The visiting archivists are processing Estonian American archival collections held by the IHRC Archives. The project has been made possible thanks to a successful collaboration of several partner institutions including the IHRC Archives, National Archives of Estonia, Estonian Archives in the USA (Lakewood, New Jersey) and the BaltherNet scholarly and cultural heritage network.

Ten images were selected by the DPLA and Europeana from over 50 entries submitted by the IHRC for consideration along with content offered by 21 other institutions from Europe and North America.

Visit the exhibit by clicking on the photograph below (one of IHRCA's items in the exhibit).

To learn more about the exhibition, the Digital Public Library of America and Europeana, please visit the project description web page.

To read the full press release, please follow this link.

Transnationalism and U.S. - Mexico Borderlands

When Gloria Anzaldúa published Borderlands / la frontera in 1987, she sparked a renewed interest among Chicana/o scholars in the U.S.-Mexico border region as a locus of analysis and as a conceptual paradigm. While the borderlands have been central to the field since its inception, Chicana/o scholars mined the region's critical potential with an intensified rigor, extending and developing approaches for its study as place, process, and metaphor. At the same time, scholars in American studies were searching for ways to re-think the place of the nation in the field, especially in light of work that elucidated the relationship between nation and empire in the United States. The global framework that Chicana/o studies scholars were applying to the border was seen as powerfully generative, particularly the connections such scholars made between the study of ethnicity, racialization, and immigration, and empire building, imperialism, and international relations. In the ensuing years, the "borderlands" has become one of American Studies' key tropes, and a central critical coordinate in the field's much-remarked "transnational turn."

In this course, we will critically engage the developments outlined above, doing so in three parts. First, we will track Chicana/o border studies as it evolved in the 1980s and '90s, paying special attention to the approaches the field generated for challenging nation-based understandings of cultural politics, racialization, and subject formation. Second, we will examine the ways in which border studies influenced and shaped the transnational imperatives that are now fundamental to work in American studies, as well as the strong criticisms directed against such work by Latin Americanists. Finally, we will consider two case studies that indicate the continuing importance of the borderlands for generating transnational approaches in Chicana/o and American studies. The first will be a focus on Américo Paredes, a figure of particular importance for our course due to his centrality in the initial emergence of border studies and in more recent debates regarding transnational American studies. Second, we will study the rise of more material-based cultural criticism in Chicana/o border studies, especially work that examines the cultural politics of the border around the economic globalization of the region and the Juárez femicides.

Each part will be grounded in analyses of the border region's rich tradition of cultural production. Possible cultural works we will study include the foundational border writings of Américo Paredes and Gloria Anzaldúa, films by Lourdes Portillo, John Sayles, and María Novaro, performance art by Marisela Norte and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, music by Chela Silva, Tish Hinojosa, and El Vez, and short fiction by Mexican fronteriza/o writers Rosinda Conde and Federico Campbell. Scholarship we will engage includes works by Norma Alarcón, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Debra Castillo, Claire Fox, Rosa Linda Fregoso, José Limón, Walter Mignolo, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Ramón Saldívar, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull.

How can we build upon the last half century as we head into the next one? What are your thoughts, memories and ideas about the IHRC's research initiatives, archival collections, and community activities? We'd like to hear how the IHRC has enriched your life!

Erika Lee, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, spoke at the recent "Borderlands Workshop" held Oct. 19-20, 20012, at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University.

The IHRC hosted the international conference American Association in cooperation with the American Lativan Association and the Latvians Abroad Museum, April 12-14, 2012.
Research Archivist Daniel Necas participated as an archival expert in the panel "Understanding Differences between Libraries, Archives, and Museums & Basic Principles in Collection Development."

Sara Wakefield, Daniel Necas and Haven Hawley gave presentations, led trainings and facilitated discussions for the conference, which was conducted in English and Latvian. the American Latvian Association filmed the conference to provide community access to the training, with the Latvian Abroad Museum also co-sponsoring the event.

From Wiley-Blackwell Exchanges: "Conference registration and participation is free of charge. The conference will take place 5-9 November 2012 and will bring together academics from the disciplines of geography, economics, history, policy, philosophy, peace studies, religious studies, sociology, politics, cultural studies and more."

Mr. Gomsi passed away in October 2011 and is survived by a son and three grandchildren, and his wife Nellie in outstate Ohio, where Arne was active in Finnish American culture.

Anyone interested to arrange a bequest, pledge or paced electronic fund transfer gift to the IHRC may contact Eva Widder in the College of Liberal Arts External Relations office. Phone: 612-626-5146 or email ewidder@umn.edu.

Director Erika Lee, Professor of History and Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, will speak on the topic of "Tell Us Your Story: Planning for the IHRC's 50th Anniversary in 2015."

The event will be held 6-9 pm at the Croatian Hall, 445 Second Ave S, South St Paul, MN 55075. Tickets for the Annual Meeting and Dinner are $25, and reservations must be received by Oct. 31. An order form for tickets and additional information is available here.

Menu
Appetizers: Cheese and Veggie Tray; Bacon Wrapped Apricots
Dinner: Chicken Breast, Sarma (cabbage rolls with beef and pork)*, Parsley Buttered Potatoes, Honey Glazed Carrots
Bread Baskets and Dessert; Coffee, Water, Wine and Soda
*non-pork option available with advance request (see Vicki Albu)

Tentative Schedule
5:30 p.m. Registration
6:00 p.m. Social hour: Appetizers with Entertainment by the "Chris Kalogerson Orchestra"
6:30 p.m. Buffet Dinner
7:15 p.m. Annual Business Meeting
7:30 p.m. Presentation, Erika Lee, IHRC Director
8:15 p.m. Drawing for Door Prizes; Adjournment

For more information about the dinner and entertainment, please contact Vicky Albu at young754@umn.edu or call (651) 201-7654 (M-F, 8-4:30).

The Friends Board of Director has announced elections for At-Large Board of Director positions, in addition to the usual Board of Director and IHRC reports at the Annual Meeting. Please note these recent changes pertaining to At-Large positions and consider running for one of these seats.

At-Large Directors
The Friends Board of Directors recently voted to revise the bylaws by changing the number of at-large board members from at least one (1) but no more than five (5) to at least five (5) and up to fifteen (15). All 15 at-large seats will be elected by the members at our Annual Meeting on November 10th.

If you or any another member wish to serve on the Board of Directors, please submit their name and contact information in writing by November 2 to Karen Varian, 1817 121st Ave. N.E., Blaine, MN55449, or kvar121@aol.com. These names will be reviewed by the Board of Directors and placed into nomination at the Annual Meeting. Nominations will also be taken from the floor at the Annual Meeting.

Qualifications to be a candidate for an at-large Board position

• Must be a member of the Friends of the IHRC, with dues paid by November 2, 2012.
• Endorse the mission of the Friends
• Regularly attend as many of the 10 meetings peryear of the Board as possible
• Be willing to participate on a committee or project, and/or serve as an officer of the Board

Karen Varian and John Andreozzi, co-presidents of the Friends of IHRC Board, are available to provide more information about the election. If you have any questions, contact Karen Varian at 763-754-7463.

In a collaborative effort of the IHRC, Institute for Global Studies and the International Institute of Minnesota, the workshop will provide training for a group of Minnesota K-12 teachers on the Twin Cities campus.

The materials have been organized thematically in order to initiate student discussion related to Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards and Benchmarks that address the study of migration. By incorporating these archival records into lesson plans, students will be able to think critically about the immigrant experience. Furthermore, working directly with primary sources will enable students to practice and develop research skills that will become increasingly important as they progress in their studies.

Visit the project's web site: http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/projects/12-10/fon1.html

She will visit a new exhibit on immigration at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, and she will give lectures at universities, public events, and community organizations on the history of American immigration and the experiences of Chinese American and Taiwanese American women.

Participate in live presentations of sessions, listen, ask questions, and make comments from your desktop, conference room, or home office. Plus featured speakers Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Will Bagley!

Online Conference Sessions:

• Too Important to Fail! Historic House Museums Meet Communities' Needs


• Bad Boards, Bad Boards, What'cha Gonna Do: Strategies for Fixing Poorly Functioning Museum Boards


• Localizing Difficult Histories


• The Changing Web: The Future of the (History) Website


• Yield to On-Coming Traffic: No Stopping Strollers and Small Feet


• What Do History Museums Really Need to Know About Their Visitors' Experience?

The Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund, a designated endowment fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, funds projects, programs and/or services that address issues related to the acculturation of new immigrants into our community. Preference is given to proposals impacting Minnesota and Minnesotans. Requests should be for support of special projects rather than ongoing operating support. Grants are made only to qualifying nonprofit organizations, not to individuals. Questions? Contact Wendy Clyman at 952-417-2354, wclyman@mplsfed.org.

FFI: http://jewishminneapolis.org/page.aspx?id=199744

Film-It, the IHRC's long-time partner in providing high-quality, low-cost microfilm duplication for patrons, will cease accepting orders in fall 2012. We are grateful to Ted and Mary Ringberg for their decades of service to IHRC and the University of Minnesota, enabling scholars and institutions around the world to procure IHRC microfilm.

IHRC staff have begun updating microfilm records so that a simplified ordering process can be designed. Work on updating IHRC records will continue during the fall of 2012.

Vendors seeking to submit information about their services may correspond with Haven Hawley, program director, at ihrc@umn.edu. The IHRC plans to consult with the University of Minnesota Libraries regarding vendor processes and selection so that procedures can be coordinated with those of other Archives and Special Collections units.

St. Catherine's MLIS student intern Mia Overly is working with Reference Librarian Sara Wakefield during the summer of 2012 to verify all microfilm holdings, including master copies necessary to reproduce volumes for patrons.

The project to convert all IHRC holdings information about microfilm into an electronic database will allow staff to make available online more accurate information about microfilm for purchase, for inter-library loan or for on-site only use.

IHRC's extensive microfilm collection will continue to be accessible in its entirety during the data conversion and search for a new vendor.

Dean Parente also thanked Professor Donna Gabaccia for her outstanding and dedicated leadership of the Center during her past two terms. Parente noted that Gabaccia provided inspired and thoughtful direction for the Center through the recent challenging period in higher education and recognized her as an ardent advocate for the IHRC's collection who has brought increased international renown to the Center through many conferences, workshops, and exhibitions.

Kelley Sundin, a M.M. candidate in choral conducting, said "My research in Estonian choral music was illuminated when I entered the Immigration History Research Center. The Estonian Diaspora collection revealed a wealth of choral music and personal stories of Estonian Americans."

"The Hildegard and Gustav Must Graduate Fellowship is a wonderful opportunity to promote my research of the Estonian archive and contribute toward my desires to share Estonian music with the greater choral community. The rich cultural traditions of singing embedded in Estonian society and the wonderful sense of community created through the choral experience in Estonia is a living example of how singing has great power to unite people and preserve culture, language, and tradition." Sundin adds "Many Estonian choral pieces will be shared for the first time in the United States as a result of researching the Estonian archives in the Immigration History Research Center."

The fellowship was established in 2003 with a major gift from the Estonian Archives of the U.S., Inc. in conjunction with the transfer of a vast segment of that institution's archival holdings to the Immigration History Research Center. Its objective is to further Estonian American history and activities in the IHRC.

For more information about the recipient and the award, contact Tessa Eagan, College of Liberal Arts, (612) 625-3781, teagan@umn.edu.

Link for video & transcription: http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/display/31468

A 2009 report, "Severing a lifeline: The Neglect of Citizen Children in America's Immigration Enforcement Policy" takes a detailed look at the impact of immigration law and enforcement policy upon citizen children. The study's authors contend that immigration laws are out of step with the way children are treated in other areas of U.S. law and, at best, marginalize, and at worst totally ignore, the children's status as citizens.

Speakers:
• Katherine Fennelly, Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Moderator
• Joseph Dierkes, Retired Immigration Judge, Executive Office of Immigration Review, U.S. Dept of Justice
• James Kremer, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney, co-author, Severing a Lifeline: The Neglect of Citizen Children in America's Immigration Enforcement Policy
• Representative Carlos Mariani, Minnesota House of Representatives, Chair, House K-12 Education Policy and Oversight Committee
• Esther Wattenberg, Professor, School of Social Work and Policy and Program Coordinator in Child Welfare, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota

Sponsors:
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
University of Minnesota: Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs ; Human Rights Center, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, Immigration History Research Center, Human Rights Program; The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work
Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
Family and Children's Service
League of Women Voters of Minnesota
Jewish Community Action
Catholic Charities of St. Paul/Mpls - Office for Social Justice
Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network

Featured articles in the journal's special section include "Introduction: Variation in the Gender Composition" by Katharine M. Donato, "Transitions in Gender Ratios among International migrants, 1820-1930" by Donna Gabaccia and Elizabeth Zanoni, and "Gender and the 'Laws of Migration': A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century Patterns" by J. Trent Alexander and Annemarie Steidl. A fourth article, "Money is not Everything and That's the Bottom Line" by Johanna Leinonen, is based on research by Leinonen while working with Gabaccia. José C. Moya's article "Commentary: Gender and Migration" Search for Answers to Basic Questions" rounds out the section.

The IHRC's Gender Ratios and Global Migrations project sought to bring together demographers, historians, and anthropologists to use IPUMS data for the research. It was supported by the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Population Center and Office of International Programs. Cosponsors also included the Russell Sage Foundation and Vanderbilt University's College of Arts and Sciences.

The award letter recently received by Donna R. Gabaccia, IHRC director and Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, commends the IHRC for "outstanding efforts in promoting the knowledge and use of documentation of the immigrant experience through the Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project."

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award recognizes an institution, project team or archivist for exceptional achievement in making archival documents available to the public for education, teaching or other activities.

"The award committee expresses its high regard for the team's efforts to promote access to immigrant letters through an inviting and useful web site," wrote Lisa Conathan, chair of the award subcommittee.

"We particularly recognize the stellar presentation of transcriptions and translations of letters in several languages, which makes the multilingual material accessible both in the original language and in English. The web access, together with the project's sponsorship of scholars, public talks and exhibits, increase public awareness of American immigrant history for scholars, family historians, and the general public."

For information about the IHRC's integration of public events, scholarly collaborations and ongoing development of the project, visit the Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project (2008-present) information page.

The University of Minnesota Libraries' Media Archive (U Media Archive) hosts the historical materials available through the project, and letters can be searched through Libraries' portal as well as seen in the online exhibition accessed through links on the IHRC homepage.

A member of IHRC staff will attend the Society of American Archivists annual meeting in San Diego this August to receive the award on behalf of the project team.

The Michael G. Karni Scholarship provides $1,000 for a minimum of ten days of research at the IHRC. The scholarship is named in honor of Michael Karni, a Finnish-American scholar whose work at the IHRC preserved and created access to numerous ethnic collections. Applicants must propose research in the Center's Finnish-American or Baltic collections, with preference given to Finnish topics. Two reference letters are required.

Grants in Aid of up to $500 are available to support five-day residencies or $1,000 for a ten-day post-doctoral residency. Applications will be accepted to support work in any IHRC collection, but post-doctoral funding availability is strongest in these areas: Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian and Near Eastern.

Grants in Aid may support research for academic publication, public history projects, interpretive treatments or performing arts exploring the broad theme of immigrant communication. A short list of collections/print materials to be studied and a plan for dissemination of research are required in the application. Post-doctoral scholars will provide research-in-progress talks while at the IHRC.

