Janice McKinnon, Huron Alumni Award of Distinction
Congratulations to department member Janice MacKinnon who was awarded the Huron Alumni Award of Distinction at the University of Western Ontario's Homecoming. The award recognizes her outstanding professional achievements and community service of Western alumni. Janice MacKinnon (FRSC) is a former Minister of Finance for the Province of Saskatchewan and has written three books on Canadian history: The Liberty We Seek published by Harvard University Press (1983), While the Women Only Wept (1994) and Minding the Public Purse (2003). Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she received an honours B.A. from Huron University College in 1969 before going on to take an M.A. and Ph.D. at Queen's University.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Happy 100th Birthday!
This week, the Department of History celebrates its 100th Anniversary. We have special events -- including a President's Reception on Friday night and an afternoon symposium on Saturday -- scheduled this weekend. To see more on the department's celebrations and how to participate, please see the department website. The good news is that you don't need to be alumni to attend and it's not too late to sign up!
To start things off this week, Bill Waiser was interviewed by CBC Radio's This Morning Edition on September 29th. The podcast is available at: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/pastpodcasts.html?36#ref36 .
This week, the Department of History celebrates its 100th Anniversary. We have special events -- including a President's Reception on Friday night and an afternoon symposium on Saturday -- scheduled this weekend. To see more on the department's celebrations and how to participate, please see the department website. The good news is that you don't need to be alumni to attend and it's not too late to sign up!
To start things off this week, Bill Waiser was interviewed by CBC Radio's This Morning Edition on September 29th. The podcast is available at: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/pastpodcasts.html?36#ref36 .
Monday, September 21, 2009
Lessons from the Squared Circle:
Wrestling at the U of S
The History Department has joined a group of other departments and university units in a month-long exploration and celebration of the history of wrestling on the Canadian prairies.
The centrepiece of the project is Ring-A-Ding-Dong-Dandy: Glimpses of Wrestling History, a large exhibition in the Murray Library's Link Gallery (September 25 to November 5), using works from a proposed gift to the University of Saskatchewan Archives.
In addition to the exhibition, there will be a display on U of S Huskie amateur wrestling at the PAC, a reception and book launch on October 28 for Wrestling in the Canadian West by pro wrestler Vance Nevada and a Greystone Theatre production of Trafford Tanzi by Claire Luckham (a play about a young woman who liberates herself by becoming a wrestler).
The project winds up on October 29 when the History Department and the College of Kinesiology cosponsor a presentation by sports historian Nathan Hatton entitled Thrashing Seasons: Roughness, Respectability and Professional Wrestling on the Canadian Prairies before 1930.
For more information and details of events, see the project poster and programme.
Wrestling at the U of S
The History Department has joined a group of other departments and university units in a month-long exploration and celebration of the history of wrestling on the Canadian prairies.
The centrepiece of the project is Ring-A-Ding-Dong-Dandy: Glimpses of Wrestling History, a large exhibition in the Murray Library's Link Gallery (September 25 to November 5), using works from a proposed gift to the University of Saskatchewan Archives.
In addition to the exhibition, there will be a display on U of S Huskie amateur wrestling at the PAC, a reception and book launch on October 28 for Wrestling in the Canadian West by pro wrestler Vance Nevada and a Greystone Theatre production of Trafford Tanzi by Claire Luckham (a play about a young woman who liberates herself by becoming a wrestler).
The project winds up on October 29 when the History Department and the College of Kinesiology cosponsor a presentation by sports historian Nathan Hatton entitled Thrashing Seasons: Roughness, Respectability and Professional Wrestling on the Canadian Prairies before 1930.
For more information and details of events, see the project poster and programme.
Recording the History of Sto:lo First Nation
History student Stephanie Danyluk spent four weeks this summer with the Sto:lo First Nation (Fraser River, B.C.), while taking Keith Carlson's ethno-history field school.
In an interview with The StarPhoenix, Stephanie speaks of the significance of her experiences:
"'The elders told us that now that we've heard these stories, it's our responsibility to share them,' said Danyluk.
History student Stephanie Danyluk spent four weeks this summer with the Sto:lo First Nation (Fraser River, B.C.), while taking Keith Carlson's ethno-history field school.
In an interview with The StarPhoenix, Stephanie speaks of the significance of her experiences:
"'The elders told us that now that we've heard these stories, it's our responsibility to share them,' said Danyluk.
'We weren't just witnesses who were sitting and observing. We were a part of it.'"
