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.

Graduate Research Conference, April 19, 2011

 The conference will take place at the Monastery, Room M106
 
9:45-10:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks from Dean Bavington, MA History Graduate Advisor

10:00 – 11:00
Newspapers & History
Chair: Derek Neal

Whitney Croskery
“Constructing the Beastess: The Trial of Irma Grese and the British Media, 1945”

Rory Currie
"North Bay Ontario: The Victory Bond campaign during the Second World War”

11:00 – 11:15
Break

11:15 - 12:15
The Cold War in Foreign Policy and on the Big Screen

Chair: Steven Connor

Matthew Laur
“Multilateralism and Red Fear: Canada and the Indonesian Revolution”

Sterling Crowe
“Dying Hard: Popular Culture as Cold War Weapon, 1984-1989”

12:15-1:15
Lunch

1:15-2:15
The Local Angle: From Fisheries Management to Fishers of Men
Chair: Françoise Noël

Nancy Pottery
“Crises and Control: Fisheries Management on Lake Nipissing, 1968-2008”

Jakob Bauer
“Opposition from ‘Enemies’ and ‘Scoundrels’: Resistance to Rev. William Bell and his Religious Enterprise in Perth ON 1817-1833”

 2:15-2:30
Coffee Break

 2:30-3:30
Reading Discourses of Nationalism
Chair: Anne Clendinning

 Jordan Crosby
“The good Canadian nationalist first must be a good Imperialist: Sam Hughes and the South African War, 1899-1900”

 Ian Laplante
"The Violent Poetics of Space: Reading the Battle of the Bogside, 1969"

3:30 – 3:45
Closing Remarks from Nathan Kozuskanich, 2011-2012 MA History Graduate Advisor

All candidates' meeting Thursday 1 pm

Good Day,

On behalf of the student-organized Nipissing Voting Initiative, and in the run-up to the federal election, it is my pleasure to invite you and your students to a debate among the candidates for election in the riding of Nipissing-Temiskiming, this Thursday at 1PM in the Nipissing Theatre.

The debate will be moderated by Political Science student Andrej Litvinjenko, and will focus on issues of importance to the student voter demographic. This will be a significant opportunity to bring youth- and education-related issues to the center of the political agenda, with the aim of mobilizing the student vote here on campus.

If you or your students have questions you would like raised to the candidates, please submit them in advance to:

nipissingvotes@gmail.com

All questions must be attributed, and will be vetted beforehand. There will also be an opportunity to introduce questions in writing at the debate.

Following the event at 2PM there will be a reception at the Wall, with appetizers provided and opportunities to engage in political discussions about what kind of Canada you would like to be a part of. Both the debate and the reception are free, and all are welcome. Many thanks to the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Research for supporting this event.

Please pass this notice on to your students so that they can become better aware of the choices available to them in this election, with the encouragement to get out to vote!

all the best regards,

Toivo Koivukoski

Mark Crane speaks, April 1: Using History to Construct a Heretic

The Department of History at Nipissing University invites everyone to attend the final Seminar Series presentation of the academic year, Friday, April 1 at 2:30 pm, in room A226. Dr. Mark Crane will speak on "Using History to Construct a Heretic: the Paris Faculty of Theology's Condemnation of Martin Luther's Works, 1521."
 
Dr Crane will explain what was at issue in the conflict between Luther and the Paris theologians, and also why the document resulting from these proceedings was not translated into English for nearly 500 years.
 
The talk is free of charge, refreshments are provided, and everyone is welcome.
 
Hoping to see you there,
 
Derek Neal

Spring/Summer 2011 Course Offerings

On Campus Courses:

HIST 3416: War and Peace, 1648-1919 3cr           02 May-19 May
Steve Connor
HIST 3717: Russian History, 1917-1991 3cr           24 May-14 June
Steve Connor
HIST 3926: History and Historians 3cr                    02 May-15 June
Mark Crane

Distance Learning: 

HIST 2005: Canadian Social History 6cr                 01 May-31 Aug
Instructor T.B.A
HIST 2105: History of Medieval Europe 6cr            01 May-31 Aug
Instructor T.B.A
HIST 3426: England, 1460-1560 3cr                       01 May-31 Aug
Instructor T.B.A

Registration is now open
Register now to avoid disappointment

Courses with insufficient registration will be cancelled in early April

Dr Carly Dokis on "Multiple Frontiers" March 4, 2:30 PM, Room A 226

From Dr. Derek Neal:

The Department of History invites you to hear a presentation by Dr Carly Dokis, postdoctoral fellow in History and instructor in Anthropology at Nipissing University. The talk takes place Friday, March 4 from 2:30-4:00 pm in Room A226, and it is entitled "Multiple Frontiers: an Examination of Resource Extraction in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories."

 

Dr Dokis will explain how resource development in the Sahtu Region has been experienced by local peoples, and the ways in which experiences of previous extractive projects [are] shaping current participation in the assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project.

