Concordian receives public history prize
History professor Ronald Rudin’s book Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian’s Journey Through Public Memory and associated website (see link below) have been awarded the inaugural Public History Prize by the Canadian Historical Association.
Rudin received the honour at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, held recently in Fredericton. Last spring, Rudin served as academic convenor for Congress 2010 at Concordia.
“I essentially think of myself as a public historian, and so being given this inaugural prize in public history was a great honour,” says Rudin. “And this was made even better by receiving the award in New Brunswick, where most of the book, focused largely on Acadians, takes place.”
The publication won a comparable prize from the U.S.-based National Council on Public History in 2010.
As well, Rudin’s film Remembering a Memory/Mémoire d’un souvenir, has recently been posted online. View the film in English or French.
Like Rudin’s award-winning book, the film explores how stories about the past change over time. Remembering a Memory focuses on the shifting memory of the Celtic cross on Grosse-Île, the 14-metre monument east of Quebec City that marks the site of the largest cemetery outside Ireland connected with the potato famine of the 1840s.?
Related links:
• Remembering Acadie
• Public History Prize
• Congress 2011
• Congress 2010 at Concordia
• “Remembering and Forgetting” - Concordia Journal, January 14, 2010
• Ronald Rudin’s Concordia web page