University of manitoba institute for the humanities annual report 2009-2010 institute for the humanities annual report 2009-2010 index Introduction 1 message from the director 1 Publications by the Director 2 Including Director’s 2009-10 Research umih research initiative 2 LGBTTQ Archival & Oral History Initiative the research affiliates 4 Including 2009-10 Affiliate Publications the research clusters 5 Law & Society 5 Power & Resistance in Latin America 5 Jewish Studies Research Circle 7 UMIH on-campus programming 7 UMIH off-campus programming 9 Co-Sponsorships with Other Units 9 graduate student training & outreach 9 Graduate Student Public Talks 10 financial report 2009-10 10 2010-11 Asking Budget 11 Board of Management 11 institute for the humanities 12 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010 Introduction Throughout the year, the UMIH, with support from the Faculty of Arts, held a number of sessions for new scholars that attempted The constitution of the Institute requires the Director to report to provide an informal space to discuss the challenges of being a annually to the Dean of Arts, the Vice-President (Academic) and new faculty member. These sessions, normally held over lunchtime, Provost, and the Vice-President (Research). It is customary for ranged from discussing teaching and University service, to research this report to be presented annually at the year-end meeting of the potential and possibilities, as well as sources of intellectual and Board of Management. Copies are also distributed on campus to collegial support. We intend to continue this series next year and the President, the Associate Deans of Arts, the Institute’s Board of to reach out to new Faculty who are looking for potential linkages Management, and many supporters who are members of the Uni- for interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition, we continued the versity of Manitoba community. Copies are distributed off-campus practice of holding a new faculty lecture series that promoted the to a selection of other Humanities Institutes, and to other friends research of recent hires to the Faculty of Arts, and introduced them and supporters. This is the nineteenth report since 1990-91, there to a broader community of scholars. having been no report in 1997-98. The most significant innovation for the UMIH was our success- message from the director ful application, along with Shelley Sweeney and the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, to the Academic Transformation, renewal and innovation were some of the themes Enhancement Fund (AEF). The AEF has provided funding for at the UMIH this past year. In the past year, we underwent a a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirited and Queer transformation of our physical space that dramatically changed (LGBTTQ) Archival and Oral History Initiative. This one-year our work environment and the way we utilize the Institute office initiative involves the hiring of Research Assistants, along with an space. The renovations that took place in 2009 provided new of- Archives Intern, to conduct oral histories with Manitoban LG- fice space for the Assistant to the Director, as well as badly needed BTTQ communities, and to help process the community-based small meeting and discussion space. This has allowed for a range of Manitoba Lesbian and Gay Archives that have been donated to informal discussions, planning sessions, and program assessments UofM Archives & Special Collections. to be undertaken without having to utilize the UMIH Board room (leaving this room free for academic programming and events). All of these new endeavors by the UMIH were supplements to our existing program of Research Clusters that continued with an The most significant renewal we experienced was the hiring in impressive array of talks, reading groups and colloquia. In all, we Fall 2009 of a new Assistant to the Director, Ms. Krista Walters. were able to support three research clusters and have nearly seventy Ms. Walters, an MA graduate in History from the U of M, has different members of the University of Manitoba Faculty partici- breathed new life into the UMIH newsletter, provided exten- pate in and attend our events. The UMIH also continued with the sive programming support and co-ordination, raised our profile Research Affiliate Program, which saw two scholars in residence at through the website and Facebook, done significant editing work, the Institute. These affiliates were able to utilize the resources of the as well as contributed to grant writing and applications. Many of UMIH, as well as the research expertise of the Research Clusters the successful events and initiatives of the UMIH could not have and Faculty, for scholarly writing. been accomplished without her hard work and dedication. The UMIH has a broad mandate, and the demands on it are quite We began the 2009 academic year by hosting a conference on the heavy. Our administrative staff is often pushed to the limit in terms 40th Anniversary of The Waffle Manifesto and the Waffle move- of time and our ability to provide coordination of events. The ment within the NDP. Not