Nipissing University History News

History Club events

2012-01-30T11:14:00.002-05:00

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

2012-01-16T09:40:00.000-05:00

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

2011-12-05T11:24:00.000-05:00

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

2011-11-21T13:27:00.000-05:00

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

2011-10-24T18:54:00.000-04:00

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

2011-10-24T18:44:00.001-04:00

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

2011-09-27T15:00:00.004-04:00

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

2011-09-26T16:02:00.001-04:00

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

2011-05-19T22:26:00.000-04:00

Details here.

Professor John Long wins a history prize

2011-05-18T13:28:00.000-04:00

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

2011-04-13T14:50:00.000-04:00

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

2011-04-12T14:08:00.000-04:00

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

2011-03-31T19:38:00.000-04:00

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

2011-03-15T09:42:00.001-04:00

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

2011-03-03T14:26:00.000-05:00

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

2011-02-28T19:00:00.000-05:00

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

2011-02-28T09:49:00.000-05:00

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

2011-02-09T15:32:00.000-05:00

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

2011-02-03T10:50:00.000-05:00

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

2011-01-27T10:39:00.000-05:00

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

2011-01-27T10:22:00.000-05:00

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

2011-01-24T14:42:00.000-05:00

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

2011-01-24T14:19:00.000-05:00

History Club announcements

2011-01-24T09:04:00.000-05:00

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

2011-01-21T14:05:00.000-05:00

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

2011-01-07T20:14:00.000-05:00

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.

History Seminar Series: Dr. John Long on Treaty No. 9 and Education

2010-11-30T08:56:00.000-05:00

From Dr. Derek Neal:

The Department of History invites everyone at Nipissing University and in the wider community to hear Dr John Long, speaking this Friday, December 3 at our usual time of 2:30 pm in Room A122.

Dr Long's presentation, entitled "Promises of Education and Schooling in Treaty No. 9," considers the implications for education provision in this treaty signed by Canada with aboriginal nations of Ontario's far north in 1905 and in the 1930s.

As always, the talk is free, refreshments are served and everyone is welcome. Please contact me in case of any questions.

Hoping to see you there,

Derek Neal

Dr. Stephen Connor speaks --- History Seminar Series, Friday November 26

2010-11-24T19:41:00.000-05:00

The Department of History invites everyone at Nipissing University and those in the wider community to hear Dr Stephen Connor this Friday, November 26, at 3:30 pm, in A122. Refreshments will be provided.

Dr Connor's presentation is entitled "Grey Zone/Green Zone: War, Invasion and Occupation," and concerns the Nazi occupation of Brest-Litovsk in 1942–44. An abstract follows this message.

Please note that the talk will begin later than most other Seminar Series talks to accommodate an Arts and Science Faculty Council meeting earlier the same afternoon.

For further information, please feel free to contact Derek Neal at derekn@Nipissingu.ca .

Abstract:

In his 2006 book, Green Zone: Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran detailed American efforts to create a new democratic Iraq. Paul Bremmer’s Coalition Provisional Authority, he argued, administered Iraq out of step with the harsh realities of life after Saddam and spent their first year ruling and rebuilding from inside a physical and ideological bubble. In the end, he claimed, even ever-optimistic neo-cons were mugged by reality.

While comparisons between American actions in Iraq and other earlier 20^th century invasions are, for the historian, both dangerous and not particularly fruitful, the concept of the Green Zone – the bubble – provides an interesting and compelling lens through which invasion, occupation and reconstruction can be examined. In my own research focused on the lowest echelons of the German civil administration, I continually witness the profound disconnect between how the Nazis wished the world to be and how, in fact, it was. In short, I examine the ways in which low-level yet indispensible Nazis were mugged by reality and what they tried to do about it.

The invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 marked the beginning of Hitler’s real war. In the east, he imagined, lay the living space so central to the survival of the Aryan race. To this end, Hitler ordered the exploitation of the occupied territory in service of the war economy to ensure Germans had enough food to eat and guns to shoot. From the very beginning, food and labour sat at the very heart of the Nazi colonial experience.

Between late 1941 and mid 1944, the civil administration in the occupied Soviet Union spearheaded efforts at systematic exploitation, spoliation, and extermination. The question remains – what exactly did this mean for those expected to undertake these tasks ‘at the sharp end’ and for the indigenous populations who would endure them? The case of Brest-Litovsk located in western Ukraine provides an invaluable case study to address this issue. Over the course of the occupation, civil officials in Brest-Litovsk produced a flow of reports detailing the goals, methods and travails of implementing their particular slice of Nazi policy. These reports paint a compelling portrait of everyday life in the region, offering an often surprisingly candid look at the aims, achievements, failures and adaptations of the occupiers.

This paper details the practice of Nazi exploitation and details the realities facing the German civil administration at the lowest levels. Finally, my study both provides insights into the Nazi experience in the colonial ‘wild east’ and suggests some of the more general consequences of invasion, war and occupation.

From Dr. Robin Gendron -- David Dyment speaks to the Canadian International Council on December 2

2010-11-24T19:37:00.000-05:00

Please join the Nipissing Branch of the Canadian International Council for our next event taking place next Thursday, December 2nd when we'll be hosting Dr. David Dyment who will be speaking on "Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship." The talk will take place from 7-8:30 pm in the Auditorium of the North Bay Public Library at 271 Worthington St E. The event is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome!

Drawing on his book "Doing the Continental," David Dyment will speak to the challenges and opportunities for Canada in its relations with the United States, including the need for new policies, priorities, and approaches for Canada to keep its interests at the forefront with an American government preoccupied by the strategic, financial, and political challenges that distract its attention from its northern neighbour. Dr. Dyment will be available to sign copies of his book after the talk.

David Dyment teaches Political Science at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, where he is a senior research associate in the Centre on North American Politics and Society. He has also served on the staff of the Governor General and as a senior analyst in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

For more information about this or upcoming events, please contact me at gendronrs@nipissingu.ca or 474-3450 ext 4395.

International Education Week

2010-11-12T18:53:00.000-05:00

Good day everyone,

The Nipissing International Office staff are excited to inform you about the activities/presentations that are slated for "INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK."

Returning Exchange Students who have studied abroad last year will join Melissa Toupin Laforge, our Education Abroad Coordinator to share their experiences studying abroad and explain various opportunities for Nipissing U students to study, intern or work abroad in the 2011-12 academic year.

An understanding of international issues can be gained right here at home. Therefore, we'll provide information about how to get involved in various "globally minded" activities right here on campus too.

Consider attending to gain an understanding about these events, and we ask faculty members to make these announcements to your classes over the next week:

All information sessions are scheduled from 11:30am -12:30pm in Room A118 on:

Monday November 15

Wednesday November 17

Friday November 19

The Nipissing International Office will be staffing booths around campus the week of Nov 15-19th, with the assistance of international students and returning NU exchange students. Please drop by to find out "what's up on the international front," and fill out a ballot to win some prizes.

From the History Club -- upcoming events

2010-11-10T23:06:00.000-05:00

We are coming to the end of our fall term we have finished planing the events. If you could please inform your students about these activities it would be appreciated!

1) Our Annual Book Sale is being held from Monday Nov. 15 until Friday Nov. 19 from 10:00 - 5:00 in Student Hallway (outside of B200). There are going to be books from every genre available for the low cost of $1-$12. Please stop on by and check out the selection of books!

