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the Mystery of kastroUnearthing clues to an ancient past

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ForWArd thinkingFort Chipewyan councillor negotiates the future

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Cover photograph: Lorraine hoffman, image by epic photography Inc. (John Ulan)

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sounding Board 5readers tell us what they think

Coffee Break 6ten minutes with Bryan hogeveen (Criminology)

Panorama 8News and updates from the Faculty of arts

As i see it . . . 19Alumnus opinion columnenough cheating: Can the performing arts make us honest?by Maria Thompson Corley

Ask the Expert 20W. andy Knight (political Science) answers readers’ questions about the United Nations

student View 24anthropology students on our sense of place

Faculty Bookshelf 25Faculty members’ publications

research highlights 26Discoveries and innovations

Class notes 32Updates from alumni

Where are they now? 34Catching up with a retired professor

in Memoriam 34Bidding farewell to friends

Flashback 35Up in smokeForward thinking 15

Councillor Lorraine hoffman negotiates a new path for her band, the athabasca Chipewyan First Nationby Benjamin Freeland

the Mystery of kastro 22Classics professor Margriet haagsma unearths the 2,300 year-old secrets of an abandoned greek cityby Terese Brasen

Arts salon 28Featuring creative works by readers

Features

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Behind Closed DoorsAlumnae sherilyn trompetter and Andrea burkhart are leading a fight against human trafficking in Alberta

We Have Begun our Descent2009 mactaggart Writing Award Winner

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When we re-launched WOA in the spring of 2009, a note on the cover of that inaugural issue announced that this was “your new alumni magazine.”

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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 re-emergence 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?

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: 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

arts disciplines attend my classes.they all possess knowledges that benefit not only me, but, more importantly, the other students.

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.

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snapshots Out and around the Faculty of Arts

Panorama is a look at events, news and achievements in the Faculty of Arts

3. Check out our new digs

4. One for the archives

5. A night at the movies

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1. Form and function

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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.

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.

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)

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.

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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7. Date Night

10. New life for an ancient city

8. Boom and Bust Again

9. Embracing the Maple Leaf

6. Language leaders

11. Celebrating culture

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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 BrownFront: Reni Lima Ferreira, Amanda Bambrick

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“My time away has given me a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding of what makes this institution so special."

- DeaN LeSLey CorMaCK

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

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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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

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

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

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brown bag lunch: gregory scofield noon; student lounge, Arts building

3 Department of Philosophy octavian ion, University of Alberta 3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A

12 Wirth Institute Annual christmas concert – 10 year anniversary! Silent Night 3 p.m.; convocation Hall, Arts building

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19 Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre De Littérature Canadienne

brown bag lunch: David chariandy noon; student lounge, Arts building

20 Department of Philosophy Allen Hazen, University of Alberta

3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A

20 Department of Art & Design/ East Asian Studies Jennifer Purtle, University of toronto

5:00 p.m.; fine Arts building 2-20

27 Department of Philosophy Paul boaheng, fayetteville state University

3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A

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4 Department of Philosophy margaret schabas, University of british columbia Hume and economic well-being 3:30 p.m.; Assiniboia Hall 2-02A

10 Department of Political Science cecil foster, University of guelph

3:30 p.m.; Humanities centre l-3

14 Department of Art & Design Dawn Ades, University of essex

5:00 p.m.; fine Arts building 2-20

16 Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre De Littérature Canadienne brown bag lunch: Anna marie sewell

noon; student lounge, Arts building

Upcoming Events

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.

Keep up to date with our event listing at www.arts.ualberta.ca (click on “events”)

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

Feb 10‑19 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)

Fine Arts Building Gallery Exhibitions Please visit their new website at www.ualberta.ca/artdesign to view upcoming exhibits

Department of Music Performanceswww.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 Opera Scenes26‑27 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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Faculty Members

the Alberta centre for child, family & community research awarded Jeff Bisanz (Psychology) the inaugural Westbury legacy Award, which rec-ognizes 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 Stimu-lus in OECD Countries. the prize is awarded annually to the authors of a highly significant, written contribu-tion to canadian economic policy. the award was established in 1994 in honour and memory of noted cana-dian economist Doug Purvis.

W. Andy Knight (Political science) was the recipient of the 2010 Harry Jerome trailblazer Award from the black business & Professional As-sociation 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.

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 Hum-boldt research Award from the Alex-ander 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.

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.

Linda Trimble (Political science) re-ceived 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 Under-graduate teaching (sAlUte), which promotes excellence in teaching based on student nominations and adjudication.

