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imperishable-publishing-part-ii
by David Clements  ||  posted on Jun. 15th, 2012 at 9:16am

In my last blog I talked about the trials and tribulations of “publish or perish” from the authors’ point of view. However, that is not the only vantage point. Early in my career, I was talking to Grant Kowalenko from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, who discussed with me how one area of scholarship that he had enjoyed taking part in was editorial work. I had dabble...

Love, Courtship, Family, Marriage
by Holly Nelson  ||  posted on Mar. 7th, 2012 at 1:29am

An Open Invitation: Thursday, March 22, 2012 (with free supper included)

Love, Courtship, Family, and Marriage

A Graduate Research Symposium  (3:30 - 6:30 p.m.)

and Keynote Address by the Historian of Marriage

Professor Stephanie Coontz (http://www.stephaniecoontz.com/) (7:00 - 8:30 p.m.)

Please join us for our upcoming graduate research symposium and annual lecture. Listed below are the graduate speakers who will be featured. After the graduate speakers present, the internationally-known historian of the family, Professor Stephanie Coontz, will be giving the keynote address. If you RSVP to holly.nelson@twu.ca, a free light supper and snacks will be ordered for you. The event is free and open to the public:

1. Jessica Vanderheide, “The Gap between the Ideal and the Real: The Southern Woman’s College as “Protector” of Woman’s Familial Identity, 1800-1865” (TWU, MAIH, History)
2. Hannah Dutko, “From Home to Public Education: The Influence of Separate Spheres Ideology on the Education of Children in Victorian Britain” (Regent)
3. Danae Yankoski, “A New Way to be Woman: Christina Rossetti's Retrieval of Pre-Reformation Catholic Models of Virgin Mothers and Female Saints” (Regent)
4. Frank Ewert, “An Uninteresting Heroine: In Defense Female “Passive Virtue” in Early Modern Drama (TWU, MAIH, English)
5. Lydia Wytenbroek, “Rethinking the Relationship of Nurse and Physician: Employing Gender as a Question not a Category” (TWU, MAIH, History)
6. Joshua Harris, “Common Responsibility: Marriage as a Critique of Modern Autonomy” (TWU, MAIH, Philosophy)
7. Nicole Birkeland, “State as Parent: Canadian Paternalism and Aboriginal Family Strategies” (TWU, MAIH, History)

Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She also serves as Co-Chair and Director of Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-profit, nonpartisan association of family researchers and practitioners based at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has been featured in many newspapers such as The New York Times, as well as scholarly journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, and she is frequently interviewed on national television and radio. She is the author of several books, including The Way we Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap; The Way we Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families; Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage, and her most recent book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.  

Renaissance Translation and Transmission
by Holly Nelson  ||  posted on Jan. 21st, 2012

I'm really looking forward to participating in this conference coming up on Renaissance studies across the disciplines. It is going to be taking place just down the road from Trinity:

CFP: Renaissance Translation and Transmission (October 18-21, 2012)

The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society

The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society invites papers examining all aspects of
translation and transmission in and of the Renaissance for its conference to be held from
October 18th to 21st, 2012 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, sponsored by the University
of the Fraser Valley. Papers might consider:

-the art / practice of textual translation and transmission in the Renaissance
- cross-cultural communication in the Renaissance
-“translation” between and across genres and media (theatre, visual arts, music,
literature, etc.) and across specialized discourses (for instance from the medical to the
political)
-the political and ethical implications of translation in and of the early modern
period
-endangered languages and translation in the Renaissance
-physical acts of translation, such as the remaking of new clothes from old clothes,
or other forms of material translation / “carrying across” or transformation
-the "translation" and “transmission” of early modern texts in manuscript, print and
electronic media from the late sixteenth-century onward
-translating, transmitting, and teaching the Renaissance in the (post)modern
classroom
-diaspora and translation in the early modern period
-“translating” and/or “transmitting” the Renaissance in the digital age
-the untranslatable Renaissance/early modern untranslatabilty
- mistranslation in (and of) the Renaissance
-translation and interpretive authority in the Renaissance

Multi-media presentations and traditional papers in the fine arts, the humanities, and
the social sciences are encouraged.

Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for three-paper panels are invited.

Abstracts should run 250 words for papers of 20-minute delivery length.

Panel proposals must include abstracts for all three papers.
Deadline: July 15, 2012
Acceptances will be sent by August 15, 2012

Submissions should be sent to:

Melissa Walter
UFV Department of English
33844 King Road
Abbotsford, BC
Melissa.walter@ufv.ca
For more information see: www.pnrs.org

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