2) Movie Night: On Wednesday November 24 in H104 the History Club is showing Dr. Strangelove, a comedy concerning the Cold War Era. Dr. Gendron will be providing an introduction at 7:00 p.m. and the movie will start around 7:30 p.m. There will be baked goods, popcorn, and other snacks will be provided. We are asking for a $2 donation to be put towards future History Club events.

3) History Pub Night: Our final winter semester pub night will be held on Thursday December 9th at 9:30 p.m. at the Bull and Quench. Take a break from the essay writing and studying to relax and socialize with others history students.

4) Seminar Series: Dr. Connor will be providing the next seminar series talk on Friday November 26th at 3:30 p.m. in room A122. His topic is "Grey Zone/Green Zone: War, invasion, and Occupation."

5) Discussion: Please, if you have not already, join in on the discussion about scheduling. The discussion will close Thursday November 18th at 11:59 p.m. It is important that you have your opinions know so that change can happen. Thank you for those who have already shared your opinion. This discussion can be found on the Nipissing University History Club Group on Facebook.

Thanks everyone for all of the participation in the previous events! Stay tuned for our activities beginning again in the winter term. As always feel free to send us any feedback, we always enjoy hearing from you.

All the best,
Amanda Van Lanen

Anne Clendinning speaks! November 5, 2:30 PM

2010-11-03T08:24:00.001-04:00

Tonight --- Halloween Pub -- from the History Club

2010-10-28T10:16:00.000-04:00

Historical Halloween Pub is at the Bull and Quench starting at 9:00 P.M. Come dressed as a historical figure and the top two costumes will win a LCBO gift card. They will be judged between 11:00 and 11:30.

Model NATO

2010-10-05T17:35:00.000-04:00

Prof. Gendron invites you:

I'm in the process again of organising this years' Nipissing University student Model NATO team. As part of the team, a group of 5 or 6 Nipissing students take part in a conference in Ottawa early in 2011 during which they will be part of a simulated NATO meeting. The conference includes teams from other universities across Ontario and sometimes outside the province and is a great opportunity for students with an interest in international diplomacy/debate/crisis management and the like to get involved in a very enjoyable conference and to represent NipU outside the university, while interacting with their peers from other universities.

An organisational meeting for the 2010-11 Model NATO team is being held tomorrow, Oct 6 from 11-11:30 in room H304.

Dr. Francoise Noel speaks on local history: Friday, October 1 at 2:30 pm in Room A122.

2010-09-28T10:46:00.000-04:00

The first departmental seminar of the year concerns the Nipissing District:

The Impact of Regulation 17 on the study of District Schools: a Case Study from the District of Nipissing

By Françoise Noël

Can the historian interested in examining the expansion of Ontario schools into the Districts in the ideologically charged period from 1911 to 1931, do so from the standard documentation available? In answer to this question this paper provides data at both the micro and the macro level originating from three sets of documents: Schools and Teachers, the Inspection Summary Registers, and the Report of the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the Condition of the Schools Attended by French-Speaking Pupils, referred to here as the Merchant Report. While these documents allow us to provide a snapshot of the Ontario school system at the beginning and end of this period, the impact of Regulation 17 on the documentation available makes the task of studying the intervening years difﬁcult. Schools and Teachers, does not include English–French schools for the entire period between 1914 and 1926, thereby creating a signiﬁcant gap in our knowledge of the system in this period. That gap can only be partially ﬁlled by using the Inspection Summary Registers as these were created for the express purpose of tracking compliance to Regulation 17 and do not contain the same information. The Merchant Report, while it provides much useful information on the schools that taught French for the period 1925-1926, also does not ﬁll the gap in Schools and Teachers. Regulation 17 leaves behind a legacy of documentation which is ideologically biased towards the resolution and understanding of that “problem” and this continues to make it difﬁcult to view the expansion of schools into the Districts in an ideologically neutral fashion. Our examination of a micro sample from the Nipissing District also underlines the extent to which each school was a separate entity onto itself and shows that conditions could exist in schools located only a few miles apart. Summary data of any kind can therefore provide only a limited view of the situation in District schools. The structure of the school system and its divisions into two or more sectors, depending on the period, reﬂects the ideological debates of the day. As historians, however, we need to look beyond these divisions and seek an understanding of the interrelationship between schools and their communities that goes beyond these boundaries.

Contest! Money!

2010-09-20T15:21:00.000-04:00

Georgia Lyons writes:

Student Affairs is offering a monetary prize for the solution to a monthly writing challenge. Posted on www.nipissingu.ca/studentaffairs/writingtips.asp , the "Grammar Granny Challenge" asks students to find the errors in the four short writings posted.

Natalie Zemon Davis at NU, Friday September 24!

2010-09-17T15:09:00.000-04:00

The Department of History welcomes Professor Natalie Zemon Davis to campus on Friday, September 24, to speak in F210 (the Fedeli Room) at 5 p.m.

Professor Davis' talk is titled Decentering History: Local Storytelling and Cultural Crossing in a Global World.
Speaking partly from her own experience, Professor Davis will explore ways that the practice of history has changed, examining historical comparison through local figures (a male and female writer from different parts of the world in 1400) and through cultural crossing (how techniques in healing and justice transferred from Africa to a slave colony).
Natalie Zemon Davis is among the most widely known and influential historians in the academy. Her work on the social and cultural history of early modern Europe has reached readers far outside the university setting, perhaps most famously with The Return of Martin Guerre (1983) and most recently with Trickster Travels: a Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds (2008). Earlier this year she received the Holberg International Memorial Prize in recognition of her lifetime achievement.
The lecture is free of charge and all are welcome.

For further information, please contact Dr. Derek Neal in the Department of History at derekn@nipissingu.ca .

From the History Club

2010-09-16T17:35:00.000-04:00

First I would like to say it is good to be back and into the swing of this with the new school year. I also thought I would let you know about the new executive members for the history club for 2010/2011. The President for this year is Amanda Van Lanen, the VP is Ryan Michaelis, and the Secretary is Kimmy Demers. As well, the hotmail account has been giving us some issues concerning sending emails. Therefore, we have decided to update the email and get a new email through gmail. The new email is nipuhistroyclub@gmail.com. I will still be checking the old email for a few weeks until everyone has switched to the new email. That is about it for now, I hope classes are going well, and I look forward to working with you to promote the History Department.

Thanks,
Amanda Van Lanen

Considering graduate school next year. Think about money!

2010-09-14T21:19:00.000-04:00

Research Services and Graduate Studies will be holding Graduate Studies Scholarship workshops in the week of September 20 - 24, 2010.

The date and times are listed under the Current Events link on the Graduate Studies website found under the Current Students link on Nipissing's Website.
http://www.nipissingu.ca/graduatestudies/graduatestudies_currentevents.asp312

New Graduate Student Orientation

2010-08-25T16:07:00.000-04:00

Nipissing University’s School of Graduate Studies would like to extend an invitation to our New Graduate Student Orientation (NGSO) which will be held on Friday September 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., followed by a Graduate Student Reception at 4:30 p.m.

Room: Main Campus: R308 // Brantford Campus: TBA

The orientation will begin with a meet and greet followed by an information sessions from Library Services, Research Ethics Board,and your specific graduate program. The orientation will also include a trip to the new Graduate Student Centre, and University Technology Services.

