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Doolittle wraps up Scholars Series

trevor.kenney — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:50:49 +0000

Lisa Doolittle presents the third and final lecture in the 2010 ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Public Presentations series Tuesday, Mar. 23.

Dr. Claudia Malacrida, Dr. Brian Titley and Doolittle are the featured speakers in this year's edition of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Public Presentations. Covering topics from the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities to the attempted reformation of female public sinners by the Catholic Church to an examination of the role that dancing and spectacle helped define the identity of the Blackfoot people of southern Alberta, the three ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge professors cover a wide range of topics.

On Tuesday, Doolittle presents Performing Negotiations: Blackfoot Dance/Spectacle, the Colony, and Multicultural Canada 1870-2010. The lecture is open to everyone and takes place at 4 p.m. in AH100. Admission is free.

– Performing Negotiations: Blackfoot Dance/Spectacle, the Colony, and Multicultural Canada 1870-2010, Mar. 23

The Blackfoot people of southern Alberta use dancing/spectacle to express identity and their ongoing negotiations with settler populations. In the late 19th Century, dancing among aboriginal peoples was banned. Beginning in the early 20th Century, aboriginal dance was showcased in corporate sponsored 'white' events like the Calgary Stampede and Banff 'Indian Days'. Near the end of the 20th Century, the Canadian government passed the Multiculturalism Act, "to recognize all Canadians as full and equal participants in Canadian society."

Promoting culture-specific dance was fundamental to the multicultural agenda. Doolittle (theatre and dramatic arts) describes how representations of culture as performed in dance uncover the shifting policies concerning national identity and destabilize notions about the role of dance performances in Canadian multiculturalism.

The Board of Governors established the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Program in 2007 to recognize the excellence of faculty members in the areas of research, scholarship and creative performance. Each ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholar must give a public lecture or performance as part of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Series at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge during the two-year term of their designation as a ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholar.

The presentations will highlight the ongoing research interests of U of L faculty and how they contribute to their course teachings.

Titley presents ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars lecture

trevor.kenney — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:56:40 +0000

Dr. Brian Titley presents the second of three lectures in the 2010 ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Public Presentations series Tuesday, Mar. 16.

Dr. Claudia Malacrida, Dr. Brian Titley and Lisa Doolittle are the featured speakers in this year's edition of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Public Presentations. Covering topics from the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities to the attempted reformation of female public sinners by the Catholic Church to an examination of the role that dancing and spectacle helped define the identity of the Blackfoot people of southern Alberta, the three ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge professors cover a wide range of topics.

On Tuesday, Titley presents Penance, Prayers, and a Happy Death: Convents and Moral Rehabilitation of 'Wayward' Women. The lecture is open to everyone and takes place at 4 p.m. in AH100. Admission is free.

– Penance, Prayers, and a Happy Death: Convents and Moral Rehabilitation of 'Wayward' Women, Mar. 16

Late in the Middle Ages the Catholic Church established convents to reform female 'public sinners' who were mainly, though not exclusively, prostitutes. The institutions, known as refuges or asylums, were usually named after Mary Magdalen.

In this presentation, Titley (education) provides a general history of Magdalen asylums as representations of the Catholic Church's assumed authority in sexual morality. He examines types of discipline in the institutions; the role of surveillance and isolation in preventing sinful relapses; and the practices of self-mortification that could lead to semi-religious status for the penitents and ultimately a happy death. He also looks at the transformation in North America of the asylums into private reformatories for 'incorrigible' adolescent girls.

The presentations will highlight the ongoing research interests of U of L faculty and how they contribute to their course teachings.

Malacrida opens Scholars lecture series

trevor.kenney — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:46:59 +0000

A trio of diverse educators from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge will participate in the 2010 ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Public Presentations series, beginning this week.

Dr. Claudia Malacrida, Dr. Brian Titley and Lisa Doolittle will present free admission lectures Mar. 9, Mar. 16 and Mar. 23 respectively, covering topics from the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities to the attempted reformation of female public sinners by the Catholic Church to an examination of the role that dancing and spectacle helped define the identity of the Blackfoot people of southern Alberta.

The presentations will highlight the ongoing research interests of U of L faculty and how they contribute to their course teachings. All lectures offer free admission, are open to anyone and take place at 4 p.m. in AH100. Today, Malacrida begins the series.

– Dehumanization as a Way of Life: Alberta's History of 'Treating' People with Intellectual Disabilities, Mar. 9

In 1928, with hopes of improving services for people deemed in the language of the time to be "mental defectives," the province of Alberta opened the Provincial Training School (eventually renamed The Michener Centre) outside Red Deer. At one time housing over 2,300 inmates, the school operated hand in glove with the province's Eugenics Board.

