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Forward Thinking Fort Chipewyan councillor negotiates the future
The Mystery of Kastro
Unearthing clues to an ancient past
Arts Salon
Creative works by readers
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In Every Issue Sounding Board
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Readers tell us what they think
Coffee Break
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Ten minutes with Bryan Hogeveen (Criminology)
Table of Contents Volume 6 Issue 2 – Fall 2010
Panorama
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News and updates from the Faculty of Arts
As I See It . . .
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Alumnus opinion column Enough cheating: Can the performing arts make us honest? by Maria Thompson Corley
Ask the Expert
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W. Andy Knight (Political Science) answers readers’ questions about the United Nations
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Student View
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Anthropology students on our sense of place
Faculty Bookshelf
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Faculty members’ publications
Research Highlights
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Discoveries and innovations
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Class Notes
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Updates from alumni
Where are They Now?
Cover photograph: Lorraine Hoffman, image by Epic Photography Inc. (John Ulan)
In Memoriam
Forward Thinking
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The Mystery of Kastro
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Classics professor Margriet Haagsma unearths the 2,300 year-old secrets of an abandoned Greek city by Terese Brasen
Arts Salon
Featuring creative works by readers
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Bidding farewell to friends
Features Councillor Lorraine Hoffman negotiates a new path for her band, the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation by Benjamin Freeland
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Catching up with a retired professor
Flashback
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Up in smoke
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www.arts.ualberta.ca The Faculty of Arts Alumni magazine Volume 6 Issue 2 - Fall 2010 WOA is published twice a year by the Faculty of Arts Dean’s Office and is distributed to 35,000 Faculty of Arts alumni, donors, faculty, staff, students and other interested readers. It aims to connect alumni with other alumni, to keep people informed of developments in the Faculty of Arts, and to build pride and encourage readers to become effective ambassadors for the Faculty. Dean of Arts Lesley Cormack Acting Editor Carmen Rojas Assistant Editors Erin Prenoslo Isha Thompson Creative Consultant Catherine Kloczkowski Publisher Skinnyfish Media Inc. www.skinnyfishmedia.com 403.338.1731 Art Director Susie Brown Contributing Writers Terese Brasen, Maria Thompson Corley, Benjamin Freeland, W. Andy Knight , Erin Prenoslo, Tiffany Seymour, Isha Thompson, Patricia Wankiewicz Photographers & Artists David Bannatyne, Myles Chykerda, Colleen Couves, Epic Photography Inc. (Ian Jackson and John Ulan), Russell Frost (Frost Imaging), Christian Grandjean, Margriet Haagsma, Lylian Klimek, Catherine Kloczkowski, Edward Kwong, Indy Randhawa, Amber Razak, Isha Thompson, U of A Marketing and Communications (Michael Holly and Richard Siemens) For advertising opportunities in WOA, contact: Catherine Kloczkowski Marketing & Sponsorship Coordinator catherine.kloczkowski@ualberta.ca 780.492.8851 Send your comments to: University of Alberta Faculty of Arts 6-33 Humanities Centre Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 Attention: WOA Magazine Copyright©2010 WOA (Work of Arts) Magazine. Nothing in this magazine may be copied or reprinted without the written consent of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. All material is compiled from sources believed to be reliable, but published without responsibility for errors or omissions. WOA assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or photos. Views and opinions expressed in WOA are those of the authors or interviewees and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Alberta, the Faculty of Arts, or its departments or programs.
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Coffee Break
Bryan Hogeveen is an associate professor with the U of A’s internationally-respected criminology program in the Department of Sociology. Since 2009, he has also been teaching Brazilian Jiu‑Jitsu classes through the campus recreation program.
Q: What made you first decide to study criminology? A: In high school my mom bought me a couple of true crime books. I started reading and was hooked. Q: What drew you to academia? A: During my master’s I earned money through working with young offenders in a detention setting. While I enjoyed my time working in the field, it was my passion for academia, for learning, for knowledge, and for teaching that propelled me to pursue a PhD. Q: How long have you been practicing martial arts? A: I’ve been involved in one form of combative sport or another since I was very young. I started wrestling in Grade 7, which I did throughout high school. I’ve also studied Muay Thai Kickboxing, Judo and Brazilian Jiu‑Jitsu. Q: You practice Brazilian Jiu‑Jitsu now — do you compete? A: I’ve been involved in a few tournaments, but my intention is to compete more regularly. My hope is to compete at the Mundials (the World Brazilian Jiu‑Jitsu championships) in June. I have a super-fight scheduled for October. Q: Why did you start studying martial arts academically? A: Martial arts practice teaches practitioners a lot about themselves: about who they are and about their subjective limits. With the reemergence of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as a powerhouse in the entertainment industry I began
to wonder about why this occurred at this particular point in history? And, more important, what this says about our society?
arts disciplines attend my classes.They all possess knowledges that benefit not only me, but, more importantly, the other students.
Q: How do you respond to people who want Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) banned in Canada? A: There are two basic arguments for this course of action: first, that it causes significant head trauma. There is simply no published medical evidence to support this argument. Further, young people suffer considerable head injuries in all manner of sport (i.e. hockey, football, skiing, etc.). Second, that MMA increases the amount and seriousness of violence in society. My research suggests otherwise. In fact, many of my respondents claim that martial arts training has made them more self confident and less likely to engage in violence outside of the academy. That is, the spirit and philosophy of the martial arts I and others teach encourages self control and respect of others.
Q: What else do you do in your free time? A: My free time is reserved for my family. I have three children – my oldest (Ayden) is seven, Taryk will be five in October, and my wife and I just had a baby (Maylah) on June 28. They keep me busy. Q: If you could fight any action movie character, who would it be? A: Bruce Lee – he’s amazing. Bryan Hogeveen grapples with his training partner and co-instructor Misty Shearer, the Canadian women’s heavyweight Jiu-Jitsu champion.
Q: Are there any similarities between teaching sociology and teaching Jiu‑Jitsu? A: Two parallels come to mind. First, I strive to bring my passion for each to the learning arena. Second, I consider the classroom and the academy to be fora that are open for debate, dialogue and critical thinking. Whether it’s about crime or about martial arts, almost everyone has some level of experience. I encourage all of my students to bring these to the learning environment. In Jiu‑Jitsu, for example, I have black belts in all different martial
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Panorama
Panorama is a look at events, news and achievements in the Faculty of Arts
Snapshots
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Bachelor of Design Graduate Exhibition 2010 - Alyssa Haas’s Oil & Vinegar bottles, part of the “Under Emigration” exhibition that ran at the FAB Gallery from April 27 – May 8, 2010.
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Material Culture Institute 4th Annual Symposium - Guest speaker Allen Ball, associate professor in the Department of Art & Design, with Beverly Lemire, director of the Material Culture Institute. In his talk, Ball tackled the question of how artists can represent their experience of contemporary warfare in our image-saturated culture.
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Institute of Prairie Archaeology (IPA) - The IPA celebrates the opening of its HUB Mall location. The institute was created in May 2008 to conduct and promote archaeological, anthropological and interdisciplinary research in the northern Plains region of western Canada and the northern United States. (Left to right: Associate Vice-President (Research) George Pavlich, Department of Anthropology chair Lisa Philips, IPA director Jack Ives)
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Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives - Professor Bohdan Medwidsky cuts the ribbon at a ceremony celebrating the opening of the archives in their new location in the Arts Building. The archives, which are housed in the Kule Folklore Centre, are the largest repository of Ukrainian folklore outside Ukraine.
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Student fundraiser - Filmgoers take in the Edmonton premiere of The Linguists. The screening, which was organized by the Undergraduate Linguistics Club and the Arts Aboriginal Student Council, raised over $1,000 for the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI).
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Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI) Students receive Community Linguist Certificates at the closing ceremony for the 11th annual summer school. The certificate provides linguistic analysis and language documentation training to speakers of Canada’s Aboriginal languages who are interested in working towards the preservation of their languages.
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FAB Cocktail Party - Guests enjoy a chocolate tasting offered by Kerstin’s Chocolates, a local business owned by alumna Kerstin Roos (’95 BA). This year’s party had a “Date Night” theme, with many couples continuing the evening at U of A Studio Theatre’s production of Eurydice.
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Institute for Public Economics conference - William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, speaks at “Boom and Bust Again: Policy Challenges for a Commodity-based Economy,” which explored issues of special relevance to Alberta’s economy. Also shown: IPA director Robert Ascah (left) and Department of Economics chair Doug West.
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2010 Hurtig Lecture on the Future of Canada - Mary Simon, national leader of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, visits the U of A during Alumni Weekend to deliver a lecture entitled “Inuit in Canada: Embracing the Maple Leaf.” The Hurtig Lecture series was launched by the Department of Political Science in 2005. (Left to right: Mel Hurtig and Mary Simon)
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Visualizing an Ancient City exhibition - The results of six years of archaeological fieldwork at the Kastro of Kallithea in Greece were on display in Rutherford Library South during the month of September. The exhibition, which included photographs, maps and 3D models, then travelled to the University of Saskatchewan and finally on to Greece where it will be permanently displayed. See page 22 for our feature article, The Mystery of Kastro.