After a break for lunch (please bring a lunch, cafeteria will also be open) the orientation will continue with a teaching assistantship information session with Mark Crane and an opportunity to meet with the course instructors and complete the required paper work.

Please see the NGSO agenda for more information.

Mark Crane will be hosting a welcome reception with food and refreshments at his home (654 Birchwood Cresent, North Bay) following the orientation. All graduate students and faculty are invited! RSVP your attendance to the reception to markc@nipissingu.ca. Please advise of any food allergies with your RSVP.

Please don't hesitate to contact our office if you have any questions about your upcoming studies. We can be reached at (705) 474-3450 ext 4198 or at sgs@nipissingu.ca

--
Sarah Clermont
Research & Graduate Coordinator

STUDENTS: Scholarship Workshops in September

2010-08-25T14:32:00.001-04:00

From Janet Ross, Grant & Scholarship Coordinator:

Research Services and Graduate Studies will be holding Graduate Studies Scholarship workshops in the week of September 20 - 24, 2010.

The date and times are listed under the Current Events link on the Graduate Studies website found under the Current Students link on Nipissing's Website.

http://www.nipissingu.ca/graduatestudies/graduatestudies_currentevents.asp

Students must sign-up for a specific time and date by September 17, 2010 or workshops without attendees listed will be canceled.

Contact me at janetr@nipissingu.ca or 705-474-3450, 4558

Master's defenses at Nipissing University, August 23-September 8

2010-08-18T09:05:00.003-04:00

Nipissing University's School of Graduate Studies is pleased to invite the university community to attend the public oral defences of students pursuing an MA in History or an MSc in Mathematics. The schedule is posted here.

Stan Lawlor, Jr.

2010-07-05T17:36:00.002-04:00

From Todd Horton of the NU Faculty Association:

Good afternoon,

It is with deep sorrow that we inform you of the passing of Stan Lawlor Jr. Stan taught for us in the History Department for a number of years, after completing his undergraduate degree in History from Nipissing and his master's degree from the University of Toronto. Stan Jr. is of course the son of our long-standing colleague and friend, Stan Lawlor Sr.

On behalf of the membership, we send our condolences. Visitation is this evening at the McGuinty Funeral Home from 7 to 9 pm. Funeral service will be Tuesday at 11 am in the McGuinty Funeral Home Chapel.

Our thoughts are with Stan Sr. and the family at this difficult time.

Todd

Todd Horton

President, NUFA

Dr. Nathan Kozuskanich's arguments reach the US Supreme Court, again

2010-06-30T21:57:00.001-04:00

Back in 2008, Nathan Kozuskanich, Nipissing University's Early American historian, was cited in supporting material submitted to the United States Supreme Court in regards to a case called "Heller" involving the Second Amendment to the Constitution, the one about bearing arms. Nathan's contribution was specifically to analyze 18th century American sources to see what "bearing arms" meant at the time the amendment was written and passed. His arguments did not win the day for the people who used them, but being noticed at all in that crowded forum is nothing to be sneezed at. Mountains of learned tracts have been written about the Second Amendment; his stood out anyway.

In the past week a second case concerning the interpretation of the Second Amendment, "McDonald," came up to the Supreme Court, and this time, Nathan's name and his crucial article on "bearing arms" were mentioned in the dissent of Justice Breyer. I am linking to the Google Docs version. I found it impossible to search for Nathan's last name or anything else when I followed the link to Google Docs, so I will say that when I read the judgment, the citation was on page 3 of Breyer's dissent, page 182 of the file. Justice Breyer's dissent indeed incorporates recognizable logic from Nathan's original article.

Dean Bavington's Managed Annihilation is out!

2010-06-25T14:19:00.001-04:00

The details of this promised and promising book are here!

Dr. Françoise Noël wins a prize!

2010-06-04T20:32:00.004-04:00

Dr. Françoise Noel, longtime member of our department, has recently been awarded
the Ontario Historical Society's Fred Landon Award, for the best book on regional history in the past three years. the book is Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario, The Interwar Years, a study which is both solid in the scholarly sense and entertaining, especially for those interested in the grassroots history of our area. Family and Community Life is Dr. Noel's fourth book, which makes her a very productive scholar indeed.

This announcement gives me an excuse to reproduce the cover of the book, a wonderful work by a local artist.

Natalie Zemon Davis will be at Nipissing University in September

2010-04-12T09:48:00.002-04:00

Mark your calendars: the exact date is September 24.

Davis is one of the most eminent historians in Canada, or even North America as a whole today. She is famous for taking difficult sources and putting flesh on them dry bones. Perhaps her most well-known project was interpreting the story of a 16th-century French imposter, Martin Guerre -- a project that produced a book on the case itself, an article on her methodology, and
a movie recreating the story. This one example of her work is typical of her interest and skill in communicating with people who aren't scholars as well as those who are.

It's quite an honor to have Davis accept the History Department's invitation to speak. Take advantage of this opportunity to hear her if you can. More details as available.

Oh, yes, when we are talking about eminence and reaching a broader public, there is this recent honor to make the point.

History Club Update

2010-03-31T13:56:00.000-04:00

From the History Club:

You are invited to our Year-End Lunch Meeting will be on Tuesday, April 6th at 11:30am in F304. We will enjoy some lunch and introduce next year's executive! Take a study break and plan to attend!

Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference -- today and tomorrow

2010-03-26T07:48:00.003-04:00

From David Tabachnick:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Come out and support our students!

You are invited to the Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at Nipissing University this Friday, March 26th and Saturday, March 27th. If you are planning to attend, please RSVP Hilary Earl (hearl@nipissingu.ca).

Despite our late start organizing, this year's conference will be the biggest one yet!

Thank you to everyone that has volunteered their time and ideas. Because of your hard work and, of course, the research of our students, this will be an excellent event.

Program at a Glance

Friday March 26, 2010

Time Program Location

6:30 - 9:30 pm Registration Nipissing Front Lobby

7:00 - 7:15 pm Welcome Fideli Room (F210)

7:15 - 8:00 pm Keynote Address Dr. Jeff Dech Fideli Room (F210)

8:00 - 9:30 pm Poster Presentations Nipissing Front Lobby

Reception

Saturday March 27, 2010

Time Program Location

8:15 - 8:45 am Registration A246 - Small Cafeteria

8:45 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks - David Tabachnick A246 - Small Cafeteria

9:00 - 10:30 am Concurrent Sessions

#1 - Reproductive & Family Health & NATO A228

#2 - The Dionne Quintuplets A224

#3 - Atrocities in History A226

10:30 - 10:45 am BREAK A246 - Small Cafeteria

10:45 - 12:00 pm Concurrent Session

#4 - New Technologies in Research A226

#5 - Research in Education A228

#6 - Shaping Political Identities A224

12:00 - 1:00 pm LUNCH A246 - Small Cafeteria

1:00 - 2:20 pm Concurrent Sessions

#7 - Experiments in Chemistry and Biology A226

#8 - East Meets West A224

#9 - How to do Things with Numbers A228

2:20 - 2:35 pm BREAK A246 - Small Cafeteria

2:35 - 3:55 pm Concurrent Sessions

#10 - Land, People, & Politics A228

#11 - Jung, the Young, and the (Un)dead A226

#12 - Twentieth century World Issues A224

3:55 - 5:15 pm Concurrent Sessions

#13 - Re-visioning Identity A224

#14 - Plant Populations: Crops and Forests A226

#15 - Three Pillars of Nazi Germany A228

5:15 - 5:45 pm Closing Remarks - Dean Bavington A246 - Small Cafeteria

Prizes

Seminar Series: Glenn Tunnock, "The Algonquin Land Claim"

2010-03-24T10:05:00.001-04:00

From Dr. James Murton:

For its final meeting of this year, the History Department Seminar Series is pleased to present historian and land use planner Glenn Tunnock, speaking on "The Algonquin Land Claim: A Return to Self-Determination."