The Center's scholarship and grant funding is intended to help defray expenses of visiting graduate students, faculty and independent scholars from the U.S. and abroad who travel from locations outside of the Twin Cities to conduct research in the IHRC's collections. Grants are available through the generosity of donors to the IHRC's ethnic and general funds, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History and the Michael G. Karni Scholarship Fund. Awards are made on a competitive basis for research specific to the IHRC's collections, as funding permits. Applicants must have language skills adequate for their research.

Information about specific fund programs is available at www.ihrc.umn.edu. Researchers should discuss their topics with archival staff to ensure a competitive application. An individual can receive support from only one program in a year and customarily no more than two awards.

The IHRC holds one of the most important historical collections in the world of multi-ethnic immigrant experience and migration. The center's archival and print collections contain:

(1) mass migration to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, Finland and the Near East;
(2) 20th-century displaced persons, including those from Europe after World War II and newer migration streams from Africa and Southeast Asia; and
(3) representative collections documenting U.S. immigration.

About 2,000 archival finding aids are available online at www.ihrc.umn.edu, with about half of the center's historical print listed through the University of Minnesota's cataloging system (www.lib.umn.edu). After reviewing finding aids, please e-mail ihrc[at]umn.edu to request a consultation with the archivist to ensure that proposed research matches available collections.

Availability: Awards may be used for research at the IHRC between August 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013 during the Center's normal working hours and days.

Terms: The Karni Scholarship and the Post-doctoral Grant in Aid provide up to $1,000 for a research residency of not less than two weeks (ten research days). Recipients will give a public presentation during the residency. Grant-in-Aid awards for up to $500 support a research residency at the IHRC of not less than one week (five research days). Presentation may be proposed in application (optional).

Application Deadline: June 1, 2012.

Who May Apply? Graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, faculty, and independent scholars, in the U.S. or internationally, who live more than a day's drive from the Twin Cities.

Selection Criteria:
(1) Demonstrated connection between research and specific historical materials at the IHRC
(2) Language proficiency for the proposed collections
(3) Plan for disseminating research
(4) Preference for the Karni Scholarship is for Finnish-American topics. Preference for Grants in Aid given to newer and international scholars (including graduate students); post-doctoral applicantions are especially encouraged for Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian and Near Eastern collections

Application Materials:
(1) Application letter of no more than two pages (outlining research project, plan for dissemination, collections to be consulted, dates of residency and budget)
(2) Current curriculum vitae of no more than two pages
(3) The Karni Scholarship application requires two letters of reference to be submitted; Grant-in-Aid applications require only names and contact information (including email) for two references

Send application materials electronically with time stamp of June 1, 2012, and subject line "Visiting Scholar Funding" to ihrc[at]umn.edu. Applications also may be sent to the following postal address, postmarked by June 1, 2012:

Visiting Scholar Funding
c/o Program Director
Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota
311 Elmer L. Andersen Library
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Questions about preparing the application may be sent to E. Haven Hawley, Program Director, at ihrc[at]umn.edu.

The Immigration History Research Center is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Cosponsors:

• SCSU Faculty Research Group on Immigrant Workers in Minnesota


• St. Cloud State University College of Liberal Arts, School of Public Affairs, College of Health and Human Services, and the Herberger Business School,


• University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center,


• University of Minnesota Chicano Studies Department,


• College of St. Benedict and St. John Gender and Women's Studies Program,


• Macalester College Global Citizenship Institute,


• SEIU Local 26

Using examples, participants will experiment with ways to make exhibit content meaningful and memorable for visitors by employing media, educational components, label writing, and design. Description and registration information.

Who Should Attend:
This workshop is intended for museum staff and volunteers who want to create more engaging and effective exhibits. It's also an opportunity for managers and board members to gain insight into the processes of exhibit development and design. A supportive, team-based environment will build skills, confidence, and a network of colleagues.

StEPs Connections:
This workshop may help institutions achieve the standards in the Interpretation section of the StEPs program.

The main goals of the conference are:
1) to establish guidelines for the documentation and preservation of emigre Latvian history;
2) to provide representatives of Latvian organizations and volunteers basic training in working with print, archival materials, and artifacts of material culture (with emphasis on archival materials); and
3) to create a cooperative global network for continued efforts in the documenting and preserving of the history of emigre Latvians.

The following institutions have confirmed participation: Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota), Latvians Abroad Museum (Latvia); University of Washington; Western Michigan University; University of Wisconsin-River Falls, National Library of Latvia, Latvian State Archive, Embassy of Latvia in the United States, and Straumēni Latvian Documentation Center in the United Kingdom.

The conference is open to community and professional archivists, as well as other individuals with a committed interest in preservation and access issues for Latvian diaspora cultural materials. The languages of the conference will be English and Latvian, with summary translations provided to attendees.

A registration form is available through the IHRC in English by e-mailing ihrc@umn.edu. Latvian and English versions of the form will be uploaded to the IHRC website by Monday, March 5.

Attendees must register by March 15, 2012. For more information in English, e-mail Haven Hawley at ihrc@umn.edu. For information in Latvian, contact Ilze Garoza at ilze.garoza@alausa.org or by phone 301-340-1914.

The award honors immigrants who have made substantial contributions to their communities or professions through exceptional leadership, high achievement, or moral courage. The 2012 honorees exemplify how treating immigrants with dignity strengthens our moral fabric and brings our country great financial benefits. Through a partnership with the Immigration History Research Center, AILA MN/Dakotas produces oral histories archived by the IHRC at the University of Minnesota.

Zoltai and Contreras will receive their awards at a naturalization ceremony on Friday, March 2, 2012, at the University of Minnesota. The event, co-hosted by the Immigration History Research Center, will be followed by a reception honoring the awardees and newly-naturalized U.S. citizens. Seating is limited, but the ceremony will be streamed online.

Olga Zoltai has spent over 50 years in public service, helping refugees and other immigrants settle in Minnesota. In 1971, Ms. Zoltai was the sole immigration counselor at the International Institute of Minnesota. Over the next 22 years, she managed and expanded the program, helping many thousands of immigrants come to Minnesota, including the first Hmong refugees.

She founded the Minnesota Hungarians, which helped Hungarian immigrants adjust to life in the United States and preserve their culture. She has also worked on humanitarian projects in her native Hungary, providing aid to Hungarian Unitarian churches in repressed Transylvanian villages and helping establish sustainable agriculture there. In her community and among her peers, she was well known for tirelessly pursuing "impossible" cases until they succeeded.

In 1989, she was invited to attend a White House ceremony announcing the US government's decision to grant Hungary Most Favored Nation status. On the occasion of her retirement in 1993, the Star Tribune referred to her in a headline as the "Patron Saint" of area immigrants.

A refugee herself, Ms. Zoltai escaped war-torn Hungary in 1945 and fled to Austria where she met her future husband, Tibor. The couple immigrated to Alberta, Canada, where they labored in sugar beet fields as indentured agricultural workers. Later they moved to Massachusetts, where Tibor completed a graduate program at MIT, and then to Minnesota in 1959. Tibor, a distinguished immigrant in his own right, passed away in 2003. They have three children and six grandchildren. At 80 years old, Ms. Zoltai plans to travel to India to learn about illiterate girls and an agricultural union involved in helping the poor.

Victor Contreras is a third-generation migrant worker from Mexico who began coming to Minnesota on a seasonal basis in 1990. Although he resembles millions of other migrants who have benefited the U.S. agriculture industry with their labors, his story stands out. After witnessing the poor conditions that his fellow laborers faced, he and some colleagues began organizing on their behalf, eventually forming Centro Campesino in Owatonna. In 2000, they won concessions from Chiquita Canning company, including the provision of a childcare facility, hot water, new beds, appliances, separate bathrooms, and a storm shelter in the worker's camp.

As an active leader in the organization until his retirement last summer, he and Centro Campesino greatly aided migrants by improving working conditions at area companies, helping secure passage of the Improving State Protections For Migrant Workers Act (which formalized worker protections into law), and filing a lawsuit on behalf of a dozen families who were discriminated against and displaced by a city in southeast Minnesota. They have also assisted students, winning passage in 2009 of the Flat Rate Tuition Bill, which ensures in-state tuition to all residents of the state, regardless of their background. Originally undocumented, Mr. Contreras benefited from the legalization program established under Ronald Reagan and obtained his U.S. citizenship in 2000.

He lives with his wife, Gloria, in Owatonna. He has two children and one grandchild. Although he is retired, he continues to assist Minnesota immigrants, striving for justice and dignity in the face of adverse circumstances.

Due to limited seating, the March 2 event will be live streamed so it can be viewed from other locations. Follow these instructions if you would like to view the broadcast.

Before the event:
1) Test Your Computer - To test your computer and make sure that you have the Silverlight Plugin installed visit http://mediasite.uvs.umn.edu/Mediasite/Viewer/?peid=c1748f2d1da8467aa8b415e79b94b020
2) If you are unable to view video and hear audio on this test, you will need to make sure that the Microsoft Silverlight plugin is installed. This free plugin installation can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx
3) After installing this plugin, test again to verify the video/audio stream.

Joining and Participating in the event:
1) Join the event 10 minutes early. Go to:
http://mediasite.uvs.umn.edu/Mediasite/Viewer/?peid=b63e72c63ad34266bbd628680541182f

Please note: The event will be live streamed and will not be available later.

Sheeko is a collection of Somali youth stories created by and for Somali youth. During 2010- 2011, a team of Somali students collected dozens of interviews with Somalis between the ages of 18-25. Many of of the narrators live in Minnesota and London.

The website includes a selection of video clips from Sheeko interviews, with a variety of topics reflecting migration experiences of young people, whose perspectives often are not the focus of oral history projects. The interview clips are organized into categories of Advice, Difficulties, Early Life, Education, Family, Gendered Experiences, Identity, Islam and Journeys. Full interviews are archived at the Immigration History Research Center.

Team members write, "We hope these stories will provide a better understanding of the lives of Somali youth. We also hope other Somali youth will find these videos to be useful as they encounter similar experiences in their own lives. This website provides insight into our lives and encourages discussion with Somali youth. Mahadsanid! (Thank you!)"

Undergraduates Kafia Ahmed, Mustafa Jumale, Mohamed Dirie, Fartun Abdi, Saida Hassan and graduate student Andy Wilhide worked with Donna Gabaccia, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, to create this web archive of immigrant stories reflecting young refugee perspectives. Program Director Haven Hawley advised the project team, with support from CLA-OIT and the Digital Content Library staff at University of Minnesota.

The fellowships support students conducting research in specific portions of the IHRC's vast archives and print collections, providing $8,300 in stipend and up to $8,300 toward certain fees/tuition during each semester held. The IHRC's collections are national in scope and rank among the world's most important for documenting North American immigration and diaspora history.

In 2012-2013, fellowship applications for research by UMN graduate students in the IHRC's Estonian, Finnish and Italian collections will be accepted. Language facility appropriate to proposed research and topic of study is required, and fellows are expected to participate in the IHRC scholarly community. In addition to a stipend and fees allowance, a cubicle for the duration of the fellowship period is supplied by IHRC.

Nomination packets must be received directly from the student's department by February 15, 2012. Departments may nominate only one student per award. When semester is specified, fellowship will be offered only during that period (or for the following summer semester). Fellowship nomination forms may be found at: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/educators/fellowships.php

IHRC collection fellowships are most appropriate for students in the research or prospectus formation phases of their University of Minnesota programs.

Please contact Haven Hawley, Program Director at the IHRC, for more information about 2012-2013 fellowships. The IHRC has graduate fellowships in Arabic, Estonian, Finnish, Italian and Latvian awarded at varying intervals, but only three fellowships will be offered for 2012-2013. The IHRC collections may be searched online from our homepage: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu

IHRC Fellowships Available for UMN Graduate Students in 2012-2013:

Estonian (2 semesters - 2012-2013) - The Hildegard and Gustav Must Graduate Fellowship in Estonian American Studies provides support for a UMN graduate student conducting research in the Estonian American collections of IHRC, which are almost entirely in Estonian. These collections only recently have become accessible and offer a major opportunity for breakthrough scholarship on Cold War exile organizations, arts and culture, and refugee integration. Certain film holdings are in English, and other collections include English, Finnish, German, Polish or Russian. Spotlight on Edmund Valtman Papers (editorial cartoonist) is available.

Finnish (1 semester - spring 2013) - The IHRC Graduate Fellowship in Finnish American Studies supports a student conducting research in IHRC Finnish American collections, which are in Finnish and English. Excellent holdings for Finnish publishing, sociology and labor topics, with some religious materials also available. Oral histories for early 20th-c. Finnish American theatre (in Finnish and English) will be available by 2013. Immigrant radicalism is a long-standing strength of the collections (Carl Ross Papers).

Italian (1 semester - spring 2013) - The UNICO National Graduate Fellow in Italian American Studies will work on a topic in Italian American collections that are typically in Italian and English. The collections have a range comparable to the Finnish American Collection. Italian transnational topics in labor, music/performing arts and literature have exceptional support in this collection, with ethnic publishing and organizations also a foundation of the collections. See Diego Delfino Paper and Allessandro Sisca Papers in Digitizing Immigrant Letters project.

IHRC and other archives and special collections in Andersen Library will provide limited service the first week of January 2012 (January 3-6). Andersen Library staff will not be able to register new researchers or pull materials for research use.

Researchers who have registered by December 15 and make advance arrangements with IHRC staff for materials to be available in the reading room will be accommodated as much as possible.

The Andersen Library reading room will be open 8:30-4:30 M-F beginning Monday, January 9. Extended hours on Wednesday and Thursday evening will resume January 18.

Karni Scholarship
The Michael G. Karni Scholarship will be awarded to Katja Hyry, a professional teacher of religion in Helsinki Senior Secondary School of Natural Sciences. Dr. Hyry received her doctoral degree from the University of Lapland in 2011. Her project "Marks of the Finnish Americans" generates an ethnobiographical study of the relationship of long-term and recent memory. Her work at the IHRC will focus on the writings of Aili Jarvenpa. Separately, Dr. Hyry will conduct interviews among Finnish Americans, with interviews in Minneapolis. She plans to conduct research at IHRC either in June of 2012 or to be in residence at the Center during 2012-2013.

Post-Doctoral Awards
Irēne Elksnis Geisler graduated in 2011 from the Department of History at Western Michigan University. She will give a talk on her research project "The Gendered Plight of Terror: Annexation and Exile in Latvia 1940-1953" during a visit in spring 2012.

Maria Kaliambou, senior lector I in the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University, plans to visit the IHRC in March 2012. Her research topic is "The Book Culture of Greek-Americans."

John Tofik Karam, assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Program at DePaul University, presented "Area Studies through Diasporic Eyes: Philip Hitti and the AUB alumni network in Brazil" during a visit in August.

Grant-in-Aid Recipients
Melissa May Borja, Columbia University (doctoral candidate), " 'To Follow the New Rule or Way': Hmong Refugee Resettlement and Religious Change, 1975-1990," visited during September 2011.

Yehonathan Brodski, University of Texas at Austin (doctoral candidate), "Philip Hitti and the Making of the Modern Middle East," visit being scheduled.

Volodymyr Iushkevych, Ukrainian Studies (defended thesis 2011), Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, "Ukrainian Displaced Persons' Relief: Assistance of American government and national emigrant organizations to Ukrainian DPs," January/February 2012.