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Elizabeth French (linguistics) received the 2010 support staff re-search enhancement Award, which is awarded jointly by nAsA (non-Academic staff Association) and the office of the vice-President to recog-nize contributions to the University's culture of research excellence.

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Bev Dahlby (left) with Doug purvis’s son, Jaime.

above: David Quinter

Achievementsthe faculty of Arts would like to congratulate the following faculty, staff and students for their outstanding achievements:

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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 profes-sor tailor her future research, and focus on the emer-gence 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 po-litical 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 Univer-sity 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 inde-pendent jury of researchers and intellectuals.

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students

Sevan Beurki Beukian (Po-litical science) and Kathleen Danser (music) both earned margaret brine graduate scholarships in Arts from the canadian federation of Univer-sity Women. the scholarships are awarded to women gradu-ate students who have demon-strated academic excellence and commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the improve-ment 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 Domin-ion institute. A creative writing contest for young Aboriginal canadians (ages 14-18 and 19-29), participants are encour-aged to showcase their talent and creativity.

Erin Greenough (Undergradu-ate student, Art & Design) with Andrea babic (nAit) were named winners of the Advertis-ing club of edmonton’s 2010 student Award – visual excel-lence for Photography or illus-tration for “lost and found,” a project for the youth emergency shelter society.

Mariya Karpenko (Under-graduate student, Art & Design) was recognized with an Applied Arts magazine scholarship from the society of graphic Design-ers of canada. the scholarship, which was awarded for mariya’s design of luxury soap packag-ing, recognizes emerging ex-cellence 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 stu-dents who received the 2010 vanier canada graduate schol-arship. vanier scholars receive $50,000 annually for up to three years, and are chosen as a result of their demonstrated leadership skills and high stan-dard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies within social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and engineering and health research.

above: Ben giroux photo by: David Bannatyne

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Milestonesspecial anniversaries and new beginnings

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 sig-nificant issues we face, including political oppression, multi-culturalism, 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 Pro-fessor 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.”

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.

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 commu-nity 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.

CSL-ebration!

Panorama

woa | fAll ’1014 CSL Director Sara Dorow at the 5th anniversary celebration in September

Dean of arts Lesley Cormack (left) and KIaS Director Jerry varsava (right) with Drs. peter and Doris Kule (centre)

kule institute for Advanced study launch

Advancing humanity,lifting the human spirit

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Where industry Meets

AnCEstrY

Fort Chipewyan councillor

Lorraine hoffman ('02 BA, Anthropology)

Words by BEnJaMin frEEland

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WhEn it CoMEs to thE ALBErtA oiLsAnds,

the struggle that Aboriginal groups currently

face between economic advancement and

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.

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““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

After spending her childhood summers in the tiny hamlet of fort chipewyan in the northeastern corner of Al-berta, 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.

Her overriding passion for her beloved Denedeh (the ancient geographical and spiritual heart of the Dene people) is immediately evident, the conversa-tion scarcely straying from the subject. “it’s always been home for me,” she ex-plains. “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 ca-nadian shield. And we have a great his-tory that goes back thousands of years.”

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 Athabas-ca 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.

the timing of Hoffman’s studies and re-turn to her community could hardly have been more fortuitous. the past decade has seen a sea change both for the Al-berta 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. Hoff-man views the changes that the oilsands industry bring as equal parts negative and positive.

“these are really interesting times right now,” she contends. “first na-tions have reached a level of auton-omy where their rights are being rec-ognized by the courts and companies have to consult with us. the govern-ment 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 na-tions 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 ances-tors signed a treaty back in 1899 that set aside this land for us. now i need to safeguard it for my descendants.”

at home (above) and near her grandmother's house in Fort Chipewyan (previous page)

Labourer Doreen Britton on a break (left) and at

work outside the new nursing station (right)

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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 com-pany as a fur trading post in 1788, fort chipewyan was one of the first europe-an settlements in what is now Alberta, at a time when the Athabasca region was the el Dorado of the fur trade. mean-while, 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 start-ed 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 sign-ing of the treaties.”

in writing her book, Hoffman was as-tounded 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 ac-counts of Émile Petitot, a Jesuit priest who spent many years documenting oral histories in the region in the 1800s.

Hoffman’s studies of cultural anthropol-ogy 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.

“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 as-serts. “our relationship with the land is very subjective, very experiential, diffi-cult to relate. [my degree] taught me the language of the law and it gave me that dialogue to be able to relate that expe-rience to government and industry, en-abling me to advocate for consultation.”

Hoffman contends that negotiations between first nations and government and industry representatives are often stymied by mutual misunderstandings stemming from vastly dissimilar perspec-tives and interests. “i’ve sat in meetings

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.