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Brazil Week 2010 - The Capoeira Academy Edmonton presents its mix of dance, music and martial arts in front of the Arts Building in September as part of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies’ Brazil Week 2010. Left to right: David Zimmerman, Allan Gray, Odile Cisneros (Modern Languages & Cultural Studies), Bartosz Binczyk, Joanna Law ('04 BA, Sociology), James Brown Front: Reni Lima Ferreira, Amanda Bambrick
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Faculty of Arts welcomes Dean Lesley Cormack With her arrival at the University of Alberta earlier this year, Lesley Cormack proved that sometimes you can go home again. Cormack began a five-year term as Dean of Arts on July 1st, returning not only to her home province, but to an institution with which she has a rich personal and professional history. “Both my grandparents attended the U of A in the 1920s, and both my parents have degrees from here as well,” Cormack shares. “In fact, my mother, Jo Pilcher Cormack, starred in the first student production of Studio Theatre and received one of the first BFAs in Drama in 1949, and my dad, David Cormack, ran the technical side of Studio Theatre in the late 1940s, while completing a BSc in Chemistry.” This passion for learning was passed down to the third generation of the family: Cormack pursued a history degree at another Alberta institution, the University of Calgary, before earning both an MA and a PhD from the University of Toronto. She then established a career at the U of A and spent 17 years as a professor in the Department of History
“My time away has given me a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding of what makes this institution so special." - Dean Lesley Cormack
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and Classics, specializing in early modern science. During that time, she also held administrative roles as chair of the department and associate dean of student programs for the Faculty. In 2007, Cormack was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. But when the opportunity arose for her to return to the U of A and assume leadership of the Faculty of Arts, it was a challenge she couldn’t resist. “I’m delighted to be home,” she says. “My time away has given me a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding of what makes this institution so special. The Faculty of Arts has much to be proud of, including a strong reputation for scholarship and teaching that I hope to build on even further in the years ahead.” The University community was equally pleased to welcome their longtime colleague back. “Lesley is renowned, nationally and internationally, for the quality of her scholarship. She is a staunch champion of the pursuit of the arts as an endeavour worthy for its own sake,” commented Carl Amrhein, U of A Provost and Vice-President (Academic), when her appointment was first announced. "Her leadership style is collegial, energetic, consultative and transparent. She is known for an excellence in bringing people together." Looking forward, Cormack is eager to build on the vision her colleagues in the Faculty of Arts began developing during her time away, and to engage faculty, staff and students in a collaborative plan for the future. “It is important for us to remember that we’re part of a community of scholars and students who are involved in complex and life-changing research in the humanities, social sciences and fine arts,” she says. “And this community is essential, because I believe that it is the liberal arts that will produce the fresh ideas the world we live in requires.” ■
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N On currently until January 20 Women’s Studies Program Installation: Hysteria: A case, a study – a series of photographs produced by MA (Women's Studies and English) student Ela Przybylo
Upcoming Events
19-21 Parkland Institute 14th Annual Fall Conference Rewriting a Country: Toward a Just and Peaceful Canada Keynote Speaker: Margaret Atwood “On Silence” Conference details including times and locations: http://parklandinstitute.ca/fallconference2010
Mark your calendar for these public events, hosted by the Faculty of Arts or its departments. Event information is confirmed at the time of printing, but please visit websites to confirm times and for more information.
25 Department of Philosophy Matthew Kostelecky, University of Alberta 3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A 26 Wirth Institute Robert Austin, University of Toronto Austria and the creation of Albania in 1913 Senate Chamber, Arts Building D Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre De Littérature Canadienne Brown Bag Lunch: Gregory Scofield Noon; Student Lounge, Arts Building
U of A Studio Theatre (Timms Centre for the Arts) www.studiotheatre.ca Dec 2-11
Savage in Limbo By John Patrick Shanley, directed by Drama Professor Kim McCaw
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby By Charles Dickens, adapted by Richard Ouzounian, guest director Brian Deedrick (BA Drama Honors ’79, MFA Directing ’85)
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Wirth Institute Annual Christmas concert – 10 year anniversary! Silent Night 3 p.m.; Convocation Hall, Arts Building
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Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre De Littérature Canadienne Brown Bag Lunch: David Chariandy Noon; Student Lounge, Arts Building 20 20 27
Department of Philosophy Allen Hazen, University of Alberta 3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A Department of Art & Design/ East Asian Studies Jennifer Purtle, University of Toronto 5:00 p.m.; Fine Arts Building 2-20 Department of Philosophy Paul Boaheng, Fayetteville State University 3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A
F 4 Department of Philosophy Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia Hume and economic well-being 3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A 10 14
Department of Political Science Cecil Foster, University of Guelph 3:30 p.m.; Humanities Centre L-3 Department of Art & Design Dawn Ades, University of Essex 5:00 p.m.; Fine Arts Building 2-20
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Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre De Littérature Canadienne Brown Bag Lunch: Anna Marie Sewell Noon; Student Lounge, Arts Building Keep up to date with our event listing at www.arts.ualberta.ca (click on “Events”)
Fine Arts Building Gallery Exhibitions Please visit their new website at www.ualberta.ca/artdesign to view upcoming exhibits Department of Music Performances www.music.ualberta.ca Nov-Mar Music at Convocation Hall & Monday Noon Music Series Various dates and performers – please see website Convocation Hall, Arts Building Nov-Mar Enterprise String Quartet Various Tuesdays – please see website 4:30 p.m.; Enterprise Square, Atrium November 21 World Music Sampler 2 p.m.; Convocation Hall, Arts Building November 21 University Symphony Orchestra – Academy Strings 8 p.m.; Convocation Hall, Arts Building November 23 Music at Winspear University Concert Band with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble 8 p.m.; Winspear Centre November 26-27
Opera Scenes 8 p.m.; Convocation Hall, Arts Building
December 3 Concert Choir presents Winter Themes The program features Vaughan William's Fantasia on Christmas Carols 8 p.m.; Convocation Hall, Arts Building December 6
X93 Experimental Improvisation Ensemble An evening of experimental improvised music, with movement contributions by the Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy 8 p.m.; Fine Arts Building, Studio 27
January 24
Winspear 3 Department of Music Gala Fundraiser 8 p.m.; Winspear Centre
January 28
Contempo New Music Ensemble 7 p.m.; Convocation Hall, Arts Building
February Opera 17-20 More details TBA Convocation Hall, Arts Building
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Achievements The Faculty of Arts would like to congratulate the following faculty, staff and students for their outstanding achievements:
Faculty Members The Alberta Centre for Child, Family & Community Research awarded Jeff Bisanz (Psychology) the inaugural Westbury Legacy Award, which recognizes academic and/or professional growth of individuals working in child, family and community research. Bev Dahlby (Economics) received a 2010 Doug Purvis Memorial Prize, honouring contributions to Canadian economic policy, for his article Once on the Lips, Forever on the Hips: A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Fiscal Stimulus in OECD Countries. The prize is awarded annually to the authors of a highly significant, written contribution to Canadian economic policy. The award was established in 1994 in honour and memory of noted Canadian economist Doug Purvis.
Stuart Landon (Economics) and Connie Varnhagen (Psychology) were honoured with Rutherford Awards, which recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching by full-time continuing academic staff. Onookome Okome (English & Film Studies) was awarded a 2010 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.
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W. Andy Knight (Political Science) was the recipient of the 2010 Harry Jerome Trailblazer Award from the Black Business & Professional Association of Canada. Knight is only the seventh person to receive this award, which celebrates excellence in achievement in the Black community in Canada, since the Harry Jerome Awards were created in 1983.
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David Quinter (East Asian Studies, Religious Studies) received the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He will spend 2010-11 as a research scholar at the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo.
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Linda Trimble (Political Science) received a 2010 McCalla Professorship, awarded to professors who value excellence in teaching, acknowledge the importance of students, conduct themselves in an ethical manner, are collaborative, open to change, take pride in history and traditions and are committed to integrating their research and teaching. Douglas Wardell (Psychology) received a 2010 Students’ Union Award for Leadership in Undergraduate Teaching (SALUTE), which promotes excellence in teaching based on student nominations and adjudication.
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Staff Elizabeth French (Linguistics) received the 2010 Support Staff Research Enhancement Award, which is awarded jointly by NASA (NonAcademic Staff Association) and the Office of the Vice-President to recognize contributions to the University's culture of research excellence.
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Trudeau Fellowship Students Sevan Beurki Beukian (Political Science) and Kathleen Danser (Music) both earned Margaret Brine Graduate Scholarships in Arts from the Canadian Federation of University Women. The scholarships are awarded to women graduate students who have demonstrated academic excellence and commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the improvement of the status of women and human rights, and active participation in public affairs. Ben Giroux (Undergraduate Student, Sociology) placed in the top 10 in the 2010 Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge hosted by the Historica Dominion Institute. A creative writing contest for young Aboriginal Canadians (ages 14-18 and 19-29), participants are encouraged to showcase their talent and creativity.