The presentation will tell the story of the Algonquin’s relationship to the settlement of eastern Upper Canada since the early seventeenth century and their quest to reconnect with the land and rekindle their cultural heritage. Tunnock holds an MA degree in history at Queen's University, where he studied the Algonquin Land Claim, and is working with the Algonquin First Nation through the establishment of a scholarship fund designed to assist young Algonquin to pursue educational initiatives which will enable them to acquire the skills to assist their nation in implementing the land claim settlement (see full abstract and presenter bio below).

Friday, Mar 26, 2:30 pm in Rm A226

Refreshments will be served. Everyone welcome!

From the History Club

2010-03-24T10:01:00.001-04:00

History Club Updates:

You are invited to our Year-End Lunch Meeting will be on Tuesday, April 6th at 11:30am in F304. We will enjoy some lunch and introduce next year's executive! Take a study break and plan to attend!

Don't forget about our annual Platonic Symposium, in conjunction with the Nipissing University History Club, on Monday, March 29th (less than a week away!) at 7:00pm in the Owl's Nest Lounge. Come out to discuss some of the greatest political and historical questions. There will be a cash bar and light hors d'oeuvres will be served. Tickets are $5 and are available through Holly Garnett, Sam Mackie, Matt Morris and Ryan Michaelis. You can also email back if you would like to arrange for a ticket!

Other Updates (Cinema Politica):

Looking for something to do before the Symposium? Cinema Politica is showing the film "Examined Life" at 5:00pm in R308 on Monday, March 29th. Everyone is welcome. A Pizza dinner will be served!

Derek Neal at tomorrow's research talk, 12:30 pm, Room A222G

2010-03-16T11:28:00.002-04:00

From the Research Office:

You are invited to attend the
Nipissing University Research Talk Series

Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 17th
Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm
Room: A222G
(same room as last year)

Speaker: Derek Neal – History
Men of the Parish: Conflict and cooperation among clerics and laymen in 16th-century England

Refreshments will be available – please bring your own lunch

Nathan Kozuskanich leads off in "Pennsylvania's Revolution"

2010-03-15T14:41:00.002-04:00

Dr. Nathan Kozuskanich has long studied and contributed to the early history of the United States, including a brief on the US Second Amendment that was submitted to the US Supreme Court. Now he has contributed his expertise to an important new book on the revolution in Pennsylvania, where a great deal of the political and ideological action took place. His is the leadoff essay in Penn State University's Pennsylvania's Revolution, “'Falling Under the Domination Totally of Presbyterians': The Paxton Riots and the Coming of the Revolution in Pennsylvania." The publisher says:

Pennsylvania’s Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the state’s Revolutionary past. It breaks from a narrowly focused study of Philadelphia and the 1776 Constitution to evaluate Pennsylvania’s internal conflicts during the Revolutionary period.

It is exciting stuff and if you want to know more, follow this link.

History Seminar Series, Immigrant Women and their Food, Friday, March 12

2010-03-08T22:14:00.002-05:00

From James Murton:

Jennifer Evans, University of Toronto, will present some research that she originated here in the History MA program.

'It was part of everything': Immigrant women’s stories of food and cooking in postwar North Bay, Ontario
Date & Time: Friday, Mar 12, 2:30 pm in Rm A226.

A study of immigrant women’s experiences with food and cooking raises questions about how women’s everyday experiences in their kitchens related to their larger transnational contexts: How did women’s experiences in their homelands shape their perceptions of the food and cooking practices in North Bay, and what did it mean for their own cooking?

Come find out!

Hilary Earl speaks on her book

2010-03-02T12:14:00.001-05:00

Dean Bavington alerts us to the fact that Dr. Hilary Earl has been interviewed in the podcast series New Books in History. Here's a brief summary from the NBIH webpage:

Hitler caused the Holocaust, that much we know (No Hitler, no Holocaust). But did he directly order it and, if so, how and when? This is one of the many interesting questions posed by Hilary Earl in her outstanding new book The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History (Cambridge UP, 2009). The book is about the trial of the leaders of the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile killing units that, in 1941 and 1942, spearheaded the Nazi effort to eradicate the Jewish people. The Einsatzgruppen murdered something on the order of a million people using almost nothing but firearms. In 1947, their commanders were brought to justice in what might be called the “other” (forgotten) Nuremberg Trials. The trial left an enormous body of reasonably fresh-after-the-fact testimony for historians to work with in trying to understand this episode in the Holocaust. Hilary does a masterful job of mining this material. She also points out that the roots of our own understandings of the Holocaust can in large measure be traced to these disturbing trails. The defendants were the first Nazi genocidaires to publicly describe what they had done and why they had done it.

And here is a link to the podcast. (Near bottom of that page.)

History Club Updates

2010-03-02T09:10:00.002-05:00

The History Club writes:

Our next meeting will be this Thursday, March 4th at 11:30am in R306.

We are also planning a Year-end lunch for History students and faculty to celebrate the past year and introduce your new History Club executive. Please mark Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 11:30pm on your calendars.

Other Events: The Canadian International Council (CIC), along with Nipissing University, will be welcoming Globe and Mail Columnist Jeffery Simpson to North Bay for a special talk entitled "Sink or Swim: Keeping Canada Afloat in the New Global Economy." The talk begins at 7:00pm in the Nipissing University Theater on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010. The cost is $5, $2 for students and free for Members of the CIC (please pay at the door).

Katrina Srigley presents "Stories of Strife? Memories of the Great Depression." Friday March 5, 2:30

2010-03-01T10:44:00.005-05:00

Dr. James Murton writes:

We at the History Department Seminar Series are pleased (and somewhat relieved) to return to our regular format, especially since we do so with our own Katrina Srigley presenting a lively and fascinating paper on family and memory titled, "Stories of Strife? Memories of the Great Depression."

Katrina's paper focuses on four sisters' recollections of their Depression-era family and their complex and difficult relationship with their father, as a way of revealing how we use memory to shape our individual, family and community identities.

Friday, Mar 5, 2:30 pm in A224

Refreshments will be served. Everyone welcome!

History Club Potluck & Board Games Night --Tonight!

2010-03-01T08:32:00.001-05:00

The History Club writes:

Don't forget about our Potluck & Board Games Night on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 5:30pm in the Owl's Nest Lounge (H102). Bring some food to share and any fun board games you may have (I know I'm bringing RISK). Bring a friend!

History Club Updates: Week of February 22

2010-02-22T18:38:00.001-05:00

History Club Updates:

Our next History Club Meeting will be Thursday, March 4th at 11:30am in room R306. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please find the minutes from our last meeting attached.

