E-books and Digital Borrowing

Dear Members of the EDST Community,

Online access to full-text e-books has become a viable option. Please be aware of various services at the UBC Library, including the following links:

• http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1800
• http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1546
• http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1484

You can access entire books online, and chapters in e-books/edited e-books, not just articles.

Equally, you may want to know that the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) allows e-book and audiobook borrowing and consultation for residents of Vancouver, and of BC more generally. More information is available at http://guides.vpl.ca/ebooks_audiobooks.

Not least, you may also want to be aware of the Reciprocal Borrowing for UBC faculty, students and staff agreements established between UBC and other university libraries across BC, Canada, and the United States. Consult http://services.library.ubc.ca/borrowing-services/reciprocal-borrowing/ubc-members. Reciprocal borrowing agreements may—under some circumstances—provide additional access venues to e-books and other digital materials not available at UBC.

As e-book and digital services expand, you may want to acquaint yourself with the way these services shape our access to scholarly materials, their use in class and in research, and the way they should be referenced/cited. The UBC Library provides an extensive information sheet to that effect at http://help.library.ubc.ca/evaluating-and-citing-sources/how-to-cite.



Remember to always consider copyright concerns. UBC’s copyright website has detailed information for the UBC community.

Neil Sutherland Prize

Every two years the History of Children and Youth Group (HCYG) of the Canadian Historical Association awards the Neil Sutherland Prize for outstanding scholarship in the history of young people. Neil is a Professor Emeritus in EDST and a pioneer scholar in the history of children and childhood in Canada. The winner for 2012 is Rachel Cleves, in the Department of History at the University of Victoria—Congratulations to Rachel!

Rachel Hope Cleves, “ ‘Heedless Youth’: The Revolutionary War Poetry of Ruth Bryant (1760-83),” William and Mary Quarterly  67, no. 3 (July 2010):519–548.

Cleves’s article, which explores the experience of girls and war is meticulously researched, insightful, and skillfully contextualized. As Cleaves herself notes, “Largely excluded by their gender and youth from political assemblies, academies, and the army, girls left few textual clues about their beliefs.” Cleves weaves together the various threads of Ruth Bryant’s poetry and its themes of domesticity, gender, family and patriotism, finding a young girl’s voice in the historical record. The committee agreed that Cleves’s work is an original and exciting contribution to an understanding of the experiences of children and youth and war, and to the field of the history of childhood.

Inter-University Graduate Seminar in Educational Research

The Inter-University Graduate Seminar, held on June 2, 2012, is a graduate student scholarly event. It brings together students from various universities to celebrate and share their work in a collegial, inspiring, constructive, and supportive environment. The Seminar is an interdisciplinary space where participants productively engage new fields of study and innovative research methodologies. It is also a social space, where participants establish contact and build meaningful intellectual engagements with peers beyond their respective home university and/or academic program.

Topics presented:

• Decolonizing the Mind of the Researcher
• An Intergenerational Narrative Inquiry About Secwepemc Identities
• Kashubian Rituals as Educational Sites
• Girls, Media and Resistance
• Me and the Media: Being Muslim in Canada
• Lebanon’s ‘Social Mosaic’: The (Re)Making of Identities and the Impact of Higher
  Education (A Preliminary Study)

 And more. Visit the EDST website for a full report.

Congratulations, Graduates

Congratulations to our EDST graduates in 2012! Our department hosted a graduate tea for friends and family of new graduates. It was a celebratory event attended by many faculty, EDST staff, and graduates.

Rick Hansen Competition Results

Stefan Honisch has been awarded the prestigious Rick Hansen “Man in Motion” Fellowship in 2012/13. Stefan is a CCFI student who is supervised by Leslie Roman at EDST. Congratulations on this terrific achievement.

Congratulations!

Dr. Strong-Boag received a 2012 Canadian Federation for the Humanities book prize (Social Sciences) on Friday, March 30, for her book Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (WLU Press, 2011).

Arendt and Tocqueville: Public Freedom, Plurality, and the Preconditions of Liberty

EDST is co-sponsoring this presentation by Dana Villa:

In nineteenth century political theory, Alexis de Tocqueville was known for his focus on civil society and his emphasis on a robust associational pluralism in the public sphere. In the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt was equally well-known for her critique of the over-valuation of unity in western political thought, and her emphasis on the phenomenon of human plurality as constitutive of the public realm. Professor Villa’s talk gives both thinkers credit where credit is due, but questions aspects of their thought that undercut their respective commitments to pluralism and plurality in politics.

DANA VILLA is Packey Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Arendt and Heidegger: the Fate of the Political (Princeton, 1995), Politics, Philosophy, Terror (Princeton, 1999), Socratic Citizenship (Princeton, 2001), and Public Freedom (Princeton, 2008). Before taking up his position at the University of Notre Dame, he held senior positions at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard, and has held fellowships at the American Academy in Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
SFU Vancouver Campus, Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings
Reception 6–7:30 p.m. Teck Gallery
Presentation 7:30 p.m. room 2270
Further Information: Autumn Knowlton