under the supervision of Daniel Ross, offers a contemporary history investigation into Montreal “casse-croutes” (diners, snack bars, delis) founded around the middle of the 20th century and which have today […]

In the midst of a busy back-to-school season, the Montreal History Group has enthusiastically prepared its fall programming! Muffins & Methodology will begin next week with a presentation by Kristen Howard (McGill University) on a little-known issue, the work of inmates in the digitization of archives. In November, Sandrine Labelle (UQAM) will present her doctoral […]

The Montreal History Group invites you to a collective book launch! We will highlight the publication of four books published by our members or to which our members collaborated: Countercurrents : Women’s Movements in Postwar Montreal Amanda Ricci Montreal’s Square Mile : The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole Ed. Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland […]