Notice Board

Prior to the closing the of the Whither Girls or Women? exhibit curators, students and community alike will get together on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 to discuss, explore and appreciate this exhibition partnership between the University of Lethbridge and the Galt Museum & Archives.

Please see the attached poster for more details.

The PUBlic Professor Series is a monthly, thought provoking series of pub-style talks that brings a range of experts and researchers from across the arts and sciences to the community for a spirited conversation.

Department of History Colloquium and I-CYS presents:

They Certainly Did Have a Lot of Strange Ideas:  Indigenous Bodies, Morality, the Reshaping of Sexualities, and Violence at Inuvik's Residential Schools, 1950s to 1970s (History Colloquium_March 2015.pdf)

Guest Speaker:  Crystal Fraser (Dept. of History, University of Alberta)
Day/Date:  Friday, March 20, 2015
Time:  3:00 p.m.
Location:  D-633

Abstract: 

I-CYS (Institute for Child & Youth Studies) presents:

Looking for the Child Freak Show Performer
Dr. Jane Nicholas
March 11, 2015
3:00 p.m. (C-756)

This presentation will explore some of the ethical issues in studying history of child freak show performers, including the use of photographs.

Everyone is welcome.

The Department of History - Graduate Student Colloquium

Friday, February 27, 2015

Location:  C-674

Time:  3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Presentations by the following graduate students:

Leon Cranebear - The Three Points of Contestation betwen the 1969 White Paper and the 1970 Red Paper

More than 40 years ago, two oil price shock shook the Western World and led to the emergence of strategic concept of "energy security".

Discussion of the ways in which young adult readers perceive and construct their place-identities, and how the act of reading impels them to deliberate on the role of place within their own lives.

"Children of Nature? Nudity, Socialization and Sex Education in the Postwar Canadian Nudist Movement"

Belinda Crowson will speak on prohibition in Lethbridge in the 1920s.
"Squirrel Whiskey, Mr. R. and Prohibition in Southern Alberta"