Charlie Mark Cardinal, a local hunter and fisherman, setting out on a moose hunting trip (left) and with his smoked fish (above)

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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 connec-tion to the land means to us, and [gov-ernment 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 at-tention in recent years owing to reports of alarmingly high rates of unusual can-cers, 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 ex-plains. “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 environ-ment and developing laws to protect it.”

the problem that first nations like the chipewyan face much of the time, Hoff-man explains, is that while the govern-

ment is now beginning to pay more at-tention 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].”

While the lion’s share of media attention that fort chipewyan has received in re-cent years has been focused on pollution and illness, Hoffman contends that eco-nomic development has the potential to bring all sorts of positive changes to her community, provided that future develop-ment is done in a sustainable manner.

“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-

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.

“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.”

While the future remains uncertain for fort chipewyan, what does seem cer-tain 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 govern-ment and industry, Hoffman’s vision of sustainable development through equal partnerships and mutual understanding looks to be one of their best hopes.

“Will [economic development] help sus-tain our country and our culture?” she asks. “i don’t know. but whatever hap-pens here, we need to be able to deter-mine 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.

“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

As i see it...

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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 gratifica-tion 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 alarm-ing story about systemic cheating dur-ing 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 cheat-ers: 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, requir-ing every student to perform could help combat the current culture of deceit. live performance is one of the sole are-nas where cheating is all but impossible: either you can play the piece/recite the lines or you can’t, and the level of com-petence 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 perfor-mance. i’m talking about learning to do something that requires focus, effort, and delayed gratification, then prov-ing what you know. ideally, i’m talking about building not just skill, but char-acter, 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 weak-nesses 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 gus-tavo 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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Alumnus opinion column

Enough CheatingCan the performing arts make us honest? Words by Maria thoMpson corlEy

As i see it...

Ask the Expert

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Faculty Expert Q & A

the United nations

Ask the Expert

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W. Andy knight

W. Andy Knight (Political science) is a world-renowned 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.

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?

- Kevin solez, ‘03 bA Hons, classics vancouver, b.c.

A: Western governments have influ-enced heavily the content and evolu-tion of international law. but not all in-ternational laws are drafted solely by westerners. those conventions, pro-tocols and laws that emerge from the

United nations are usually endorsed by states from all regions. the Un is after all a universal body.

you are right, however, to suggest that some western states view themselves as ‘exceptional’ – i.e. they tend to con-sider certain aspects of international law as applying to others while they themselves are exempt. the problem with international law is that it is vol-untarist – it may not be considered as binding. furthermore, the international community lacks the wherewithal to enforce international laws.

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 ca-nadian government has simply been ignoring international human rights

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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

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 member-states to provide peacekeeping and peace-support personnel and equip-ment 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 op-eration a success.

it would seem to me that one way to solve this problem is for the Un to de-velop an independent military capabil-ity 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!

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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

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 con-cept 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 evi-dence that these crimes are being com-mitted. Western governments aren’t being selective, as such, in fulfilling their responsibility to protect innocent people at risk. they are extremely ten-tative 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.

obligations and the convention on the rights of the child. Whatever one be-lieves 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. mili-tary. if he did commit war crimes, as the U.s. government is charging, he did so as a child. in custody, he has been tor-tured and treated inhumanely. Accord-ing to international law, children under 18 should not be tried for war crimes, and they certainly should not be sub-jected to this type of treatment. 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. can-ada’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 is clear that in the case of omar khadr the Canadian government has simply been ignoring

international human rights obligations...”- W. aNDy KNIght

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the Mystery of

kAstroUnearthing the 2,300 year-old secrets

of an abandoned Greek city

“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 epho-rate, began mapping Kastro and bringing summer students to the site about 300 kilometres north of Athens.

stones give way, and i nearly slip, remind-ing me that 3,000 years ago this difficult walk was an everyday climb for the shep-herds who grazed their flocks on the moun-tainside and below on the wide, flat plains.

We climb for three-quarters of a kilome-tre, and then, as the sun rises to show mount olympus to the north, we stop briefly for morning coffee at the acropo-lis, 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 an-other ending to the story? the site is lit-tered with clues: catapult bullets, a cross-bow 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 trans-porting 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.

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.

Words by tErEsE BrasEn

Photography by MargriEt haagsMa

Jason Marceniuk

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Margriet haagsma photo by: Myles Chykerda

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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 sacri-fice to thessalian goddess enodia.

in book vii in his Politics, Aristotle de-scribes 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 suc-cessor of Alexander the great, arrived at the ancient port of Halos with a large fleet and 30,000 cavalry and foot soldiers. De-metrius 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 Ka-trina. 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 popula-tion. 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.