What a great way to spend part of the summer!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
First HUSA event of the year
HUSA is launching its first social event of the semester on Tuesday, September 29, from 4:30 to 6:30. This will be a pizza break in (and spreading out of) our much-beloved tutorial room, Arts 249.
Two dollars buys a slice of pizza and a soda. A veritable bargain -- and a chance to meet other lovers of history!
Students, tutorial leaders and faculty are all welcome.
HUSA is launching its first social event of the semester on Tuesday, September 29, from 4:30 to 6:30. This will be a pizza break in (and spreading out of) our much-beloved tutorial room, Arts 249.
Two dollars buys a slice of pizza and a soda. A veritable bargain -- and a chance to meet other lovers of history!
Students, tutorial leaders and faculty are all welcome.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Happy Alumna News
Tracy Deline, who completed her MA under Michael Swan's supervision in 2001, successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at UBC on September 3. Her thesis, "Women in Criminal Trials in the Julio-Claudian Era", sounds fascinating. Congratulations, Tracy -- and all the best in your future endeavours!
Tracy Deline, who completed her MA under Michael Swan's supervision in 2001, successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at UBC on September 3. Her thesis, "Women in Criminal Trials in the Julio-Claudian Era", sounds fascinating. Congratulations, Tracy -- and all the best in your future endeavours!
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Second Annual Dave De Brou Memorial Lecture in History
This year, the History Graduate Students' Committee and the Department of History are pleased to welcome Bill Waiser, who will speak on "Howdy's Photo Album". Dr. Waiser will critically examine the 1950s aerial photography work of H.D. McPhail, a former Lancaster bomber pilot, who took photos of farms around North Battleford and urban centres across Canada.
Date: September 29th
Place: Frances Morrison Library Theatre, 311-23rd Street East
Time: 6:15 p.m. (doors) for 7:00 p.m. (lecture)
Admission: Free
Contact: val406@mail.usask.ca
This year, the History Graduate Students' Committee and the Department of History are pleased to welcome Bill Waiser, who will speak on "Howdy's Photo Album". Dr. Waiser will critically examine the 1950s aerial photography work of H.D. McPhail, a former Lancaster bomber pilot, who took photos of farms around North Battleford and urban centres across Canada.
Date: September 29th
Place: Frances Morrison Library Theatre, 311-23rd Street East
Time: 6:15 p.m. (doors) for 7:00 p.m. (lecture)
Admission: Free
Contact: val406@mail.usask.ca
Monday, August 17, 2009
New Course
The Department is pleased to be offering an exciting one-time only course in term 2: History 395, "Metis/Mestizo: Mixed Ancestry Peoples in Comparative Context" (taught by Camie Augustus). The course considers the question of why Canada is the only country to recognize an indigenous mixed-ancestry population as a distinct cultural group.
Contact Camie Augustus (camie.augustus@usask.ca) for more information on the course and how to register.
Image: David Garneau, "Cross Addressing", Collection of the Museum of Civilization
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Department is very pleased to see Akira Peters return in September. Akira will complete the final year of a Combined Honours degree in English and History, which she had to defer after a hemorrhagic stroke in June 2008. The cause of her stroke was a rare disease, moyamoya, which affects arteries in the brain.
After many months of recovery at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton, Akira went on to help other brain injury survivors through her volunteer work at Networks Activity Centre (Edmonton). Her good sense of humour and willingness to help others, as well as her perseverance, are being recognised by two awards: the Glenmore Award of Courage and a Brain Injury Association Bursary.
For a few days at least, you can watch an interview (see the Health Matters page for the "Akira Peters" file) with Akira by Su-Ling Goh of Global.
Welcome back, Akira!
After many months of recovery at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton, Akira went on to help other brain injury survivors through her volunteer work at Networks Activity Centre (Edmonton). Her good sense of humour and willingness to help others, as well as her perseverance, are being recognised by two awards: the Glenmore Award of Courage and a Brain Injury Association Bursary.
For a few days at least, you can watch an interview (see the Health Matters page for the "Akira Peters" file) with Akira by Su-Ling Goh of Global.
Welcome back, Akira!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Better late than never...
This spring and summer has brought a bumper crop of History graduate students. At May convocation Jonathan Anuik and Byron Plant received Doctor of Philosophy degrees, while Sarah Nickel and Christopher Paige took Master of Arts degrees.
