scholarly journals Review of "Labouring Feminisms and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond," 29 September-2 October 2005, Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda L. Hinther
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Working Class ◽  
International Studies ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Into the Dustbin of History? The Evaluation and Preservation of Slavic Materials

1999 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-151
Author(s):  
Bradley L. Schaffner ◽  
Brian J. Baird
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
International Studies ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Preservation Planning ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
Rapid Deterioration ◽  
The University

One of the greatest challenges facing area studies librarians today is preservation of collections. Area studies collections in libraries, the backbone of international studies programs for most colleges and universities in North America, are in danger. Most materials in these collections were published on acidic paper and poorly bound leaving them susceptible to rapid deterioration. Slavic collections, for example, appear to be in dire need of preservation treatment, but there is very little hard data on the scope of the problem. This research project, conducted at the University of Kansas Libraries, is the first step toward gaining a better understanding of the overall condition of Slavic collections. A survey of the Slavic holdings was conducted to provide statistical information on their physical condition. Results of the survey reveal that the condition of these collections should be cause for serious concern. However, the problems are not so great that they cannot be overcome through careful preservation planning and interlibrary cooperation.

Defining Whiteness: Race, Class, and Gender Perspectives in North American History

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 203-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Carstairs
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Gender Perspectives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

African-American writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Ida B. Wells have regarded “whiteness” as a problem for a long time. However, it is only fairly recently that white historians have taken seriously the importance of de-naturalizing “whiteness,” and critically examining its privileges. “Defining Whiteness: Race, Class, and Gender Perspectives in North American History,” was sponsored by the University of Toronto and York History Departments, the Centre for the Study of the United States, and the Centre for Ethnic and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto, with the cooperation of International Labor and Working-Class History and the Canadian Committee on Labour History and its journal Labour/Le Travail. Conference organizers invited several leading American scholars of “whiteness” to Toronto, where they, along with a number of Canadian scholars, presented papers on the ways that whiteness has been constructed in North America. The conference contained much to interest labor historians and those interested in class/race/gender analytical frameworks.

“Is It Labor or Is It Working Class?”: The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium

2005 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 174-176
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Cantwell ◽  
Jeffrey Helgeson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Institutional Affiliation ◽  
Open Forum ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
Informal Setting ◽  
The University

On 17–18 April 2004, the Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium (MLWCH) met at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formed in 1994, MLWCH is a consortium of graduate students and faculty connected to the Midwest either through research interest or institutional affiliation. MLWCH exists to foster scholarly exchange amongst the field's future and current practitioners, provide an informal setting for students to present and receive feedback on their research, and nurture the collegial relationships that are essential to the study of history. This year's colloquium brought together eighteen graduate students and featured three events: an open forum on the question “Is it Labor or Working-Class History?” two roundtable discussions on participants' research, and a faculty-led roundtable on professional development.

Localism, Landscape, and Hybrid Identities in Imperial Germany

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Todd
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
German History ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Academic Exchange ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
The University ◽  
Germanic Languages

To discuss the connections between place, nature, and identity, and the dilemmas of modern German history that derive from them, James Retallack (University of Toronto) and David Blackbourn (Harvard University) brought together sixteen historians from Canada and the United States for a three-day conference at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto from May 12 to 14, 2005. The meeting was generously sponsored by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD)/University of Toronto Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, the Departments of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Jewish Studies Program.

A multi-vectored scholar for a multi-vectored era: Paul Robert Magocsi

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taras Kuzio
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University

Magocsi has held the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto for three decades during which he has devoted himself to both Ukrainian and Rusyn history. Critics of Magocsi, particularly in the Ukrainian diaspora in North America, focus on his Rusyn publications while ignoring his great contribution to Ukrainian history which remains unparalleled among other Western historians of Ukraine and other Chairs of Ukrainian History and academic institutions.

scholarly journals E. P. THOMPSON IN AFRICAN HISTORY

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social History ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
African History ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
The University

E. P. Thompson's influence on the writing of African history, especially in its Kenyan and South African concentrations, has long seemed so obvious that it has attracted little scholarly comment. In this JAH Forum we host four historians who have been associated with very different elements of this anglophone tradition of historical writing. Peter Delius challenges the widely held view that the Making of the English Working Class (1963) was key to the emergence of rural social history at the University of the Witwatersrand, and that he was a champion of Thompsonian methods and arguments; John Higginson draws on the intellectual debates of working class history in the United States to restate its ongoing significance for southern African history; Luise White returns to Whigs and Hunters (1975) to ask why it is that Africanists have not taken up the intriguing relationships between the hunting and preservation of wild animals and the evolution of private property rights in land; and Derek Peterson draws on Thompson's last book, Witness Against the Beast (1993), to draw attention to the ways in which historians have ignored the political theologies of African nonconformism. These articles were selected from a workshop hosted by the University of Michigan in November 2015, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which brought many of the assumptions and absences of African social history into productive focus; they map out a broad historiographical field and we anticipate that they will be followed by other works picking up on the problems and arguments of cultural and economic transformation that obsessed Thompson and many others.

Introductory Remarks

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
G.T. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
North America ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Good Story ◽  
Symbolic Summation ◽  
The University

Forty years ago in the University of Toronto, a group of young physicists constructed the first electron microscope in North America. With Toronto as the host for the 9th International Congress on Electron Microscopy in 1978, it is an unique opportunity to commemorate this Canadian achievement. In the summer of 1977, Cecil Hall, who was involved in this achievement, wrote in a letter about this commemoration: “It is only a ceremony, of course, a symbolic summation to a story that many of us know. It is a good story”. That it is more than a “good story” became clear while material was being gathered to write the historical account of the construction of the Toronto microscope.

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