prepared by the dean of arts office weekly bulletin of the faculty of arts NUMBER 57 - TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2009 news of faculty, staff, students, and alumni On 11 February short versions of an interview given by JoAnn Jaffe (SOC) , along with fellow members of the Fellowship for Reconciliation and Peace (a Muslim-Jewish dialogue group) were aired on CBC Ra- dio, during the 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 news. Longer versions of the story were presented on the Morning Edition and Blue Sky. They were also featured on the 6:00 pm CBC TV news. • • • An article featuring Lynn Loutzenhiser’s (PSYC) ongoing research into the sleeping habits of infants and toddlers has just been published in Today’s Parent magazine. The joint research project is being led by Loutzenhiser and John Hoffman, contributing editor to Today’s Parent magazine. Says Loutzenhiser, “We need to understand what strategies the average parents are using. We want to find out if they are trying sleep training approaches and, if so, how effective they find them to be.” The article presents the findings of nearly 3000 surveys, and paints a picture of the varying experiences parents and children are having surrounding bedtime and sleeping. Excerpts from the article are available on the Today’s Parent website, at: http://www. todaysparent.com/lifeasparent/parenting/article.jsp?content=20090114_142332_36896&page=1
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prepared by the dean of arts office
weekly bulletin
of the faculty of arts
number 57 - Tuesday 17 February 2009
news of faculty, staff, students, and alumni
On 11 February short versions of an interview given by JoAnn Jaffe (sOC) , along with fellow members of the Fellowship for reconciliation and Peace (a muslim-Jewish dialogue group) were aired on CbC ra-dio, during the 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 news. Longer versions of the story were presented on the Morning Edition and Blue Sky. They were also featured on the 6:00 pm CbC TV news.
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an article featuring Lynn Loutzenhiser’s (PsyC) ongoing research into the sleeping habits of infants and toddlers has just been published in Today’s Parent magazine. The joint research project is being led by Loutzenhiser and John Hoffman, contributing editor to Today’s Parent magazine. says Loutzenhiser, “We need to understand what strategies the average parents are using. We want to find out if they are trying sleep training approaches and, if so, how effective they find them to be.” The article presents the findings of nearly 3000 surveys, and paints a picture of the varying experiences parents and children are having surrounding bedtime and sleeping. excerpts from the article are available on the Today’s Parent website, at: http://www.todaysparent.com/lifeasparent/parenting/article.jsp?content=20090114_142332_36896&page=1
Mark Anderson (Luther, History) delivered a paper titled, “Intercultural Communication, the american Frontier myth, and several 9-11s,” on 9 december at the Congresso Internacional de estudos Interculturais, Centro de estudos Interculturais, Porto, Portugal. (International Con-gress of Intercultural studies, Centre for Intercultural studies). He also gave a research pre-sentation entitled “Cut and Pasted: How the Press in Canada Promotes Colonialism”, as part of the International Lecture and Workshop series at the universidad especialidades espiritu santo, Guayaquil, ecuador, on 20 January. 23-24 January he presented a two-day workshop, “stereotypes and myths in History,” as part of the International Lecture and Workshop series at the universidad especialidades espiritu santo, Guayaquil, ecuador. Finally, his article, “With Open arms and Closed Fists: How the Press Teaches Canadians What to Think about aborigi-nals”, was published in the collection Education Landscapes in the 21st Century, edited by Iris Guske and bruce swafield (Cambridge scholars Publishing).
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Mitch Diamantopoulos (Jrn) is pleased to report that award-winning CbC journalist Terry Milewski has been confirmed as this year’s minifie Lecturer. His address is free, and open to the public. It will be held Tuesday 10 march at 7:30 pm in the education auditorium. The title of milewski’s address is “The Hidden muzzle”.
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Brenda Anderson (Luther, Women’s studies) gave a presentation on missing indigenous wom-en at st. mark’s Lutheran Church on 18 January.
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Roger Petry (Luther, Philosophy) gave a presentation entitled “Citizenship and markets: do we need a new political identity?” as part of the Philosophy Café series on 20 January.
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an entry about Yvonne Petry (Luther, History) and her research was included in the latest edition of “Contemporary authors” (Gale Cengage Learning) as part of its Literature resource Center, which is available online through the university of regina Library.
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Wendee Kubick (WGsT) presented a luncheon talk on “Women, Gender and Work” to the Ca-nadian bar association Women’s Forum saskatchewan south on 13 February in regina.
Mark Anderson
Roger Petry
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Brenda Anderson
Just in time for Valentine’s day, the arts student Centre showcased its 23 Chances to Fall in Love with Arts event on 12 February. students were treated to a showcase of potential ‘dates’ – representatives from each program in the Faculty – and invited to choose their favorite discipline. The inspiration for the event came from the students who repeatedly tell us that they chose an arts degree because they simply “fell in love” with their subject area.
23 prize draws were made, the grand prize being one free tuition credit in any arts course. The grand prize winner was Travis Legare, a religious studies major and president of the religious studies student soci-ety.
a big round of applause for the success of this event belongs to the event creator/coordinator Diane Mul-lan, and the staff at the arts student Centre. a special thanks also dean of arts Lynn Wells for emceeing and to the fabulous 23 student volunteer ‘dates’.
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it’s all about the love!
calendar: upcoming events and deadlines
Wednesday 25 1:30 LI 215 big Ideas at 150 - public forum presented by the de-partment of Political science