Above: Ben Giroux Photo by: David Ba nnatyne
Erin Greenough (Undergraduate Student, Art & Design) with Andrea Babic (NAIT) were named winners of the Advertising Club of Edmonton’s 2010 Student Award – Visual Excellence for Photography or Illustration for “Lost and Found,” a project for the Youth Emergency Shelter Society. Mariya Karpenko (Undergraduate Student, Art & Design) was recognized with an Applied Arts Magazine Scholarship from the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada. The scholarship, which was awarded for Mariya’s design of luxury soap packaging, recognizes emerging excellence in design achievement and encourages students in taking their design education to a level that will better prepare them for professional practice. Tamara Sorenson-Duncan (PhD Student, Linguistics) is one of 15 U of A doctoral students who received the 2010 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Vanier scholars receive $50,000 annually for up to three years, and are chosen as a result of their demonstrated leadership skills and high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies within social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and engineering and health research.
The Trudeau Fellowship is an annual award meant to celebrate individuals that set themselves apart through research achievements, creativity and commitment to critical social issues of importance to Canada. In September, Janine Brodie (Political Science) became the first U of A academic to receive the prestigious award — a welcomed honour that she didn't see coming. “I was surprised and elated,” said Brodie. “The Trudeau Fellowship is one of the three national awards that is available to political scientists, so I was humbled and pleased that I was one of the four named this year.” “I am especially pleased that the Trudeau Fellowship recognizes excellence in productivity and research, but also an ongoing commitment to social justice. That’s especially gratifying to me,” she added. Brodie, who is also a Canada Research Chair, has built a strong foundation of research that explores social governance, citizenship and social justice. The $225,000 prize from the fellowship will help the professor tailor her future research, and focus on the emergence of provincial anti-poverty reduction strategies and the federal law and order agenda. “The Trudeau Fellowship is a richly-deserved honour for Janine – one that recognizes her career as a political scientist who tirelessly engages with some of the most significant social and political issues our country faces,” commented Dean of Arts Lesley Cormack. “With this honour, she brings distinction not only to her department and to our Faculty, but to the entire University of Alberta.” Since 2002, the Trudeau Foundation has named 38 fellows. Candidates from all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities and all domains of creative arts are considered. They are nominated by an independent jury of researchers and intellectuals.
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Milestones Special anniversaries and new beginnings
Kule Institute for Advanced Study launch
Ad v a n c in g h u m a n it y , li ft in g th e hu m a n sp ir it
In late 2009, local philanthropists and longtime University of Alberta supporters Drs. Peter and Doris Kule pledged $4 million to establish an Arts-led comparative research institute, the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS). The mandate of KIAS is to advance humanity and to lift the human spirit through the critical exploration of the most significant issues we face, including political oppression, multiculturalism, the environment, religious persecution, the politics of famine and food distribution, and global peace and conflict. “KIAS will bring an opportunity – indeed, an obligation – to examine pressing issues of today and emergent ones of the future from an interdisciplinary standpoint,” explains Professor Jerry Varsava, Founding Director. “The U of A has a tremendous concentration of researchers in the humanities, social sciences and fine arts, making it an ideal site for this type of transformative institute.”
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Community Service-Learning program’s 5th Anniversary In 2003 sociology professor Sara Dorow organized a two-year pilot project in the Faculty of Arts to establish the Community Service-Learning (CSL) program, which links academic coursework to community-based projects by connecting students with local non-profit organizations. The program was officially launched in 2005 after receiving seed funding from The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. Now, five years later, more than 300 students participate in CSL each year, and more than 100 community partners benefit from their contributions.
The precise topics and themes of KIAS’s first research cycle will be determined this fall by its administrative board through consultation with students, faculty members and KIAS’s advisory council, leading up to the official launch in November. Moving forward, KIAS will provide focus and support for research to be undertaken by students and faculty members in the selected areas – including the establishment of research grant programs, which Varsava hopes to roll out in early 2011. For more information, contact kias@ualberta.ca.
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Where Industry Meets
Ancestry
When it comes to the Alberta oilsands, the struggle that Aboriginal groups currently face
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cultural and environmental preservation is too often described in black-and-white terms, characterized as a choice between a Faustian bargain with industry and a stubborn refusal to embrace the modern world. Lorraine Hoffman (’02 BA, Anthropology), on the other hand, paints a much more complex picture of the situation, one that suggests that preservation and progress need not be mutually exclusive.
Fort Chipewyan councillor Lorraine Hoffman ('02 BA, Anthropology)
Words by Benjamin Freeland Photography by Epic Photography Inc. (John Ulan)
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Labourer Doreen Britton on a break (left) and at work outside the new nursing station (right)
““I went to school in the city but I always went home, and always enjoyed the beauty around me. We live in a really beautiful region on the edge of the Canadian Shield. And we have a great history that goes back thousands of years.” - Lorraine Hoffman
At home (above) and near her grandmother's house in Fort Chipewyan (previous page)
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fter spending her childhood summers in the tiny hamlet of Fort Chipewyan in the northeastern corner of Alberta, Hoffman’s love for her ancestral homeland and fascination with its history and culture led her to the field of anthropology, which in turn set the stage for her subsequent career as a community leader and advocate.
Home, it would seem, needed her as much as she needed it. Within six months of moving to Fort Chipewyan after earning her degree, Hoffman was elected councilwoman for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), an 890-strong band that has long enjoyed a friendly, symbiotic relationship with its neighbouring band, the Mikisew Cree First Nation.
Her overriding passion for her beloved Denedeh (the ancient geographical and spiritual heart of the Dene people) is immediately evident, the conversation scarcely straying from the subject. “It’s always been home for me,” she explains. “I went to school in the city but I always went home, and always enjoyed the beauty around me. We live in a really beautiful region on the edge of the Canadian Shield. And we have a great history that goes back thousands of years.”
The timing of Hoffman’s studies and return to her community could hardly have been more fortuitous. The past decade has seen a sea change both for the Alberta economy (and the economy of the Athabasca region in particular) and for First Nations across the province — a period characterized by exciting new opportunities and new problems. Hoffman views the changes that the oilsands industry bring as equal parts negative and positive.
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“These are really interesting times right now,” she contends. “First Nations have reached a level of autonomy where their rights are being recognized by the courts and companies have to consult with us. The government is no longer in a position to make unilateral decisions.” In Hoffman’s view, participation in one form or another in Alberta’s oil-driven economy is a necessity for First Nations and she is quick to refute the still-prevalent notion that Aboriginal people are anti-development. “We’re all capitalists here,” she says. “We’re not anti-industry, but we do strive to find a balance. We need to find sustainable ways of doing things. I enjoy my culture and who I am today because my ancestors signed a treaty back in 1899 that set aside this land for us. Now I need to safeguard it for my descendants.”
A photo of Hoffman’s grandmother Josephine Marie Mercredi (Saturnin), who passed away in 2009, hangs in the council office on a wall commemorating elders.
Fort Chipewyan’s image as a tiny town on the northern fringes of Alberta is such that it is easy to forget the region was once a major economic epicentre at the heart of the North American continent. Established by the Northwest Company as a fur trading post in 1788, Fort Chipewyan was one of the first European settlements in what is now Alberta, at a time when the Athabasca region was the El Dorado of the fur trade. Meanwhile, the Chipewyan Dene, who share the region with the Mikisew Cree and a small Métis population, have a long and storied history replete with colourful personages such as Thanadelthur, the slave woman who helped forge a peace treaty between the Chipewyan and the Cree in the early 18th century, as well as Métis leader Louis Riel, whose mater-
nal grandmother was Chipewyan. The Chipewyan in turn share ancestry with a vast swathe of Dene-speaking peoples, stretching from Yukon and Alaska to as far south as the Navajo and Apache homelands, which straddle the U.S.Mexico border. It was this treasure trove of history and culture that initially drew Hoffman to the field of cultural anthropology. “It started with a book I co-authored entitled Inkonze [which means ‘to know’ in the Dene Suline language],” she explains. “The book is a comprehensive history of northeastern Alberta and its people since time immemorial, up to the signing of the treaties.”
Charlie Mark Cardinal, a local hunter and fisherman, setting out on a moose hunting trip (left) and with his smoked fish (above)
In writing her book, Hoffman was astounded by the consistency of the oral accounts of the region’s history, as told by the Chipewyan elders, and how closely these paralleled the written accounts of Émile Petitot, a Jesuit priest who spent many years documenting oral histories in the region in the 1800s.
“When I started, I just thought I was learning how to do research and that I’d get paid to talk to our elders,” she asserts. “Our relationship with the land is very subjective, very experiential, difficult to relate. [My degree] taught me the language of the law and it gave me that dialogue to be able to relate that experience to government and industry, enabling me to advocate for consultation.”