Don't forget about our Potluck & Board Games Night on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 5:30pm in the Owl's Nest Lounge (H102). Bring some food to share and any fun board games you may have. Bring a friend!

Other Events:

The Canadian International Council (CIC), along with Nipissing University, will be welcoming Globe and Mail Columnist Jeffery Simpson to North Bay for a special talk entitled "Sink or Swim: Keeping Canada Afloat in the New Global Economy." The talk begins at 7:00pm in the Nipissing University Theater. The cost is $5, $2 for students and free for Members of the CIC (please pay at the door).

Jeffrey Simpson on Canada and the Global Economy - March 2nd

2010-02-22T15:06:00.002-05:00

Dr. Robin Gendron writes:

On Tuesday, March 2nd, the Nipissing Branch of the Canadian International Council and Nipissing University will be hosting a talk by Jeffrey Simpson entitled “Sink or Swim? Keeping Canada Afloat in the New Global Economy.” The talk will discuss the political and economic challenges that Canada faces in prospering within the dynamic global environment of the 21st century.

Jeffrey Simpson is the national affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail and has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes -- the Governor-General's award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing (twice). He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. In January, 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has published eight books, including most recently The Friendly Dictatorship: Reflections on Canadian Democracy (2001) and Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge (2007) with Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers.

The talk will be held from 7 – 8:30 pm in the Theatre at Nipissing University (room F213). Tickets are $5 at the door, $2 for students, and free for members of the Canadian International Council.

The Canadian International Council is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation dedicated to fostering the engagement of Canadians in Canadian foreign policy and in international issues generally.

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

Nipissing University MA students-- past and present -- excell

2010-02-21T17:00:00.004-05:00

On Thursday through Saturday past, current and former students in our MA program in history took part in the New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference at York University. The program (previous link) is very impressive, but what is more impressive is that three of our people did themselves proud in such company, as knowledgeable eye-witnesses affirm. You are cordially invited to look here and see what Jennifer Evans, Michael Del Vecchio, Morgann Rymall and Lindsay Robinson were up to.

Bruce Meyer on Great Books, Today!

2010-02-11T11:52:00.001-05:00

Bob Pipe writes:

Nipissing University is pleased to welcome author and poet Bruce Meyer to campus for a special lecture titled What’s so Great About the Great Books on February 11, at 4 p.m. in room H105. Meyer will also give a poetry reading on February 12, at 11 a.m. in room H108.

Meyer is the author of 30 books, the most recent of which are the poetry collections Mesopotamia, Dog Days, and Bread. The Golden Thread: A Reader’s Journey Through the Great Books was a national bestseller in 2000. His broadcasts on the Great Books are the CBC’s bestselling audio cd series. He is a professor of English at Georgian College where he teaches in the Laurentian University BA Program. Meyer has recently been named as a top ten finalist in TV Ontario’s Best Lecturer Series.

The lecture is part of Nipissing’s English department Speaker Series. It is free of charge and all are welcome.

From the History Club

2010-02-11T09:37:00.000-05:00

History Club Updates:

Our next club meeting will be Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 11:30 in R306. Please find minutes from our last meeting attached.

Don't forget about our Potluck Dinner and Board Games Night on Monday, March 1st at 5:30pm in the Owl's Nest Lounge (H102). Bring some food to share, your favourite board game (I know I'll be bringing RISK) and your friends!

Mark your calendars! Our 3rd Annual Platonic Symposium is tentatively scheduled for Monday, March 29th. Tickets will once again be $5 each, for a great night of discussion, drinks and food. This event is joint with the Nipissing University Student Political Involvement Network.

Upcoming book from Dean Bavington

2010-02-02T10:24:00.000-05:00

Dean Bavington is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at Nipissing University. His first book, from University of British Columbia Press in May, will have a big impact on resource debates.

Here's the publisher's blurb:

Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
Dean L.Y. Bavington

The Newfoundland and Labrador cod fishery was once the most successful commercial ground fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992, fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting as likely culprits. Managed Annihilation makes the case that the idea of natural resource management itself was the problem. The collapse occurred when the fisheries were state managed and still, nearly two decades later, there is no recovery in sight. Although the collapse raised doubts among policy-makers about their ability to understand, predict, and control nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not wavered – it has simply been transferred from wild fish to fishermen and farmed cod.

Unlike other efforts to make sense of the tragedy of the commons of the northern cod fishery and its halting recovery, Bavington calls into question the very premise of management and managerial ecology and offers a critical explanation that seeks to uncover alternatives obscured by this dominant way of relating to nature.
– Bonnie McCay, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University

Next History Seminar: Dreaming of Nipissing: Friday, Feb 5, 2:30 pm, A226

2010-02-01T21:55:00.003-05:00

From Dr. James Murton:

Following from the nearly soldout panel discussion of this past Friday, the History Department Seminar Series is proud to announce our second panel discussion of the year, "Dreaming of Nipissing."

The discussion which will feature Sal Renshaw, Charlotte Innerd, and Jeff Dech on the subject of "where we go from here" -- their own takes on the future of Nipissing.

Sal Renshaw is a member of the Departments of Religions & Cultures and Gender Equality and Social Justice, and is well known to anyone involved with Nipissing for her tireless work as Chair of GESJ, with the Women's Centre and International Women's Week, and on a bewildering number of committees. Charlotte Innerd is Manager Reference and Information Services at the Education Centre Library and brings the perspective of the library to our discussion. Jeff Dech is Forest Bioproducts Research Chair in the Department of Biology and a former Nipissing undergraduate. Please come and join in on discussing the future of our university!

Friday, Feb 5, 2:30 pm, A226.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information go www.nipissingu.ca/history and click on Upcoming Events.

See you there!

History Club Updates, week of Feb. 1

2010-01-30T21:42:00.001-05:00

From the History Club:

Our next club meeting will be Thursday, February 11th at 11:30 in R306. As always, new members are welcome to attend!

We are planning this year's Book Sale Fundraiser for February 2nd and 3rd (and possibly the 4th). We are in need of donations of used books of any kind to sell, which can be dropped off at Professor Connor's office (3rd floor of H-Wing). We are also looking for volunteers to sell the books and set up on February 2nd and 3rd. Please find attached a schedule for selling, if there are some time slots that you can commit to, it would be much appreciated. Also consider coming by (outside the library) to buy a book or two! Many thanks in advance!

Something to put in your calendar: We are planning a History Potluck Dinner and Board Game Night for Monday, March 1st, beginning at 5:30pm in H102. Everyone is welcome to attend. Bring a dish to share and your favourite board game!

The Canadian International Council (CIC) is hosting another talk, this time with special guest Chris Kuntz from REpower systems Inc. on "Wind Power in Canada and the World." The event will take place in the Nipissing University Theatre at 7:00pm on Thursday, February 4th. Everyone is welcome to attend!

History Club Updates

2010-01-26T20:48:00.001-05:00

Our Next History Club Meeting will be Thursday, January 28th at 11:30pm in room R306. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please find the minutes from our last meeting attached.

We will be having a New Year's History Pub Night on Thursday, January 28th beginning at 9:00pm at the Bull and Quench North Bay. This a great opportunity to relax and have a drink with your fellow students and history faculty.

