The Department of History is proud to announce that Master's student Beverly Soloway has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship valued at $17,500.

 

The Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's program seeks to develop research skills and assist in the training of highly-qualified personnel by supporting students in the social sciences and humanities who demonstrate a high standard of achievement in undergraduate and early graduate studies. This highly competitive program, together with the SSHRC Doctoral Awards and Postdoctoral Fellowships programs, helps train Canada's researchers and leaders of tomorrow. 

 

 

 

 

 

The Department of History is proud to announce that Dr. Jean-Yves Bernard has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant. Jean-Yves Bernard's research project concerns the economic motivations and background behind France's opposition to British entry to the European Economic Community.  Specifically, his work will examine Anglo-French relations with special attention paid to the "millieux d'affaires" in both countries. Besides the French, British and EEC public archives, those of economic organizations and the economic press will provide the material for this study.

 

Dr. Bernard can be reached at (807) 346-7721

 

 

 

 

For more information visit http://research.lakeheadu.ca/40researchstars/

 

"Old Economy Regions in the New Economy: A North/South Dialogue on Social, Cultural, and Economic Issues"
 
(Thunder Bay - March 17, 2006) On March 24 and 25, people from around the world will be gathering in Thunder Bay to share their knowledge and ideas on how the world is being reshaped by technological, economic, and social forces, and how people around the world are responding.
 
The conference "Old Economy Regions in the New Economy: A North/South Dialogue on Social, Cultural, and Economic Issues" will have speakers from Canada, Norway, Finland, Mexico, India, Cameroon, and Guatemala.
 
"The new economy is rapidly transforming the world in which we live," says Dr. Thomas Dunk, a Sociology faculty member at Lakehead, and an organizer of the event. "This conference is designed to bring people together to talk about these changes and how people are responding to them. The objective is to stimulate a dialogue between the North and the South in order to better understand how solutions to development problems in one region might be applied to other regions of the world."
 
Over the two days, the conference will focus on topics such as "In Search of Flexibility: Restructuring Canada's Social Model in the Face of Globalization" and "Cultural Resistance in Land Use Conflicts: What Wolves May Mean to the Rural Working Class" (a complete schedule is below).
 
 "We invite members of the community to join us in this important discussion," says Dr. Bruce Muirhead, a History faculty member at Lakehead, and also an organizer of the event. "Our speakers will address the cultural, social, and economic situation of regions in the new economy in the North and the South, particularly social movement responses to regional inequities, sustainable development, and developmental prospects in those regions that are or were based on resource economies."
 
Sponsors for this event include Lakehead University's Department of Sociology and Department of History, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Lakehead University Alumni Bookstore, the Centre for Northern Studies, the City of Thunder Bay, and Thunder Bay Ventures.
The conference takes place at the Prince Arthur Hotel. The cost for faculty members and the general public is $50. Lakehead University students are welcome for free.
 
Members of the Media: Dr. Dunk, Dr. Muirhead, and Dr. Harpelle are available for interview by calling Marla Tomlinson at 343-8177.

 

Click Here for the Conference Program
 

 

This paper is part of the Faculty of Graduate Studies' Seventeenth Annual Graduate Student Conference runs from March 13 to 14. 

 

Professors Ron Harpelle and Bruce Muirhead of the Department of History have been selected to write an intellectual history of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The IDRC is one of the world's leading institutions in the generation and application of new knowledge to meet the challenges of international development. The IDRC was created to assist developing countries in finding long-term solutions to social, economic and environmental problems.

 

For more than 35 years the IDRC has worked in close collaboration with researchers from Canada  and the developing world in their  search for the means of to build  healthier, more equitable and more prosperous societies.  Working in over 100 countries, the Centre is one of Canada's leading sources of international development research funding with an ongoing average of approximately 700 active projects. 

Bruce Muirhead specializes in the history of Canadian foreign economic policy. He is the author of the award-winning biography of Louis Rasminsky, the former Governor of the Bank of Canada and second Chair of the IDRC's Board of Governors.  Ron Harpelle is a specialist in Latin American and Caribbean history and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.  Over 35 individuals and groups from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin American, the Middle East and North America submitted proposals for the competition and Drs Harpelle and Muirhead were the successful candidates.
 
In addition to writing a book-length history to be published by a leading academic press, Muirhead and Harpelle have also been given the task of researching and producing a documentary film or film series about the history of Canada's role in international development and an educational website to help bring knowledge of international development to classrooms everywhere. The project is scheduled for completion in December 2008.

 

 

Professor Bruce Muirhead has been awarded a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Faculty  Training Fellowship. The fellowship covers the costs for Dr. Muirhead to spend four months in New Delhi conducting research on Canadian foreign relations with India. 

 

The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute promotes collaboration between India and Canada through scholarly activities, academic and cultural exchange, and applied research in the social sciences, humanities, law, business, economic reform, globalisation, information management, science and technology, biotechnology, agriculture and distance education. Previously, Dr. Muirhead was the recipient of a Canadian Studies Visiting Lectureship from the Shastri Institute. 

  

For further information regarding the program, accommodations and sponsors please visit their official web-site at: http://www.oldeconomyneweconomy.ca/ 

 

The Department of History is proud to announce that history student Steve Ross' paper "Keep the Commie in the Can - Leon Trotsky's Detainment in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 1917" has been accepted to the Canadian Studies Undergraduate Association at Trent University's third annual conference. Entitled "'From Far and Wide...' Which Canada? Reflections on Imagination, Nature and Community," the conference will be held February 10 -12, 2006 in Peterborough, Ontario at Trent University's historic Trail College.

Attended by undergraduates from across the country, the purpose of this conference is to provide students with an opportunity to present research to their colleagues in a forum often occupied by post-graduate students and professionals. The conference is organized and moderated by students attending Trent University. This year's conference also included keynote speakers Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road, and Michael Johnston, a Labrador journalist and expert on Innu politics.

 

 

The Department of History is pleased to announce that Dr. Carl Young has been awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Academy of Korean Studies. The Academy is a research and post-graduate educational institution funded by the Korean government located in the southern suburbs of Seoul.  The award's main purpose is to promote research on Korean studies and create research links both in Korea and with institutions and scholars overseas.

 

Dr. Young's research focuses on religious social movements, nationalism, and imperialism in modern Asia, centring especially on Korea and Japan. He also has a strong interest in comparative world history and cross-cultural interaction between different world regions, focussing on Asia as a case study. His previous research has dealt with the comparison of South Korean minjung (popular) theology and Latin American liberation theology in the 1970's and 1980's and an investigation of the Tonghak (Eastern Learning) and Ch'ôndogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way) movements in Korea between 1895 and 1910.

More information on the Academy of Korean Studies can be found at
http://www.aks.ac.kr/home/index.do

Dr. Young can be reached at (807) 343-8852