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

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

Spring/Summer 2011 Course Offerings

On Campus Courses:

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

Distance Learning: 

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

Registration is now open
Register now to avoid disappointment

Courses with insufficient registration will be cancelled in early April

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

From Dr. Derek Neal:

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

 

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

 

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

 

Looking forward to seeing you there,

 

Derek Neal

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

From Dr. Ann-Barbara Graff:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Dr. Robin Gendron:

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

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

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

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

The Model NATO team offers a debate: NATO and Egypt

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Dr. Derek Neal:

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

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

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

Dr. Mark Crane on scholasticism vs. humanism

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

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

Dr. James Murton speaks on Environmental History -- podcast

Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 19 Available

From: Sean Kheraj <skheraj@MTROYAL.CA>

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tonight -- Reimagining Communities

From Dr. Robin Gendron:

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

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

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

Hope to see you all this evening.