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The History Department at UFV is actively involved in extending the learning experience outside of the classroom by organizing events such as the History Roundtable and the Distinguished Lecture Series. We are also committed to community service. For example, the History Department regularly sponsors public events such as film screenings and the hosting of the annual regional Historica Fair for students in grades 4 to 9.
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| See below some of the activities in which the Department has been involved. More information about some of these events can be found by following the coloured body text links. |
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BC Inner and Outer Worlds Conference, April 27/29 2007
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- This conference was the result of the merging of two biannual conferences-BC Studies Conference and People of the River Conference. This partnership of the University of the Fraser Valley with the Stó:lō First Nation embodied the spirit of connection between academe and the communities in Canadian society and brought together a multiplicity of scholars and individuals: Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, BC residents and those from outside BC. It provided a unique and essential forum for debate and discussion of broad and interlocking themes with a special focus on the history of the indigenous people of BC.
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Talks in the Community:
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- Lifetime Learning Society in Mission: Barbara Messamore spoke to the Lifetime Learners on "The Trudeau and Mulroney Years", March 29th, 2006
- Abbotsford Learning Plus: Sylvie Murray gave a talk on March 8th, 2006 to the Abbotsford Learning Plus Society on International Women's Day
- Painting the War: Official Art in Wartime Canada: Dr. Molly Ungar spoke at MSA Museum Annex on November 7th, 2006 at 6:30.
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- Myths and Legends of the New Year: Molly Ungar, MSA Museum, January 11, 2007
- Lifetime Learning Society, Mission: Bob Smith spoke on "Origin and Effects of the 49th Parallel", April 11th, 2007.
- Were You at Expo67: Dr. Molly Ungar presents at MSA Museum Annex on Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pm. Admission is by donation.
- The 1939 Royal Tour in BC, Lifetime Learners, Mission, October 24, 2007
- The atomic bomb controversy in 1945 presentation, Bob Smith, Elder College
- Guest Speaker, Remembering Project-"Don't You Know There's A War On?": The Canadian Home Front in World War II. Tuesday November 6, 2007 from 7-8pm at the Abbotsford Ag Rec Centre.
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History Roundtable:
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- Eric Davis (History, UCFV), Elaine Briere (independent filmmaker), and George Fraser (former member of the Canadian Seamen's Union), History and Filmmaking: The Production of Betrayed, Tuesday February 1, 2005
- Alisa Webb (History, UCFV), I Mark, You Mark, We all Mark: Sharing Tips, Strategies, and Techniques for Assessment, Thursday, February 17, 2005
- Chris Leach (History, UCFV), Imagining War: Victorian Media representations of Colonial War and the British Army, 1870-1914, Tuesday, March 15, 2005
- Jack Gaston (History, UCFV) and Mary-Anne MacDougall (Library, UCFV) Digitizing the Victorians: Indexing the Lives of Nineteenth-Century Women, Tuesday, November 22, 2005
- Jenea Tallentire (History, UCFV), The History Lab and Other Adventures in Teaching with Technology, Tuesday, February 14, 2006
- Robin Ganev (History, UCFV), Milkmaids, Ploughmen and Sex in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Tuesday, March 28, 2006
- Sylvie Murray (History, UCFV), The Amateur in the Classroom: A discussion on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History, Tuesday, October 24, 2006
- Robin Anderson (History, UCFV), The British Columbia View of Cartoonist J. B. Fitzmaurice, 1908-1926, Tuesday, November 21, 2006
- Molly Ungar (History, UCFV), Painting Canada's War: Official Art in World War II, Tuesday, February 27, 2007
- Jim Daems (English, UCFV), 'A Righteous Judgment of God': English Representations of Irish Atrocities, 1641-1655, Tuesday, March 13, 2007
- Scott Sheffield (History, UCFV), The Mirror of an Other: Settler-Indigenous Relations in New Zealand and Canada, and the Practice, Pitfalls, and Promise of Transnational Comparative Analysis, Tuesday, November 20, 2007.
- Steven Schroeder, (History, UCFV), Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954, Tuesday, March 18, 2008
- Andrea MacPherson, (English, UCFV), Breathing Life into the Past: How Historical Fiction Works, Tuesday, March 25, 2008.
- Bruce Hiebert (History, UFV), Historical Demography: Inside the Secrets of Ordinary Life, Tuesday, November 18, 2008
- Helene Littman (English, UFV), Footnotes to History: Joel Barlow and the American Revolution, Tuesday February 24, 2009
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For information on the History Roundtable events please contact:
Barbara Messamore or Geoffrey Spurling. |
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Distinguished Speakers Series:
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- William French (History, UBC) , A Living Memory: The Diaries of Luciano J. Gallardo, Guadalajara, Mexico 1864-1869, Thursday, March 3, 2005
- Alejandra Bronfman (History, UBC), Photographs, Statistics, and Virtue in 1930s Cuba, Monday, March 7, 2005
- Ian Dyck (History, SFU), William Cobbett, English Social Critic and Political Activist, Wednesday, March 23, 2005
- Mark Zuehlke (independent historian and author), Writing World War II History and Remembrance, Tuesday, February 28, 2006
- John Conway (Professor Emeritus of History at UBC), The Teaching of Contempt: The Christian Churches and the Holocaust, Tuesday, March 20, 2007
- Ged Martin (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh), Canada and the Gallows: The History of Capital Punishment in Canada, Monday, March 30, 2009
- Doris L. Bergen (Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto) Nazi Antisemitism: New Perspectives on an Old Debate, November 9, 2009
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For information on the Distinguished Speakers Series please contact:
Barbara Messamore or Geoffrey Spurling. |
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Historica:
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| The Department of History has hosted the Historica Regiional Fair since 2005. Historica is organized by the MSA Museum Society and supported by UFV and many corporate and community groups. |
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Department sponsored student events:
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- History Day - September
- Writing for History Workshop - Fall
- The Graduate School Information Session - October
- Qualicum Conference - January
- The History Tea - April
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Professional Development:
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| The Department is concerned with the ongoing professional development of its members and encourages individual research activities as well as arranges departmental activities that expand into new areas of study. This past May, faculty and staff participated in a boat tour of the pictographs, petroglyphs and sacred sites of the Chehalis people in Chilliwack. The tour was part of the department annual retreat. |
- May 2006 retreat at Harrison Hot Springs, BC
- May 2007, retreat at Hidden Fir Lodge
- May 2008, retreat at UCFV Education Park, Trades & Tech, Chilliwack, BC
- May 2009, retreat at Fort Langley Historic Site
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