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HRI Newsletter “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841). Links ------Contact Us CONTENTS

1. HRI AWARD WINNERS FALL 2005 COMPETITION 2. MAUREEN BRADLEY’S WHAT REMAINS HUMAN (29 October 2005) 3. CCE/HRI HERITAGE LECTURE SERIES: BILL BRENNAN (7 November 2005) 4. HRI SYMPOSIUM ON STUDENT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (8 November 2005) 5. HRI VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW LECTURE SERIES #2: DANI PHILLIPSON (23 November 2005) 6. HRI PROFILING SCHOLARSHIP SERIES/BOOK LAUNCH: STEPHEN MCCLATCHIE (1 December 2005) 7. BÉLA SZABADOS’S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST 8. HRI CONTACT INFORMATION ------

1. HRI AWARD WINNERS FALL 2005 COMPETITION

There were 25 applications to four programs in this competition; the HRI funded 19 applications, awarding a total of $10,550. For the first time, thanks to matching funds from the Faculty of http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (1 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters Graduate Studies and Research, the Student Travel Awards were supplemented by three HRI/ FGSR Student Travel Scholarships each worth $1,000.

Travel Award for Board Members of Scholarly Organizations

Cindy MacKenzie (English), to attend Board of Emily Dickinson International Society as elected Member-at-Large, Amherst, MA, 27-31 July 2005. ($500)

Subvention Award for Publication

John Griffiths (Music), for CD Extreme Tuba, CBC Regina. ($1,000)

Assistance Awards for Visiting Speakers

Troni Y. Grande (English), on behalf of Aritha van Herk, Literary Eclectic Conference, 16-17 September 2005. ($800)

Rory MacDonald (Visual Arts), on behalf of Trinh T. Minh-ha, Faculty of Visual Arts Exhibition at Mackenzie Art Gallery, 16-17 February 2006. ($1,000)

HRI/FGSR Student Travel Scholarships

Jennifer Arends (MA English), “The Ghostly Air of Evil: Malevolent (Abstract) Space in The Turn of the Screw,” 6th Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-23 March 2005. ($1,000)

Mary Jeanne Barrett (PhD Education), “What’s Holding Us Back? Interrogating Teaching Contradictions” (Round Table Presentation), North American Association for Environmental Education Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 24-30 October 2005. ($1,000)

Justin Messner (MA English), “Narrating War and Suffering: The Short Form and Experience in Mavis Gallant’s ‘The Moslem Wife,’” 6th Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (2 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters Wickedness, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-23 March 2005. ($1,000)

HRI Student Travel Awards

Susan Cameron (MA French), “À la recherche du ton perdu,” FHS-UBC Romance Languages Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 29-30 September 2005. ($400)

Elizabeth Curry (undergraduate, Music), “Chain Reaction: Reflections on Concept and Sound Process,” In and out of the Sound Studio Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 25-29 July 2005. ($250)

Gloria C. DeSantis (PhD CPRC), “Exploring the Public Policy Advocacy Role of the Voluntary Sector Using a Population Health Framework,” 12th Biennial Canadian Social Welfare Policy Conference, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, 16-18 June, 2005. ($400)

Michael Flaherty (MFA Visual Arts), Visual Presentation and Lecture, and Exhibition piece “Dissection,” 1000 Miles Apart Conference, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB, 29 September-1 October 2005. ($250)

Trevor Gates (MA Sociology), “Erotic Dividends: The Gendered Structure of Power,” 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden, 6-9 July 2005. ($400)

Shawna Geissler (PhD English), “The Novel Advancement of Feminism in Eighteenth Century England: Sarah Scott’s Conservative Strategy in Millenium Hall,” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Fredericton, NB, 30 September-1 October 2005. ($250)

Samantha Routley (undergraduate, Media Production & Studies) “Parfait: Embracing Technology and Becoming Machine,” and film presentation, In and out of the Sound Studio Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 25-29 July 2005. ($250)