 

The talk is free of charge, all are welcome, and refreshments will be provided. Please contact Derek Neal at derekn@nipissingu.ca with any inquiries.

 

Looking forward to seeing you there,

 

Derek Neal

English Studies Symposium --- Monday, March 7, 2011--11:30-1:00

From Dr. Ann-Barbara Graff:

You are invited to attend the annual English Studies Symposium on Monday, March 7th, at 11:30 (until about 1:00) in room H 106, and please feel free to extend this invitation to other students and faculty.

I am so pleased to be able to announce the line up.  We have five speakers this year, all presenting work from their honours seminars last term.  The symposium should be especially appealing to students who will be taking/considering honours studies.

ES Symposium Speakers
Kerry Counahan
"Refiguring Male Apotheosis in Early Modern and Restoration Female Elegies"

Patricia Oprea
"Barthian Bliss at the Interstice of Order and Disorder in Johnson’s The Unfortunates"

Jami McFarland
"Containment and Contamination in Blomkamp’s District 9"

Katrina Schurter
"W. H. Auden’s 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats': A Twentieth-Century Gendered Revisioning of the Elegy"

Kelsey Behnke
"Examining the Unbounded Nature of The Unfortunates: The Disordered Act of Reading"

Queries can be addressed to Dr. Marc Plamondon <marcp@nipissingu.ca> who deserves special thanks for organizing this year's event.

Israel's Security: Then and Now -- Tuesday March 1

From Dr. Robin Gendron:

This is just a reminder that on Tuesday, March 1st  the Nipissing Branch of the Canadian International Council will be holding a discussion of “Israel’s Security: Then and Now.”  Our guest, Dr. David Tal, will compare the threats to its security that Israel faced at its founding 60 years ago with the security situation that it faces in the contemporary Middle East where, unlike in the 1950s, more and more states in the region accept Israel's existence and maintain either peaceful or actual relations with it.  Militarily, the nature of the challenges facing Israel has changed too: conventional wars involving tanks and mass armies are less likely to occur than one involving missiles, air strikes, and attacks on civil population and centers.  Israel will have to find ways to deter and retaliate against non-state threats without using the kind of force it has used in the past.

The event takes place on Tuesday March 1, starting at 7:00 pm in room F210 (the Fedeli Business Centre).  

This event is free and open to the public, and everyone is welcome! Please tell your students in particular.

For more information about this event, please contact Robin Gendron at gendronrs@nipissingu.ca or 705-474-3450 ext 4395.

The Model NATO team offers a debate: NATO and Egypt

This coming Monday the Political Science Department and Model NATO Team will be hosting a debate. The title is "Destabilization & Failing States: A NATO Perspective,  Case Study: Egypt 2011".

Main themes to be discussed is NATO's personal interests in stability in the region in contrast to the international communities support for democratization and liberty.

Perspectives from the US, Canada, Turkey, France, and Germany will be provided.

After the debate there will be a Q & A session for students to voice their concerns or comments.

The event will be from 1-2pm in F213 (the theater) Monday February 14th. 

History Seminar Series: Andrew Taylor, University of Ottawa, speaks on oral tradition and written record

From Dr. Derek Neal:

Our next History Department seminar will feature University of Ottawa medievalist Andrew Taylor, who will speak on:
Written Record to Memory: Delgamuukw vs. British Columbia and the Modern Historian

Friday, February 4, 2011
2:30-4:00 pm
Room A 226

Andrew will be using the landmark Delgamuukw land claims case as a starting point to illustrate what we can learn by thinking simultaneously about medieval European history and the history of Canada's relationship with First Nations. In both of these histories, there is a contested relationship between memory, or oral tradition, on the one hand, and the authority of the written word on the other, that greatly affected power dynamics between different groups of people.

Dr. Mark Crane on scholasticism vs. humanism

I don't think I can send out copies, as with the link to the Murton podcast just below, but let it be known that Mark Crane has also been busy, producing this article:

Mark Crane, "A Scholastic Response to Biblical Humanism:  Noel Beda against Lefevre d'Etaples and Erasmus (1526),"  Humanistica Lovaniensia 59 (2010): 55-81.

Dr. James Murton speaks on Environmental History -- podcast

Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 19 Available

From: Sean Kheraj <skheraj@MTROYAL.CA>

In 1954, Canadian historian James Maurice Stockford Careless published an
influential article in the Canadian Historical Review, titled “Frontierism,
Metropolitanism, and Canadian History” which offered a new approach for
understanding the course of Canadian history and the development of the
Canadian nation-state. Instead of adopting the US model of a Frontier
Thesis, which saw the expansion and development of the United States
connected directly to the extension of a westward settlement frontier,
Careless proposed a different model based on a Metropolitan Thesis which
understood the development of the Canadian nation-state as a function of the
interconnections between metropolitan centres and their regional
hinterlands. Under this model for understanding Canadian history, the
contours of the country’s expansion were determined not by a continuous line
of frontier settlement but instead by the radial expansion of urban
influence on rural hinterlands.

