Prentice Post Spring 2018

Spring 2018 Volume 9 Issue 1

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Director’s Note number (6) of noontime Brown Bag lectures, all very well attended by faculty, students, and people from the community. Each Brown Bag lecture brings in new people who join our email list serve. All talks are videotaped and available on our website. Both the talks and the videos contribute to our outreach.

The Institute is currently undergoing a routine Quality Assurance Review. We feel confident in all we at the Prentice Institute have developed and the many successes we have seen, noticed across the world and helping to place U of L , have not been without struggles, which the review will also note.

In March 2018, as you will read in this Prentice Post, we welcomed two new post doctoral fellows, and Dr. Xiaohui , but very fine individuals. I hosted a social welcoming event at my home for them.

Director’s Note

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New Editor

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New Post Doc Fellows

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Brown Bags Spring Term

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New Research Affiliate, Julie Young

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Affiliates in the News

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Reg Bibby Receives honorary degree & offers advice to graduates

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In Memoriam

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Mission Statement

Summer for us in the Prentice Institute does not mean time off but ongoing work which we enjoy doing. This work consistently advances the mission of the Prentice Institute, which appears in every Prentice Post.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy summer.

McDaniel Elected President Congratulations to Susan McDaniel on being elected President of the Family Research Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA). The gavel was passed at the Changing Demography-Changing Families conference in May in Singapore. Susan will serve as President for 2018-2022.

New Editor Our usual Prentice Post editor, Nancy Metz, is on leave through 2018. Jeffrey for the Institute until December. Jeff completed his MA in 2016 under the supervision of Susan McDaniel. His research explored participatory media in resettlement adjustment.

Through information sharing he hopes to foster collaborations among Prentice Affiliates. He also seeks to provide information relevant to the research community, while making access to knowledge generated by Affiliates even more accessible. He also serves several intercultural community initiatives, while considering prospects of a doctoral program or other career options.

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The Prentice Institute excels at researching the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and economic issues, and communicating its findings widely.

The Prentice Institute and its research collaborators seek to understand longterm changes in the human and economic environments, within a historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in influencing those outcomes.

We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demography and their impacts on economic wellbeing through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability.

We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate further research and to enable individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future researchers.

Prentice Post is the Bi-Annual newsletter of the Prentice Institute For Global Population

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New Post Doctoral Fellows at Prentice Institute

Xiaohui Hu joined the Pren-

Kamrul Islam joined

the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy in March 2018 as a two-year post-doctoral Fellow. Kamrul is working on examining healthy aging dynamics among Canadians in general and among immigrants and their second generation descendants in particular. Kamrul was an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Sciences at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh before coming to the Prentice Institute. He obtained Master’s and PhD in Sociology from the University of Alberta with a specialization in Demography. His research interests include fertility and reproductive health, mortality and population health, migration, and population ageing

tice Institute in March 2018 as a Post-doc Fellow. Xiaohui's research interest are in economic geography, industrial dynamics, regional development policy, with a particular focus on how multi-scalar agency and institutions evolve, interact, and jointly shape regional and urban economies over time. Recently, his research examines the logic and effectiveness of China's new nation-wide policy of urbanization and industrialization under the Xi administration since 2014, namely, the Specialty Town Strategy (tese xiaozhen in Chinese). He received a PhD in Economic Geography from Kiel University, Germany, and MA in Human Geography from Fujian Normal University, China.

Recent Books by Prentice Institute Affiliates

Edited by Nico Stehr and Volker Meja

Nico Stehr; Pioneer in the Theory of Society and Knowledge Author: Marian T. Adolf

Edited by Frank Trovato

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6th Edition.

Susan A. McDaniel Lorne Tepperman Sandra Colavecchia

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Prentice Institute Brown Bag Lectures (Spring) The Prentice Institute hosted six Brown Bag Lectures Women In Science: After 50 yrs is the over the spring semester, which is a new record for our Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Brown Bags.

Jennifer Mather

Psychology, Uof L Research talks addressed issues impacting indigenous communities, persons in care facilities, in-bound refugees, and women in science. In addition Dr. John Usher reported on food hub feasibility research funded by Lethbridge Regional Food Hub: the Prentice Institute Seed Grant program. Overall, Report on the feasibility study attendance was near seating capacity for the Prentice John Usher Board Room.

Management, U of L Prentice Institute Research Affiliate

Those talks appropriate for web distribution are available on the Prentice web site. If viewing the Prentice Post on-line, simply click the corresponding image at right. To be added to our email list for reminders of Sexual Expression in Residential upcoming Prentice speaking events, send an email to Care: prentice@uleth.ca Julia Brassolotto Health Sciences, U of L Prentice Institute Research Affiliate

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Practical Reconciliation in AlbertaIndigenous Relations

Yale Belanger Political Science, U of L Prentice Institute Research Affiliate

79 total speaking events hosted by Prentice Institute since 2009.

35 out-of-area-visitors have presented at Prentice Institute .

40 talks are available on-line.

6,177 views of Prentice Institute talks 748 hours of on-line viewing have occurred since 2013

Water Governance In Canada in Rural and Indigenous Communities

Maura Hanrahan Indigenous Studies, U of L Prentice Institute Research Affiliate

Cultural Safety and Health Equity: Newly Arrived Refugees attending the multidisciplinary Refugee Health Clinics

Sharon Yanicki Health Sciences, U of L, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate

& Vivien Suttorp M.D. Chief Medical Officer, AHS

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New Prentice Institute Affiliates We welcome Julie E.E. Young who became a Prentice Institute Research Affiliate in February of this year.