Hoffman’s studies of cultural anthropology did much more than deepen her understanding of her ancestral culture. They gave her valuable tools that have since helped her advocate on behalf of her community.
Hoffman contends that negotiations between First Nations and government and industry representatives are often stymied by mutual misunderstandings stemming from vastly dissimilar perspectives and interests. “I’ve sat in meetings
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“The plight of the environment and the health of the community has been brought to the attention of the global community...” - Lorraine Hoffman
In a band council meeting. Also pictured: Chief Allan Adam, Councillor Monica Tuccaro
and seen people talk past each other,” she explains. “They just don’t understand each other because they’re coming from completely different sets of values. Our people are talking about what it means to be Dene and we know what our connection to the land means to us, and [government and industry] are talking about their economic interests. My training helps me cut through all that.” For a town with a population of a little over 1,000, Fort Chipewyan has been on the receiving end of outsized media attention in recent years owing to reports of alarmingly high rates of unusual cancers, which many believe are linked to environmental pollution resultant from the oilsands industry. As councilwoman for the community, Hoffman has been both incensed by the perceived lack of action by the government and pleased that the crisis has prompted action by NGOs around the world. “We’ve made an exceptional effort to bring our fight to the globe,” she explains. “The plight of the environment and the health of the community has been brought to the attention of the global community, and a select group of NGOs have assisted us to that end. This has helped us fund methodologies for monitoring, cleaning up the environment and developing laws to protect it.” The problem that First Nations like the Chipewyan face much of the time, Hoffman explains, is that while the govern18
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ment is now beginning to pay more attention to her community, the onus is far too often placed on the First Nations to conduct all the research and produce the statistical proof. In the case of the Athabasca River, U of A ecologists Erin Kelly and David Schindler’s startling study of water quality released earlier this fall, and the subsequent exhibition of deformed fish, hold the promise of greater government action, but for many it has been a long time coming. Says Hoffman: “We’re a small community. We just don’t have the capacity [for this kind of research].”
panies, which bodes well for the region. And thanks to economic growth, the hamlet of Fort Chipewyan is projecting significant population growth over the next decade.
While the lion’s share of media attention that Fort Chipewyan has received in recent years has been focused on pollution and illness, Hoffman contends that economic development has the potential to bring all sorts of positive changes to her community, provided that future development is done in a sustainable manner.
While the future remains uncertain for Fort Chipewyan, what does seem certain is that the Chipewyan and other First Nations need to carve out new niches for themselves in the 21st century. And with her thorough knowledge of her own people and nuanced understanding of the language and interests of government and industry, Hoffman’s vision of sustainable development through equal partnerships and mutual understanding looks to be one of their best hopes.
“We’re in a watershed period,” she says. “Development really only began in the last 10 years and we could well be the next boomtown. It would be nice to have some amenities, because we don’t have much. We have the land and our people enjoy our recreational activities, but it would be nice to have a swimming pool, arts facilities, music teachers, and so on.” Hoffman notes that the community now has growing corporate clout in the form of the ACFN Business Group and its counterpart, the Mikisew Group of Com-
“We live in some of the richest land in the world and [have] very little to show for it so far. Why couldn’t we have the best school system that we can get, great museums, tourism? And maybe that will come. It’s about finding sustainable ways to make it happen. And with population growth, there will be more incentive for the government to support us.”
“Will [economic development] help sustain our country and our culture?” she asks. “I don’t know. But whatever happens here, we need to be able to determine our own destiny.” ■ Benjamin Freeland (’98 BA, History) is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Alberta Venture, Alberta Views, The Globe & Mail, Legacy, Up! Magazine and Wild Lands Advocate.
As I See It...
Alumnus opinion column
Enough Cheating Can the performing arts make us honest? Words by Maria Thompson Corley
Cheating isn’t something new, but it isn’t as frowned upon as it used to be. We like to boo and hiss the Bernie Madoffs of the world, whose deceit is on a grand scale, but how many parents end up doing their kids’ homework or making projects for the science fair? These parents might say they are trying to give their children every advantage in a competitive world. My take is that we are so used to the immediate gratification of our desires, to which we have been led to believe we are entitled, that sometimes, when things don’t come quickly, we latch onto shortcuts. The net result is people who don’t really know how to persevere, are more skilled in hiding their faults than seeking out ways to shore up their areas of weakness, and who end up cultivating a culture of both mediocrity and finger-pointing. What’s at stake here is fundamental to society. Earlier this year, I read an alarming story about systemic cheating during FBI training. FBI agents are among the myriad of people we count on every day to know what they’re doing, but the numbers who fit this category in all areas of society will dwindle further if we continue to accept cheating as just another strategy for success. Of course, we have never been able to be sure anyone knows what he or she is doing until we find out, sometimes tragically, through experience. Just ask the people in the Gulf, who are suffering the effects of the oil spill in part because BP took short cuts with
safety, which is a common practice in the oil industry and symptomatic of the attitude that characterizes cheaters: I probably won’t get caught, so what’s the problem? What to do? There are no easy answers, but I think part of the solution lies in more arts education. As I see it, requiring every student to perform could help combat the current culture of deceit. Live performance is one of the sole arenas where cheating is all but impossible: either you can play the piece/recite the lines or you can’t, and the level of competence your preparation has afforded you is immediately obvious. Yes, there are variables—a better instrument, a better teacher—but I’m not talking about professional performance. I’m talking about learning to do something that requires focus, effort, and delayed gratification, then proving what you know. Ideally, I’m talking about building not just skill, but character, because there are no shortcuts to mastery. Even performance anxiety, which is very familiar to me, can build character. When there’s nowhere to hide, you must deal with your weaknesses head on.
So if everyone learned a performing art, would a culture of integrity triumph over deceit? I’m not sure, but I know that arts-related programs for at-risk youth, like the one that produced Gustavo Dudamel, the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, regularly demonstrate that my suggestion can make a difference. And as we continue to see news reports of the effects of the kind of self-centeredness that leads to cheating, we have to do something. ■
Maria Thompson Corley Maria Thompson Corley (’86 BMus) received both master’s and doctorate degrees in piano performance from the Juilliard School. She has performed on stages around the world and released four recordings. Maria is also a composer and arranger of music for solo voice and chorus, and the author of a novel, Choices. Photo by: Russell Frost, Frost Imaging
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Ask the Expert
Faculty Expert Q & A
The United Nations Q: International law and UN conven‑ tions seem to be effectively applied and brought to bear to pressure the worst offenders, but even though they are drafted by western diplo‑ mats, it seems to me that western governments feel they are too good to abide by the letter of the protocols they've drafted… .What is the history of the functioning of these protocols/ conventions/laws against western governments?
W. Andy Knight W. Andy Knight (Political Science) is a worldrenowned expert on international relations. He has researched and written extensively on various aspects of multilateralism, global governance and peace, and United Nations reform. He also serves on a number of boards, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Welfare of Children and the International Development Research Centre.
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United Nations are usually endorsed by states from all regions. The UN is after all a universal body.
- Kevin Solez, ‘03 BA Hons, Classics Vancouver, B.C.
You are right, however, to suggest that some western states view themselves as ‘exceptional’ – i.e. they tend to consider certain aspects of international law as applying to others while they themselves are exempt. The problem with international law is that it is voluntarist – it may not be considered as binding. Furthermore, the international community lacks the wherewithal to enforce international laws.
A: Western governments have influenced heavily the content and evolution of international law. But not all international laws are drafted solely by westerners. Those conventions, protocols and laws that emerge from the
To be fair, Canada is normally a state that abides by international legal norms and conventions. However, it is clear that in the case of Omar Khadr the Canadian government has simply been ignoring international human rights
Ask the Expert “It is clear that in the case of Omar Khadr the Canadian government has simply been ignoring international human rights obligations...” - W. Andy Knight
Q: Has the concept of R2P been damaged by the western nations’ selective fulfillment of that respon‑ sibility? Can we really see R2P as anything more than a public rela‑ tions response to the West’s failure in Rwanda? - Mark Wells, ’02 BA, English
Q: Is it fair to suggest that United Na‑ tions peace and stability operations rarely, if ever, receive the adequate resourcing, support, and political will to succeed? - Naveed Bandali, ’09 BA, Political Science
obligations and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Whatever one believes about what Omar Khadr did in Afghanistan, he is a Canadian citizen who was taken into custody when he was only 15-years-old by the U.S. military. If he did commit war crimes, as the U.S. government is charging, he did so as a child. In custody, he has been tortured and treated inhumanely. According to international law, children under 18 should not be tried for war crimes, and they certainly should not be subjected to this type of treatment.
A: You are absolutely right to suggest that United Nations peace and stability operations are generally inadequately resourced. The UN does not have a military or police force of its own. Thus, it has to depend upon its memberstates to provide peacekeeping and peace-support personnel and equipment in order to maintain international peace and security. The regular budget of the organization is never enough to cover the costs of peace operations, so member-states voluntarily contribute funds to such operations. The problem with this is that if a UN member-state doesn’t agree with a particular peace operation, it could simply not provide the UN with the military personnel, equipment, or money to make that operation a success.
