european history

graduate 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 present at congress of humanities and social sciences

congratulations to ma 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 yawei zhang, peter delorenzi, and michael mcneil who presented papers in june at the annual meeting of the hungarian studies association of canada, which was part of the congress of humanities and social sciences held at the university of british columbia.

yawei (alex) zhang's paper looked at “the house of terror museum and the politics of memory in post-communist hungary.” peter delorenzi discussed “empire and the jewish experience in early twentieth-century hungary.” michael mcneil presented a paper on “franz nopcsa and the future of empire: the balkans and beyond.”

this was the first academic conference for all three, and they represented themselves and the department very well.

new book recognizing canada and finland’s relationship

dr. michel s. beaulieu, chair of the department of history and president of the alumni association of 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , is a contributing editor to a new book recognizing canada 150, suomi 100, and 70 years of diplomatic relations between canada and finland.canada-finland cover  

published by the finnish-canada society in helsinki and canada’s embassy in finland, canada-finland, celebrating 2017: a brave, hospitable and altogether admirable people celebrates those who have shown leadership, ingenuity, and perseverance in bringing the two countries closer through scientific cooperation, educational exchange, political and economic engagement, and through cultural and sporting achievements.  

contributors to the collection include many current and past lakehead faculty members and alumni now living around the world. the publication was also supported by 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 ’s chair in finnish studies advisory committee. internationally renowned historian and companion of the order of canada, dr. margaret macmillan, provided the forward.  

the book continues to form part of canada’s recognition of the relationship between canada and finland and has been distributed widely by canada’s embassy to finland, including a formal presentation to his excellency, sauli väinämö niinistö, president of the republic of finland last february.

 

new publication explores post-world war i austrian burgenland

assistant professor steven jobbitt’s latest publication explores the role that geographical knowledge production played in the post-world war i “discovery” of austrian burgenland. co-written with ferenc jankó of the university of west-hungary, sopron, "making burgenland from western hungary: geography and the politics of identity in interwar austria" appears in the current issue of hungarian cultural studies.

abstract: this study explores the role that geographical knowledge production played in the post-world war i “discovery” of austrian burgenland, focusing in particular on the relationship between geographical discourse and the politics of identity formation in the 1920s and 1930s. the primary task is to offer insight into this knowledge-making process by highlighting the discursive strategies employed in a variety of scholarly and popular texts, and by shedding critical light on the various actors and epistemic communities responsible for the imagining of burgenland from its annexation to austria in 1921 to the dissolution of the region and its subsequent re-invention as a greater german border zone after the nazi anschluss of 1938. as jankó and jobbitt argue, burgenland’s discovery between the wars was both figurative and literal. whether the “discoverers” were austrian or german, national or local, burgenland was as much a discursive concept as it was a physical reality. its emergent identity as a region, therefore, much like its actual borders, was fluid and often contested.

reference: ferenc jankó and steven jobbitt. "making burgenland from western hungary: geography and the politics of identity in interwar austria." hungarian cultural studies 10 (2017): 14-40. doi: 10.5195/ahea.2017.313

new publication on the spanish civil war

the department of history is pleased to announce dr. nicolas lépin’s latest publication on the spanish civil war. “el belga: het miltair hospitaal van het internationaal solidariteitsfonds dat cover of brood and rozenniemand kende - spanje, 1937-1939" (el belga : the military hospital of the international solidarity fund that no one knew - spain, 1937-1939) is the feature article in the latest edition of brood & rozen: tijdshrift voor de geschiedenis van sociale bewegingen, (bread and roses: magazine for the history of social movements), a publication of the at the university of gent. the article focuses on a belgian military hospital in spain during the civil war. dr. lépin’s work on the interactional brigades has received considerable acclaim and he is sharing his knowledge with lakehead 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 this year with his courses on european history.

new publication examines the question of academic relevancy in communist hungary

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steven jobbitt's latest publication examines the question of academic relevancy in communist hungary between 1948 to 1962. "scholarly production in desperate times: ferenc fodor and the question of academic relevancy in communist hungary, 1948-1962" appears in földrajz- és földtudomány az eötvös collegiumban (geography and earth sciences at the eötvös collegium) edited by róbert győri and published by eötvös collegium.

latest issue of histoire sociale/social history features article by alumna

a new article by alumna samira saramo (ma 2007) appears in the last issue of histoire sociale / social history. "the letters, memories, and 'truths' of finnish north americans in soviet karelia" examines the letters of seven finnish north american immigrants in soviet karelia written between 1931 and 1942, and those of two correspondents writing retrospectively about their experiences between 1972 and 1997 introduce readers to unique voices from inside stalin's russia.

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