We are planning this year's Book Sale Fundraiser for February 2nd and 3rd (and possibly the 4th). We are in need of donations of used books of any kind to sell, which can be dropped off at Professor Connor's office (3rd floor of H-Wing). We are also looking for volunteers to sell the books and set up on February 2nd and 3rd. If you can spare an hour or two, please email back with the time you can commit. Many thanks in advance!

The Canadian International Council (CIC) is hosting another talk, this time with special guest Chris Kuntz from REpower systems Inc. on "Wind Power in Canada and the World." The event will take place in the Nipissing University Theatre at 7:00pm on Thursday, February 4th. Everyone is welcome to attend!

History Seminar Series, "Teaching Teaching History." Friday, Jan 29

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Catherine Murton Stoehr writes:

Bring the Students!

For the next History Seminar Series, "Teaching Teaching History," Todd Horton, Jennifer Straub, Bob Fix and John Allison of the Faculty of Education will discuss the challenges, dangers, and rewards of teaching others to teach history. How do you foster an understanding of and appreciation for the past in children and teenagers? How do you and can you present history in the public schools? What can young children learn about the past? These and other questions will be considered in a conversation that promises to be lively and illuminating.

Friday, Jan 29, 2:30 pm in Rm A226

For more information go to www.nipissingu.ca/history and click on upcoming events.

News from the History Club

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The club says:

Our Next History Club Meeting will be Thursday, January 28th at 11:30pm in room R306. Everyone is welcome to attend! Minutes from our last meeting will follow next week.

We will be having a New Year's History Pub Night on Thursday, January 28th beginning at 9:00pm at the Bull and Quench North Bay. This a great opportunity to relax and have a drink with your fellow students and history faculty.

Other Events:

Our friends over at the Political Science Club will be hosting a Lunch and Lecture about the Prorogation of Parliament on Monday, January 25th, 2010 from 11:30-12:30 in A224. The speaker will be Dr. David Tabachnick. Everyone is welcome to come for some lunch, listen to a talk on prorogation and then ask questions and discuss.

Tonight at the N.B. Public Library: Canadian Arctic Defence

2010-01-18T10:29:00.000-05:00

Dr. Robin Gendron writes

This is just a reminder that Commander Alex Grant of the Canadian Navy will be speaking tonight on Canadian Arctic Defence. The talk takes place at 7 pm in the auditorium of the North Bay public library on Worthington and it is free and open to the public.

The talk is being sponsored by the Nipissing Branch of the Canadian International Council.

Mackenzie King Scholarships for graduate students -- internal deadline Feb. 1

2010-01-14T13:53:00.001-05:00

The Mackenzie King Scholarships were established as an independent trust under the will of the late Rt. Hon. William Mackenzie King (1874-1950).

Two classes of Mackenzie King Scholarship are available to graduates of Canadian universities: the Open Scholarship and the Travelling Scholarship. Both are to support graduate study.

The Open Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in any discipline, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded each year. The value has recently been about $10,000 but it is subject to change.

The Travelling Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in the United States or the United Kingdom in the areas of international relations or industrial relations. Recently four scholarships of $11,000 each have been awarded annually, but the number and the amount are subject to change.

This site provides information about applying for the awards, criteria for applicants, and downloadable application forms. As well, you can find out how to contact us with specific questions, or for for more information.

The application forms on the website (www.mkingscholarships.ca) may be used even if they don’t bear the current competition date.

Applications for the Mackenzie King Scholarships must be received by Nipissing University's Financial Aid Office by February 1st to support study in the following academic year.

Nathan Kozuskanich co-authors a brief for an upcoming US Supreme Court case

2010-01-13T09:32:00.004-05:00

Dr. Nathan Kozuskanich writes:

I am sending you a link to a press release announcing the release of an amicus brief I co-authored with Jane Calvert of the University of Kentucky for the upcoming US Supreme Court case, McDonald v. City of Chicago. This is the second case relating to the Second Amendment to hit the Court in the past two years (the first being the Heller case--my published research was cited as an authority in several Heller briefs last year).

The Second Amendment to the US Constitution is the much-contested one guaranteeing the right to bear arms; what that means is the subject of Dr. Kozuskanich's brief. An "amicus brief" is an argument submitted by "friends of the court," people with an interest in the case even though they were not involved in it originally. This brief is based on detailed research on the historical context of the Bill of Rights.

You can read the brief here.

History Club meeting: Tuesday, January 12 at 11:30 am in room R306

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From the History Club:

A reminder that our first meeting of the semester is this coming Tuesday, January 12th at 11:30am in Room R306. We will be discussing our plans for the semester, including a possible change in meeting time/location.

Yvonne Hunter speaks on Friday, January 8

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Please help the History Department open the new year by attending our first seminar, by this promising graduate of our BA and MA programs.

Next year's first History Department Seminar, Friday Jan. 8

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Jamie Murton writes:

Before you go away for the holidays -- make plans to attend the first History Department Seminar Series of the new year. The History Department is very proud to present one of our former graduate students, Yvonne Hunter of McMaster University, speaking on:

"Cold Columns: Anne O'Hare McCormick and the Origins of the Cold War in The New York Times (1920-1954)."

Friday, Jan 8, 2:30 pm, in room A226.

Yvonne's paper considers Anne O’Hare McCormick, the Pulitzer-winning political correspondent for The New York Times, who might correctly be considered one of the first prominent intellectual Cold Warriors of the twentieth century. Using biography, published writings, and private correspondences, this project considers how one prominent women correspondent from the east coast media helped to shape political discourse and policy itself prior to and during the Cold War.

See you there!

Jamie

Students: Reward the teachers who inspire you!

2009-12-14T14:47:00.002-05:00

From the Office of the Vice President Academic and Research:

The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Full-Time Teaching and the Nipissing University Award for Part-Time Teaching were established to recognize and honour faculty who display teaching excellence in the classroom.

For information on the application process and nomination forms for each award, please visit the website of the Vice-President, Academic and Research at http://www.nipissingu.ca/academic/ “Teaching Awards”. Since recipients are entitled to receive the teaching awards only once every five years, please verify the list of previous recipients on the website that the nominee check the . Hard copies can also be obtained from the Office of the Vice-President, Academic and Research (F309).

The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, March 19, 2010.

Scholarship is alive and well at NU

2009-12-09T08:55:00.002-05:00

From an announcement by the NU library:

While construction continued outside on the new Learning Library, Nipissing’s current library held a celebration of the people whose works will help fill the new book shelves. Nipissing University celebrated its faculty who recently published books at the Education Centre Library’s 2009 Faculty Book Launch, held on December 3 in the Library’s Gallery Lounge.
There are 19 new books that have been authored or co-authored by Nipissing faculty since 2008. The books represent an impressively diverse range of academic disciplines and topics, from global politics and family history to educational leadership and the environment.