Heather Lee, Department of American Civilization (doctoral student), Brown University, "Inventing Chinese Food: Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Consumer Culture in the United States, 1882-1965," visited September/October 2011 and presented her research project as part of the Global Race, Ethnicity & Migration lecture series.

Ji-Hye Shin, Department of History (doctoral candidate), Rutgers University, "Insanity on the Move: The 'Alien Insane' in Modern America, 1882-1930," visited August 2011.

Guidelines for the 2012-2013 funding cycle will be publicized on the IHRC homepage in spring 2012. For information about assistance offered by IHRC either for visiting scholars or graduate students at the University of Minnesota to support research in the Center's collections, visit Fellowships, Scholarships & Grants.

The film looks at the neighborhood as a home for many and changing ethnic groups, from Jewish immigrants to African American residents. Cathy Wurzer of Minnesota Public Radio interviewed Marilyn Chiat and producer Daniel Pierce Bergin in a segment about the film.

"Cornerstones" presents powerful stories of Northside life interwoven with themes of immigration, race relations and cultural changes through place-based memories.

The Universty of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center co-produced the documentary with the Minnesota Channel of Twin Cities Public Television.
"Cornerstones: Stories of Place on the North Side" premiered at 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, on tpt MN.

More information about the film and later broadcasts dates are available here.

The project proved to be a good practice for Mia who started her graduate studies in the Library Science program at St. Catherine University earlier this fall, following her internship at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul.

The result of the processing project, a new finding aid providing better access to the collection, is now included in the IHRC's on-line directory of finding aids and can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/ro/ihrc2288.html

Participants in the seminar will be exposed to a variety of approaches that archivists, librarians, and scholars use to locate source material in an exceedingly complex repository landscape. They will also learn about how historical materials are acquired, stored, and made available to scholars. Scholars actively engaged in research will be available for questions on research methods, strategy, and planning.

Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at a North American institution of higher education. This program seeks qualified applicants with an interest in historical studies in a broad range of fields (art history, history, literature, musicology, etc.) The program is open for graduate students whose projects require they consult source material in German archives and research libraries as well as handwritten materials in old German script. Those who have already chosen a dissertation topic, written a dissertation proposal, but have not yet began on actual research (ABD). Prospective candidates must have excellent knowledge of written and spoken German. All parts of the program will be conducted in German. The organizers will evaluate applicants' German proficiency by telephone interview prior to participant selection.

The program pays for round-trip air transportation to and from Germany, ground transportation to, from, and during the program, and accommodations. Participants are expected to bring funds for private travel and most meals (lunches and dinners).

Applications are due December 31, 2011. Please click here for the current call for applications. http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1211&Itemid=1057

Spotlight on Selected Sources has many online exhibitions for topics such as community-based service organizations, book arts, music among immigrant communities, political cartooning, pre-1965 immigration law reform debate, and other topics.

Read about the experiences of immigrants in their own words by studying Digitizing Immigrant Letters. Letters from Italian, Russian, Croatian, Latvian, Finnish and Ukrainian families reveal how they dealt with the major change of separation from loved ones. (Selected letters are translated into English.)

Other IHRC resources are available under links on the homepage for special projects, resources for educators and students, and community materials.

Thousands of images are available through the University of Minnesota's UMedia Archives . Search for historical materials for your History Day project online, and contact archivists at the University of Minnesota to make an appointment to come in person for your research.

The IHRC is one of many Archives and Special Collections at the University of Minnesota. For more resources, be sure to access materials through the University of Minnesota Libraries website.

Have a great research experience!

For more on participating in National History Day

The course is made up of five lessons:
* Archives and Archivists
* Acquiring Your Collections
* Processing Collections
* Housing Your Collections
* Access and Outreach

The course is web-based and takes 15-20 hours to complete. There are no required times to be online. You may finish the course anytime during the four-week course period.

To learn more, visit the Basics of Archives page at http://www.aaslh.org/basicsofarchives.htm.

Enrolled in StEPs?
This workshop may help institutions achieve the standards in the Audience and Stewardship of Collections sections of AASLH's StEPs Program.

Terra Populus: A Global Population / Environment Data Network (or TerraPop for short)was awarded a five-year, $8M grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyber Infrastructure.

"The project will make two centuries of demographic data interoperable with global environmental data including land cover, land use, and climate records," according to Steve Ruggles, MPC Director and Professor of History at University of Minnesota.
"In addition, TerraPop will create a new international organization of data producers, data archives, and data users to promote historical data integration and ensure long-run preservation and access."

The Minnesota Population Center will lead the effort with support from the Institute on the Environment, the U of M Libraries and faculty from the College of Liberal Arts and College of Science and Engineering. Additional partners include the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.

The team plans to disseminate the newly available data to researchers around the world.

The Minnesota Population Center is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research, serving faculty and researchers across the University of Minnesota as well as some 50,000 scholars worldwide. IHRC Director Donna Gabaccia and Program Director Haven Hawley are among the U's scholars who collaborate frequently with MPC on immigration and migration research.

For more information on the project, visit MPC's website!

The IAS invites applications for IAS Faculty Fellowships 2012-13. Faculty from all UMN campuses are eligible to apply for one-semester residential fellowships at the IAS. Full information and application instructions are at http://www.ias.umn.edu/fellowsapply.php. Applications are due Friday, October 21.

The IAS and University of Minnesota Press invite applications for Quadrant Fellowships 2012-13. Please note that these fellowships are not open to faculty or staff at the University of Minnesota and may not be used for work toward a degree. Applications are due Thursday, November 17. Full information and application instructions are at http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrantapply.php.

Rim Triki, American Studies, University of Tunis El-Manar, is at the IHRC through mid-October. Her talk as part of the Global REM seminar series was "Tunisian Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity: Past and Present" (Sept. 13).

Fulbright scholar Florence Vychytil is a graduate student at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Florence will be in residence at the IHRC through mid-spring 2012 and doing research on connections among Polish immigrant organizations in France, the U.S. and Canada.

Schell co-directed and co-edited the film with Tou SaiKo Lee, one of three artists that Schell documents in We Rock Long Distance. Taking its title from the spirals in Hmong paj ntaub,"Travel in Spirals" is the emotionally powerful story of the Hmong artist's journey back to Thailand, nearly 30 years after his family fled the aftermath of the Vietnam War for the United States.

Schell's film project travels back and forth from the Twin Cities to Ghana, Puerto Rico and Thailand to learn about Twin Cities hip-hop culture. The IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts recently selected We Rock Long Distance as a project for fiscal sponsor. The sponsorship allows supporters to make tax-deductible contributions to IFP Mediat Arts that are directed to independent arts projects. The organization provides oversight and distribution of funds, as well as support crucial for publicity and advancement of projects.

Schell considers the fiscal sponsorship an important step in ensuring the success of his documentary film project, which requires him to travel extensively after significant filming in the Twin Cities. He provided an update to IHRC about the project:

We Rock Long Distance in Ghana, Part 2

"This coming Sunday, I leave for Ghana, to continue some of the work I started on my trip with M.anifest last Fall. This trip is built around a conference for M.anifest's Grandpa, J.H. Kwabena Nketia. It will feature scholars from around the world speaking about Nketia's work, as well as presenting their research built upon Nketia's incredible intellectual foundations from nearly seven decades of work. In a fantastic irony, M.anifest will release his latest album, Coming to America: Immigrant Chronicles, while I'm in speaking at the conference in Ghana! Check out his website for more information. Lastly, if you haven't seen it already, check out the video we made for "Suffer," shot on location last year in Ghana."

We Rock Long Distance in Puerto Rico

"This summer, Maria Isa and I spent two weeks in Puerto Rico, completing the second 'leg' of We Rock Long Distance. We crisscrossed the island as she performed four times and followed the beat of bomba drums and the masks of the vejigante from San Juan to Ponce to Vega Baja to Arecibo. You can see a selection of videos from the trip over at WRLD website. I shot more than 15 hours of video over the two weeks, so keep an eye out for lots more to come! Also, Maria has teamed up with Muja Messiah as Villa Rosa, and the duo will release their debut Blue Diamond Island this coming Saturday at First Avenue."

We Rock Long Distance in Thailand

"Not quite yet, but it's happening soon. This coming December, in fact. We've laid the foundation with the documentary Travel in Spirals, which Tou SaiKo Lee and I edited from footage Tou shot in 2008 on his very first trip back to Thailand. It will screen on Saturday, September 24th at the Twin Cities Film Festival. You can find out more about the film and purchase tickets over here."

Keeping the Project Going

"The distances that make this project so powerful also post its biggest challenge. The three artists and I have done so much already on an extremely limited budget, even for an independent documentary. IFP Minnesota has seen the incredible potential and worth of this project, which is they chose to fiscally sponsor it. Please help keep this project going with a fully tax-deductible donation. Thank you for your support!"

Follow Justin's work on Twitter or friend him on Facebook to keep posted about We Rock Long Distance. He is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and has been involved with IHRC immigrant documentary projects, such as Digitizing Immigrant Letters and Minnesota 2.0.

This year's program will feature a report by historians Dr. Marilyn Chiat, Professor Jeanne Halgren Kilde and doctoral candidate Andy Wilhide on their research into religious congregations and houses of worship formed by early settlers in nine neighborhoods developed along the Mississippi River between 1849 and 1924. The project explores themes such as community creation, ethnicity and identity, relationships among congregations, intra-congregational interactions, the role of houses of worship, and social class structures. The goal of the project is to document the long heritage of religious diversity that has been central to this area's growth and development.

Please send your advance reservation by November 1, 2011, and a check payable to the Friends of the IHRC to: Friends of the IHRC, c/o Vicki Albu, 326 23rd Court S., South St. Paul, MN 55075. The evening includes a social hour, dinner (indicate choice of Maple Vinegar Chicken or Vegetarian) and entertainment by a Ukrainian village band. Please direct any questions to young745@umn.edu.

Please see the winter/spring Program Director's update for information about our work to process the IHRC's unselected and partially cataloged books and serials. We are making headway in highlighting the distinctiveness of our collection, as well as reducing the number of duplicates so that space can be saved for new acquisitions.

Capacity Project Volunteers

During summer 2010, volunteers from the Latvian Organization of Associations in Minnesota included Anna Hobbs, Ausma Giga, Janis Robins, as well as Baiba Olinger, Rita Drone, and Zane Mikelsone. American Latvian Association Graduate Fellow Ilze Garoza assisted volunteers as they made signifi cant headway in sorting Latvian print materials.

Edyta Dudek, Blanche Krbechek and Marta Alicja Swica of the Polanie Club also volunteered, providing Polish language expertise. Friends of the IHRC formed a Capacity Subcommittee, comprised of Vicki Albu, Celeste Raspanti and Walter Anastas, to help coordinate volunteers for further projects and to research possible recipients for out-of-scope and duplicate print.

New on the IHRC's Webpage

Publications produced by the IHRC during its 45-year history are being scanned and made available for free download from the Center's website. Cindy Herring continues to coordinate a project to provide access to all bound IHRC publications, including Spectrum, IHRC News and collection fi nding aids that predate today's online system.

Ukrainian Print Processing Project

In October 2010, IHRC began processing its Ukrainian American unprocessed print donations. Ihar Labacevich is working with Daniel Necas to identify books to be added to the IHRC's book and periodical collections. Duplicates will be offered to interested institutions in the United States and Ukraine.

George Papademetriou Papers Processing Project

Undergraduate Research Assistant Mary George is processing (with Daniel Necas) the papers of Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou (20 lin. ft., 1930s-1990s) who has been actively involved in Greek American religious circles as well as in interreligious dialogue in the United States and beyond. Rev. Papademetriou has served Greek Orthodox parishes in Texas, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Massachusetts. He also taught and directed the library at the Holy Cross Seminary/Hellenic College in Brookline, Mass., before his retirement in 2003.

Improved Finding Aids

Daniel Necas, student workers and community volunteers improve the Center's archival finding aids continuously, with special attention to collections of high interest to researchers. Recent new or improved archival finding aids include:

Sucheng Chan Papers
Dominic Massaro Papers
Philip Khuri Hitti Papers
United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Records
Anatoly Rozenblat Papers
Barbara Hendrickson DiNucci Papers
Estonian Archives in the United States Records
Finlandia Foundation Records
Romilda Foti Papers
Karen Freeze Papers
Antti Kopra Papers
Stella Mucha Mickritz Papers
John Edor Larson Papers
Theodora and Walter Storozynsky Papers
Fanny Jarvi Hammarlund Papers
Adunata Dei Refratari FBI Files Collection
Life Histories Project, University of Minnesota, Collections

Visit IHRC at www.ihrc.umn.edu to see our redesigned homepage, coordinated by Cindy Herring!

Recipients must be new full-time undergraduate students who demonstrate academic promise and financial need. The award is renewable for three additional years provided acceptable progress.

The Louis P. and Mary Ann Novak Scholarship was established by the Novak family to honor Lou and Mary Ann Novak. Of Croatian parentage, Lou spoke only Hungarian and Croatian until he was five years of age. Until his death in 2004, Lou served as President of the Croatian Cultural Society of Minnesota for ten years, bringing together Croatians throughout the state of Minnesota for cultural and social functions.

Mary Ann, a first generation Italian American, has volunteered at the Immigration History Research Center as well as the Friends of the IHRC, helping to preserve the stories of immigrants, helping keep her Italian heritage and Lou's Croatian heritage alive, and helping others learn about their own family history.

For more information visit http://scholarships.cla.umn.edu.

Prof. Gabaccia advised on historical and current aspects of intermarriage among immigrants to the United States. The resulting feature looks specifically at intermarriage among Somali immigrants, especially in the Twin Cities.

Dr. Haven Hawley spent the week of July 25 as a printer in residence at Rare Book School, a program held annually at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The Washington Post included photos of her work in print and online features.

See "Summer camp for bibliophiles" for photos of her demonstration of printing on a replica (ca. 1800) Franklin Common Press.

In Maribor and Ljubljana (in Slovenia), in Vienna, in Bratislava and Martin, and in Prague, they talked with researchers who have been exploring how immigrants from their respective countries maintained contacts with their families and friends in Europe, conferred with individuals who either collected or curated major collections of print and manuscript materials that document the lives of Slovenians, Czechs, Austrians, Germans, and Slovaks abroad, and consulted with students pursuing dissertations on topics related to immigration and emigration.

The trip helped to advance an ongoing IHRC research collaboration with Matjaz Klemencic and the American Studies Department at the University of Maribor.

The IHRC has especially strong collections written in the languages of the many peoples ruled by the Austro Hungarian empire in the years before 1918. It hopes to encourage collaborations among scholars and archivists that will extend its Digitizing Immigrant Letters research initiative and call attention to the rich repositories of letters awaiting scholars who are eager to compare, connect, and deepen our knowledge of the many chains of communication and migration that originated in Central Europe.

The IHRC will staff a booth at the University of Minnesota Building, 1670 Dan Patch Ave., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 28.

Highlighted IHRC collections will include the Digitizing Immigrant Letters project and Sheeko, created by a student researcher team supervised by IHRC Director Donna Gabaccia.

While Digitizing Immigrant Letters focuses on how letters in the IHRC's existing historical collections document the emotional connections among immigrants separated by distance, Sheeko provides a fresh perspective by recording interviews with Somali youth who talk about their first-hand experience migrating and making a life in America. Sheeko means "stories" in Somali. When completed, the videos allow the researchers to create an online collection for the IHRC.