As such, metropolitanism as an approach to understanding the interconnection
between cities and hinterlands has been quite influential in environmental
history. On this episode of the podcast, three prominent Canadian
environmental history scholars debate the role of metropolitanism in
environmental history research.

To download this episode:
http://niche-canada.org/naturespast

To subscribe through iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=300588593

Follow the Nature's Past Podcast on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/naturespast

Send your feedback to:
http://seankheraj.com

Tonight -- Reimagining Communities

From Dr. Robin Gendron:

This is just a reminder that this evening at 7 pm, Dr. Alan Sears of UNB will be speaking on "Reimagining Communities: The Challenge of Fostering National Belonging in a Globalized World."

The talk begins at 7 pm in room F210 and will be available through video conferencing to the Muskoka and Brantford campuses.

This talk is being presented by the Nipissing Branch of the Canadian International Council and the Schulich School of Education.

Hope to see you all this evening.

1968

History Club announcements

From Amanda Van Lanen:

Seminar Series: January 28 (4:30 pm) with the roundtable "Did 1968 Happen in Canada?" Robin Gendron, Catherine Murton-Stoehr, and Katrina Srigley of Nipissing's Department of History will discuss the degree to which Canada experienced the sense of imminent, profound social change that has become known as "The International '68".

Facebook Group Discussion: How do you feel about the choices in course offerings offered in the History Department? Is there a good variety of courses? What courses would you like to see?

Fourth Year Dinner: TICKETS SALES WILL END ON WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26^TH AT 4:00 P.M. History Majors and Professors Fourth Year Dinner, Friday January 28th at 6:00 P.M., Room: A246 (Small cafeteria), Pasta Buffet/Cash Bar, Cost $5. If you need to get a ticket, find Amanda or Kimmy, email nipuhistoryclub@gmail.com, or stop by room R204 between 11:00-4:00 on Tuesday to pick one up.

New Meeting Time: We are now meeting on Wednesday at 11:00 A.M. in room R204. The next meeting is on Wednesday February 2^nd and all are invited.

Looking ahead: I know it is still early in the year but if ANYONE is interested in taking up a position in next years History Club as an executive. There will be more information coming and a decision will not take place until March, but it is something to think about!

Just as a note: There will be a survey coming out through the university concerning scheduling. Please keep an eye out for this survey. We do not know when it is coming out or for how long, so this is all of the information I can give you.

Amanda Van Lanen

History Seminar Series: upcoming this term

From Dr. Derek Neal:

I'd like to tell you about our upcoming History seminars for the Winter semester. All take place on Friday afternoons; they are free of charge, refreshments are served, and everyone is welcome. All talks are in room A226 of the Education Centre at Nipissing University.

Our season begins on January 28 (4:30 pm) with the roundtable "Did 1968 Happen in Canada?" Robin Gendron, Catherine Murton-Stoehr, and Katrina Srigley of Nipissing's Department of History will discuss the degree to which Canada experienced the sense of imminent, profound social change that has become known as "The International '68".

A week later, on February 4 (2:30 pm) our guest Andrew Taylor of the University of Ottawa will explore the connections between medieval European history and Canadian aboriginal history in “Written Record to Memory: Delgamuukw vs. British Columbia and the Modern Historian”.

On March 4 (2:30 pm) Carly Dokis will speak on a topic connected to her research about Sahtu Dene environmental assessment discourse. Dr Dokis is SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Nipissing's Department of History.

Another roundtable on March 25 (2:30 pm) will explore possible connections between widely separated historical events that occurred in the same year. In "Coincidences? 1857 in World History," Anne Clendinning, Nathan Kozuskanich and Derek Neal (History, Nipissing) will discuss upheavals in India, the United States and South Africa.

Mark Crane brings our season to a close on April 1 (2:30 pm) with the presentation “Constructing a Heretic: The Paris Theologians' Condemnation of Martin Luther, 1521.” Dr. Crane will explain what was at stake at this moment in the Protestant Reformation, and why the resulting document was not translated into English for nearly 500 years.

Good news for a new year: Hilary Earl wins a prestigious prize

Hilary Earl's book The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-58: Atrocity, Law, and History has been awarded the prestigious Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for the best book in 2009 by the Conference Group for Central European History.

The award committee had the following things to say about her book:

Hilary Earl has written an original and masterful account of what was described at the time as "the biggest murder trial in history," the trial of two dozen leaders of the SS Einzatzgruppen at Nuremberg in 1947/48...The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-58: Atrocity, Law, and History is a deep and richly documented analysis of this neglected chapter in the history of transitional justice...[that] combines the life stories and crimes of the defendants with cogent analysis of the motivation and meaning of their actions, of trends in Holocaust historiography, and of the tensions between law and history. Earl's study is based on voluminous research in both Amercian and German archives. It is essential reading for historians of Germany, the Holocaust, and transitional justice, and an inspiring model of ethical scholarship on war crimes and their aftermath.