Crystal Sipko (MA History), “Family Bonds: The Prevalence of Witchcraft Accusations by Children in 17th Century England,” Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Banff, AB, 5-7 March 2005. ($500)

http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (3 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters Megan Tuttle (PhD Clinical Psychology), “Psychology and Meta Analysis: The Illusion of Progress,” Society for the Social Studies of Science Conference, Pasadena, CA, 20-22 October 2005. ($500)

Andrea Ulrich (MA English), “Approaching Reality in The Lord of the Rings,” Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 11-14 August 2005. ($400)

Carmen Webb (MA Religious Studies/Women’s Studies), “Mizuko Kuyo Comes to America,” Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, London, ON, 28-31 May 2005. ($400)

Peta White (PhD Education), “A Global Environmental Education Perspective: Reflections from a Walk-About,” 34th Annual Conference and 2nd Preconference Environmental Education Research Symposium, North American Association for Environmental Education, Albuquerque, NM, 25-29 October 2005. ($250) ------

2. MAUREEN BRADLEY’S WHAT REMAINS HUMAN (29 October 2005)

The HRI invites you to an event, co-sponsored with SaskFilm, celebrating the release of Maureen Bradley’s latest short film, What Remains Human.

At this event Maureen Bradley will introduce and screen her film, and she will be available to answer questions at the reception following.

Date: Saturday 29 October 2005 Time: 7:30 pm Location: Classroom Building, CL 110

Admission free All are welcome

For further info, please contact Mary Blackstone at [email protected] or 306-585-5517.

Developed with the assistance of the Centre for the Study of Script Development at the http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (4 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters University of Regina and its partner, SaskFilm, What Remains Human is a half-hour black comedy featuring local Regina actors Kathryn Bracht, Cavan Cunningham, Kelly Handerek and Wendy Anderson. Shot on location in Regina and Moose Jaw, What Remains Human is, according to Jim Norrena of the Frameline International Film Festival in San Francisco, “a queer absurdist depiction of four siblings who must dispose of their abusive father’s ashes. Various slapstick mishaps fail to overshadow the darker theme of this inventive short.”

Operating as a filmmaker, educator and writer, Maureen Bradley has directed 29 short films. Her award winning productions have screened at galleries and festivals around the globe including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Many of Bradley’s productions have been broadcast in North America and abroad and retrospectives of her work have screened at festivals in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa. She has garnered best film awards at festivals in Santa Barbara, Austin, Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1992, Bradley reached her largest audience of more than 15 million viewers appearing as a videographer on the CBC TV series Road Movies. She is in development with a feature-length screenplay adaptation of acclaimed Canadian author Michelle Berry’s first novel What We All Want, which was recently completed through SaskFilm’s writer in residence program. ------

3. CCE/HRI HERITAGE LECTURE SERIES: BILL BRENNAN (7 November 2005)

Dr. Bill Brennan (Department of History)

“Saskatchewan’s First Century: Five Events That Have Shaped Our Province”

Lecture, Reception, and Tour

Date: Monday 7 November 2005 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Darke Hall, 2201 College Avenue

For more info about this talk, contact 306-585-5853 or www.uregina.ca/cce/business

Momentous events have shaped the history of Saskatchewan over the past 100 years. In the popular mind these have included two world wars, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (5 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters introduction of Medicare in 1962. Historians regard other events, ones that are not nearly so well known to the public perhaps, as being of great importance as well. On 7 November Dr. Bill Brennan will offer a historian’s assessment of the five events over the last century that have had the greatest impact on our province and the reasons why.

Dr. Bill Brennan teaches courses in Western Canadian and Saskatchewan history at the University of Regina. His publications include Regina: An Illustrated History (published as part of the History of Canadian Cities Series by James Lorimer & Company and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1989). He also edited “Building the Co-operative Commonwealth”: Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada, the papers of a conference hosted by the Canadian Plains Research Center in 1983 marking the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Regina Manifesto. Dr. Brennan is the chair of the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation and a member of the editorial board of Saskatchewan History.