only did the University of Manitoba significant number of participating scholars in UMIH programs have significant linkages to this movement, but the Waffle Mani- makes the Institute the intellectual centre for the Faculty of Arts. festo was itself presented and debated at the 1960 NDP Conven- All of this is done on a very modest budget. The UMIH is an tion held here in Winnipeg. The conference brought together important intellectual and scholarly asset to the University of local activists, such as Cy Gonick (Senior Scholar, Economics) and Manitoba and modest investment in the UMIH over the next few Arthur Schafer (Philosophy), with other Waffle activists including years would, I believe, pay a disproportionate dividend in terms of Pat Smart, John Smart, Lorne Brown, Judy Rebick, and a younger enhancing the University’s reputation as a centre for Humanistic generation of scholars working on Left Nationalism in Canada. scholarship and research excellence. 1 institute for the humanities annual report 2009-2010 Director’s 2009-10 Research Publications by the Director In terms of my own research projects, in addition to the AEF- Churchill, David S. “SUPA, Selma and Stevenson: The Politics of funded LGBTTQ Archival and Oral History Initiative, 2009-2010 Solidarity in mid-1960s Toronto.” Journal of Canadian Studies Vol saw the publication of three articles in peer reviewed journals. 44, no 2 (Spring 2010): 32-69. I also presently have two articles forthcoming in peer reviewed journals, which were completed during the Fall of 2009 (please see Churchill, David S. “Building Expatriate Social Space and Alterna- the following Publications by the Director section for details). I tive Modernity in Toronto.” Urban History Review Vol 38, no 1 have continued work on my current research project on homophile (October 2010). activism, tourism and human rights, and in April at the European Social Science History Conference in Ghent, Belgium, I will pres- Churchill, David S. “The Queer Histories of a Crime: Representa- ent the paper “Homophile Tourism, Liberal Internationalism and tions, Narratives, and Ideology in the case of Leopold and Loeb.” Cosmopolitan Citizenship.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 18.2 (2009): 287-324. This May, I will present two papers prepared during the academic Churchill, David S. “Homophile Transnationalism: Human year at the Canadian Historical Association’s Annual Conference. Rights, Anthropology and the Non-Western Other.” GLQ vol 15.1 On the panel All Talk, Uncertain Action: The Promise and Peril of (2009): 31-66. Queer Oral History, I will present “Vampires, Grave Robbers, and the Queer Politics of Oral History,” which ties into the method- Churchill, David S. Review of Terence Kissack, Free Comrades: An- ological work behind the LGBTTQ Oral History Initiative. On a archism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917 (Oak- second panel, The Biographical (re)turn I: Biographies of Politics and land CA: AK Press, 2008) in Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual the Politics of Biography, I will present “Personal Memoir and the & Transgender History Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 2 (Fall 2009), 8-9. Politics of Sexuality: Paul Goodman, John Rechy and Biography in the History of Sex Trade.” Churchill, David S. “Sexual Modernities and the Bent Historian.” Paper presented at Queer History Colloquium, Brandon Univer- sity, November 4, 2009. umih research initiative In the 2009-10 academic year, the Institute for the Humanities was awarded $75,000 over two years (2009-10, 2010-11) from the University of Manitoba Academic Enhancement Fund for a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirited, and Queer (LGBTTQ) Archival and Oral History Initiative. UMIH Director David Churchill, along with co-applicant Shelley Sweeney (Head, University Archives & Special Collections), have since been coordi- nating their efforts at realizing this project. This Initiative will dramatically enhance the LGBTTQ resources at the University of Manitoba, and ultimately make the Univer- sity a centre for research excellence in the interdisciplinary field of LGBTTQ studies. Many of the related archival materials currently being catalogued by the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections deal with the decades-long struggle by LGBTTQ peo- ple and communities for human rights, social justice, and dignity. Dr. David S. Churchill, the Director of the Institute for the Collecting LGBTTQ archival materials - including the records of Humanities, is an Associate Professor of History, the Co-coordina- organizations, relevant periodicals, and individual oral histories - is tor of the Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and all part of the larger project of witnessing and remembering, which Cosmopolitanism, a member of the Faculty of Arts Executive, and are cornerstones for the establishment, protection and expansion of a fellow of University College. Human Rights. 2 institute for the humanities annual report 2009-2010 Project Summery Student research assistants This project has two principle components.