Residents of Michener were the largest single group of Albertans to experience involuntary sterilization. Based on interviews and archival materials, Malacrida (sociology) describes daily life in the institution and the ways that space, time and care were organized to dehumanize and devalue the people who lived there.

"Understanding the history of places like Michener Centre is important," says Malacrida. "Institutionalization is not dead, and Michener survivors can tell us why this approach is one we should not continue."

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ scholars public presentations on tap

trevor.kenney — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:06:43 +0000

A trio of diverse educators from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge will participate in the 2010 ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholars Public Presentations series beginning in March.

– Dehumanization as a Way of Life: Alberta's History of 'Treating' People with Intellectual Disabilities, Mar. 9

– Penance, Prayers, and a Happy Death: Convents and Moral Rehabilitation of 'Wayward' Women, Mar. 16

– Performing Negotiations: Blackfoot Dance/Spectacle, the Colony, and Multicultural Canada 1870-2010, Mar. 23

Rethinking history

trevor.kenney — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:50:23 +0000

On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a long-awaited formal apology to the Canadian Aboriginal community for the abuse suffered in the government-funded church-run residential schools that were phased out in the 1970s after more than a century of operation.

It also proved to be a day of personal significance for U of L education professor Dr. Brian Titley, who has spent the last three decades researching and writing about Aboriginal history.

"I was very moved when I watched the national apology on residential schools because I realized that 30 years ago a government apology could not have happened because nobody had written a thing about it. History needed to be rewritten and reinterpreted," says Titley.

His book, A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada (1986), was among the first to be written in Canada about Indian policy.

"Up until the 1970s, our history in Canada had been very much about nation building, great men, railways and Vimy Ridge," says Titley. "Historians then began writing about the history of women, the working class, minority groups and Aboriginal people. These writings played an important role in educating the public."

A critical historian, Titley has devoted his career to challenging conventional wisdom. His list of published books and articles reads like an epic story that journeys through time, exploring the cultural fabric, political climate and religious circumstances of numerous countries at different points in history.

In addition to the administration of Indian Affairs in Canada, he has covered many controversial topics, including the role of the Catholic Church in the Irish education system and that of France in its former African colonies.

As a newly appointed ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholar, Titley has chosen the history of Magdalen asylums in North America as the subject for his next line of research.

First and foremost, however, Titley considers himself an educator – a teacher of teachers who aims to inspire his students so that one day they'll inspire their own.

"I've always tried to explain to my students that as historians we must go back and understand origins to realize why the present is the way it is."

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ offers condolences

trevor.kenney — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:25:30 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge community offers its condolences to the many family members, friends and colleagues of two individuals who passed away recently.

Dr. Ludvik Pahulje, a long-time Lethbridge resident and recipient, in 2003, of an Honorary Degree from the U of L, passed away peacefully in Lethbridge on Thursday, June 25 at age 92.

A Prayer Service (vigil rites) will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 29 at OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH, 2405 – 12 Ave., S., Lethbridge.

A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30 at OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH with Father Raul Hernandez, celebrant.

In lieu of flowers, and for those who wish, donations may be made to the Calgary Health Trust (re: Ludvik Pahulje Endowed Fund), #800, 11012 Macleod Trail S.E., Calgary, Alta., T2J 6A5, a fund established several years ago by Ludvik to support the treatment and care of hemodialysis (kidney) patients in Lethbridge and surrounding area.

A complete obituary is available at: www.lethbridgeherald.com/content/view/71314/35/

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ community also wishes to extend its most sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the late Tyler Hewitt, age 26, and a ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge student most recently enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (BA Economics) who passed away as the result of a motorcycle accident on June 11.

A memorial service has taken place. Condolences may be forwarded to the family through www.mcinnisandholloway.com

A complete obituary is available at: www.legacy.com/CAN-Calgary/Obituaries.asp?page=lifestory&personid=128479776

Rethinking history

trevor.kenney — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:28:30 +0000

It also proved to be a day of personal significance for U of L education professor Dr. Brian Titley, who has spent the last three decades researching and writing about Aboriginal history.

His book, A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada (1986), was among the first to be written in Canada about Indian policy.

As a newly appointed ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Scholar, Titley has chosen the history of Magdalen asylums in North America as the subject for his next line of research.

First and foremost, however, Titley considers himself an educator – a teacher of teachers who aims to inspire his students so that one day they'll inspire their own.

"I've always tried to explain to my students that as historians we must go back and understand origins to realize why the present is the way it is."

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