History Club events

Hi all,

This is a reminder of a few events happening this week.

There will be a meeting this Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 11:30-12:30 in room A143. Attached is a copy of the minutes from last week and an agenda for this week. We will be discussing clothing orders, the book sale, 4^th year pub night and the next pub night. Anyone interested in being on the executive council next year are encouraged to come out so they can learn the ropes!

This Thursday, February 2, 2012 will be our first pub night of the New Year. It will take place at the Fox and the Fiddle beginning at 8pm. The theme is symposium. Symposiums held in Ancient Greece involved wine and discussion. At our symposium you are welcome to drink whatever you chose, alcoholic or not. There will be tables set up with a political or social question placed at each table (ie. Are men and women equal always in all ways? or Should marijuana be legalized?). You are invited to come out and discuss these questions with your friends and peers. Or just come out and hang out! Hope to see you there!

Sam 

Department Annual Keynote Lecture -- Ian McKay

Nestar Russell speaks on the Milgram experiments and the Holocaust, Dec. 9, 2 pm

Muhlberger speaks on Captivity and Ransom: Friday, November 25, 4 pm

Traitors and Spies -- History Seminar Series, Oct. 28

GORDON MORRELL
British Traitors and Soviet Spies in the 1930s
A RESPONSE TO CHRISTOPHER ANDREW'S AUTHORIZED HISTORY OF MI5
 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011
4:00-5:30 PM
ROOM A122
THE HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES

 

EVERYONE WELCOME
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
CONTACT: DEREK NEAL

The History Club presents Difficult Wars: Nov. 2

DIFFICULT WARS:
A CONVERSATION WITH
CONFLICT VETERANS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2
 3:30-5:00PM
ROOM A137

Join us for an engaging conversation with Colonel David
W. Taylor, USA (ret.), a veteran of the Vietnam War and
Corporal Jeff Lehoux, Canadian Army (ret.), a veteran
of Afghanistan as they discuss their experiences of
conflict and after.

Presented by the Nipissing University History Club

Facilitators: Dr. Stephen Connor, John Picard, Bryce Simpson
 

From the History Club

Hello everyone!

     I hope everyone is having a great start to their school year. If anyone wants to be removed from the e-mail list just send an e-mail letting us know. First of all I would like to invite you to the first history club meeting which will be held October 3, 2011, 11:30-12:30 in room A143. 

 

 On Tuesday October 4m 2011, 3:30-6:30 in room A118 we will be holding the annual Meet and Greet. Come out to get to know other history students and meet some of the profs! There will be refreshment serves and games played. 

 

    Finally, this year's seminar series will be starting on this Friday, September 30, 2011, Room A122, from 2:30–4:00 pm. The Department of History is happy to present Dr. Maartje Abbenhuis, visiting from the University of Auckland (New Zealand), and Dr. Sarah Winters of our own Department of English Studies, in this presentation about the challenges posed by depictions of Nazi figures (and those like them) in various media including film and print. Drs. Abbenhuis and Winterswill talk about their contributions to a recent edited collection entitled Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture (Praeger, 2010) and discuss some of the implications of their research for teaching on Nazi Germany and Nazi themes.
The talk is free of charge, refreshments are provided, and everyone is welcome. Questions may be directed to Dr. Derek Neal <derekn@nipissingu.ca>.

Friday seminar -- Teaching Evil

The History Seminar Series begins this Friday, September 30, 2011, in Room A122, 2:30–4:00 pm, with a joint presentation called "Teaching about Evil: Discussing Nazism in Contemporary Culture." We are happy to present Dr. Maartje Abbenhuis, visiting from the University of Auckland (New Zealand), and Dr. Sarah Winters of our own Department of English Studies, in this presentation about the challenges posed by depictions of Nazi figures (and those like them) in various media including film and print. Drs. Abbenhuis and Winters will talk about their contributions to a recent edited collection entitled Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture (Praeger, 2010) and discuss some of the implications of their research for teaching on Nazi Germany and Nazi themes. The talk is free of charge, refreshments are provided, and everyone is welcome. Questions may be directed to Dr. Derek Neal .

Sessionals needed at Laurentian University

Details here.

Professor John Long wins a history prize

Congratulations to Dr. John Long, associate professor in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University, who won the Fred Landon Award honouring the best book on regional history by the Ontario Historical Society, for his book, Treaty No. 9: Making the Agreement to Share the Land in Far Northern Ontario in 1905 (McGill-Queen’s University Press).
The award will be presented at the 2011 Ontario Historical Society Annual General Meeting and Awards Ceremony in June.  
In his book, Long reveals the complete story behind the signing of one of North America's largest land treaties, Treaty No. 9.

More details here.