Atlantic Canada Portal

The website is now available for the 19th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. Visit:

http://www.unb.ca/conferences/acsc/

The registration form and accommodations information are online now. Conference organizers will update the site with additional information as it becomes available.

The Newfoundland Historical Society will hold a free public lecture on Thursday, 26 January 2012, at 8 pm in the Hampton Hall Lecture Theatre, located at the Marine Institute on Ridge Road, St. John's.

This month’s lecturer will be Robert Mellin, and his talk is titled: “Newfoundland Modern: Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949-1972.”

Refreshments to follow. Parking is free and everyone is welcome to attend.

Faculty, students and staff are invited to attend the fourth presentation in the 2011-2012 Atlantic Canada Studies Seminar Series.

Bonnie Huskins, a history professor at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, is the fourth speaker. Her presentation, "Looking at the Loyalists of the American Revolutionary War through a Different Lens: Sociability and Community Formation in Shelburne, Nova Scotia," takes place on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m. in Room 28 of Tilley Hall.

The Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick invites submissions from the scholarly community for our next issue, and for all subsequent issues.

Articles based on original research from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome. Articles must either focus on New Brunswick, or consider New Brunswick in a comparative framework, with New Brunswick as the main focus of the comparison.

The deadline for the next issue is 16 March 2012. Scholars wishing to propose special issues focused on particular topics or themes should contact the editor at editor [dot] jnbs [at] stu [dot] ca.

Exploring the province’s on-going social and economic balancing act as well as the impact the organized labour movement has had on public policy are the varied and timely subjects of the new issue of the Journal of New Brunswick Studies, a bilingual online journal of multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed research.