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 ap-pears 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 hard-packed 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.

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

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 col-lege 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 begin-ning to unfold. A perfect city built and abandoned. Perfume bottles, high-end glassware, marble, bullets, arrow-heads. 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 com-municator in edmonton and toronto.

“the question is: why didn’t people come back and build it all up again?”

- MargrIet haagSMa

Brian Leslie and robert Metcalfe

Field school students excavate Building 10 at Kastro Kallithea

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student View

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Anthropology students on…

shifting Perspectives of Place

Photography by richard siEMEns, U of a MarkEting and coMMUnications

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 be-longing… 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 pop-ulations to move is familiarity. they found with modern immigrant popula-tions, 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, vio-lence and warfare, but you have to look at those on an individual basis.

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 change and more of a negotiation ev-ery 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 iden-tify 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 adapta-tion 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 origi-nal culture or to change and improve.

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 transac-tion in cultural ways, folklore, view of the world and why things happen.

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 percep-tions 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.

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).

Pauline de GrandPredaniel larsonHannaH McFadden

Faculty Bookshelf

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States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st CenturyEdited by Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith (Political Science) and Sunera Thobanibetween the lines, 2010

ideas of feminism and the persistence of race and the “colour line” into the 21st cen-tury is examined in this collection, written by members of the researchers and Academ-ics of colour for equity (rAce). the three female editors strive to illustrate the many dimensions of canadian feminist anti-racist theorizing. indigenous women’s naviga-tion 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 ana-lytical brilliance, this collection is essential reading that provides readers with critical tools to understand the relation between Ca-nadian (and North American) racisms, neo-liberalism, and the ‘War on Terror.’”— Inderpal Grewal, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

DreamworkBy 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 begin-nings in Princeton, new Jersey on may 16, 2002, the compilation progressed fol-

lowing time spent in england, connecticut and even his dwelling in edmonton, Alberta. Hart pays homage to antiquity, the classi-cal, 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 DemocracyEdited by Kevin D. Haggerty (Sociology) and Minas Samatas routledge, 2010

this collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the com-plex and often paradoxical relationships be-tween surveillance and democracy.

is surveillance a barrier to democratic pro-cesses, or might it be a necessary compo-nent of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? How might new surveillance measures alter the con-ceptions 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 surveil-lance. 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.

Photography by richard siEMEns, U of a MarkEting and coMMUnications

research highlights

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Addicted to oil“for us to go past oil we have to radi-cally rethink the way we are,” declares imre szeman, canada research chair in cultural studies and Professor of english & film studies.

szeman cites a study of oil develop-ment, 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 soci-ety, culture and civilization we have if we didn’t have oil,” he concludes.

szeman should know; he spent a de-cade as Director of the institute on glo-balization 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 exam-ine 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 envi-ronment. so far, the reason seems to be that people are attached to oil not

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 ac-cess to a stable, cheap, portable en-ergy 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 ex-isting city boundaries.

“We see the future as always ‘plus one,’ always bigger, always more,” szeman continues. “there are no other compet-ing visions of what we might have ex-cept for a society of progress — even though i think it’s also very clear to al-most everybody that this is not a sus-tainable 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.

“We see the future as always ‘plus one,’ always bigger,

always more...”- IMre SzeMaN

research highlights

therapeutic theatreit’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.

And earlier this year, an Aboriginal col-lective responded with an unconven-tional tool: community-based theatre.

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.

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 explo-ration of Aboriginal women’s experi-ences as perpetrators and victims of abuse and violence.

research highlights

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the secret of teaching Languages

“...creating engaging contexts might be the more important thing to focus on in teaching and textbook design.”

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 De-partment 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 vocab-ulary, 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 vo-cabulary 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 signifi-cant difference between random and organized presentation of new words.

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 re-sults in a warmly-received keynote ad-dress at a conference for Alberta high school and elementary spanish teach-ers. this winter, zapata will also be releasing one of the first introductory spanish textbooks written for a cana-dian audience. the book will focus on examples that reflect actual university student experiences, as well as a vari-ety of dialects and features on different spanish-speaking immigrant commu-nities in canada.

“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.”

now the company is considering their next steps: touring, publica-tion 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.

“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

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Arts salon

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indy randhawa (’07 bA, english; ’10 bed secondary, english)took these photos while on exchange at the University of oslo in 2009-2010.