Three more students successfully defended their theses over the summer and will walk the stage in the autumn: Amanda Harrigan (M.A. candidate), Alice Glaze (M.A. candidate) and Jason Zorbas (Ph.D. candidate).
The recent theses of these (former) students show the diversity of research interests within the department, ranging from political activism (Harrigan and Nickel) and identities (Anuik, Glaze and Zorbas) to Canadian policy and administration (Paige and Plant).
Belated congratulations to all of these graduates for their hard work -- and best wishes for future successes!
List of Recent Theses
Jonathan Anuik, "Métis Families and Communities and Christian and Public Schools: The Affirmation and Reclamation of Métis Identities in Saskatchewan, 1885-1979."
Alice Glaze, "Women Before the Kirk: Godly Discipline in Canongate, 1640-1650."
Amanda Harrigan, "Patriotism and Treason in the Life and Thought of Jean Paulhan."
Sarah Nickel, "'The Right to be Heard': Saskatchewan First Nations Political Activism, 1922-1946."
Christopher Paige, "Canada and Chemical Warfare, 1939-1945."
Byron Plant, "The Politics of Indian Administration: A History of "Indian Affairs" in British Columbia, 1945-1969."
This spring and summer has brought a bumper crop of History graduate students. At May convocation Jonathan Anuik and Byron Plant received Doctor of Philosophy degrees, while Sarah Nickel and Christopher Paige took Master of Arts degrees.
Three more students successfully defended their theses over the summer and will walk the stage in the autumn: Amanda Harrigan (M.A. candidate), Alice Glaze (M.A. candidate) and Jason Zorbas (Ph.D. candidate).
The recent theses of these (former) students show the diversity of research interests within the department, ranging from political activism (Harrigan and Nickel) and identities (Anuik, Glaze and Zorbas) to Canadian policy and administration (Paige and Plant).
Belated congratulations to all of these graduates for their hard work -- and best wishes for future successes!
List of Recent Theses
Jonathan Anuik, "Métis Families and Communities and Christian and Public Schools: The Affirmation and Reclamation of Métis Identities in Saskatchewan, 1885-1979."
Alice Glaze, "Women Before the Kirk: Godly Discipline in Canongate, 1640-1650."
Amanda Harrigan, "Patriotism and Treason in the Life and Thought of Jean Paulhan."
Sarah Nickel, "'The Right to be Heard': Saskatchewan First Nations Political Activism, 1922-1946."
Christopher Paige, "Canada and Chemical Warfare, 1939-1945."
Byron Plant, "The Politics of Indian Administration: A History of "Indian Affairs" in British Columbia, 1945-1969."
Jason Zorbas, "Diefenbaker, Latin America and the Caribbean: The Pursuit of Canadian Autonomy."
Please see the department website for further details.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Congratulations are in order for Dr. Jon Anuik. Besides being a newly minted History PhD (Spring 2009), he was hired just last week to a two-year limited term appointment in Canadian History and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University. But let us not stop the list of his successes there: Dr. Anuik's research was featured in July's edition of On Campus News. Well done all around, Jon.
Dr. Anuik will be teaching at Lakehead's Orillia campus, so we look forward to hearing dispatches from "smallish" town Ontario and wish him well as he embarks on his first year of full time teaching!
Dr. Anuik will be teaching at Lakehead's Orillia campus, so we look forward to hearing dispatches from "smallish" town Ontario and wish him well as he embarks on his first year of full time teaching!
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
JURIST, the University of Pittsburgh Law School's Web-based forum for legal news and research, invited our department's very own Pam Jordan to write a piece on prospects for legal reform in Russia. She finds that, so far in Dmitry Medvedev's presidency (since May 2008), "it remains unclear whether he truly supports full governmental transparency and accountability or encourages reforms that would check the power of the Kremlin, two necessary ingredients for legal reform." For the full text, posted this month, please see the following link:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2009/07/strong-arm-rule-or-rule-of-law.php .
Monday, July 13, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
History in the News
History has been a hot topic in the Canadian news over the last week, with the Dominion Institute's report on the state of historical knowledge in Canada. The Dominion Institute recommends that at least one history class at the high school level be made mandatory across Canada, as many provinces received a failing grade. Saskatatchewan was in eighth place, with a score of F.
See John Gormley's recent article in The Star Phoenix for his opinion piece on the necessity of understanding history in the modern world. The Department's own Bill Waiser is quoted in the article, eloquently outlining the reasons we should learn about about our national history.