For more info about the Heritage Series co-sponsored by the Centre for Continuing Education and the HRI, go to http://www.uregina.ca/hri/CCE_HRI_Heritage_Init.shtml ------

4. HRI SYMPOSIUM ON STUDENT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (8 November)

As part of its professional development series for students in humanities programs and their supervisors, on 8 November the HRI will be holding a Symposium on student participation at conferences. There’ll be a series of short informal talks and panels on every aspect of the process, from how to find out about appropriate conferences, how to write and submit proposals, how to explore possibilities for assistance with funding, how to organize travel, accommodation, and registration on a student budget, how to present the paper, how to turn a conference paper into a piece suitable for scholarly publication, how a supervisor might help, and more.

The keynote speaker will be Lisa M. Comeau (PhD Education, 2005). Dr. Comeau is the winner of two HRI Student Travel Awards (2003, 2004) for giving papers at conferences, as well as the two-time winner of the annual $500 HRI Student Essay Prize (2004, 2005) for the best conference paper by a graduate student.

Date: Tuesday 8 November 2005 Time: 4:00 - 6:30 pm http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (6 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters Location: Language Institute Theatre, LI 215

All are welcome Refreshments will be provided

Symposium Program

4:00 Welcome from HRI

4:05 Dr. Allan Cahoon (Vice-President, Research and International), Presentation of the 2005 HRI Student Essay Prize to Dr. Lisa M. Comeau

4:10 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lisa M. Comeau (PhD in Education, 2005; winner of HRI Student Essay Prize, 2004 and 2005), “I’m a Student -- Why Should I Go to Conferences?”

4:45 Dr. Nicholas Ruddick (Director, HRI), “How to Submit an Award-Winning Student Travel Award Application to the HRI”

5:00 Dr. Rod Kelln (Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research), “The Role of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in Supporting Graduate Student Conference Participation”

5:15 M.J. Barrett (PhD program, Faculty of Education; winner of HRI/FGSR Travel Scholarship, 2005), “On Being Bold, Creating Support, and Going for a Good Walk”

5:35 Short Break

5:40 Graduate Chair Panel on Student Participation at Conferences: Dr. Troni Grande (Graduate Chair, Dept. of English); Dr. Randal Rogers (Graduate Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts); Dr. Warren Wessel (Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Programs, Faculty of Education)

6:10 Joint Presentation: Jennifer Arends (MA program, Dept. of English; winner of HRI/FGSR Travel Scholarship, 2005), and Justin Messner (MA program, Dept. of English; winner of HRI/ FGSR Travel Scholarship, 2005): “How We Became Entangled in Evil in Prague and Lived to Tell http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (7 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters the Tale”

6:30 Conclusion ------

5. HRI VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW LECTURE SERIES #2: DANI PHILLIPSON (23 NOVEMBER 2005)

Dani Phillipson (HRI Visiting Research Fellow 2005)

Illustrated Lecture #2: “The Hollywood Star Machine: Creating the Film Celebrity”

Date: Wednesday 23 November 2005 Time: 3:30 pm Location: Riddell Centre, RC 050

If celebrity, as we understand it today, began in the eighteenth century, has it really changed since? Many of the same tactics used to create and maintain star status on the eighteenth- century London stage were still in use during the glory days of the Hollywood studios and, in fact, they remain in use for many twenty-first-century celebrities. Then (and now), suitable personal histories were (and are) created (or “spun”) and marketed to the public. “Discovery” stories are crucial and both on and off stage/screen elements must be included. More challengingly, comparisons with established celebrities of both the present and past could (and can) be both imperative and detrimental in building new stars. In every case, the candidate for celebrity must be seen to be both ordinary and extraordinary. He/she must be someone to whom an audience can in some way relate, but who also remains inaccessible. Finally, the perceived limitations of type-casting must be exploded and reconsidered in both the past and contemporary periods.

Originally from Regina, Dani Phillipson was excited to return in 2003, first as a member of the Faculty of the Department of Theatre and then of Campion College. She completed an MSt in Women’s Studies at the University of Oxford with research into representations of women on the eighteenth-century London stage. She was thereafter invited to join the Faculty of Modern History to pursue her DPhil as a Commonwealth Scholar. She expects to defend her thesis, an investigation into the means by which character roles were transmitted from one generation of http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (8 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters performers to the next in the London theatre of the eighteenth century, later this year. Dani believes in the value of integrating theory and historical research with practical work in the arts. In addition to her academic work, she maintains a professional career in theatre and film. She has worked in theatres on three continents and interacted personally with a wide range of celebrity and community performers.