Above: folkPlace: norway

top left: Unknown buildingPlace: czech republic

bottom left: river 9Place: czech republic

Photography

SalonArtsCreative submissions from readers

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Salon

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 AntsPlace: fort mcmurray, Ab

bottom right: by the WaterPlace: fort mcmurray, Ab

PoetryPatricia Wankiewicz (’73 bA Hons, geography; ’79 msc, geography)

The Badlandsthis is an old land.this is a quiet land.

listen to the whisper of slopes creeping down to the riverand the shuffle of ancient bones in dry beds.listen to the rustle of the cottonwoods along the banksand the wave-like sighs of prairie grasses.

listen to the patter of rain on the caps of hoodoosand the trickling sounds of rills cutting the softer ground.listen to the murmur of the river as it laps its shoreand quietly carves down deep into the past.

listen to the coyote’s gleeful wail at duskand the hawk’s harsh circling cry at noon.listen to the squeak and scurry of small creaturesand 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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Printmaking

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 crowsDate: 2010medium: block printsDimensions: 12”x 12”

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installation

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.

belowmedia: tree roots, mirrors, cast mud and plaster, found materialsDimensions: Approximately 11 x 12 x 3 feet high

bottommedia: tree root, net, poured paintDimensions: Approximately 6 x 3 x 8 feet high

rightmedia: Painted hardboard panel, cast plaster and mudDimensions: Panel is 2 x 7 feet

Images by: Christian Grandjean

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Class notes

’50s’54 Robin Stuart (bA) writes to say: “fol-lowing 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 teach-ers’ 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 grad-uate from the U of A (bed 1956) and i raised four children all of whom attended and graduated from the U of A.”

’60s ’60 Lawrence Mysak (bA cert; ’61 bsc) was honoured with the inaugural mcgill University medal for exceptional Academ-ic Achievement. the mcgill medal was created to recognize retired members of the academic staff who have made extraordinary contributions to their disci-pline, 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 pres-ervation of Alberta’s cultural heritage.

’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.

’69 Myra Davies (bA) is a spoken word and performance artist with several cDs in release and a solid reputation in the european alternative music scene. Her

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 “gesamtkunst-werk” on Wagner’s ring cycle, with toronto musicians christopher Willes, gregory oh and fellow Albertan, media artist lee Hen-derson. 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.

’70s’70 Bill Buholzer (bA) of vancouver, b.c. has been elected to the college of fellows of the canadian institute of Plan-ners, an organization that represents the 7,000 city planners across the country.

’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 uni-versity 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 commit-ment to post-secondary education.

’74 Ralph Watzke (bA; ’75 llb) has re-located to regina, sK, where he contin-ues to do legal research and legal draft-ing 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 cre-ators 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

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.

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’90s ’91 Marie Fontaine (bA, Women’s studies and spanish) writes to say: “not sure how i ended up in germany speaking the lan-guage of goethe and schiller instead of Al-modóvar’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 Univer-sity 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 Uni-versity. 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 Uni-versity. 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 appoint-ed as general manager of neWest Press. A familiar face on the edmonton arts scene, Paul contributes weekly segments to “ed-monton 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 direc-tor of grants, awards and support pro-grams. 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 ed-monton symphony orchestra trumpet section, and taught brass students from beginner to college level, includ-ing at the U of A’s Augustana campus. stephen lives in edmonton with his wife, Suzanne Vuch (‘98 bmus), their two chil-dren, and Purr. c. grainger, the cat.

’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 pro-fessional 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 en-tertainment marketing.

’00s’02 Brianna Erban (bA Hons, english; ’06 mA, english) is heading to Washing-ton, D.c. to intern at the smithsonian in-stitute in the cultural resources centre of the national museum of the Ameri-can indians. A student in the Univer-sity’s school of library and information studies, brianna will graduate from this program in november.

’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) re-cently 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 anthol-ogy 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-song-writer george fox, calgary flames coach brent sutter, actor gordon tootoosis, and senator Pamela Wallin. Pam completed a creative writing thesis under the supervi-sion 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-year-old twin boys. she works part-time as a tutor for Athabasca University.

Class notes & in Memoriam

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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 sTaFFAlan bryan, Professor emeritus, Anthropology, in may 2010Anita Holden-verburg, Professor emeritus, romance languages, in october 2009David Jackel, Professor emeritus, english & film studies, in July 2010tom rolston, former Professor in music, in may 2010sharon 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

in Memoriam

the faculty of Arts notes with sorrow the passing of the following friends:

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 re-searching in the area of Romance Linguis-tics. 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 backpack-ing 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.

’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 litera-ture 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.

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Up in sMokE

since the first rutherford Library opened in 1951, it has been frequent-ed 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 give way to books.”

chief librarian bruce Peel was apolo-getic. “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 insti-tution to one that included graduate studies and research. After several temporary fixes, the pressure of ruth-erford’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?