The Canadian government should have demanded the repatriation of Khadr to Canada and treated him as it would treat any other child who is accused of committing a crime. Canada’s action, or lack of action in this case, has given us the reputation as a country that ignores the rule of law and the rights of children.
It would seem to me that one way to solve this problem is for the UN to develop an independent military capability of its own. But to do so, the majority of UN member-states would have to agree, including all of its permanent members (China, France, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S.). And, you know how difficult that would be!
A: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm was conceived in response to the Rwandan genocide. The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) devised this concept to deal with mass atrocity crimes (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing). The problem with R2P, as I see it, is that the threshold for intervening when a state or people within a state commit these atrocious crimes is exceedingly high. In other words, on the face of it, the international community cannot intervene in countries until there is evidence that these crimes are being committed. Western governments aren’t being selective, as such, in fulfilling their responsibility to protect innocent people at risk. They are extremely tentative about doing anything that would jeopardize two other major norms of international relations, i.e. the norms of sovereignty and non-intervention. Until the R2P is made compatible with these existing and dominant norms, I’m afraid that it will remain a still-born norm.
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Words by Terese Brasen Photography by Margriet Haagsma
The
Mystery
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Unearthing the 2,300 year-old secrets of an abandoned Greek city Jason Marceniuk
It is 5:30 a.m., and we are climbing single file, following a narrow path straight up through thorny, oak shrubs. We are headed to Kastro, a mysterious, forgotten city never mentioned in any history books. Our backpacks are heavy with enough water to sustain us for the next seven-and-a-half hours as we dig through clay looking for artefacts and answers. “It’s like a really good story,” says Jason Marceniuk (’07 BA, Anthropology) who year after year has joined the University of Alberta’s archaeological field school. “I need to know how it ends.” In the early 1900s, a few archaeologists looked briefly at Kastro. The city then sat untouched for another 100 years until 2004 when classics professor Dr. Margriet Haagsma, through a partnership with the Greek government and the 15th Ephorate, began mapping Kastro and bringing summer students to the site about 300 kilometres north of Athens. Stones give way, and I nearly slip, reminding me that 3,000 years ago this difficult walk was an everyday climb for the shepherds who grazed their flocks on the mountainside and below on the wide, flat plains.
Margriet Haagsma Photo by: Myles Chykerda
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We climb for three-quarters of a kilometre, and then, as the sun rises to show Mount Olympus to the north, we stop briefly for morning coffee at the acropolis, the stone wall that once served as the city’s main defence.
Haagsma explains that the wall is likely from 400 BCE. Kastro also has a second wall, probably from the early third century BCE, when 100 years later crews quarried up large stones to create a new, bigger city at the site of an old fortress. The city flourished, then died. Why? Did the citizens just walk away or is there another ending to the story? The site is littered with clues: catapult bullets, a crossbow bolt, a scabbard and arrowheads. Just to the east of the city, a subdivision continued to flourish. Why did it survive after the main city lay abandoned? Haagsma speculates the original fortress formed to control a trade route. Around 700 BCE, shepherds settled down to raise crops and slowly formed cities to support the business of agriculture. They became very wealthy, as graves in the area show. Kastro was a gateway for merchants transporting grain from inland farms to the large coastal city of Halos. There ships could land, load grain and carry it to centres throughout the Mediterranean.
Field school students excavate Building 10 at Kastro Kallithea
We pass through the acropolis gate. The field in front of us is the old city centre. Stone blocks from 2,300 years ago show the outline of the marketplace, parliament and the temples where one could sacrifice to Thessalian goddess Enodia. In Book VII in his Politics, Aristotle describes the ideal city. It should be easy to defend and easy for soldiers and goods to come and go. Buildings should line up in straight rows like a vineyard. The city plan should include communal dining, a marketplace and areas to meet, play sports and do military exercises. And it is all here in Kastro. “If you take a ruler and measure the walls visible at the surface, you will see this is a very regular city,” says Haagsma. While history says nothing about Kastro, it does mention Halos, the city at the end of the trade route on the Aegean Sea. In 302 BCE, Demetrius the Besieger, a successor of Alexander the Great, arrived at the ancient port of Halos with a large fleet and 30,000 cavalry and foot soldiers. Demetrius took over the city and rebuilt it in a new spot, according to the principles of Aristotle. At the same time, he may have built Kastro, as another independent state or an extension of Halos. The new Halos lasted just 37 years. In 265 BCE, after an earthquake shook the foundation, the 9,000 residents appear to have packed their goods and moved. Soon after, the main city of Kastro also came to an end. “The question is: why didn’t people come back and build it all up again?” Haagsma asks. “Look at Haiti and Katrina. Natural disasters do not mean you automatically move.” Haagsma has helped to excavate Halos and has written about the ancient city. She speculates that the new location chosen by Demetrius may not have been able to sustain a growing urban population. Another possibility is that, for the grain merchants and traders of Halos and Kastro, Aristotle’s perfect city may simply have been bad city planning. We cross the old city centre and continue east. Here the work begins. While the Greek Ministry of Culture is excavating the marketplace, the University of Alberta is focusing on Building 10 in the eastern subdivision that continued after the main city was abandoned.
“The question is: why didn’t people come back and build it all up again?” - Margriet Haagsma
Six years ago when the University of Alberta began this school, Building 10 was covered in thorny oak, the housing blocks barely visible to an untrained eye. Each year, students dug deeper until the rooms, doors and hallways of what appears to be a house became visible. “We have no real Roman material here, which means it is pre-first century and was abandoned in the second century BCE,” explains Haagsma. No one built on top of the building, so there is nothing to clear away, just 2,000 years of hardpacked clay. Sharp trowels cut into the clay, stopping at anything that might be a find. The job is to dig down carefully, layer by layer. Everything is counted—roof tiles, door hinges, broken vases. Teaching assistant Myles Chykerda returns to Kastro year after year. For several years, most of his finds were loom weights used to weave cloth. Finally, he and a team of students chisel down to the original floor. With delicate brushes, they sweep away the remaining clay to see a large number of perfume bottles lying on water-resistant cement. They have uncovered a bathroom from the third century BCE.
follow the old trail down the hillside. I am at the end, walking with Laura Surtees (’04 MA, Classical Archaeology) who has volunteered to carry the grinding stone. It is as large as two cinder blocks, and she has stuffed it into a gym bag, one of her arms through each handle. It’s slow going, but she isn’t complaining. “I work all winter in the library,” says Surtees, who has been coming to the dig since 2004 and is now at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania working on a PhD on Kastro. “I put up with [it], because I know in the summer I can get my hands dirty and actually touch the past.” In the weeks that follow, there are more finds—the story is just beginning to unfold. A perfect city built and abandoned. Perfume bottles, high-end glassware, marble, bullets, arrowheads. Put it all together, and this has the thrill of a good mystery. ■ Terese Brasen studied creative writing and English at the University of Alberta. Since graduating in 1980, she has worked as a writer, editor and communicator in Edmonton and Toronto.
On the other side of the building, another team has found two large stones. Put them together, and it is a grinding stone for making flour. At 1 p.m. it is time to cover the site with tarps and return to the village. The water bottles are empty now, and instead we carry artefacts for cataloguing and storage. Once again, we walk single file, creating a line of colour as we cross Kastro and
Brian Leslie and Robert Metcalfe
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Student View
Hannah McFadden
Photography by Richard Siemens, U of A Marketing and Communications
Daniel Larson
Pauline de Grandpre
Anthropology Students on…
Shifting Perspectives of Place Q: How do you feel individuals change and adapt to their cultures as they move from place to place? A: Hannah: I think that it is less of a
Q: What elements push or pull individuals from place to place? A: Daniel: People go to where they
can live, be it economically [or] where there is a community, a sense of belonging… whatever factors constitute the environment of a place, [they are also] constituents of whether a person would want to stay or leave. A: Pauline: According [to an article I
read], the biggest pull factor for populations to move is familiarity. They found with modern immigrant populations, people are much more likely to move to an area with a population of their own cultural ethnic group or [that] has their own family there, as opposed to an area that is economically better… Push factors can be anything. There are very obvious ones like poverty, violence and warfare, but you have to look at those on an individual basis. 24
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change and more of a negotiation every time… Some people will change the way that they look instead of changing their outlook on life… You don’t have to link yourself to the culture that is tied to the place you are in; you can identify yourself as an individual within that larger society. When you think about other cultures, especially those outside of the western paradigm, they feel that any change to their culture or adaptation equates to a loss of their culture… but at the same time it is important to not always have those negative views of cultures, events and people that come into contact with each other. There are options to reinforce the original culture or to change and improve.