For more on IHRC projects during the past year, read the Director's column about Scholarly Collaboration & Programming.

We'll be wearing our Minnesota colors at the booth, and we look forward to seeing you on Aug. 28th as incoming University President Eric Kaler tours the Minnesota Building displays!

Tickets for the play, which begins at 2 pm, are available from Girl Friday Productions. The panel afterwards is free and will begin about 4 pm. Panel participants include Haven Hawley, IHRC program director, and Christine "Kit" Gordon, dramaturg for Girl Friday Productions. The discussion is open to the public.

Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" is a rich collage of universal dramas and dreams, weaving the experiences of immigrants in an American city into a play depicting many family stories in the early twentieth century.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play is produced by Girl Friday Productions and directed by Craig Johnson, and will be performed July 7-30 at the Minneapolis Theater Garage, 711 W. Franklin Ave in Minneapolis. For tickets to the performances call 612-729-1071.

More information, please visit the website for Girl Friday Productions.

From the publisher: "Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Indian to the Atlantic Oceans. Detailed case studies demonstrate the importance of human migration in the development, consolidation and critique of empire-building, theories of race, modern capitalism, and large-scale commercial agriculture and industry on every continent."

For further information:
http://www.brill.nl/publications/books/connecting-seas-and-connected-ocean-rims

The event will be at the next Community Roundtable to be held at the International Institute of MN. The documentary is about perceptions of "otherness" caused by ethnic or religious dress.

Date: May 27, 2011
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: 1694 Como Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108

This award recognizes the top 10% of the undergraduate student employees on campus for outstanding contributions to the department and the University community. Keit and Mia received the award certificates at a reception on Wednesday, April 27th.

Keit works on processing collections with IHRC archivist Daniel Necas.

Mia provides administrative and collection support in the IHRC office

IHRC Director Donna Gabaccia and a number of undergraduate researchers working with Professor Gabaccia presented research April 11-12, 2011, at St. Cloud State University.

UMN students presenting at the conference included Mohamed Dirie, Saida Hassan and Mustafa Jumale of the Sheeko Project and John Ziegler. The Sheeko Project is an IHRC documentary effort to record oral histories of young Somali immigrants discussing their aspirations.

IHRC Director and Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair Donna R. Gabaccia gave a keynote lecture titled "Workers at the Border: Class in American Immigration Policy."

An undergraduate honors student, Jumale is majoring in Sociology and African American & African Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.

The conference is sponsored by the SCSU College of Social Sciences (COSS) Faculty Research Group on Immigrant Workers in Minnesota and the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center.

Faculty and student researchers will present their research on a wide range of topics, including agricultural activity, demography and settlement patterns, economic measures for discussing immigration, employment, labor organizations, and language acquisition. UMN students presenting at the conference include Mohamed Dirie, Saida Hassan, Mustafa Jumale and John Ziegler.

Dirie, Hassan and Jumale also will discuss Sheeko, an oral history project documenting perspectives of young Somali immigrants and their aspirations. They are working with the IHRC to research Somali youth integration.

IHRC Director and Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair Donna R. Gabaccia will give a keynote lecture titled "Workers at the Border: Class in American Immigration Policy" on April 12.

The award was established by Mrs. Florence Saloutos in memory of Professor Theodore Saloutos (distinguished historian and first president of the Immigration History Society). It is presented annually by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States.

Now assistant professor of history at Smith College, Professor Guglielmo received her PhD in history from the University of Minnesota, specializing in the Italian American experience. As a graduate research assistant at the IHRC, Guglielmo worked extensively on the Order Sons of Italy in America archives gathering additional material, integrating everything, and creating new and updated collection descriptions.

** Congratulations, Jennifer! **

Living the Revolution, Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

More on the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award

The Immigration History Research Center is an interdisciplinary research center in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Founded in 1965, the IHRC promotes research on international migration with a special emphasis on immigrant and refugee life in the United States.

The archival and print collections of the IHRC are vast and focus on two streams of immigration. The first is that of chiefly European mass migration in the latter 19th century and the early 20th century, generally described as people migrating from the areas bounded by Finland, Italy and lands formerly known as greater Syria.

A second area of strength for the IHRC is the theme of 20th-century refugees, including post-World War II displaced persons, southeast Asian and African refugees, and others considered involuntary migrants.

The IHRC collects limited materials documenting other types of U.S. immigration. The Center provides representative documentation for many groups, particularly those who eventually came to Minnesota or the Midwest, are of special interest to University of Minnesota researchers, and whose materials generate useful comparisons in the field of migration studies. The IHRC does not comprehensively collect materials outside of its two main clusters of documentation, however.

The IHRC seeks to collaborate with, and not compete with, ethnic community efforts to preserve cultural materials. The IHRC cooperates with homeland repositories, American communities, and other repositories to ensure the greatest possible access to heritage materials created by immigrants.

Current Priorities for IHRC Acquisitions Are:

● Archival materials of first-generation immigrants 1880-1930 and first-generation refugees in the 20th century that fit within the two main collecting areas of the Center.
● Compact, information-rich, and predominantly manuscript collections; non-print collections sent as a whole or as final gifts of an estate to IHRC; and materials for which all rights are fully transferred to IHRC.

What Are Archival Materials?

Archival materials are the unique, original and unpublished documents created by a person or organization. These documents are evidence from the hand of a person or the operations of an organization. Letters, diaries, photo albums, minute books, original documents, correspondence files, or annotated copies of significant publications are good examples of archival materials.

Books, journals and newspapers are rarely themselves archival. Exceptions to this include a newspaper published by an organization that keeps an entire run of that newspaper for staff reference, or an author's book that he or she has added corrections to over time. These types of print can shed light on an owner's thought process.

Current books, newspapers, journals, etc., sent to IHRC at the time of publication are not considered archival because they are not the unique working copies of that organization. While we have tried to accept these materials in the past, we now must require donors to keep a complete set of their own publications and schedule regular acquisition of only historical publication files.

IHRC has begun scheduling 2011 acquisitions for...
● Archival materials that complete a collection (estate gifts or final donations by donor)
● Publications produced as a result of IHRC collections research (books, articles citing IHRC collections)

To discuss acquisition of materials, please contact Haven Hawley, Program Director of the IHRC, at ehh@umn.edu. The IHRC will attempt to answer information requests, although we have fewer staff than in the past due to budget cut backs. We ask all potential donors to fill out a Collection Donation Survey (below) to help us evaluate requests. As you consider whether to request for IHRC to evaluate your historical materials for possible acquisition, please keep several things in mind:

IHRC staff will to the best of our ability consider ...
● Materials from family members after the death of relative or community member, demise of immigrant organization or environmental emergency
● Archival (not print) supplements to collections that are pre-arranged
● Archival materials immediately relevant to staff research projects
● Important individual books from lists of publications prepared by donors
● Supplements to existing collections of materials more than 10 years old (these must be scheduled, even with existing donation agreement)

IHRC is NOT accepting at this time ...
● Book collections or other publications provided as a group. We have an enormous backlog of print materials, and we must first select and identify duplicates before we can accept more.
● Non-archival materials. Our highest priority is preserving space for unique items that otherwise will not be saved.

We appreciate your support in our mission of preserving immigrant voices through donations of material, financial support and your goodwill to the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center.

Collection Donation Survey
Immigration History Research Center

Your Name ___________________________________________

E-mail _______________________________________________

Address ______________________________________________

City _______________________ State ______ ZIP ___________

Date for filling out this form: ________________________

Are you the donor? Circle one: Yes No
(If no, please provide donor's name, your relationship to donor and relevant contact information)

Are these materials related to an existing collection at IHRC? Circle one: Yes No
If yes, how are they related? Are you arranging a donation to complete the collection or to add to it?

Where are these materials stored? Do you have concerns about their condition or environment?

What is your target date for donating these materials? If you have a special reason for urgent donation, please let the Program Director know. We will keep that information confidential.

What immigrant group's experience do these relate to? What time period? What language(s)?

Archival Materials are unique, unpublished products of a person's life or an organization's own records, such as diaries, photos, letters, manuscripts, or minutes taken by an organization's secretary. Published Materials are books, newspapers, souvenir booklets, jubilee albums, etc. Please provide information about Archival and Published items separately in the spaces below, on the back of this sheet or on attached pages.

Archival Materials:
How many boxes of unpublished and/or manuscript material do you have, and what size of boxes are they in? For instance, "3 photocopy paper boxes" or "a 3-drawer, legal-size filing cabinet".

Please describe the unpublished and/or manuscript items that you wish to donate, who created them (and where), and how they came into your possession.

Are you authorized to give IHRC intellectual rights over these items upon donation? Circle one: Yes No

Published Materials:
Please estimate the number of books, newspapers, or other print that you would like to donate. What are the topics of these books? Did you write any of them yourself?

Can you provide a list for IHRC staff to review? Circle one: Yes No

Please e-mail this information to ehh@umn.edu or mail to Haven Hawley, IHRC Program Director, 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Ave. St., Minneapolis, MN 55455.

This survey also is available in electronic form upon request.

Throughout history, questions of access versus restriction have been debated in scientific theory, religion, political thought, and creative thinking. Hawley and Anderson will talk as part of the 2010-2011 First Fridays series sponsored by the University Libraries examining who has decided these questions--and why.

European refugees produced a remarkable outpouring of print in Displaced Person camps immediately after World War II, according to Haven Hawley, Program Director of the Immigration History Research Center. A bibliographer and specialist in artifact analysis, Hawley will discuss how military administration of camps and the scarcity of printing materials affected the production, distribution, and consumption of cultural print.

In February 1942 in the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, authorizing the relocation and internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans. Linnea Anderson, Assistant Archivist of the Social Welfare History Archives, will discuss how evidence in the Survey Associates records reveals how the political climate and the demands of military censorship affected the effort by staff of Survey magazine to present the story of a Japanese detention camp during the World War II era.

The theme for First Fridays this year is "Out of Bounds: Challenging the Status Quo." Light snacks are provided, and attendees bringing their own lunches are welcomed.

For more information about the series, visit the University of Minnesota Libraries' website.

On March 25, 1911, fire broke out in New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and 146 workers, mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, died. Exit doors had been locked, elevators failed, fire escapes crumbled, and the fire department's ladders did not reach high enough. In the aftermath of this disaster, the owners were acquitted of responsibility by a jury. But, immigrant women garment workers across the city built up the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and negotiated economic and physical security, while the city government enacted new regulations about workplace safety and inspections.

This Series is being organized by Jewish Community Action together with a range of historical, educational, labor, immigrant rights, and social justice organizations, including the Immigration History Research Center.

To see a list of events being held in the Twin Cities

To RSVP for events: Lauren Bastien, phone: 651-632-2184

The Leah Kayless Ingber Designated Fund, a designated endowment fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, is seeking grant proposals from Minnesota non-profits to fund projects, programs and/or services for children in immigrant families having difficulty adjusting and integrating into American society. The Fund's focus is on the psychological concerns facing Minnesota youth with immigrant backgrounds which inhibit their adjustment to a new life.

Grants may range to $7,500. Requests for multi-year funding may be considered.

The Fund was established to honor the memory of Leah Kayless Ingber, who immigrated to Minnesota in 1936 and lived here until her death in 1992. Throughout her life, Leah was haunted by tremendous feelings of guilt for escaping the Holocaust while her four sisters and mother perished at the hands of the Nazis. Her family hopes that the Fund will help other immigrants work through their emotional issues in adapting to life in a new country.

Please see following link for more information and application instructions: http://jewishminneapolis.org/page.aspx?id=147317 .

Since spring of 2010, Herring and Wakefield have supervised undergraduate student workers at the IHRC's front desk. Current workers include Taylor Brendmoen, Sadie Dogget, Dan Grussing, Muna Mohammed, Mia Overly and Kao Choua Vue.

The work group developed new processes to identify decision points for assisting researchers on-site as well as those making queries by phone or e-mail. Students created an orientation about the IHRC collections for new visitors. The team also produced a flow chart for the IHRC's work to process its backlog of print acquisitions. The chart also provides decision points, making it possible for students to understand their role in a large and complex project.

The IHRC receives about 2,000 reference requests each year from off-site researchers, and the new process allows collections staff to respond efficiently. The new process has helped to preserve blocks of time so that collections staff can continue processing archival and print materials, assist on-site researchers, and provide specialized consultations to researchers and faculty.

The theme of the 2011 Quality Fair and Forum is "Working Together, Learning from Each Other." Registration to attend this free event is available on-line. Features include 42 poster displays, informative breakout presentations and tools sessions, a compelling keynote speaker, opportunities to network and learn from University colleagues, a snack buffet, and door prizes.

When designating a gift to IHRC, please identfy the donation as being for the College of Liberal Arts and write instructions to direct funds to the Immigration History Research Center. The IHRC's priority fund is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History.

The Director of the IHRC holds the Vecoli Chair, and funds allow the Director to train graduate and undergraduate students in immigration history, develop courses and innovative research projects, provide scholarships for community archival training and visiting researchers, and to develop major projects such as Digitizing Immigrant Letters.

To learn how your contribution can make a difference in the IHRC's work preserving immigrant history, please contact Haven Hawley, Program Director, or Eva Widder, CLA External Relations.

The study documents and seeks to understand how 1.5 and 2nd generation Mexican, Somali, and Hmong youth use social networking sites to express their emerging sense of identity and social connection. The IHRC has created a permanent digital archive of the project's research materials, gleaned from Facebook postings on public pages associated with specific ethnic groups.

Minnesota 2.0 was created with funding from the Fesler-Lampert Chair in the Public Humanities at the University of Minnesota. For more details, visit the Project Overview page.

Grants in Aid and the Karni Scholarship are available to external scholars traveling to the Center for research matched to the collections. The deadline for travel funding applications is June 1, 2011, for research to be conducted between mid July, 2011 and June 30, 2012.

The award committee will begin reviewing applications on May 1, 2011, and applicants may request early decisions in order to plan upcoming research.

Fellowships of one semester or more are available to University of Minnesota graduate students in non-professional school programs (formerly Graduate School students). Funding duration and amount varies by source. These fellowships include:

• American Latvian Association Graduate Fellowship in Latvian American Studies
• Francis Maria Fellowship in Arab American Studies
• Graduate Fellowship in Finnish American Studies
• Hildegard and Gustav Must Graduate Fellowship in Estonian American Studies
• James W. Nelson Graduate Fellowship in Immigration Studies
• UNICO National Graduate Fellowship in Italian American Studies

It is recommended that students interested in fellowships contact their respective departments in December 2010. Applications must be submitted to the IHRC Director by each student's academic department by February 15, 2011.

The IHRC will consider competitive applications with proposed research projects matched to IHRC archival or print collections for grants, scholarships and fellowships. Appropriate language capabilities should be noted in applications. Applications must be submitted in English.

Please read the requirements, timeline for research and purpose of each opportunity carefully when applying. Finding aids and other collection information are available online at www.ihrc.umn.edu. Applicants for grants in aid should request a consultation with archival staff to ensure that a proposed project matches well to the historical collections. Fellowship applicants must consult with the IHRC Program Director (Haven Hawley).

Conveners Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota), Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota), and Jan Logemann (GHI) aim to bring together established scholars and graduate students from both sides of the Atlantic for a three day seminar. The seminar builds on the University of Minnesota's special emphasis on migration history and a new collaborative research project at the German Historical Institute, "Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1940‐1980" (www.ghi‐dc.org/tp). The seminar aims to promote exchanges between scholars engaged in the field of migration and emigration research and those who are interested in processes of "Europeanization" in the modern era (after 1850).