Take the Dominion Insitute's quiz to test your own knowledge of Canadian history...
History has been a hot topic in the Canadian news over the last week, with the Dominion Institute's report on the state of historical knowledge in Canada. The Dominion Institute recommends that at least one history class at the high school level be made mandatory across Canada, as many provinces received a failing grade. Saskatatchewan was in eighth place, with a score of F.
See John Gormley's recent article in The Star Phoenix for his opinion piece on the necessity of understanding history in the modern world. The Department's own Bill Waiser is quoted in the article, eloquently outlining the reasons we should learn about about our national history.
Take the Dominion Insitute's quiz to test your own knowledge of Canadian history...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
H.N. Segall Prize Winner
Heather Stanley presented a paper at the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine conference, held this year at Carleton University (Ottawa), May 29-31. Her paper, "'Vested Interests': The 1902 Midwives Act in Britain and the Construction of Medical Identities", won the H.N. Segall Prize, awarded annually by CSHM for the best graduate paper. As a fellow conference attendee, I can tell you that this year's competition was tough.
Congratulations, Heather!
Heather Stanley presented a paper at the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine conference, held this year at Carleton University (Ottawa), May 29-31. Her paper, "'Vested Interests': The 1902 Midwives Act in Britain and the Construction of Medical Identities", won the H.N. Segall Prize, awarded annually by CSHM for the best graduate paper. As a fellow conference attendee, I can tell you that this year's competition was tough.
Congratulations, Heather!
Congratulations to this year's scholarship winners!
M.A. students KURT KRUEGER, CRYSTAL NATARAJ AND TIM NYBORG have received Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships.
Ph.D. students MICHAEL KIRKPATRICK and HEATHER STANLEY have been awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships.
And last, but by no means least, TINA LECKIE has won a University of Saskatchewan Equity Scholarship.
M.A. students KURT KRUEGER, CRYSTAL NATARAJ AND TIM NYBORG have received Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships.
Ph.D. students MICHAEL KIRKPATRICK and HEATHER STANLEY have been awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships.
And last, but by no means least, TINA LECKIE has won a University of Saskatchewan Equity Scholarship.
Welcome to the newest member of our department, GRACE ANN DROVER. She was born on May 22 to proud parents Vickie Lamb Drover and Doug Drover. Vickie's M.A. supervisor reports that "The baby arrived right on her due date ... she shows remarkable punctuality and planning, clearly a Lamb Drover genetic specialization!"
Monday, April 27, 2009
As they say at Staples,
"It's the hap, happiest time of the year!"
"It's the hap, happiest time of the year!"
As the academic year and all who sail in her stagger to the finish line, let us turn our thoughts to celebrating the impending success of those about to graduate.
This year's HISTORY GRADUATE'S BANQUET will be held on May 24th, the Sunday before convocation, at the Western Development Museum. Cocktails at 5:pm, Dinner at 6:00. The keynote speaker will be Professor Frank Klaassen.
Thanks to the combined efforts of HUSA and the Department of History, tickets for the banquet have been subsidized to such an extent that they are going for just $15 each. Family and friends welcome.
So if you are graduating from any of our fine programs -- Minor, 3 Year, 4 Year, Honours, Double Honours -- please join us so we can raise a glass in your honour.
For tickets and reservations, contact HUSA President Kristina Rissling at kar152@mail.usask.ca.
Hope to see you there!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
No fooling
On April 1, 2009
RUN DON'T WALK
TO SEE...
On April 1, 2009
RUN DON'T WALK
TO SEE...
The HISTORY
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
ASSOCIATION & the DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
presentation of …
Enemy at the Gate
Among the few troops able to make an individual mark on such a battle, characterized by machine warfare and indiscriminate carnage, are the snipers: skilled sharpshooters who strike fear in the heart of every advancing soldier. The real-life story of Russian sniper Vasily Zaitsev (played by Jude Law) forms the core of Enemy at the Gates, the 2001 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Name of the Rose and Seven Years in Tibet). With one of history’s most titanic battles as their backdrop, Zaitsev and his German rival, Major Koenig (Ed Harris), duel for supremacy and survival.
One of the first English-language blockbusters to deal with the long-neglected Eastern Front, Enemy at the Gates also features Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, and a cameo performance by Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev.
Introduced by John McCannon, Department of History
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, April 1 @ 5:30 p.m.
PLACE: Arts 241
ADMISSION: free!
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