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Frost Centre and Canadian Studies Faculty Spread the Word Globally

International scope of recent presentations reflects diversity of research at Trent

Frost Centre and Canadian Studies Faculty Spread the Word Globally
Frost Centre and Canadian Studies Faculty Spread the Word Globally

Reflecting the diversity of research at Trent, faculty members from the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, and the Canadian Studies Department are giving talks around the globe on a vast array of topics, from aging to Innu literature to the NFB in the North to E.P. Thompson and precarious labour.

Recent international presentations include:

  • Professor James Struthers, Frost Centre and Department of Canadian Studies gave a talk, “Do Newer Facilities Equal Better Dementia Care?” delivered to the International Care Research Conference, “Re-directing the Gaze: an international quest for promising practices in long-term residential care,” at the Regional Centers for Care in Bergen, Norway, May 14, 2014, sponsored by the Research Council of Norway.
  • Professor Michele Lacombe, Frost Centre and the Departments of Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, presented “Technologies of Transportation and Metaphors of Movement in Contemporary Innu Literature,” for "'Indigeneity’ and French Canada, an Interdisciplinary Conference," at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of London, England, May 16-17, 2014.
  • Professor Joan Sangster, Frost Centre and Women’s and Gender Studies, current vice-president and incoming president of the Canadian Historical Association, presented a paper, "Documenting Canada’s Indigenous North: The National Film Board in Postwar Canada," to the Yale Group for the Study of Native America, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, on October 22, 2014.
  • Professor Bryan Palmer, Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, was in Brazil over the course of October and November 2014, presenting a variety of lectures and conference talks, including:
    • "Argumentative Analytics: E.P. Thompson and the Writing of Social History," Keynote Address, First International Symposium on E.P. Thompson: History & Perspectives, Universidade Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil, October 23, 2014.
    • "Precarious Labour: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?" Universidade Federal Fluminense,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 4, 2014.
    • "1934: Labor Upheaval and the Mass Strike," History Department, Universidade Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November, 17 2014.
    • "Precariousness as Proletarianization: Reflections on Class as Dispossession," Sociology Department, Universidade Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 18, 2014.
    • "1934: A Formative Year of Working-Class Mobilization and Its Lessons for Today," III Seminaro Internacional, Mundos do Trabalho, Universidade do Estado de Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, November 28, 2014.

Trent University is a national and international leader in the fields of Canadian and Indigenous Studies. From May 21-21, 2015, Trent will host “Contesting Canada’s Future,” an international conference on the study of Canada which will include academics, activists, and artists in an exploration of Canada in the new century.  For more information, visit the conference website.

Posted on Monday, December 8, 2014.

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