“Book publication is a major form of research output and a fundamental aspect of scholarly life. The Education Centre Library is delighted to support faculty at Nipissing by acknowledging that having a book published is a defining moment for scholars,” said Lynne Prunskus, associate director of library services, who conceived of and organized the event.
List of authors and their books that were recognized at the Faculty Book Launch (Nipissing Faculty in bold):

Earl, Hilary. The Nuremburg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Ferry, Darren. Uniting in Measures of Common Good: The Construction of Liberal Identities in Central Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
Geden, Dennis. Paintings 2000-2009, a survey. Mineta Contemporary, 2009.
Hatt, Blaine. Heart in Teaching: Attending the Pathic. Lambert, 2009
Jarvis, Daniel H. Parametric Creativity: Curriculum Negotiation and Professional Development Models in Mathematics Education. Lambert, 2009.
McMaster, Lindsey. Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage-Earning Women. UBC Press, 2008.
Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. and Dave Hackett. Living in the Environment. Nelson Education Ltd., 2008.
Mintz, Jerry and Carlo Ricci, eds. Turning Points: 27 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories.Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2010.
Noël, Françoise. Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
Renshaw, Sal. The Subject of Love: Hélène Cixous and the Feminine Divine. Manchester University Press, 2009.
Lord, Bruce and Elisabeth Richards. Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed: And Other Cracked Tales. iUniverse.com, 2008.
Richardson, Carole and Warnie Richardson. Walking the Talk: Putting Theory into Practice. Detselig Enterprises, 2008.
Ryan, Thomas G. ed. Canadian Educational Leadership. Detselig Enterprises, 2009.
Srigley, Katrina. Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in the Depression-Era City, 1929-1939. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Stange, Ken. Art Creation and Appreciation: Uniquely Human? Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Tabachnick, David Edward and Toivo Koivukoski, eds. Enduring Empire: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Vassilev, Tzvetalin. Optimal Area Triangulation of Planar Point Sets. VDM Verlag, 2009.

Reminder: History Seminar, Friday December 4

2009-12-03T15:00:00.002-05:00

From Dr. James Murton:

A reminder that the next History Department Seminar Series is tomorrow (Friday), featuring Bruce Erickson speaking on "Recreating History, Consuming Nature: Canoeing, Suffering, and the Nation’s Past."

This Friday, Dec 4, 2:30 pm in Rm A226.

Fall Faculty Book Launch, Thursday Dec. 3, 4 pm

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This joyous event will take place in the Library Lounge and will include light refreshments.

Information Fair on NU's Master of Arts in History Program, Saturday December 5

2009-11-30T12:08:00.003-05:00

Anyone interested in Nipissing's Masters Programs (including the Masters of Arts in History) are invited to attend an Information Fair on MA History, MEd, MSc Mathematics on Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at the Main Campus in North Bay from 10:00am - 12:00pm. Register now by contacting the Liaison Office: (705-474-3450 ext. 4517) or nuinfo AT nipissingu.ca.

History Seminar Series: Bruce Erickson on Canoeing as Historical Re-creation, Friday, December 4

2009-11-30T12:03:00.002-05:00

The final installment of the History Department Seminar Series for this term features Bruce Erickson, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Nipissing University, speaking on "Recreating History, Consuming Nature: Canoeing, Suffering, and the Nation's Past" on Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 2:30pm in Room A226. Refreshments will be served.

Bruce's talk will examine recreational re-creations of voyageur canoe trips, arguing that these trips attempt to encounter the character of the nation through an experience of nature. Canada then becomes a nation held in the nature of the landscape, as opposed to an entity created by multifarious networks of colonial power over the last four centuries.

Reminder: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation

2009-11-23T12:47:00.002-05:00

From the History Club:

Here is the information about a special lecture this week hosted by the Canadian International Council that you may be interested in:
What? Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Peacebuilding in Cambodia, Kosovo and Uganda
When? Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 7:00pm
Where? The Weaver (B200), Nipissing University
Who? Everyone! Admission is free.

Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Tuesday, Nov. 24, 7 pm, Weaver Auditorium.

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From Dr. Robin Gendron:

The Nipissing Branch of the Canadian International Council would like to invite the campus community to participate in an event with Dr. Alistair Edgar, who will be speaking on the subject of "Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Peacebuilding in Cambodia, Kosovo, and Uganda."

This event will take place next Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 7-8 pm in the Weaver Auditorium. It is free and open to the public and we hope to see everyone there.

Nipissing University Academic College meeting -- Friday, Nov. 13

2009-11-12T10:06:00.003-05:00

Christine Jenkins (Secretary of Senate/Assistant to the President) writes:

This is a reminder of the meeting of the Nipissing University Academic College (NUAC) on Friday, November 13 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. in F210. NUAC is comprised of all members of the broad University community involved in the delivery of academic programs and academic services. This includes all students.

Information on NUAC is contained in Article 10.3 of the Senate By-laws which may be found at: http://www.nipissingu.ca/senate/downloads/BYLAWS.PDF

Reminders: Keynote address, History seminar

2009-11-05T11:33:00.003-05:00

For the Keynote address, tonight, see the previous post.

Dr. James Murton reminds of tomorrow's History seminar:

The History Department Seminar Series will welcome Dr. Kristján Ahronson to campus this Friday to speak on "Viking-Age Environmental Change: The First Centuries of Human Settlement in Iceland."

Friday, Nov 6, 2:30 pm in Rm A226.

Refreshments will be served. See you there!

Reminder: History Keynote Address, November 5, 7 pm

2009-11-04T18:27:00.000-05:00

Nipissing University is pleased to welcome James Taylor Carson to campus for the Department of History’s annual keynote address.

Titled, North American Antiquity and the Practice of Modern History, the address takes place on Thursday, November 5, from 7 – 9 p.m. in room R308.

Seminar series: Viking-Age Environmental Change, Friday Nov. 6

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Dr. James Murton writes:

The History Department Seminar Series, in conjunction with James Abbott of the Geography Department, will feature archeologist Dr Kristján Ahronson, speaking on "Viking-Age Environmental Change: The First Centuries of Human Settlement in Iceland."

Dr. Ahronson is a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and is a Lecturer at the University of Wales (Bangor). He will discuss the way in which his work is providing a better understanding of the process of cultural diffusion in the North Atlantic through a new use of volcanic deposits to more accurately date changes in vegetative cover as a result of the Norse settlement of Iceland.

Friday, Nov 6, 2:30 pm, Rm A226.

Everyone Welcome. Refreshments will be served!

History Club meeting: Tuesday, November 3rd at 11:30am in room R313.

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Tonight's History Pub relocated

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It will be at 100 Georges, upstairs. A double-booking is responsible for the change.

Department of History Annual Keynote Address -- Thursday, November 5, 2009

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The History Department invites you to its Annual Keynote Address

James Taylor Carson

Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean
Queen's University

“North American Antiquity and the Practice of Modern History.”

Abstract: When Europeans first arrived in the place they named the Americas they denied the humanity of the people who had inhabited the land for millennia. The descendants of the European diaspora still deny those people and, by extension, the antiquity of the places they inhabit. But this ancient world and its influences are all around us if we only take the time to look. McDonald’s fast food, Hurricane Katrina and the election of Barack Obama each point to the importance of our ancient past, but such examples can only assume their ancient significance if we rethink who we are and how we relate to our own place and time.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

R308

7:00 - 8:00

Contact Nathan Kozuskanich (nathank@nipissingu.ca) for more info.

Image: Cahokia, a 13th-century North American city.

Upcoming History Club events

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Meeting on Tuesday, October 20th, at 11:30 in room R313.

Historical Halloween Pub is coming up on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 beginning at 9:00pm at the Bull and Quench (603 McIntyre St. E.) Come dressed as a historical figure, or from a historical period. Prizes ($25 gift cards from the LCBO and Chapters/Coles) will be awarded for the two best costumes!