Dani Phillipson is currently the Visiting Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Regina. She is housed in the Department of Theatre. ------

6. HRI PROFILING SCHOLARSHIP SERIES/BOOK LAUNCH: STEPHEN MCCLATCHIE (1 DECEMBER 2005)

The HRI invites you to celebrate Stephen McClatchie’s new edition of The Mahler Family Letters (Oxford UP) with this talk, book launch, and reception in the HRI Profiling Scholarship series.

Dr. Stephen McClatchie (Associate Vice-President Academic)

“Managing Multilingual Mahler Manuscripts”

Date: Thursday 1 December 2005 Time: 4:00 pm Location: University Club, College West, CW 215

Hundreds of the letters that Gustav Mahler addressed to his parents and siblings survive, yet they have remained virtually unknown. Now, for the first time Mahler scholar Stephen McClatchie presents over 500 of these letters in a clear, lively translation in The Mahler Family Letters. Drawn primarily from the Mahler-Rose Collection at the University of Western Ontario, the volume presents a complete, well-rounded view of the family’s correspondence.

Spanning the mid 1880s through 1910, the letters record the excitement of a young man with a bourgeoning career as a conductor and provide a glimpse into his day-to-day activities rehearsing and conducting operas and concerts in Budapest and Hamburg, and composing his first symphonies and songs. On the private side, they document his parents’ illnesses and deaths and the struggles of his siblings Alois, Justine, Otto, and Emma. The letters also give Mahler’s http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (9 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters insightful impressions of contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Hans von Bülow, as well as his personal feelings about significant events, such as his first big success-- the completion of Carl Maria von Weber’s Die drei Pintos in 1889. In the fall of 1894, the character of the letters changes when Justine and Emma come to live with Mahler in Hamburg and then Vienna, removing the need to communicate by letter about quotidian matters. At this point, the letters relay noteworthy events such as Mahler’s campaign to be named Director of the Vienna Court Opera, his conducting tours throughout Europe, and his courtship of Alma Schindler.

The Mahler Family Letters provides a vital, nuanced source of information about Mahler’s life, his personality, and his relationships. McClatchie has generously annotated each letter, contextualizing and clarifying contemporary historical references and Mahler family acquaintances, and created an indispensable resource for all Mahlerists, 19th-century musicologists, and historians of 19th-century Germany and Austria. ------

7. BÉLA SZABADOS’S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

The Western Canadian Philosophical Association is the foremost philosophical institution for the prairies and the coast. Its annual gatherings are a festival of personal and intellectual exchange. As the WCPA enters its fifth decade, its origins, character and evolution both academic and cultural are charted and celebrated in this new book by Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West: The Making of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association. The contents include letters from the founders and senior participants of the association, personal memoirs by participants, as well as analysis and commentary by the author. The book also includes a section listing programs of the association from the beginning.

The author retrieves a piece of prairie cultural history which until now had no history. Notably, the book has strong Saskatchewan resonance since two of the founders and prime movers of the WCPA were the Regina philosopher Harry Jack (1925-2002) and the Saskatoon philosopher Leonard Miller. What is more, the first gathering was in the Queen City in the fall of 1963 at the Old Regina College Building.

Béla Szabados is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Regina.

http://www.uregina.ca/hri/Newsletters/2005/Nov1-05NL.shtml (10 of 12) [8/11/2008 3:34:41 PM] Newsletters Publication Information: Béla Szabados. Once Upon a Time in the West: The Making of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association. Kelowna, BC: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2005. ix + 145 pp. $18.95 pb. ISBN: 0-920980-93-7. To order, e-mail [email protected] ------

8. HRI CONTACT INFORMATION

The HRI e-mail Newsletter appears once a month from September to April, and more occasionally during the rest of the year. Recent issues are archived on the HRI website.

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For further details about upcoming HRI events or to submit material to future newsletters, please contact:

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