For further information and examples of ongoing dissertation research that is of particular interest, see the German Historical Institute's Web notice.

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Immigration History Research Center will begin at 6 p.m. on Nov. 6. Reservations are required (deadline Oct. 25; please contact Friends of IHRC if you wish to be put on the waiting list). For directions to the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul, Minn., visit the MHC website.

Schedule
6 p.m. -- Social Hour
7 p.m. -- Buffet Dinner
7:30 p.m. -- Annual Business Meeting
8:00 p.m. -- "A Heart Connects Us to Our Past: Digitizing Immigrant Letters at the IHRC," a special presentation by Professor Donna R. Gabaccia, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, commemorating the 45th Anniversary of the IHRC
8:45 p.m. Door Prizes; Adjourn

About the Speaker
Donna R. Gabaccia is Director of the Immigration History Research Center and Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History at the University of Minnesota. She directs the Center's research in immigration, ethnicity and migration studies. As Vecoli Chair, Dr. Gabaccia ensures that the Center consistently mentors graduate students and engages leading scholars in the study of immigration and immigrant experiences through her teaching, the Center's research activity, and public engagement based on the IHRC's mission to preserve and create access to materials documenting immigrant life. She is author or co-author of many books on U.S. immigration and migration studies, and her current book projects are Foreign Relations: An International History of U.S. Immigration and Imagining Nations of Immigrants.

About the Friends
The Friends of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota is a nonprofit organization of individuals and groups worldwide supporting the Center's mission to promote the study and appreciation of immigrant life experiences, and to preserve and create access to historical materials documenting U.S. immigration. The Friends of IHRC is a 501-c(3) organization.

The following indexes are available as pdf files: Svoboda Ukrainian Daily, A Select Index Volume One: 1893-1899 (1990), Svoboda Ukrainian Daily, A Select Index Volume Two: 1900-1907 (1991), Svoboda Ukrainian Daily, A Select Index Volume Three: January 1908 - July 1914 (1993), Svoboda Ukrainian Daily, A Select Index Volume Four: August 1914 - December 1918 (1994). Each volume is approximately 350-400 pages so the pdf files will be large.

The CARLA Lunchtime Presentation event is titled "Navigating Ethical Dilemmas of Educational Research with Immigrant Populations as Novice Researchers: Sharing Graduate Students' Experiences" and will be held in Jones 35.

The presentation illuminates the experiences of graduate students navigating the ethical dilemmas of ethnographic research with immigrant populations.

The authors will present vignettes that highlight instances in which they have struggled with issues of representation--of themselves and of participants--at their research sites and in their writing.

While these dilemmas are not unique to novice researchers, how graduate students experience and work through the ethical grey spaces of ethnographic research is impacted by their liminal position as researchers--that is, as ethnographers transitioning from research in theory (idealism) to research in practice (reality). Although this presentation does not offer hard and fast solutions to these dilemmas, it raises questions designed to push graduate students' thinking about the ethics and politics of research with immigrant populations. It also spotlights the experiences of graduate students in order to assist established scholars in supporting emerging researchers in strategic ways.

Presenters:

Marina Bandeira Alexio is a doctoral candidate in Second Languages and Cultures Education (SLC) program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) at the University of Minnesota. She has a Master of Arts degree in Foreign Languages with a focus on ESL. Her research interests include immigrant parental involvement, language socialization and teacher education.

Sarah Hansen is a doctoral candidate in the Culture and Teaching program in C&I. Her current research focuses on the educational experiences of South Asian immigrant students and families.

Sachiko Yokoi Horii is a Ph.D. student in the SLC program in C&I. Her research interests include language education policy and language teacher education.

The presenters will include information from work done by Silvy Un, also a Ph.D. student in C&I.

For information about other events and professional development opportunities organized by CARLA, please visit www.carla.umn.edu.

J.H. Kwabena Nketia is not a hip-hop artist, but his grandson is. Known as "Professor" in the academic community for his pioneering work in composition and African ethnomusicology, he was always simply "Grandpa" to Ghanaian hip-hop artist M.anifest.

With a voice full of wisdom from almost 90 years of life, Nketia speaks words from a small book of poems that bear an unexpected, yet unmistakable, resemblance to his grandson's music through their rhyme and rhythmic energy.

This discovery leads M.anifest, who has spent the last 10 years of his life in Minnesota, to return home to Ghana to embark on a collaboration of profound artistic and historic significance: creating music with his Grandpa for the first time. While M.anifest discovers more about his world-famous grandfather, Nketia takes on a new musical challenge near the end of his life, or as he says wryly, "when I'm still in the waiting room and not in the departure lounge."

The trip is part of Schell's larger documentary called We Rock Long Distance, which weaves together the stories of M.anifest, Maria Isa and Tou SaiKo Lee -- three Minnesota artists who use hip-hop as a way to create connections between different generations. Schell will follow Maria Isa to Puerto Rico and Tou SaiKo Lee to Thailand in other portions of the project.

Justin Schell, director of We Rock Long Distance, is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and has worked on numerous documentary projects with the Immigration History Research Center. For more information about the film, visit http://www.WeRockLongDistance.com.

University of Minnesota Scholar Opportunities:
The Institute for Advanced Study and the Office of the Vice President for Research invite proposals for collaborative interdisciplinary research and creative projects on the topic of "Abundance & Scarcity" the subject of the University Symposium for the two-year period beginning in the fall of 2010. Proposals are due October 15, 2010. Full information and submission instructions are at http://www.ias.umn.edu/symposiumapply.php.

External Scholar Opportunities:
The IAS and the University of Minnesota Press invite applications for Quadrant Fellowships. Please note that these fellowships are not open to faculty or staff at the University of Minnesota and may not be used for work toward a degree. Applications are due November 19, 2010. Full information and application instructions are at http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrantapply.php.

Cornell University's Institute for the Social Sciences offers a position, also. Post-doctoral associates are sought for participation in an interdisciplinary project on Immigration: "Settlement, Integration & Membership." Applications will be accepted for a one-year position, beginning approximately August 15, 2010. The application deadline is November 15, 2010. Details at available at http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/1013/Immigrant_desc.html.

This fall, IHRC will provide a questionnaire for those interested in donating archival and print materials to the Center. Please e-mail the IHRC at ihrc@umn.edu with the subject line "Historical Materials of Interest" to receive a copy of this questionnaire.

As you provide information about critical documents that are endangered, we will be better able to allocate our limited shelving and acquisition efforts. Our capacity reduction projects involve print materials, but we continue to process both print and archival materials to create more access to our core collections.

We all can agree that unique materials simply must be the priority for our collections both now, when we struggle with limited storage facilities, and in the future. Our increased rate for processing books, serials and newspapers has helped us to identify the unique and highly rare print donated to the IHRC so that these materials can be preserved and made accessible. We are selecting for our collections those items that are closely associated with IHRC's archival collections, with our priority being print created by immigrant communities or individuals.

The IHRC is reshaping how it publishes Center research. We began several years ago placing collection-level finding aids (all 2000!) online. Staff have been creating digital copies of past IHRC publications so they can be accessed online and distributed free to researchers. We have preserved copies for our institutional use and archives -- but far fewer than we formerly maintained. Our collections staff is placing in-depth finding aids online to a greater extent than ever before.

We are especially working to make the full list of print already in our collections available online. About half of the IHRC's books, serials and newspapers are cataloged in the University of Minnesota's electronic catalog (MNCat). Most of the remaining volumes are listed in an on-site card catalog called the temporary card catalog.

We are converting that card catalog into an electronic file so that it will be searchable online, through the same system that allows the IHRC to generate online descriptions of its 2,000 archival collections. Our work on this project since 2009 is revealing that IHRC's online catalog holds very good materials -- and the temporary card catalog is truly exceptional. Between 1/4 and 1/2 of the temporary catalog books appear to be very rare or unique.

The IHRC has many cataloged or partially cataloged print materials, but a significant contributor to our capacity problem is an additional large backlog of unevaluated books, journals and newspapers. The IHRC has accumulated more than 2,000 linear feet of print donated to the Center but not yet selected to determine appropriateness for our collections. This represents about 1/9 of our storage footprint -- a proportion not unlike other high-quality institutions, but far too high when storage capacity is at a premium. As we process these materials to determine whether those contributions are in scope for our topic of immigration and to ensure that they do not duplicate our exceptional ethnic print collections, we will generate more shelf space for acquiring archival materials and the rare print items that we do not yet have.

Our staff have been hard at work, weeding out the Center's own duplicates and out-of-scope imprints from materials donated in past years to IHRC. We have shared this overage with community partners, such as the Center for Hmong Studies at Concordia College, the Finnish American Heritage Center at Finlandia University and St. Sophia Seminary in Philadelphia. We have selected materials for the National Library of Latvia, which is constructing a new building and will soon be able to accept exchange print. Our staff are renewing and expanding contacts with national-level heritage repositories in countries of origin. (Only imprints are being sent to affiliate institutions, but we are working toward joint projects and virtual collections for archival and print materials.)

The IHRC is placing duplicate and out-of-scope print materials in a manner consistent with the expectations of our donors: that we promote immigration and ethnic history research, and ensure preservation and access to as much historically important material as possible. Our print distribution efforts will preserve more books, create more access to historical print, and make the IHRC a strong, vital partner for U.S. and homeland heritage repositories.

Other reasons to be optimistic include the IHRC's application to the Council on Library and Information Resources to process a significant portion of our unprocessed print. We will learn late in 2010 whether our application has been successful. Through preparing the application, we have established a blueprint for our work in coming years.

The grant application is for funding to process 1,200 linear feet of our 2,000 feet of hidden print collections, and we will hear in late 2010 whether external funding has been awarded. The project relies on a combination of IHRC staff, graduate students, scholars of immigration and ethnicity, and community volunteers for its success.

During the summer of 2010, we made progress in preparing for the Immigrant and Ethnic Publishing and Print Project (IEPPP), with the assistance of volunteers working with Polish and Latvian immigrant print. IHRC hired a Slavic specialist to work in fall 2010 on Ukrainian print selection. I look forward to updating you in 2011 and beyond on our efforts.

Finally, we have placed a small amount of material off site and are seeking additional off-site storage. These arrangements are not optimal, as they reduce the Center's ability to make materials available to researchers and to ensure archival conditions for all collections, but off-site space is a welcome resource. The College of Liberal Arts and the University Libraries continue to seek expansion opportunities, even during these financially difficult times, and they are solid partners who understand the value of IHRC's collections to the University's research, teaching and public engagement mission.

Our stalwart supporters in the Friends of the IHRC have formed a subcommittee to assist IHRC staff in working with potential recipients of duplicates and out-of-scope print materials. The subcommittee, which includes Walter Anastas, Celeste Raspanti and Vicki Albu, will help to match volunteers from ethnic communities with processing projects.

We will create more space. And just as assuredly we will, in time, face more limits on our capacity. As we keep faith with past donors by fulfilling our promise to further the study of immigrant experience, we are spurred on by the need to continue saving historical materials for the future. More to come!

The theme for the OAH conference is "Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy." IEHS will organize panels which the Society can co-sponsor. Panels do not need to fit the overall conference topic, but proposals should fall in the scope of the mission of the IEHS.

The Society's mission is "to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world." IEHS publishes the quarterly Journal of American Ethnic History.

Topics of IEHS interest are broad, including studies of the context of emigration in homelands and ethnicity in the United (embracing native Americans, area studies, and involuntary immigration). To propose a panel or to join Immigration and Ethnic History Society, please contact the Society through its homepage.

The Opposite of Cold includes documentary research conducted at the Immigration History Research Center and other archives, with photographs from saunas around the country. Noted architectural historian Arnold Alanen contributed the book's introduction.

The reception will begin at 6 p.m, and Michael Nordskog and Aaron W. Hautala will give a slideshow presentation featuring images from the published volume at 7 p.m.

The American Swedish Institute is located at 2600 Park Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407. For more information, call 612-871-4907.

Bibliographical information about the publication: The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition by Michael Nordskog, with photographs by Aaron W. Hautala. Published in September 2010 by the University of Minnesota Press.

Exhibition Dates: September 10, 2010 - October 29, 2010
Reception: September 10, 2010, 7-9 p.m.
Admission: free
Location: Franklin Art Works, 1021 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55404
FFI: http://rainioroberts.com/

Partnering with numerous smaller historical and ethnic societies that operate libraries, museums and historic houses around Minnesota, IHRC seeks to involve the local repositories in an emerging international collaboration that aims to identify and digitize letters written by and to North American immigrants, and currently housed in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere in North America. Plans are underway for U of M graduate students with language skills in Finnish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Slovenian and Croatian to begin work with curators and archivists around Minnesota. Additional language specialists will be consulted as needed. The preliminary survey is expected to be completed in Fall 2010.

This project has been made possible in part by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund created through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008 with passage of the Clean Water Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution. These grants seek to preserve and enhance access to Minnesota's cultural and historical resources and to support projects of enduring value for the cause of history and historic preservation statewide. They are available in two categories (history projects and historic preservation projects) and at three levels: small (up to $7000), mid-size (< $50,000), and large (> $50,000). The fund is administered by the Minnesota Historical Society. For more information, including application deadlines, visit http://www.mnhs.org/legacy/grants/.

Presenters in the 2008-2009 series were Cawo Abdi (Sociology), Donald Browne (Communication Studies), Cindy Garcia (Theater Arts and Dance), Chris Isett (History) and Doug Hartmann (Sociology).

Presenters in the 2007-2008 series were Hakim Aberrezak (French and Italian), Erika Busse (Sociology), Sonia Cancian (visiting post-doctoral fellow-IHRC), Susan Craddock (Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies), Vera Fennell (Humphrey Institute), Kathy Fennelly and Crystal Myslajek (Humphrey Institute), Donna Gabaccia (IHRC and History), Franca Iacovetta (History-Univ. of Toronto), Bernard Maegi (History), Eileen Sivert (French and Italian), Unur Tsedev (visiting international fellow-Humphrey Institute) and Margaret Werry (Theatre Arts and Dance).

Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration (Global REM) seminars are sponsored by the Immigration History Research Center and the Institute for Global Studies, both units of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. The videos, teaching modules, and scholarly resources are available through the Global REM website at http://www.globalrem.umn.edu/. For more information about Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration programs, please e-mail globerem@umn.edu.

Richard Stachow (College of Liberal Arts) arranged the videography. Mari Magler (associate director for Disability Services) provided captioning for the fall 2007 videos. Assistant Data Managers Brian Matsumoto (2009) and Dan Grussing (2010) coordinated the IHRC's work team of Kian Missaghi, Meghan DeLisi, Alexis Yeboah, Mai Yang, Sadie Dogget, Mia Overly, and Chris DiSalvi to create transcripts for the 2008 and 2009 videos. Brian and Dan created the closed captions using the PC-based Media Access Generator (MAGpie).

The database, which has been a part of CARLA since 1993, has been technically upgraded with more searchable fields. In addition to the standard searchable items (language, state, institution, K-12, summer, post-secondary), more search options have been included such as levels offered, availability, emphasis or focus of the course, degrees offered by the relevant department, study abroad components, and more.

