Book Pub Announcement

The HGSC Book Pub is this Friday!  See you there!

HGSC Book Pub

When: Friday, March 28^th, 4-7pm

Where: GSA Commons

-Books, Gift Certificates, and Other Items for Auction

-Food and Non-Alcoholic Drinks Provided

-Alcohol for Purchase

-Funds Raised Secure the Future Activities of the HGSC

Book Donations for the Auction Can Be Placed in the Donation Box in the Mailroom

Other donations, items and services, still sought.

Contact Jessica DeWitt or Michelle Desveaux

GSA Research Conference Follow Up

Seven graduate students from the Department of History presented at the Graduate Research Conference held at the U of S on March 6-8.

The History of Medicine panel:                                                  

  



Fedir Razumenko "Medical Research Involving Humans in Canada since 1950: Human dignity in Theory and Practice

Erin Spinney "Military Nursing in Eighteenth Century Britain"











Frances Reilly "Curing Sexual Deviancy in the Cold War"











 Amy Samson "Eugencis in Alberta








Lunch Break:

Past History for Present Events:



 Glenn Iceton "Reviving, Reshaping, and Recontextualizing Yesterday's News"










  Jessica DeWitt "Provincial and State Park History"

 Laura Larsen "Grain and Trains"







More picutres are available here.

De Brou Lecture Follow Up

Thank you to everyone who attended the De Brou lecture and especially to Dr. Erika Dyck for her thought-provoking talk.   For more survivor stories and discussion of eugenics in Alberta check out the Living Archives Project on youtube.

Katya MacDonald the lecture organizer

Dr. Bill Waiser on the influence of the late Dr. Dave De Brou

Sterilization statistics

The audience

Grad students enjoying the refreshments

2014 Graduate Student's Association Research Conference

The Graduate Student's Association at the University of Saskatchewan is hosting their first research conference from March 6-8th, at the GSA Commons. 

The conference will feature presentations from Fedir Razumenko, Erin Spinney, Frances Reilly, Amy Samson,  Jessica DeWitt, Laura Larsen, and Glenn Iceton.  The full conference programme is available here.

De Brou Lecture Tonight

A reminder that the 6th Annual Dr. Dave De Brou Lecture is tonight at the Frances Morrison Library.

Dr. Erika Dyck will present "Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice"

Doors open at 6:30, lecture starts at 7pm.

MA Colloquium Follow Up

This past Tuesday seven second-year MA students presented their work at the MA Colloquium.  Thank you to Cynthia Bottomley for organizing the event.

Claire Thomson:
"'The glory years': The Establishment of the Lakota at Wood Mountain, 1880-1894"

Myles Shingoose:
"Within the Ranks: The Cherokee Third Indian Homeguard in the Union Army During the US Civil War"

Robert Nicks:
"Adventurers and Opportunists; the Social Credit Party in the Saskatchewan election of 1938"

Scott Silver:
"Is Electoral Democracy Compatible with Revolution?: Strategic Divergence amongst the Guatemalan Opposition in the 1960s"

Dallas Posavad:
"Making it in the Margins: Captain John Swalis and the New World Order"

Matt Gravlin:
"The Biopolitics of Liberal Colonialism in India"

Photos from Holiday Party

Here are a few pictures from the Holiday Party in December.  Thanks again to Jessica DeWitt for hosting.