Model NATO

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.

 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!

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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