The database includes the following listings:

9,287 College/university courses (from Acholi to Zulu)
2,853 K-12 LCTL programs
254 Distance ed offerings

To look at the upgraded database: http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/index.php

The Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund, a designated endowment fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, is now seeking grant proposals to fund projects, programs and/or services that address issues related to the acculturation of new immigrants into our community. Preference is given to proposals impacting Minnesota and Minnesotans. Requests should be for support of special projects rather than ongoing operating support. Grants are made only to qualifying nonprofit organizations, not to individuals.

Hard copies of grant applications must be received by Friday September 17, 2010 to be considered. Applications can be downloaded at www.jewishminneapolis.org - go to Community Resource, click on Grants and then click on Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund or contact Wendy Clyman at 952-417-2354 or wclyman@mplsfed.org. Grant decisions will be announced by Friday October 15, 2010.

Applications may be sent to:
Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund
c/o Jewish Community Foundation of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation
13100 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 200
Minnetonka, MN 55305

For further information, contact Sally Forbes Friedman, Director, Jewish Community Foundation, at 952-417-2316 or sfriedman@mplsfed.org.

The Jewish Community Foundation is the planned giving and endowment department of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation.

Named for former governor and University of Minnesota regent Elmer L. Andersen, the new program honors the Governor's passion for collecting and for expanding the use of the collections. The Research Scholars program is available to scholars including faculty, graduate, postgraduate, and independent researchers using the collections in the Department of Archives and Special Collections. This program is not available to currently enrolled University of Minnesota graduate or undergraduate students.

The program will provide annual support for up to two research projects that require use of one or more of the collections. Awards range from $500 to $2,000 and provide funds for travel, housing and other research related costs. The final research product (e.g., journal article, documentary film) must acknowledge the U Libraries' support and be deposited with the University Libraries.

FFI and application instructions

Regular service hours return on Tuesday 7/20/2010:

• IHRC administrative service: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.& 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.


• Self service research online: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.


• Walk-in consultation with collections staff: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. & 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.


• (Consultation at other times by appointment only)


• Reading Room: 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Student collections assistants will assist new patrons in searching on-line tools for archival, print and digital collections. All on-line tools can be accessed at www.ihrc.umn.edu under the heading "Research Collections."

Patrons requiring specialized assistance may meet with staff without an appointment 10-11 a.m. and 1-2 p.m. Due to budget cutbacks, archival staff will only be available during walk-in hours or by appointment made one day in advance.

For best assistance by staff, please review the IHRC's on-line search tools and provide information about your research topic when making an appointment. Your request in advance will allow staff adequate time to search for optimal collections for your research and to inform you of the availability of materials during your visit to the Center.

To make an appointment with archival staff, please e-mail the IHRC at ihrc@umn.edu with your name, e-mail address, topic (and an explanation of your project), and affiliation. This information will enable staff to consider the best sources for the type of research that you propose to conduct at the Center.

Merivoo-Parro summarizes her work, writing that "...The New York Estonian Educational Society and Refugees is about the role of Estonian Displaced Persons during one of the most significant and eventful periods in the history of the Estonian diaspora of New York."

[The work] gives a general overview of the Estonians in the territory of the modern United States of America from the seventeenth century until [the] present time. It ... presents an analysis of the similarities and differences between ... immigration waves. Attention is given to the legislative and political factors from the American side that had influence on Estonians' immigration.

[A portion also] focuses on a narrower subject matter - a case study of the New York City Estonian community that was gathered around the apolitical New York Estonian Educational Society. ... [The decade following WWII was a] time [for] a substantial influx of Estonian refugees who refused to return to their native country because they dreaded the communist regime [that] had been established there.

[The New York Estonian Educational Society and Refugees] makes an effort to provide a grass-root investigation of the diaspora experience of the Estonians who came after the Second World War.

Her thesis rests mainly on primary sources, including the following collections at the IHRC: Estonian American Citizens Association Records, Foundation for Estonian Arts and Letters Records, Baltimore Estonian Association Records, New York Estonian Educational Society Records, and New York Estonian Male Chorus Records.

While at the IHRC, Merivoo-Parro gave a "research in progress" report in which she discussed connections between Estonians in the USSR and the North-American diaspora, with song as a dynamic cultural practice in the process of Estonian independence

The book will be available for pre-order on Amazon.com. A Facebook page provides updates about the publication schedule, future readings and other events. A release celebration is scheduled for the evening of September 30, 2010, at the American Swedish Institute (the Turnblad mansion at Park and 26th Street in South Minneapolis).

This project is a collaboration between CAS, the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), and the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) at the University of Minnesota; the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna; and the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta. Their research project is working to examine the social patterns of mass migration both within Austrian and Central Europe and between Central Europe and North America in the period between 1870 and World War I, comparing and contrasting the two.

Each of the researchers brings a unique perspective to the project, which is why the teamwork for this project seemed ideal. Steidl is a demographic historian and is familiar with the census data for the Monarchy from Austria and Hungary. Oberly has done much work with statistical packages and US census data. Fischer is a cultural historian and will be bringing the expertise of comparing archival items - newspapers, diaries, photographs - between Central European and American materials.

In 2008, the Dietrich W. Botstieber Foundation awarded a grant to the Center for Austrian Studies to organize this transatlantic research project. Since then, these three researchers have all expressed much excitement about being together in Minnesota, with the wealth of immigration and migration resources the state has to offer. Fischer said, "But, of course ...it's not just the material, it's the knowledgeable archivists and scholars that make a visit to Minnesota so valuable." In 2011-12, after eighteen months of teamwork, they will enter the final and perhaps most difficult stage: jointly authoring a book on the migration experience, to be published by the end of 2012.

For further information: Center for Austrian Studies

An online version was of this was completed in May 2010, with assistance from an undergraduate researcher funded by the grant. Additional student research supported by the CLA-OIT grant will help staff create an exhibition for spring 2011.

"Our vision is to create access to resources for a diverse group of scholars, students, and general readers who want to understand and compare migration across traditional scholarly boundaries," said Donna Gabaccia, director of the IHRC and Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History.

FFI: Spotlight on Selected Resources
FFI: "Digitizing Immigrant Letters"

We led two classes with students from a variety of Twin Cities metro schools, in which we discussed the project and explored an early version of the Minnesota 2.0” digital archive. The students learned about how language is a form of identity formation, and some of the specific debates surrounding language as discussed on the website. This included debates around whether Spanglish devalued both Spanish and English, and whether someone who cannot speak Somali could actually be considered Somali. After they spent some time with the website, we had a short discussion about what they learned from their brief interaction with the site. The positive reaction from many of the students bodes well for the outreach that we have planned for the next stage of Minnesota 2.0, in which we plan on working with students from the three communities we are researching, as well as others, as they utilize the archive as well as contribute new material to the archive itself.

"... and then moving into his manuscripts. I started this project right as I entered University, and it introduced me to the world of archival work. I had never seen how much effort was put into making collections available to researchers, and especially the amount of time that it took. With Hoglund, going through only his books was a massive task - while a large amount of it dealt with Finnish-Americans, there was a wide variety of subjects, such as European history, the history of labor movements, and even Japanese-American immigration. Once I moved onto his manuscripts, my task became all the more interesting - the depth to which Hoglund recorded his life was astounding, with journals and financial ledgers going back to the 1950s, as well as school work from university years. I've enjoyed the surprises that have come out of anonymous cardboard boxes - old albums with correspondences with Eleanor Roosevelt, 19th century immigrant newspapers, or a random newsletter revealing life in the mid-20th century. This collection has not only provided me with a student job, but another chance to further my education."
Adam is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota majoring in French and Economics, with a minor in Russian.

This year the IHRC will offer Grants In Aid awards of up to $500 to assist graduate students, independent and other scholars traveling to conduct research for at least one week (five research days) at the IHRC.

Post-doctoral scholars are also eligible to apply for additional funding for a maximum award of $1,000. The post-doctoral Grant In Aid supports a two-week residency (ten research days) while conducting research in the Center's collections.

For further information on the availability of awards, terms and how to apply, please continue reading.

Series Schedule

Image and Meaning
Monday, April 5, 7 p.m., Bell Auditorium

Novelty and Tradition
Wednesday, April 7, 7 p.m., Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum

Reality and Fiction
Monday, April 12, 7 p.m., Bell Auditorium

Time and Timelessness
Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m., Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum

Expression and Anonymity
Monday, April 19, 7 p.m. Varsity Theater (Minneapolis)

Imagination and Compassion
Thursday, April 22, 3 p.m., Teatro Zuccone (Duluth)

During the 2007-2008 academic year Dr. Mazurkiewicz was in residence at the IHRC thanks to funding from the Kosciuszko Foundation. She writes "while at IHRC I have [also] managed to update my earlier research on the American response to Polish elections." For more about Dr. Mazurkiewicz, see the IHRC news article, page 2.

David Chang, Molly Rojas Collins, Dan Detzner and Michael Stebleton brought classes to the IHRC for orientations and archival workshops for courses from writing to ethnic studies. Brenda Child sent many students for oral history assignments on Minnesota immigration, and Kevin Murphy invited Program Director Haven Hawley to comment on graduate student public history project reports. Dr. Hawley also met with prospective graduate students for the History Department and the American Studies Department.

IHRC staff participated in archival visits by other classes at the University, arranged by the Archives and Special Collections staff of the University Libraries. Haven Hawley led an OLLI session and a workshop on detecting forgery in archives, and Halyna Myroniuk provided insights about archival sources useful for studying Ukrainian immigration and Holodomor. Sara Wakefield guided history of medicine students in using the Ukrainian Fraternal Association database of health, mortality, and demographic information, with archival materials enriching the session.

Aspiring high school students visited Donna Gabaccia to learn about the Center and the University of Minnesota through the "My Dream Day on Campus" program sponsored by the La Raza Sutdent Cultural Center and the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network. Last fall, a contingent of visiting German and Polish students considered meeting with Director Gabaccia at the IHRC a highlight of their trip to the Twin Cities, and early word is that the immigrant and Latino high school students will give similar feedback!

Spring 2010 courses at IHRC have included:

Molly Rojas Collins, "Writing Studio" (WRIT 1201)
Dan Detzner, "Ways of Knowing in the Social Sciences" (PSTL 1204)
Michael Stebleton, "Ways of Knowing in the Social Sciences" (PSTL 1204)
David Chang, "Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History" (HIST 3010)
Brenda Child, "Natives, Migrants & the Making of Minnesota" (AMST 3113)
Kevin Murphy, "Interdisciplinary Public History" (HIST 8910)

Archives and Special Collections at Elmer L. Andersen Library coordinated these class visits, with IHRC participation:
Carla Phillips and History professors, "How to Do History" (HIST 3959)
Jennifer Gunn, "Environment, Health & Disease" (HMED 3040)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, "Out of the Cavern" (OSHER 2024)

At the public access terminal, researchers have access to a presentation giving an overview of the IHRC's materials and instructions for using online search engines.

The Research Collections portion of the IHRC website has many links and tools for patrons to begin their research at the IHRC, including links to important reports on immigration in Minnesota, a description of the IHRC's holdings, and search engines for IHRC materials. The Research Collections page can be accessed from the IHRC homepage or the above link.

The four kinds of historical materials (and search tools) held by IHRC are:

• Archival (VITRAGE)


• Books (MNCAT)


• Periodicals (list of titles, by ethnic group; also MNCAT)


• Digital Sources (COLLAGE)

Materials will be retrieved from the archival cavern as staff are available. Advance notice of specific collection requests allows staff to reduce the waiting time for retrieval.

Dates: April 21, 2010 8:30 am registration & breakfast 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Session I)
April 22 & 23, 2010 8:30 am registration & breakfast 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Session II)
Cost: Session I - $100 Both Sessions - $300
Session II - $250 A light breakfast & lunch is served in both sessions.

Workshop Information

Workshop Registration

Since March 8th of this year, Kristel Tammik and Margit Laanemets of the National Archives of Estonia have been processing archival collections of organizational records received also from Lakewood in the previous years. The two archivists have two more weeks until April 6 to assist the IHRC in making an additional large portion of the materials from Lakewood more accessible.

Meriläinen's research project is titled "The History and Identity of Finnish American Lutherans between 1880 and 1970." He will be conducting research in the IHRC's extensive Finnish American print and archival collections to study the role of religious identity in the integration process of an immigrant minority group.

The Karni Scholarship was established as a memorial tribute to Michael G. Karni, a pioneering historian and publisher of Finnish American research and literature. The award is intended to help defray expenses of visiting professors, lecturers, and graduate students from the U.S. or abroad consulting the archival collections of the IHRC, with particular emphasis on its Finnish American holdings. This is the sixth year of the award competition.

Join our interdisciplinary panel of distinguished University of Minnesota scholars to discuss the history, problems, and possibilities of current trends in international migration. In an age when money and commodities are moving across national borders with increasing speed, governments have been scrambling to create policies and practices of immigration management that respond to the boundary-blurring dynamics of globalization. In the U.S. and Europe, these changes are manifested both in the demand for large numbers of immigrant workers and in the establishment of new regimes of border control. How should we understand the significance of recent trends in international migration? What roles do different actors and structural conditions play in shaping 1) attitudes toward migrants and 2) migrants' experiences of inclusion and exclusion? To what extent are these experiences unprecedented, and to what extent are they repetitions of similar experiences in the recent and more distant past? What lessons might policymakers and scholars of migration draw from historical and comparative discussions of these questions?

Aatsinki's research explores the roles of schools on the socialization process of Finnish-American children in the 1920s. She is looking at the differences between American and Finnish schools when answering questions such as "How did schooling integrate Finnish-American children? What were those American values and attitudes which were experienced important to pass on to the next generation, especially to immigrant children so they could acculturate into the American society?" During her Feb. 10, 2010, presentation she shared research findings regarding socialization at the formal level being incorporated through the educational system-­a way to instill prevalent values and attitudes into the whole young generation. Aatsinki's visit to the IHRC was funded in part through generous donations to the IHRC's grant in aid program.

Jan Rath will offer a public lecture for the Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration Seminar series at noon on Tuesday, March 23. The presentation is titled "Ethnic Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption" and will be held in Room 120, Elmer L. Andersen Library. For more information, please click on the calendar listings on the right of the IHRC homepage.

Juri Estam presented insights from his research in the IHRC's Estonian Archives in the United States Records at a Research-in-Progress Talk on Wednesday, March 17. Estam is a writer and media consultant based in Estonia, and he is preparing histories of the Estonian World Council and the Estonian American National Council.

He also consulted with Kristel Tammik and Margit Laanemets of the National Archives of Estonia, who are visiting the IHRC in March as they conduct research into the EAU Records of organizations in the Estonian diaspora.

Archives FAQ from the New England Archivists' website offers accurate and readable information about what makes archives different from libraries, as well as answers to many other common questions about archives.

One of the best publications helping community groups in deciding how to archive their own materials is Documenting Community Organizations, by the Rochester (NY) Regional Library Council's Documentary Heritage Program Committee. The library's website offers many online publications by the committee on topics such as:

How to care for photographs, videotapes, and family history materials

Creating a family scrapbook (digital, too!)

Oral history guidelines

IHRC staff frequently consult with individuals and groups interested in creating archives of their materials, and these opportunities for learning about archives will help you as you consider how to go forward with your own project!

The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is accepting applications for Proposal Development Grants. The purpose of these grants is to stimulate fundable, multi-disciplinary population research at the University of Minnesota.

