Category: Student research

Exploring Local Identity in Nanjing’s Museums: A Study of Regional Representation

May 19, 2025

By Minbo WANG Museums serve as living records of a place’s history, identity, and heritage, shaping how people engage with and understand the past. In Nanjing, a city with a rich historical past and cultural legacy, known as the ‘Six Dynasties Capital’ for serving as the political and cultural center during the Eastern Wu, Eastern… More Exploring Local Identity in Nanjing’s Museums: A Study of Regional Representation

The United Nations Response to Indonesia’s Invasion of East Timor (December 1975)

May 12, 2021

By Jordan Sneyd-Dewar This post summarizes materials in the United Nations Archives just posted to the Timor International Solidarity Archive, especially the UN Secretariat’s 1975 file. On November 28, 1975, East Timor declared itself independent from their Portuguese colonial occupiers. The declaration should have been a landmark moment for a people that had finally gained… More The United Nations Response to Indonesia’s Invasion of East Timor (December 1975)

Challenges of reconciliation: lessons learned from Timor-Leste – summary of presentations

December 12, 2019

“Challenges of reconciliation: lessons learned from Timor-Leste” was a workshop held in October 2019 at Bishop’s University. The most recent post summarized the presentations of Father Jovito Araújo and Hugo Fernandes. This post summarizes the research shared by Amy Rothschild (Ithaca College, USA), Lia Kent (Australian National University), Hannah Loney (The University of Melbourne, Australia),… More Challenges of reconciliation: lessons learned from Timor-Leste – summary of presentations

Reconciliation as a process, not a project

December 10, 2019

A former truth commissioner from Timor-Leste and the director of the Centro Nacional Chega! (CNC) – the follow-up body to the Timor-Leste truth commission (CAVR) – spoke in October 2019 at Bishop’s University and the University of Sherbrooke. A summary of their presentations at Bishop’s follows. By Tomas Pelz Father Jovito de Araujo, a former… More Reconciliation as a process, not a project

Truth and Reconciliation in 28 Countries – latest edition of student-authored textbook

February 20, 2019

The latest version of this textbook on truth commissions, written by Bishop’s University students, is now published. Students write Wikipedia articles for their course work and the articles are then published in book form. This project is possible thanks to the Wiki Educational Foundation. Wiki Edu wrote about the previous edition in 2018: Wikipedia is… More Truth and Reconciliation in 28 Countries – latest edition of student-authored textbook

Student-written Wikipedia articles compiled in textbook for future classmates

September 12, 2018

By Cassidy Villeneuve, originally published on the Wiki Education blog This term, Dr. David Webster is trying something new. “This year’s textbook [is] written by previous years’ students,” he announced over Twitter, much to the excitement of his followers. Dr. Webster has taught his students at Bishop University how to contribute to Wikipedia as a classroom assignment… More Student-written Wikipedia articles compiled in textbook for future classmates