She is also Tier II Research Chair in Critical Border Studies (2018-2023) at the University of Lethbridge.

She holds a doctorate in Geography and a Graduate Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies from York University. Her current work examines the local and regional impacts of Canadian border control policies and practices. Much of her research to date has focused on how migrants and advocates in communities around the Canada-US and Mexico-Guatemala borders interact with and challenge those borders.

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Accolades Dr. Reginald Bibby received an Honorary Doctorate, University of Lethbridge, May 31, 2018. A member of the Department of Sociology at the U of L for more than forty years, Dr. Bibby is known for his work on social trends, religion and culture in Canada. He holds the board of Governors Research Chair, is an officer of the Order of Canada, and is a Prentice Institute Research Affiliate. (His convocation remarks are excerpted on the back page)

Congratulations are in order for Abdie Kazemipur, wh o r eceived t h e 2018 Metropolis Award of Excellence in Calgary on March 23 from the Canadian National Metropolis Secretariat.

Dr. Kazemipur is a Professor of Sociology, Chair of Ethnic Studies at University of Calgary, and a Prentice Institute Research Affiliate.

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New Appointments and Awards Prentice Affiliate Tom Noseworthy was appointed President and CEO of British Columbia Academic Health Science Network effective June 1.

Congratulations to former Prentice Post-Doc Andrew Patterson, who has accepted a tenur e-track Assistant Professor position at MacEwan University, Ed-

monton. We wish him well in this new position which will starts July 2018.

Congratulations to Ye (Oscar ) Liu, Former Prentice Post-Doc who is now Full Professor , School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University.

Affiliates In the News

Heidi MacDonald and Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor Arthur J. LeBlanc.

A page from the petition that led to women’s suffrage (source: Nova Scotia Archives)

Her associated Op-Ed in the Halifax Chronicle explains how Nova Scotia, while being the first province in Canada to grant franchise to women, missed the opportunity to be the first in the world. Her book, W e Shall Persist: W omen and the V ote in the Atlantic Provinces, will be released in 2019.

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Prentice Research Affiliate Reg Bibby Receives Degree & Offers Advice Dr. Reginald Bibby, received an honorary Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the University of Lethbridge. May 31. Several of his Prentice Institute colleagues were in attendance and were able to congratulate him afterwards.

“Reginald Bibby has made substantial contributions to social research and public debate in Canada,” the citation began.

It mentions that he received the Speaker Research Award in 1998, and has held the Board of Governors Research Chair in Sociology since 2001. In 2006 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the nation, the Governor General appointed him an Officer of the Order of Canada. He also received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012.

In his speech to the graduands, Dr. Bibby offered his reflections and advice. He pointed out several career goals that he’d had in his early years before focusing on academia and suggested, “Contrary to rumor the future is not very predictable, but that does not mean that the unexpected roads we travel and the unexpected places we reach are not intriguing and life-

giving...A good education is indispensable to success...but along the way we...may be

cess. enjoyable careers, and altruism. He mentioned the need to address social issues. But Bibby chose to emphasize the importance of relationships with family and friends, suggesting that “implicit in the call to Eat Drink and Be Merry is the assumption that we will not Eat Drink and be Merry by ourselves.” Death is a reminder that we should “get on with the business of enjoying the company of family and friends while family and friends are still around.”

“Lives go by so fast!

“Bibby says. “We should “I didn’t teach, and do research and write to win embrace life, embrace famawards. I did those things and continue to do ily and friends and do it those things because they are things that I love now while we can.” to do.”

(Reginald Bibby) asking ourselves what else will be needed to bring us lasting joy and happiness.”

Much of his research on Canadians shows we want to be happy. Among the contributors to happiness he mentions health, suc-

The archive of the convocation is available on the U of L Livestream.

In Memoriam Dr. Anatole Romaniuc, pr olific demogr apher , passed away March 5, 2018 at the age of 94. Dr. Romaniuc was the founding director of the Demography Division at Statistics Canada, and made many ground breaking contributions to Canadian, African, and Indigenous demography.

He contributed to demographic methodologies in areas of forecasting fertility and mortality, as well as numerous theoretical considerations. Born in what is now Ukraine, Romaniuc fled occupying forces and was caught by Russian and Germain forces. Following the war he attended University of Erlangen, in Germany. He received a masters from University of Louvain, worked as a research associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton. After obtaining a PhD from Louvain in 1967 he began a 25 year career with what became Statistics Canada before becoming an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, not retiring until 2014. (Condensed from In Memoriam Dr. A natole Romaniuc, https:// iussp.org, accessed 14/3/18)

Dr. Kavous Sayed-Emami, Iranian-Canadian sociologist, Professor of Sociology at Imam Sadeq University, Tehran, passed away in Evan Prison, Tehran, on February 8, 2018, at the age of 64. Dr. Sayed-Emami obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Oregon. Dr. SeyedEmami, had recently been a visiting scholar at the University of Lethbridge, where he gave a Prentice Institute Brown Bag talk on October 6, 2017. Childhood rural expeditions are credited as having developed in him an interest in Iran’s ethic villages and wildlife. In addition to teaching and research in Sociology, he was the Founding Director of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. Dr. SayedEmami and seven other members of the wildlife foundation were arrested by Iranian security forces on January 24, 2018. He died 16 days later. There have been international appeals to allow his widow, Maryam Mombeini, a Canadian dual national, to be allowed to return to Canada These appeals have so far been unsuccessful. (Sources: Department News, University of Oregon, http://sociology.uoregon.edu and Joint Public Statement # MDE 13/8049/2018, Amnesty.org accessed 6