The deadline for the Spring 2010 awards is Friday, March 5, 2010. For further details go to http://www.pop.umn.edu/research/MPCProposalDevelopmentGrants.

Stipends are available for language educators from the Center for Advanced Research in Language Acquisition (CARLA).

To support the professional development of Less Commonly Taught Language (LCTL) teachers, the University of Minnesota's National Resource Centers offer a limited number of $600 stipends for LCTL teachers to help defray the cost of attending any of the CARLA summer institutes. The University National Resource Centers includes Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA), the European Studies Consortium (ESC) and the Institute for Global Studies (IGS). The NRCs are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and generously sponsor this program as part of their mission to support LCTL teachers. Applications are due by April 9, 2010. 



For more details about the stipend program see: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/stipends.html

Application guidelines are available at the following links:

* European LCTL teachers see: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm
* Asian LCTL teachers see: http://asias.umn.edu/funding/k16.html

* All other LCTL teachers see: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html

National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships are also available, with a deadline of May 4, 2010, for online applications. (University of Minnesota applicants must apply through Sponsored Projects Administration, with a deadline of 9 am on April 28, 2010.)

NEH fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months.

Please consult with IHRC staff for assistance in using the Center's collections and resources for grant-funded research.

Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration at noon on Thursday, March 4, features Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, who will present "European Perspectives" as a continuation of a Feb 11 roundtable titled "Migration as a Challenge to Nationality & Citizenship: the European Case." Dr. d'Appollonia was unable to visit the IHRC for that event due to weather and travel conditions.

Francesco Durante will be conducting research in the personal papers of Rudolph J. Vecoli, former director of the IHRC, in continuation of Professor Vecoli's research. The Vecoli Papers are currently being processed, with only certain portions available to researchers.

Kristel Tammik and Margit Laanemets will be in residence while they do research in the Estonian American Collections at the IHRC. The National Archives of Estonia is in partnership with the IHRC and the Estonian Archives of the US to process and write historical materials on the large number of Estonian diaspora materials held by the University of Minnesota. The project is in its second year and is funded by the IHRC's Estonian American Ethnic Studies Fund.

IHRC has benefited from collaboration with students and community members in making these collections accessible. Ihar Labacevich of the St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church in Minneapolis processed the Zuk-Hryskievic Papers as part of his internship at the IHRC, and graduate research assistant Andy Wilhide with recent University of Minnesota graduate Dan Ott recorded the Leon and Nambangi oral histories. Recently retired IHRC Senior Assistant Curator Halyna Myroniuk was instrumental in acquiring and processing the Czuy and Batiuk collections. For more information about the collections, please click on the links above.

Each year the IHRC staff honors the volunteers whose work had advanced the Center's work, but the 2010 event also will pay tribute to Halyna Myroniuk, who retires in March after more than 40 years of helping build the Center's rich collections of ethnic print.

[SHHH. We hope that Halyna is not reading this, but we are preparing a surprise: The IHRC staff is collecting a scrapbook of appreciation comments for Halyna's retirement. Please send your note thanking her for service to researchers, her work preserving ethnic print and archival materials, or the many ways that she has contributed selflessly to saving immigrant documents. E-mail your note with the subject line "IHRC Scrapbook" to the IHRC or send them to the Center's postal address before March 7.]

Marija Dalbello, Associate Professor of Information Science, at Rutgers University will present "Viribus Unitis" - On Circulating Dynastic Fictions in a Transnational Empire" at a Global Race, Ethnicity & Migration noon lecture at 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library on Thursday.

The lecture will be followed by a discussion. The event is open to the public, drinks are provided, and brownbag lunches are encouraged.

The Center for Writing will sponsor several lectures and discussions on the history of Hmong orthography later on Thursday and on Friday.

John Duffy, University of Notre Dame, author of Writing from these Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community will headline the series and speak at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday at 135 Nicholson Hall.

A panel by Hmong scholars will be held at 6 p.m. on the campus of Concordia University in St. Paul, with a final roundtable discussion at noon on Friday, Feb. 26, at 125 Nolte Center at the University of Minnesota. Center for Writing events are free, but please consider registering to assist in planning for the events.

For more information on these events, please click on the calendar listings on the right side of the IHRC homepage.

Immigration Minnesota will examine historic and recent trends, lived experiences, and the variety of contributions from immigrants who now call Minnesota home. Each lunch will have a unique focus, but all will contribute to a greater understanding of immigration to the state and a greater appreciation of ever changing communities.

Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the United States, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to 70,000. A question one often hears is how Somalis from the Horn of Africa ended up in Snowbelt cities in the Midwest. From the Tropics to the Snowbelt Midwest: Somalis in Minnesota will feature Dr. Cawo Abdi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Her presentation will demystify the political, historical and social processes that triggered Somali migration to different parts of the world. Minnesota Somalis will be the focus of this talk, though the discussion will also highlight Somali migrations to other parts of Africa and Europe.

Contact Thien Nguyen August at thien@minnesotahumanities.org or 651-772-4254 for registration questions.

Contact Hunter Gordon at hunter@minnesotahumanities.org or 651-772-4263 for more program information.

Link to information can be found here.

The visitors of the exhibition will have the opportunity to enjoy a documentary and a photographic exhibition about the history of Greek migration to America, with material from US archives such as the IHRC. The exhibition is traveling to multiple museums throughout the country. It is based on the research and direction of Maria Iliou and historical consultant Alexander Kitroeff.

Short-term grants provide fellowships to US scholars (postdoctoral) and professionals (with advanced degrees) to engage in up to eight weeks of overseas research on contemporary political, economic, historical, or cultural developments relevant to US foreign policy.

Countries eligible for research include: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Completed applications are due no later than 5 p.m. (EST) on February 2, 2010. The application form is available online at:

http://www.irex.org/programs/us_scholars/uss_info.asp

Questions may be addressed to the Short-Term Grant Program Staff at stg@irex.org or by telephone at 202-628-8188.

The short-term grant also provides international coach class roundtrip transportation, a monthly allowance for housing and living expenses, travel visas, emergency evacuation insurance and field office support.

IREX is an international nonprofit organization providing leadership and innovative programs to improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, and foster pluralistic civil society development.

The Short-Term Grant Program is funded by the United States Department of State Title VIII Program.

A People's History of the Hmong traces Hmong culture and history across four millenia, up to the emigration of Hmong to the United States and other countries following the Vietnam War. The book was made possible through a significant oral history project that has been directed by Paul Hillmer and Peter Vang at Concordia University. The ongoing Hmong Oral History Project is a source for the more than 200 interviews first-hand accounts in Hillmer's new book, providing texture and detail to his account of the varieties of Hmong experiences.

The Hmong Studies Journal's newest volume "includes articles from multiple disciplines including Anthropology, Political Science, Library Science and Medicine while providing significant additions to both Hmong American and Hmong in Asia research. It is especially noteworthy that new work is presented in this issue related to ongoing debates in Hmong Studies pertaining to cultural identity in China and as well as the Diaspora," according to Dr. Mark E. Pfeifer, editor of the journal.

The IHRC congratulates Paul Hillmer and Mark Pfeifer on these recent publications, and we thank these two scholars for their ongoing advice and encouragement to the Center regarding their areas of expertise.

Prof. Farah retired from the University of Minnesota in 2008. He was an active author of materials for scholarly and wider audiences on issues related to the Middle East, with great energy on a variety of projects as well as an expansive knowledge of both current and historical events.

On December 11, Don Pafko officially was named to the position. He has informally supported Slovak culture and the needs of that state's citizens in the United States for many years, and his role in facilitating connections between the two countries is expected to increase with the appointment.

The Honorary Consulate will be located in Minneapolis, MN, and was announced in the presence of numerous representatives of Slovakia and invited guests on Thursday, Dec. 10, as a large event held at a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Community, governmental, academic, and business representatives from both Minnesota and Slovakia attended the event.

Slovak dignitaries extended their visit in order to meet with State of Minnesota counterparts in order to encourage economic cooperation between Minnesota and Slovakia, which are roughly the same size and population.

Dozens of supporters gathered on Friday, Dec. 4, at Elmer L. Andersen Library for the group's first meeting, organized by Vicki Albu and Octavian Cornea with the support of IHRC.

Vicki Albu, member of the Friends of IHRC Board and soon to be a University of Minnesota degree holder, offered a presentation titled "Early Romanian Immigration to the Twin Cities." Raluca Octav, a historian and former curator, gave a presentation on material culture heritage titled "Castles of Transylvania."

HORA's mission is "To preserve, promote and share the cultural heritage, history and values of the Romanian American community in the Twin Cities and the State of Minnesota." More information about the group can be found at its website or Facebook page.

The Minnesota Humanities Center worked on the documentary in 2008 in order to highlight the history and future of the Iron Range, with the goal of producing a film that would broaden public knowledge and appreciation of the critical role that this 100-mile long, 10-mile wide strip of land has played and continues to play in the success of our nation.

The documentary illustrates the profound contributions of the Anishinaabe and immigrants from 43 different ethnic backgrounds who came to work the mines and the birth of the towns to support them; the United States would be a different place. Portions of the video can be viewed at: "Iron Range: Minnesota Building America."

The Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences cited the film for excellence among cultural documentaries produced in the U.S. midwest.

The Minnesota Humanities Center, together with tpt and Iron Range Resources, presented the film first in April 2009 on Twin Cities Public Television.

The full documentary will air next on the following dates on tpt MN:

Wednesday, Dec. 23, 9 pm
Thursday, Dec. 24, 3 am
Thursday, Dec. 24, 9 am
Thursday, Dec. 24, 3 pm

"The Center for Historical Research at Ohio State University brings together faculty, students, and the general public to examine the historical foundation and development of critical issues of global importance. The Center offers resident fellowships for senior and junior faculty, as well as those completing dissertations. We also invite members of the academic community and independent scholars to make presentations at our seminars.

"For the academic years 2009-2011, we are studying, "The Intersection of Diaspora, Immigration, and Gender in World History." We believe that a gendered analysis of group migrations may reveal new patterns in diaspora and immigration history, shed light on specific migrations, and bridge the historiographical gap between diaspora and immigration histories. A gendered analysis of group migrations may help us better differentiate the meaning of forced and voluntary migrations, and the processes by which people maintained, discarded, and transformed their cultures, and their
host cultures.

"For the 2010-2011 academic year we are conducting a fellowship competition and seeking presenters whose research falls in the period from the 19th century to the present. We invite scholars from all disciplines, studying any peoples and geographic area(s) relevant to our program. Application information for fellowships can be found on our website, http://chr.osu.edu/, and are due by February 1, 2010. Those interested in making presentations at the seminars should contact the CHR director, Alan Gallay, at osuchr@osu.edu.

"The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply."

Dr. Zoltai was an international pioneer in the sciences and professor at the University for more than three decades. Olga Zoltai assisted in resettling newer refugee groups in Minnesota through International Institute of Minnesota. Their own story as refugees and their contributions offer a gripping narrative as penned by their daughter, Kitty Gogins.

Olga Zoltai will be the event's honored guest, and author Kitty Gogins will speak about the experience of her parents as refugees connecting to newer arrivals.

Kitty Gogins will give author talks at 4 and 6 pm at Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120. From 5 to 6 pm, she will sign books (available for purchase), and IHRC staff will lead tours of the archival cavern.

The Immigration History Research Center holds notable Hungarian-American collections and the records of the International Institute of Minnesota, and the University Archives holds the Tibor Zoltai Papers in the archival cavern beneath Andersen Library.

Refreshments will be available throughout the event, which is open to the public. Hourly parking is available near the library in an attended lot and parking structure.

A portion of the newly established Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund - $22 million for the 2010-11 biennium - has been appropriated to the Minnesota Historical Society for a variety of history programs around the state - programs intended to preserve and enhance access to Minnesota's history and its cultural and historical resources.

The Minnesota Cultural Heritage Grants Program, funded by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, was created to preserve and enhance access to Minnesota's cultural and historical resources and to support projects of enduring value for the cause of history and historic preservation across the state.

The program accepts applications on a revolving deadline schedule for small to large projects, in a range of areas related to the goals of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. For more information, contact Minnesota Historical Society.

The Archives and Special Collections of the University of Minnesota Libraries offer the First Fridays series throughout the year along the theme of vice and virtue. Each month brings a new pairing, with Abstinence and Glutton the theme for the event at noon on Nov. 6 at Room 120 of Andersen Library.

Presentations by the Charles Babbage Institute and the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine will follow a brief introduction highlighting materials from archival collections on campus, including the Immigration History Research Center.

A light repast will be served during presentations from noon to 1 p.m., and cavern tours will be offered after the lunchtime talk. If you have not seen the caverns, First Fridays in a convenient opportunity to see one of the real treasures at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus! Tours are offered at the conclusion of First Fridays throughout the coming year.

For more information on First Fridays and the University Libraries' fall exhibition schedule, visit http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lib-web/events//

Reviewer Walter D. Kamphoefner (Texas A&M University) writes "...Barkan provides a view of immigration to the West that is both panoramic and analytical, above all highlighting the difference in reception that immigrants encountered depending on whether or not they were "visible minorities." The relatively low profile of Germans, both in the book and in the society of the American West, can be taken as an index of their relatively easy acculturation."

Citation: Walter D. Kamphoefner. Review of Barkan, Elliott Robert, From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952. H-GAGCS, H-Net Reviews. October, 2009.

URLs: complete review or to order this book

Through the listserv, the CCMET circulates details about upcoming conferences, requests for panel participants, and calls for papers. Ideas and information on esources and archival collections are shared that will stimulate and inform research on the history of migration and related subjects.

The CCMET was established in June, 2009, during the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). The executive committee of the CCMET is composed of the following officers: Lisa Chilton, University of Prince Edward Island (Chair), Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg (Vice-chair), Bruce Elliott, Carleton University (Secretary-treasurer), and two members at large (Laura Madokoro, University of British Columbia, also listserv moderator ex officio, and Tina Chen, University of Manitoba).

The CCMET listserve and web presence may be accessed at the following link: http://groups.google.com/group/CHA-MET(please note that you may have to copy and paste this address into your browser). If you would like assistance relating to the listserv, please contact Laura Madokoro at lmadok@interchange.ubc.ca. Any other questions may be directed to Lisa Chilton at lchilton@upei.ca.

Written by the local author Stephen Sebesta, The Wartime Experiences of a Cleveland Czechoslovak Legionnaire: the World War I Diary of Ladislav Krizek is a new book consisting of a translated diary along with relevant newspaper articles, photographs, and other historical material.

Most of the material was collected from Ladislav's sons and daughters, who heard of Sebesta's work on the history of the Czech community and wanted to bring to light the important role their father played in that history. Much research was done here at the IHRC on the important roles he played in the Czech Cleveland Community, his wartime service, and his dedication to the citizenship and assistance of his fellow veterans and disabled members of the Czechoslovak Legionnaire.

The book is available in hardback and paperback editions.
FFI: http://www2.xlibris.com/BOOKSTORE/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=59645

Rússia - Ascensão e Queda de Um Império - Uma História Geopolítica e Militar da Rússia, dos Czares ao Século XXI (Russia - Rise and Fall of an Empire - a Geopolitical and Military History of Russia, the Czars to the 21st Century) was written by João Fábio Bertonha.

