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March 14, 2014
Newsletter
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Department of History
University of Manitoba
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Congratulations to History students who won awards at the University of Calgary’s History of Medicine Days, March 7 & 8.
Laura Lamont came in third place in the poster competition with her entry "MRSA and Public Health: Contain It and Keep It Clean"
Vanessa Quiring came in third in Internal Medicine for her presentation "Who Will It Choose?: Predisposition, Victimization and the Social Construct of Cholera in Lower Canada in the Year 1832"
And graduate of the JMP, Erna Kurbegovic (now at Calgary) was third in overall presentation for "A Survey of Medical Activity in the Hudson’s Bay Company Journals, 1775 – 1836"
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FORT GARRY LECTURES UPDATE
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Reminder - the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg’s History Graduate Student Conference, the Fort Garry Lectures, will be held from May 1- 3, 2014.
The conference will commence with a wine and cheese evening and interdisciplinary roundtable at St. John's College.
Dr. Sarah Carter (University of Alberta) will deliver the keynote address titled "The Spade Work of Empire: The Imperial Aspirations, Frustrations and Follies of British Women Farmers in Western Canada to the 1930s" on Friday, May 2 at Convocation Hall (University of Winnipeg).
A formal dinner will follow. Registration for the conference or the keynote and dinner event are due on April 7, details to be posted on the website.
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The Joint Master's Program of the Departments of History of the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg presents a Thesis Defence by
Andrea Martin
"Information Oversight: Archives and Recordkeeping Practices in Manitoba Municipalities"
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
9:00 - 11:00 am
409 Tier Building
University of Manitoba
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HONOURS PROGRAM INFORMATION SESSION
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Attention History Students in Year I and Year II
Are you thinking of doing an honours degree in history? There will be an information session for undergraduates in the first and second year who are considering an honours degree in history and wish to enter the program in Fall 2014.
Questions that will be answered: What is an Honours degree?; What are the requirements for admission?; What are the Honours History degree requirements?; What is the workload like?; What are seminar classes like?
Monday, March 31, 2014
10:30 - 11:20 am
302 Tier Building
All interested students are welcome to attend!
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HISTORY FACULTY PUBLIC EVENTS
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The UM Institute for the Humanities’ New Faculty Colloquium Series presents
Todd Scarth, History, speaking on "Economic Populism and the New History of Capitalism"
Monday, March 17, 2014
1:30 – 2:30 pm
409 Tier Building
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The Institute for Humanities Research Affiliate and History Instructor
Paul Jenkins speaks on “Crypto-Catholics, Muslims, and Quakers: Religious Disguise and Intolerance in Early Enlightenment Britain”
Monday, March 24, 2014
1:30 – 3:00 pm
409 Tier Building
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The UM Affect Group welcomes
Richard Bell, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland,
for a lecture and discussion on “The Werther Effect: Suicide and the Reading Revolution in the newly United States”
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
2:30 - 4:00 pm
409 Tier Building
Everyone welcome. Reception to follow.
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On behalf of the organizing committee for the 2014 Political Studies Students’ Conference, we would like to express our deepest gratitude for your generous contribution to our conference. (Click here to see a pdf of the entire letter.)
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Spur Winnipeg
Canada's national festival of politics, art and ideas will be held in Winnipeg from March 20 - 23, 2014.
Tickets from $15 each. Festival passes $100.
"Join today's most provocative thinkers and scholars, artists and activists, journalists and entrepreneurs - from across the country and beyond - to share ideas worth spurring into action."
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The Great War’s Shadow: New Perspectives on the First World War
University of Calgary and Lake Louise, AB
September 25-28, 2014
Deadline: March 31, 2014
Twelfth International Conference on Books, Publishing, and Libraries
Simmons College, Boston, USA
November 8-9, 2014
Deadline: April 1, 2014
Past Imperfect, peer-reviewed graduate student journal based out of the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, seeks original student research articles and book reviews covering a broad range of both time and geography.
Deadline for 2014 issue: June 30, 2014
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Leeds International Medieval Congress
Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, England
July 7 – 10, 2014
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Department of History & Politics, University of New Brunswick – St. John
Start dates: September 1, 2014
Deadline: April 7, 2014
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Catalogue – OLMS WEIDMANN New Titles Oct – Jan
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