Q: How has globalization impacted people’s attachment to place? A: Pauline: As the world becomes bigger and bigger you begin to feel attached to that small place that you know very, very well. You see this a lot with people becoming more and more passionate about their own way of life, especially with western ideas moving into their countries. A: Hannah: Well, if you define global-
ization as the circulation of information, ideas and values transnationally then it is easy to see how people’s perceptions of place are in constant flux. For example, people can now talk in real time to people from halfway across the world, so based on technology… people nowadays don’t feel attached to any one single place necessarily… because boundaries are transcended more easily.
A: Daniel: It would be the condition of
the place that the person moves to and whatever cultural aspects you maintain from the previous place you were living at. If you have one culture and you come to a place and they have another culture, there will most definitely be a transaction in cultural ways, folklore, view of the world and why things happen.
Interviewer Tiffany Seymour is in her fourth year of completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Sociology. She is currently the event coordinator with the Collective Body for Arts Students (CBAS).
Photography by Richard Siemens, U of A Marketing and Communications
States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century
Edited by Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith (Political Science) and Sunera Thobani Between the Lines, 2010 Ideas of feminism and the persistence of race and the “colour line” into the 21st century is examined in this collection, written by members of the Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE). The three female editors strive to illustrate the many dimensions of Canadian feminist anti-racist theorizing. Indigenous women’s navigation of both nationalism and feminism, and western feminist responses to the “War on Terror” are explored, and the importance of studying racialized power in all its gender and class dimensions is strung throughout the essays. “With theoretical sophistication and analytical brilliance, this collection is essential reading that provides readers with critical tools to understand the relation between Canadian (and North American) racisms, neoliberalism, and the ‘War on Terror.’” — Inderpal Grewal, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Dreamwork
By Jonathan Locke Hart (English & Film Studies, Comparative Literature) AU Press, 2010 Hart’s collection of 98 poems traverses distant times and places, visits with the present, and carries forward into time. With beginnings in Princeton, New Jersey on May 16, 2002, the compilation progressed fol-
Faculty Bookshelf
lowing time spent in England, Connecticut and even his dwelling in Edmonton, Alberta. Hart pays homage to antiquity, the classical, the modern and the postmodern, with a deep rooting in landscape, reflective of the poems’ beginnings on trains across the northeastern United States. “Dreamwork embodies an intricate lyric form, a hybrid composition that vacillates between past and present, imagism and confessionalism. Scholars and readers alike will appreciate Hart’s allusionary depth and poetic honesty.” - Nat Hardy, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Savannah State University
Surveillance and Democracy
Edited by Kevin D. Haggerty (Sociology) and Minas Samatas Routledge, 2010 This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? How might new surveillance measures alter the conceptions of citizens and citizenship which are at the heart of democracy? Ultimately, this volume directly engages with some of the myriad ways that democratic issues arise in any consideration of surveillance. It reveals that while the relationship between surveillance and democracy may be unsettled, it also raises some of the most pressing political questions of our day.
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Research Highlights
Therapeutic Theatre It’s one of Canada’s least proud stories: a cycle of incarceration that has affected generations of Aboriginal Canadians. After watching too many girls who had visited their mothers in jail end up in the same institution, Cree inmate Yvonne Johnson issued a call for an intervention.
A Musta-Be: Maskihkiy Maskwa Iskwew — Cree for “Bear Medicine Woman” — was created by Old Earth Productions, an emerging Aboriginal theatre group, with Drama assistant professor Jane Heather, who also directed the company’s June production at the Timms Centre.
And earlier this year, an Aboriginal collective responded with an unconventional tool: community-based theatre.
Heather has worked with diverse groups — including inmates, labour unions and senior citizens — during her 30 years
of involvement in community-based theatre. “People who are not represented in mainstream theatre… are desperately hungry to see their own stories, their own issues, their own people represented on the stage,” she says. For this latest project, Heather and Old Earth wove together newspaper and book research, their own personal experiences with their mothers and stories members had collected from other women in their communities. The result was a wide-ranging exploration of Aboriginal women’s experiences as perpetrators and victims of abuse and violence.
Addicted to Oil “We see the future as always ‘plus one,’ always bigger, always more...”
“For us to go past oil we have to radically rethink the way we are,” declares Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies and Professor of English & Film Studies.
- Imre Szeman
Szeman cites a study of oil development, which reveals that over the past 150 years the rate of expansion of our global economy and population has matched the increase in the amount of energy per capita we use, much of which we get from oil. “In a deep and fundamental way, we simply wouldn’t have the kind of society, culture and civilization we have if we didn’t have oil,” he concludes. Szeman should know; he spent a decade as Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University before arriving in Alberta last year, and he and a colleague will soon release a book which will examine the end of theories of globalization. Now Szeman is looking at the cultural force of oil, and at the reasons why we can’t stop commuting and consuming, even when we know it harms the environment. So far, the reason seems to be that people are attached to oil not 26
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just as a consumer product, but as the foundation of life as we know it. For example, current suburb-heavy models of city planning rely on access to a stable, cheap, portable energy source — that is, oil — to get people where they need to go. Even Edmonton, a developed city with multiple environmental committees, predicts that most of its growth in the next 20 years will occur outside its existing city boundaries. “We see the future as always ‘plus one,’ always bigger, always more,” Szeman continues. “There are no other competing visions of what we might have except for a society of progress — even though I think it’s also very clear to almost everybody that this is not a sustainable way of thinking.” Szeman theorizes that environmental groups, for example, would be more successful if they moved away from the familiar set of ideas about protecting a pristine nature, and instead started to address the misfit between social knowledge and people’s capacity for change. Imagining that solution might be the first step in steering our society in a new direction.
“Many people came to the show and said ‘That’s my story!’” Heather recalls. “Theatre is very good for that. You get to sit in a room with other people — there’s no screen, there’s no mediation... that evokes things for people, they want to tell stories, they want to be part of the circle.”
Research Highlights “People who are not represented in mainstream theatre… are desperately hungry to see their own stories, their own issues, their own people represented on the stage.” - Jane Heather
Now the company is considering their next steps: touring, publication and offering the script to other Aboriginal theatre companies have all been discussed. Heather is also working on her own new play, Seasons, which will explore the effect of Alberta’s recent boom and bust on seniors and street youth.
The Secret of Teaching Languages Which is the most effective way to teach new vocabulary: in organized categories (ie. animals, food, furniture), or in a random mix? “When you think about it,” suggests Patrick Bolger, a researcher in the Department of Linguistics, “the way we learn vocabulary when we’re children is more random.” Because of this, several studies in the last decade have hinted that randomly presented vocabulary, far from being confusing, might actually be easier for second-language students to remember. To test this, Bolger and co-investigator Gabriela Zapata (Modern Languages & Cultural Studies) began by presenting two groups of participants with stories written in English with imaginary vocabulary terms (ie. “floop” named a picture of a dog). The first group read stories with only one category of new vocabulary each. The second group got vocabulary from a mix of categories in each story. Their results, surprisingly, showed only a slight advantage for the group that learned more randomly. Bolger and Zapata then conducted a second study using real Spanish vocabulary in Spanish 111 classes,
sponsored by the U of A’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. This time, their results showed no significant difference between random and organized presentation of new words.
“...creating engaging contexts might be the more important thing to focus on in teaching and textbook design.”
Bolger believes this may be because previous studies presented vocabulary in lists, while he and Zapata presented the words in stories, suggesting that creating engaging contexts might be the more important thing to focus on in teaching and textbook design. Zapata recently presented these results in a warmly-received keynote address at a conference for Alberta high school and elementary Spanish teachers. This winter, Zapata will also be releasing one of the first introductory Spanish textbooks written for a Canadian audience. The book will focus on examples that reflect actual university student experiences, as well as a variety of dialects and features on different Spanish-speaking immigrant communities in Canada.
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Creative submissions from readers
Photography Indy Randhawa (’07 BA, English; ’10 BEd Secondary, English) took these photos while on exchange at the University of Oslo in 2009-2010. Above: Folk Place: Norway Top Left: Unknown building Place: Czech Republic Bottom Left: River 9 Place: Czech Republic
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Poetry Patricia Wankiewicz (’73 BA Hons, Geography; ’79 MSc, Geography)
The Badlands This is an old land. This is a quiet land.
Listen to the whisper of slopes creeping down to the river and the shuffle of ancient bones in dry beds. Listen to the rustle of the cottonwoods along the banks and the wave-like sighs of prairie grasses.