North Bay launch of Francoise Noel's new book - Thursday, October 15, 7 pm

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A reminder:

Dr. Francoise Noel's upcoming book, Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The interwar years, will have its North Bay area launch on Thursday, October 15, 7-8:30 PM, at the NB Public Library at 271 Worthington Street E.

This book is based on extensive interviews and archival research and reconstructs how various individuals and groups lived together and sometimes came into conflict in the years before the Second World War. As the title indicates, Dr. Noel is especially interested in family life and its rituals, a subject she treated so well in her previous book, Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada.

If you live in the North Bay area, and especially if you grew up here, this book will be of special interest to you.

Books will be available for sale at the launch and also at Gulliver's, 157 Main Street W.

Model NATO Organisational Meeting - Oct 8

2009-10-05T18:59:00.002-04:00

Dr. Gendron sends this information:

There will be a meeting for students interested in participating in the 2010 Model NATO conference in Ottawa as part of the Nipissing Model NATO team on Thursday, Oct 8 at 11:30 in room H349.

Any interested students are free to contact me for further information or if they are unable to attend the meeting.

Scavenger hunt!

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Nipissing University History Club

First Year Scavenger Hunt

Check the Nipissing University History Club Bulletin Board for your next clue.

Reminder: Subsistence Conference Events

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Friday, Oct 2

Dr. Petrick will be giving a talk titled "Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter: A Call for the Centrality of Taste in History." 2:30 pm in A122

The panel discussion "Contemplating Local Food: An Evening the Kennedy Gallery" will feature four local food producers talking about bringing local food to the near north, with food by Piebird B&B. 6:30 pm at the Kennedy Gallery (150 Main St E). For more information see www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/jamesm/panel/panel.html

Saturday & Sunday, Oct 3-4

The actual workshop goes over the weekend, featuring scholars from the US and Canada discussing the pains and possibilities of eating and working outside and beside capitalist market economies. In the Chapel at Monastery Hall, starting at 9:00 am on Saturday. For more information see www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/jamesm/subsistence/subsistence.html.

Monday, Oct 5

Jennifer Johnson of the University of Michigan will speak on "Commodity Frontiers in Lake Victoria's Global Nile Perch Trade." 5-6:30 pm in Rm A226

Also, Monday Night is the first documentary in the Cinema Politica Series. The documentary is called, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO and is all about the industrial food system and its consequences. 7 pm in R308.

For more information see the links above or contact James Murton (jamesm@nipissingu.ca), Dean Bavington (deanba@nipissingu.ca) or Bruce Erickson (brucee@nipissingu.ca). See you there!

TOMORROW: NYU historian speaks on food at the History Seminar Series

2009-10-01T10:18:00.002-04:00

Dr. James Murton writes:

A reminder that the History Department Seminar Series kicks off another year with food historian Gabriella M. Petrick of New York University. She will speak on "Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter: A Call for the Centrality of Taste in History."

Friday, Oct 2, 2:30 pm, in A122.

Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

A reminder as well that Dr. Petrick's visit to Nipissing is part of the conference Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows: A Workshop on Subsistence Economies. More information at www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/jamesm/subsistence/subsistence.html.

Good Governance and Traditional Authorities in Ghana --Tuesday, Oct. 6, 11:30 AM

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From Dr. Robin Gendron:

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Matt Morris (a Nipissing student) will be giving a talk on the subject of "Good Governance and Traditional Authorities in Ghana," derived from his recent experience working with an NGO in Ghana. The talk will take place from 11:30 - 12:30 in Room A122 and everyone is welcome. Lunch will be served!

The event is being sponsored by the Political Science programme, the Student Political Involvement Network, and the Nipissing Branch of the Canadian International Council.

History Seminar Series: Dr. Gabriella Petrick on Food History, Friday, Oct 2, 2:30 pm, in A122.

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From Dr. James Murton:

The History Seminar Series returns for another year with a talk by historian Gabriella M. Petrick, visiting us from New York University. She will speak on "Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter: A Call for the Centrality of Taste in History."

Gabriella's previous work is on the development of industrial food systems in the modern U.S., and this talk is derived from her new research on the history of taste. Dr. Petrick is Assistant Professor Food Studies in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at NYU Steinhardt. For more information see: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/profiles/faculty/gabriella_petrick.

Friday, Oct 2, 2:30 pm, in A122.

Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

Note that Dr. Petrick's visit to Nipissing is part of the conference Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows: A Workshop on Subsistence Economies. More information at the link.

Gabriella Petrick, food historian, at NU next Thursday

2009-09-23T17:56:00.002-04:00

From Dr. James Murton, to faculty, but all can listen in:

As part of next weekend's subsistence history workshop, NYU food historian Gabriella Petrick will be visiting campus. She is a historian of industrial food systems in the modern US and is doing interesting new work on the history of taste. She'll be visiting my Food & Land class a week Thursday, and the plan is for her to give a talk on Friday. I will send you more info on the talk when I have it, but in the meantime if you could mention this to your classes where appropriate, and particularly the grad students, I'd appreciate it. I want to encourage the grad students to attend the talk in particular and she is available to meet with any interested students.

NU History Club notices -- lots going on

2009-09-21T12:00:00.000-04:00

Welcome back! I hope you are enjoying your classes so far! A few things of interest to history students in the next couple of weeks:

Our first History Club Meeting will be taking place this Tuesday (September 22nd) at 11:30am in room R313 (in the new research wing). We plan to discuss some upcoming club activities, so if you'd like to get more involved with the History Club, please consider attending!

This year's History Department Meet and Greet will take place on Wednesday, September 30th at 6:30pm in the Owl's Nest Lounge (first floor of the H-Wing). All students interested in (or already in) Nipissing's History program are welcome to attend. Get to know your History Profs and fellow students and enjoy some refreshments and fun!

Club Days is coming up on the week of September 28th - October 2nd. We are looking for people to help run the History Club booth, so if you have a few hours to spare between 9:00-3:00 on any day that week, please email back.

Calling all First Year Students! This year, the History Club will be organizing a Scavenger Hunt and Pizza Party for new History Students at Nipissing University on Monday, October 5th, starting at 12:00pm following the First Year Canadian History Course in B200. Please let any first year History students know!

Other Opportunities of interest:

Students are also invited to take part in a conference that the History Department at Nipissing and the Canada Research Chair in Environmental History are presenting, called "Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows." This two-day workshop aims to bring together emerging scholarship on subsistence and mixed economies, both contemporary and throughout history. Subsistence relationships illustrate the complexity of not only economic exchanges, but also of human/nature interactions, and discussions at the workshop will draw upon these complex networks to help understand the continuing significance of subsistence at different scales. 13 pre-selected papers will form the spine of the discussion and the keynote address will be provided by Colin Duncan, author of The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature. The workshop will take place at Monastery Hall, Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, on October 2-4th. While the subsistence scale has often been seen as a stepping-stone to larger, more complex relationships of exchange, local and subsistence economies have received a recent revival due to both environmental and economic crises. North Bay has a long history of vibrant subsistence and small-scale productions, including wild berries, fisheries, and forestry. On Friday evening (October 2nd ) there will be a showcase of some of those involved in these relationships at the Kennedy Gallery in Downtown North Bay. If you are interested in further information, or are interested in attending, please contact Bruce Erickson at brucee@nipissingu.ca