Amber Razak (’02 BA, Art & Design) fell in love with Canada after coming to the U of A from Pakistan in 1999, and has been here ever since. Photography is one of her passions, and she captures everything she finds interesting. Top Right: The Ants Place: Fort McMurray, AB Bottom Right: By the Water Place: Fort McMurray, AB
Listen to the patter of rain on the caps of hoodoos and the trickling sounds of rills cutting the softer ground. Listen to the murmur of the river as it laps its shore and quietly carves down deep into the past. Listen to the coyote’s gleeful wail at dusk and the hawk’s harsh circling cry at noon. Listen to the squeak and scurry of small creatures and the echoes of ancient giants fading on the wind. This is an old land. This is a quiet land. This is the badlands. Dedicated to Dr. Ian Campbell, Professor Emeritus, U of A Dept. of Geography
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Colleen Couves (’70 BFA) is an artist based in Vernon, B.C. Her work has been exhibited in two solo shows, one at the Vernon Art Gallery, as well as many group and juried shows. She currently works out of her studio at the artist run Gallery Vertigo (www.galleryvertigo.com). Above: Murder of Crows Date: 2010 Medium: Block prints Dimensions: 12”x 12”
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Arts Salon Lylian Klimek (‘75 MVA, Sculpture) has had an active practice focused on installation and sculpture since graduating, and taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design until 2005. She has exhibited in public galleries and artist-run centres across Canada and has had recent shows in Shanghai, Amsterdam, Edmonton, Kelowna and Calgary. Rescue is the most recent in a series of mixed media installations focused on our relationship to nature and the land. It was inspired by research focused on natural environments as well as personal experience with a place located in a wilderness area near Calgary. Below Media: Tree roots, mirrors, cast mud and plaster, found materials Dimensions: Approximately 11 x 12 x 3 feet high Bottom Media: Tree root, net, poured paint Dimensions: Approximately 6 x 3 x 8 feet high Right Media: Painted hardboard panel, cast plaster and mud Dimensions: Panel is 2 x 7 feet
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Class Notes
’50s ’54 Robin Stuart (BA) writes to say: “Following my 1954 BA (Fine Arts pattern) I completed a BEd in 1956, and later on a Grad. Diploma in Education in 1966. I taught for the County of Minburn (1955-56) and the County of Ponoka (1956-1972), and was a school principal for Ponoka for eight years. From 1972 until retirement in 1990, I worked for the Alberta Teachers’ Association. During most of my post graduate years and up until just recently, I have also been a church organist and choir director. In 2005 I received an Arts and Culture Recognition Award from the City of Leduc for musical contributions to the community. For several years I served on a sub-committee of the RCCO (Royal Canadian College of Organists) that still promotes an annual series of Pipe Organ Concerts in the City of Edmonton (the “Sundays at 3 Series”). I have also been active with the University of Alberta Mixed Chorus Alumni Association. Together my wife, Glennie (née Johnson), also a graduate from the U of A (BEd 1956) and I raised four children all of whom attended and graduated from the U of A.”
latest CD, Cities and Girls (Moabit Musik, Berlin) was a best album nominee in the 2010 Qwartz International Electronic Music Awards in Paris, France and you can still hear the album on their site (qwartz.com). This fall, Myra was in Toronto to perform “The 50 Minute Ring”, her “Gesamtkunstwerk” on Wagner’s Ring Cycle, with Toronto musicians Christopher Willes, Gregory Oh and fellow Albertan, media artist Lee Henderson. The show, which took place at The Music Gallery in Toronto on Saturday, October 23, closed the X AVANT Festival of New Music. For more on Myra, visit www. myspace.com/myradavies.
’74 Ralph Watzke (BA; ’75 LLB) has relocated to Regina, SK, where he continues to do legal research and legal drafting and has become an expert in class action law.
’80s ’82 Brad Rudy (BFA, Drama) appeared in two productions at this summer’s Blyth Festival, in Huron County, ON. The Blyth Festival is one of Canada’s leading creators of original, professional theatre, and Brad appeared in Bordertown Café and The Book of Esther, which made its world premier at the festival. Brad has been an actor for 30 years, getting
’60s ’60 Lawrence Mysak (BA Cert; ’61 BSc) was honoured with the inaugural McGill University Medal for Exceptional Academic Achievement. The McGill Medal was created to recognize retired members of the academic staff who have made extraordinary contributions to their discipline, to McGill or to scholarship during their academic careers. Today, Dr. Mysak continues to be active as a member of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre. ’65 Adriana Davies (BA; ’67 MA, English) of Edmonton was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in recognition of her contributions to the promotion and preservation of Alberta’s cultural heritage.
’70 Bill Buholzer (BA) of Vancouver, B.C. has been elected to the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners, an organization that represents the 7,000 city planners across the country.
’67 Richard Davidson (BA; ’68 LLB) was named the 2010 Citizen of the Year by the Rotary Club of Lethbridge and the Lethbridge Herald for his volunteerism and leadership.
’70 Ian Greene (BA) was presented with the honour of University Professor at York University, where he has been a political science professor since 1985. This is the highest title that can be awarded to a university educator, and there can only ever be 25 university professors at one time at York University. He was nominated by his coworkers for his long-standing commitment to post-secondary education.
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his start in Edmonton at the Theatre Network and performing across Canada, from Ottawa to Victoria, B.C. He was a member of the Stratford Festival acting company for 22 seasons and is currently a sessional acting instructor at St. Clair College, Windsor and Fanshawe College, in London. ’83 Shirish Chotalia (BA; ’86 LLB; ’91 LLM), chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, received the Professional Female of the Year Award presented by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce on June 12.
Class Notes
’90s ’91 Marie Fontaine (BA, Women’s Studies and Spanish) writes to say: “Not sure how I ended up in Germany speaking the language of Goethe and Schiller instead of Almodóvar’s mother tongue... Followed my husband to Northern Europe and I have missed my hometown ever since and I do make my way back to Canada as often as I can. I’ve been living in Germany since 1993 and am now working at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrueck, Lower Saxony, teaching Business English in the faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences…I have a 15-year-old daughter and a master’s degree from the University of Osnabrueck where I majored in English Language and Literature (2001). I taught for many years as a freelancer and am now living on my own and working on some big projects. My father was a radio announcer for the CBC in Edmonton and oddly enough I realise at the age of 44 that this is what I have always wanted to do and now that I have a new lease on life as a single woman, I’m starting to take courses to make this dream come true… .” ’92 Sophia Wong (BA Hons, Philosophy; ’96 MA, Philosophy) recently won the prestigious 2010 David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching at Long Island University. Sophia is an associate professor of philosophy at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. ’93 Michael Hymers (PhD, Philosophy) is Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. His second book, Wittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy, was published by Broadview Press in January.
’93 Paul Matwychuk (MA, English & Film Studies; ’98 LLB) of Edmonton was appointed as general manager of NeWest Press. A familiar face on the Edmonton arts scene, Paul contributes weekly segments to “Edmonton AM” on CBC Radio and is the former editor of Vue Weekly and SEE Magazine. ’95 Trevor Anderson (BA Hons, Drama), an Edmonton-based filmmaker, recently received a 2010 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award. ’96 Stephen Williams (BMus) joined the Edmonton Arts Council this July as director of grants, awards and support programs. He took this position after working in various arts and grants-related roles with the Government of Alberta and the Canada Council for the Arts since 2005. After graduating from the U of A, Stephen had a busy freelancing career, including being the stage manager for the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and a conductor with the Festival City Winds community band program. He performed regularly as a trumpet player in the Edmonton region, with many appearances in the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra trumpet section, and taught brass students from beginner to college level, including at the U of A’s Augustana Campus. Stephen lives in Edmonton with his wife, Suzanne Vuch (‘98 BMus), their two children, and Purr. C. Grainger, the cat.
’03 Tom Barber (BA, English) recently became Manager, Government Grants and Contracts, in the Office of Research at the University of Waterloo. He gets to commute in with his wife Aimée Morrison (’04 PhD, English), an assistant professor in UW’s Department of English, and their four-year-old daughter, Aline, who attends the campus pre-school. ’03 Heather Ray Bax (BA, English) recently published a children’s fantasy novel entitled The Charm Tree: Book One of the Shansymoon Series (Trafford Publishing). ’03 Pam Chamberlain (MA, English & Film Studies; ’92 BA Augustana; ’96 BEd) recently published her first book, Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada (Nimbus Publishing, 2010). The anthology features memoirs from award-winning authors such as Sharon Butala, Roch Carrier, Wayne Johnston, and Rudy Wiebe, as well as well-known Canadians from other walks of life, including singer-songwriter George Fox, Calgary Flames coach Brent Sutter, actor Gordon Tootoosis, and Senator Pamela Wallin. Pam completed a creative writing thesis under the supervision of Kristjana Gunnars to earn her MA in English in 2003. After teaching English and creative writing at U of A’s Augustana campus for several years, she now lives in Calgary with her husband and two-yearold twin boys. She works part-time as a tutor for Athabasca University.
’97 Vanessa Aiello (BA, Japanese Studies) writes from Europe to say that she has moved on from her position with the International Olympic Committee to join the new marketing services agency Red Peak Group. “I will divide my time between London and Lausanne, and will be leading the client services group for the company. This is a very exciting new professional challenge and I look forward to helping build the agency and create great work.” The focus of Red Peak is on global brand strategies, as well as sports and entertainment marketing.
’00s ’02 Brianna Erban (BA Hons, English; ’06 MA, English) is heading to Washington, D.C. to intern at the Smithsonian Institute in the Cultural Resources Centre of the National Museum of the American Indians. A student in the University’s School of Library and Information Studies, Brianna will graduate from this program in November.
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Class Notes & In Memoriam ’05 Fancy C. Poitras (BA, Political Science) completed her Master of Public Policy degree at Simon Fraser University in April 2010. Her capstone project was a policy analysis of how to increase rates of organ donation in Canada. She moved to Ottawa in May 2010 to take a position as a policy analyst for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. She plans to pursue a PhD at a later date. ’05 Valerie Henitiuk (PhD, Comparative Literature) has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, to help support her sabbatical at Harvard University from Sept. 2010 through Aug. 2011. She is working on a Translation Studies/ World Literature book project and also co-editing two volumes (one on the work of WG Sebald and the other a collection of Oriya women’s short stories translated into English). Valerie was also recently promoted to Senior Lecturer in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (U.K.), where she has worked for the past three-and-a-half years and where she also serves as Acting Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. Send your Class Note (maximum 150 words) and photos to woa@ualberta.ca, or to the mailing address on the back cover. Notes may be edited for length or clarity.
Where are they now? Catching up with our retired professors Jo Ann Creore joined the Department of Romance Languages in 1966, where she spent the next 26 years teaching and researching in the area of Romance Linguistics. She served as chair of the department from 1975-1985, and retired in the early 1990s. Professor Creore sent us this note about life after the U of A: Retirement has been good to me. I spent precious years with my husband until his untimely death in 2006. Since then I have pursued adventure. There have been rafting trips on the Firth, Burnside, Nahanni and Tatshenshini rivers that strengthened my already deep love for the North. I spent time at Bathurst Inlet Lodge in the Arctic studying the history and culture of the people and learning the local flora. I have mushed dogs and winter camped along parts of the Yukon Quest trail, snowshoed, hiked and backpacked in the mountains of Alberta and B.C., visited the Galapagos islands and the Amazon basin and gone on safaris in Tanzania and Kenya. In December 2009 I reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, using the climb to raise funds for a society that trains service dogs. Not bad for an old gal of 73. Over the next 12 months I am committed to more backpacking and snowshoeing, a horse trek in Banff National Park and a month of horse trekking, camel riding and touring in Mongolia. When not travelling, I share my home with an Alaskan Malamute and a 16-year-old diabetic cat. 34
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In Memoriam The Faculty of Arts notes with sorrow the passing of the following friends: Arts Alumni
’35 BA, Chester Prevey of Mississauga, ON, in February 2010 ’39 BA, ’43 MD, Jack Goodman of Toronto, ON, in December 2009 ’40 BA, Nellie Godfrey (Salamandick) of Calgary, AB, in May 2010 ’40 BA, Elizabeth Hughes (Rosengren) of Toronto, ON, in January 2010 ’41 BA, Joan Greene (Wood) of Edmonton, AB, in February 2010 ’41 BA, ’50 MD, H. Gordon Smith of Calgary, AB, in May 2009 ’41 BA, Jean Pain of Calgary, AB, in May 2010 ’42 BA, ’43 LLB, Stanley Edwards of Toronto, ON, in May 2010 ’43 BA, ’44 LLB, Robert Black of Calgary, AB, in August 2010 ’44 BA, ’45 LLB, Donald Cormie of Scottsdale, AZ, in March 2010 ’45 BA, ’47 BEd, ‘48 Med, Francis O’Hara of Edmonton, AB, in May 2010 ’49 BA, ’52 LLB, Lawrence MacLean of Lethbridge, AB, in April 2010 ’49 BA, ’50 BSc, H. Clarence Rhodes of Edmonton, AB, in April 2010 ’50 BA, ’53 BDiv, W. Edgar Mullen of Calgary, AB, in July 2010 ’50 BA, ’51 LLB, Walter Barron of Calgary, AB, in June 2010 ’53 BA, ’74 Bed, Margaret Zuhling (Galbraith) of Bon Accord, AB, in March 2010 ’54 BA, Kathleen Soltice of Calgary, AB, in July 2010 ’54 BA, Betty Callow of Calgary, AB, in May 2010 ’55 BA (Hon), A. Edward Milton of Calgary, AB, in July 2010 ’56 BA, ’59 LLB, Oskar Kruger of Edmonton, AB, in July 2010 ’56 BA, ’60 LLB, William Pidruchney of Edmonton, AB, in June 2010 ’56 BA, ’61 MD, Andrew Stewart of Edmonton, AB, in April 2010 ’58 BA, ’66 Ed (Dip), James Kelly of Calgary, AB, in September 2010 ’58 BA, ’59 LLB, Robert Vickerson of Wetaskiwin, AB, in March 2010 ’58 MA, ’52 BA (Hon), George Quirin of Calgary, AB, in March 2010 ’61 BA, Beverley Miller (Barnhouse) of Toronto, ON, in February 2010 ’63 BA, Margaret Brown of Edmonton, AB, in May 2010 ’65 BA, Philip Mullen of Bonnyville, AB, in January 2009 ’66 BA, ’69 LLB, Al Maydonik of Edmonton, AB, in May 2010 ’68 BA, B. Craig Magill of Edmonton, AB, in December 2009 ’70 MA, ’68 BA, Phillip Shragge of Edmonton, AB, in July 2010 ’70 BA, ’75 BCom, Caroline Doyle (Gillis) of Ottawa, ON, in March 2010 ’70 BA, ’71 Ed (Dip), Richard Cender of Edmonton, AB, in April 2010 ’72 BA, ’62 BEd, Robert Margot of Sherwood Park, AB, in August 2010 ’72 BA, Beverley Cook of Coquitlam, BC, in June 2010 ’72 BA, Stuart Harris of White Rock, BC, in May 2010 ’72 BA, James McIntyre of Seba Beach, AB, in March 2010 ’73 BFA, Jacques Paulin of Bangkok, Thailand, in March 2010 ’73 BA, ’74 LLB, Kenneth Galloway of Edmonton, AB, in March 2010 ’73 BA, ’79 LLB, Gary Bigg of Calgary, AB, in July 2010 ’74 BA, Elliott Dlin of Dallas, TX, in March 2010 ’75 BA, ’76 Ed (Dip), ‘89 BEd, ‘02 BSc, Elizabeth Hodkinson of Edmonton, AB, in February 2010 ’75 BA, Norman Burgess of Edmonton, AB, in February 2010 ’75 BA, James Daniels of Edmonton, AB, in April 2010 ’77 BA, John Kovats of Winnipeg, MB, in March 2010 ’78 BA, Lori Hall (Sadoway) of Edmonton, AB, in October 2009 ’78 BA, Dorothy Evoy of Wetaskiwin, AB, in March 2010 ’79 BA, Martin Shostak of Edmonton, AB, in August 2010 ’81 BA, Wenzel Hanik of Linburn, GA, in April 2010 ’82 BA, Violet Fraser of Edmonton, AB, in April 2010 ’82 BA, Ralph Niederlag of Wetaskiwin, AB, in April 2010 ’84 BFA, Kettle Ross of Edmonton, AB, in February 2010 ’87 BA, Avril Glen of Edmonton, AB, in August 2010 ’92 BA, ’95 Ed (Dip), Hazel Tokarsky of Edmonton, AB, in July 2010 ’93 BA, Sheri Popowich of Edmonton, AB, in July 2010 ’94 BA, Moneca Babiy (Tylor) of Edmonton, AB, in August 2010 ’96 BA, Everett Horlacher of Edmonton, AB, in February 2010
Current & Former Faculty and Staff
Alan Bryan, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, in May 2010 Anita Holden-Verburg, Professor Emeritus, Romance Languages, in October 2009 David Jackel, Professor Emeritus, English & Film Studies, in July 2010 Tom Rolston, former Professor in Music, in May 2010 Sharon Rosenberg, Professor in Sociology, in July 2010 Did we miss someone? Please let us know by e-mailing woa@ualberta.ca or calling 780.492.6580
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Illustration by Edward Kwong
Since the first Rutherford Library opened in 1951, it has been frequented by generations of hard-working Arts students. Imagine their dismay when, on December 1, 1961, the headline of the campus newspaper The Gateway delivered this news about their favourite study space:
“Library smoking room will to books.”
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Chief Librarian Bruce Peel was apologetic. “I strongly believe that students should have a place for relaxation and smoking in a library,” he told a reporter, “but this is a necessary and temporary measure. The only other alternative is to stop ordering books.”
Peel felt the premature over-crowding was a result of the University’s change in focus from an undergraduate institution to one that included graduate studies and research. After several temporary fixes, the pressure of Rutherford’s expanding book collection was finally relieved when Rutherford North opened in 1973.
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Participants in Eurekamp!, an annual summer camp run by Philosophy for Children Alberta, play whistles they crafted out of plastic straws. The activity was designed to make them think about sound in new ways – when is a sound just noise and when is it music?
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