Although Russia has been a great power and an important player in the international system for centuries, its history was particularly symptomatic of major movements of the 20th century, such as socialism, industrialization and modern alternatives. Political and social history perspectives have dominated Brazilian analyses especially of the Revolution of 1917 and USSR, but Bertonha's current work helpfully addresses diplomatic and military history, as well. Starting at the time of the czars, passing through the Soviet age and to the present, he traces the main quandaries of Russian presence since the 16th century as Moscow worked through eras of war and peace that defined the identity of the country.

João Fábio Bertonha is Doctor in History for the Unicamp; Professor of History in the State University of Maringá and Researcher of the CNPq. He has been a visiting researcher at universities in Brazil, North America, Europe and Latin America, and has conducted research at the Immigration History Research Center, among other repositories. He is author of innumerable books and articles on international relations, Italian immigration and fascist movements.

FFI and order form: http://www.jurua.com.br/shop_item.asp?id=21323

The paper examines the trial of Japanese General Yamashita Tomoyuke-and the unsuccessful Supreme Court appeal in Yamashita v. United States that preceded his August 1945 execution-in the local context of postwar Manila. Based on U.S., Philippine, and Japanese public records, his paper explores the conflicts, both local and geopolitical, that shaped America's approach to transitional justice in postwar Asia. Considering Yamashita's trial together with the indictments of thousands of Philippine collaborators before the Filipino People's Court demonstrates the limits of transitional justice and the endurance of colonial legal practices on the eve of decolonization in Asia. (The paper is available from Kristen Gandrow at kgandrow@umn.edu )

Korean Quarterly (KQ) and Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) received The Spectrum Trust-Asian Pacific Endowment Grant as part of developing a public-private partnership to assist ethnic publishers in meeting demand for online information, funding ongoing operations, and ensuring long-term access to ethnic publications. The IHRC is a migration studies research center at the University of Minnesota with internationally-known archives related to U.S. immigration from 1880 to the present.

"IHRC is joining with Korean Quarterly because KQ is a historically significant publication documenting Korean-American experience," said Haven Hawley, program director of the IHRC and supervisor of the Center's archives.

Ethnic publishers are likely to be hit especially hard by expectations for free online access even as print subscriptions are dropping, said Dr. Hawley. "Without publishers like KQ to document immigrant and multi-cultural identities, we will lose voices that are important to telling the many stories of American identity."

Korean Quarterly was founded in 1997 and has received more than 24 awards for journalistic excellence, including first place in Commentary in the 2009 New America Media Awards. Writers and editors have covered important current and historical issues, many of which were not covered in the mainstream press. When the largest group of Korean adoptees reached their adulthood along with the largest group of second generation in the late 1990s, KQ documented the renaissance of leadership, the arts, literature, and professional accomplishments that resulted.

KQ web master Andrea Lee began a project two years ago to create an archive of selected articles in a searchable format. With technical and archival expertise from IHRC, the publishers will be able to create a searchable, online archive, preserved and migrated to new platforms so that new advances in digital technology can be accommodated.

Project meetings will begin in October 2009, with phases scheduled during the next year for soliciting community support and advertising, planning technical design, conversion and indexing of files, and testing the digital archive for release in June 2010.

The Spectrum Trust-Asian Pacific Endowment Grant will help defray costs of labor by the KQ staff to plan the archive, index materials, and to engage potential sponsors and advertisers for the project. The grant provides only a fraction of the project's cost, however. Most of the work will be conducted through volunteer or in-kind services, and the publisher and research center are applying for additional funding.

For more information on the project, contact Martha Vickery at 651-771-8164 or koreanquarterly@gmail.com.

Charlotte Albrecht, a Ph.D. candidate in feminist studies, was awarded the Francis Maria Fellowship. Her research focuses on Arab migration history in the United States and how class, gender, sexual and religious norms have affected processes of racial formation for Arab migrants.

"I am very grateful to be awarded the Francis Maria Fellowship. The IHRC has a rich legacy of supporting both Middle East area studies and Arab American studies and I am excited and honored to be a part of it," Albrecht said. "This fellowship will enable me to work in the IHRC collections, and to travel to a national conference to present my work and learn from others in my field."

The fellowship was established in 2003 with a major gift from the Francis Maria Foundation for Justice and Peace. Its objective is to further research in the Near Eastern collections of the IHRC and to promote scholarship on Arab American identity.

Ilze Garoza, a masters student in comparative and international development education, was awarded the ALA Fellowship. Garoza's research looks at how Latvian immigrants have both successfully integrated themselves in the United States and also managed to maintain their national identity for over 50 years.

"Receiving the ALA Fellowship sets the highest possible standards for my research," said Garoza. "It acknowledges the importance of my research on Latvian diaspora in the United States and provides me with the necessary resources to do my work."

The ALA Fellowship was established in 2004 with a combined gift from the American Latvian Association, the Latvian Welfare Association, and the World Federation of Free Latvians, and an additional contribution from the Diaspora Fund of the Republic of Latvia in 2005.

For more information about the recipients and the awards, contact Tessa Eagan, College of Liberal Arts, (612) 625-3781, teagan@umn.edu.

The IHRC offers extensive holdings related to Finnish-American identity, from publishing and music to family history and literary contributions. The Karni Scholarship provides up to $850 to a scholar visiting the IHRC for a minimum of 10 days (two weeks) and using collections on site. The award may be used for research between January 1 and December 31, 2010.

Applicants are encouraged to consult the IHRC's online holdings information at www.ihrc.umn.edu to learn about the Center's many research collections and to contact IHRC collections staff to verify the appropriateness of materials to a proposed topic.

Two recommendations, a brief estimate of expenses, and a concise statement of the applicant's publication plan or artistic project are required. Application materials will be evaluated on how closely they match selection criteria and qualifications listed at <http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/educators/pdf/Karnischolarship.pdf>.

For inquiries about the application process, please contact IHRC Program Director Haven Hawley at ehh@umn.edu.

The IHRC also offers grants in aid to visiting researchers and fellowships to University of Minnesota graduate students to support research in the Center's collections, with deadlines throughout the year. For more information about IHRC grants, fellowships and other funding opportunities, including the Michael G. Karni Scholarship, please see "Grants and Fellowships" under the For Educator and Students page on the IHRC website.

Addie Mrosla volunteered as a summer intern while preparing for coursework this fall in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee master of library science program. Ann Brigl assisted researchers and visitors to the IHRC as public services assistant during the summer semester. She was admitted to the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and entered the doctoral program in fall 2009.

Addie Mrosla's internship was supervised by Halyna Myroniuk and Daniel Necas, and she assisted with processing print and archival materials from May 26 to September 3. Addie helped to complete the final portion of the IHRC's multi-year "Current Newspaper Cataloging Project" in May 2009. She also accessioned and performed data entry of Ukrainian newspapers and periodicals on microfilm, doing "an exceptional job" at the detailed recordkeeping of materials in Ukrainian and English, according to Halyna Myroniuk.

She completed a series of archival studies and special collections theoretical readings as part of her internship, coordinated by Haven Hawley. Daniel Necas trained Addie in archival procedures, allowing her to process the John Krawiec Papers in the Polish American Collection.

Ann Brigl staffed the front desk during the summer semester, registering patrons and assisting with collections searches through the IHRC's online finding aids and online resources. She researched a variety of immigrant groups in COLLAGE, the IHRC's online digital images database.

Ann prepared materials for and assisted Haven Hawley with a presentation on Minnesota immigration history to 100 fourth-grade students in Edina during the summer. She spoke to the students about her Norwegian heritage and prepared a curricular component for teaching about ethnic identity, which will soon be posted as a K-12 Educator Resource on the IHRC website.

Congratulations to both Addie and Ann, and best wishes on your graduate school work!

Each researcher will be in residence for a minimum of five days and give a research-in-progress talk (see IHRC calendar for planned visits and dates).

Awards ranged from $250 to $500, with support provided by the IHRC's ethnic studies funds, director's research funding, and other Center funding. Visiting scholars will travel to the IHRC during 2009-2010.

Researchers proposed work to be conducted in the Center's array of archival and print collections. Applications were judged on the significance of the research topic; ability of the IHRC archival and print collections to support the research; and the scholar's ability to make use of the collections. Approximately half of the IHRC's holdings are in languages other than English.

The Center's collections are an exceptional record of migration experiences from 1880 to the present for a wide range of American immigrant groups.

The next grant-in-aid program deadline will be announced in spring 2010 on the IHRC website (www.ihrc.umn.edu).

Scholars receiving awards for the 2009-2010 year are:

Emelise Aleandri
Artistic Director, Frizzi & Lazzi The Olde Time Italian-American Music & Theatre Company
Trafalgar House, New York
"Italian American Immigrant Theatre of New York City in the 20th Century"

Karl Altau
Director, Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc., Rockville, MD
"Joint Baltic American National Committee"

Michele De Gregorio
Freelance Journalist, Rassegna Sindacale, Rome, Italy
"From the Shipyards of Trieste to the Streets of New York:The Triestini Dockers and the Italian Roots of Antifascist Movement in the United States"

Jüri Estam
Independent Scholar, Tallinn, Estonia
"History of the Estonian World Council and the Estonian American National Council"

Stacy Fahrenthold
Northeastern University
"Defining Ourselves, Teaching the Youth: The Arab-American Federation Movement and Diaspora Nationality, 1935-1950"

Frank Jankac
University of Manitoba
"Eager Immigrants, Reluctant Host: The Croatian Immigration Experience in Canada 1896-1960"

Aleksandra Loewenau
Centre for Health, Medicine and Society
School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
"Polish Catholic Priests in Dachau Concentration Camp"

David Palter
University of California-Santa Cruz
"A Shared Project: Race and Education in Early-Twentieth-Century San Francisco"

Ellen Pozzi
Rutgers University
"Immigrant Libraries"

William Samonides
Independent Scholar
"Greek Immigrants in the Urban Northeast and Midwest"

Joseph Sciorra
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY
"Alessando Sisca and Internationally Popular Neapolitan Music Composed in the United States"

Hauke Siemen
University of Hamburg
"The Baltic Émigrés' Political Activities During the Cold War"

Kristel Tammik
National Archives of Estonia
"Estonian American Archives, Digital Archiving, and International Archival Information Systems"

Ann J. Toumi
University of Joensuu, Finland
Artistic Project: Historical novel about a Finnish American woman

Kathryn L. Wegner
University of Illinois-Chicago
"Constructing Citizenship: Education, Immigrants, and Americanization in Chicago, 1910-1940"

Vanessa Weinert
Columbia University/London School of Economics
"Asylum, Social Groups, and Violence: Women Navigating the Courts and Creating Identities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom, 1970-1998"

Bergquist recreates "the world of the immigrants in order to understand their daily lives as they lived them." Alexander writes in the introduction: "This close examination of the multifaceted aspects of daily life reveals the strategies immigrants developed in order to survive and achieve the goals that brought them to America." Through compelling personal accounts, we learn how the first and second great wave of immigrants made their way in American life.

Daily Life in Immigrant America 1820-1870 info and order
Daily Life in Immigrant America 1870-1920 info and order

Save this date: Sunday, November 8, 2009 for the 32nd Annual Meeting of Friends of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota between 4:30-7 p.m. The event will begin with some social time and a cash wine bar. There will be displays about the 2010 census of U.S. population. The meal will include hors d'oeuvres and a light dinner, assorted desserts and beverages. The annual meeting will consist of brief reports on the year's activities, followed by our speaker, J. H. ("Jay") Fonkert, board-certified genealogist and president of the Minnesota Genealogical Society who will talk on "Role of the Census in Telling Immigrant Stories," and then there will be time for questions & answers. It will be held in the Atrium and room 120, Elmer L. Andersen Library, U of M West Bank Campus (directions and parking, see www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/EALib/. The cost is $25 per person. For further information or tickets contact Jeanette Pafko at 952-831-1440 or e-mail her at pafkova@aol.com. Open to everyone; reservations are required. Please share this notice with others who may be interested in attending. For additional information see: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/pdfs/Friends2009savethisdate.pdf

Hawley's research includes artifact analysis and the techniques of printers in the United States from the colonial period to the present. The College of Liberal Arts awarded her professional development leave from August 17 to September 25, 2009.

The title of her manuscript takes its name from linkages she has found between marks left by certain printing presses on examples of sensational fiction and street publications. Her previous work on printing grippers has contributed to the field of analytical bibliography by helping historians to trace the shop practices of printers, even when no business records documenting their work had survived.

She also is writing an article-length manuscript titled "Straw Into Gold: Yellow-Wrappered Books as Technologies of Color and Consumption." That article suggests that technological choice, economic efficiency and visual appeal helped to drive the prevalence of yellow wrappers among books sold by street vendors in antebellum America.

Since 2003, Hawley has demonstrated historical printing techniques and helped teach descriptive bibliography at Rare Book School, University of Virginia. In 2007, she curated an exhibition on American printing technologies at the Atlanta History Center (Atlanta, GA).

She received her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005.

To these minorities, anti-Communism was and still is a crucial part of their ethnic identity and a resource for mobilizing the community. Through compelling case studies, we learn why these minorities have persisted in their anti-Communist struggles, and what have been the successes and failures of their activism. The book also introduces a useful comparative framework for understanding the uniqueness of the political refugees' experience. More information and order form.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has called the NAM Awards "the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize" for ethnic media. Representing more than 2,500 ethnic news organizations, the NAM Expo is the largest convening of ethnic media in the United States. Matossian is Eastern U.S. Community News Editor for the Armenian Reporter.

Matossian was named runner-up in the International Affairs category for her two-part reporting on the Institute of Turkish Studies scandal, a story she broke in the Armenian Reporter and which was later covered by the Huffington Post, Hatewatch, Inside Higher Ed, Znet, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, and London Review of Books.

ITS Board Chairperson Donald Quataert, who stepped down in December 2006 after he acknowledged the Armenian Genocide in a book review, allegedly was forced to resign under pressure from the Turkish Embassy, which denied the charges. Several other ITS board members resigned in protest, citing concerns about academic freedom, according to the Armenian Reporter's coverage.

A list of winners of NAM awards is available. For more details on the award, visit newamericamedia.org.

Matossian has represented the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota on the Friends of the IHRC Board and served as vice president of the Friends of IHRC. In addition to being a member of the Collections Advisory Council, she is an active researcher in the IHRC collections. Her research has focused on the migration and settlement history of Armenians in Minnesota since 1899, as well as the Minnesota missionaries who served in Ottoman Turkey from the American Civil War through the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

We congratulate you on this award!

Several years ago, the project began with cataloging of newspapers in General through Finnish categories. The current portion of the project was led in spring and summer 2009 by Cecilia Genereux of the University Libraries. Laureen Boutang of University Libraries served as primary cataloger, assisted by student workers. Halyna Myroniuk, senior curatorial assistant for the IHRC, served as the IHRC coordinator.

Patrons can now search for all IHRC newspapers through MNCat, the University Libraries' print catalog, to accurately locate materials held by the IHRC. The newspapers that were cataloged are non-circulating and are available for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room, through arrangement with IHRC staff.

The titles included Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Near Eastern, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian publications.

The complete list of newspaper titles cataloged in this collaborative project includes:

America (Cleveland, Ohio : 1905)
America oggi.
Amerikai Magyarság.
Amerikanski srbobran.
Ameryka (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Am-Pol eagle.
Bayrūt tāymz =Beirut times.
Credinta =The Faith.
Cuvântul românesc =The Romanian voice.
Draugus
Ē phōnē =the Hellenic voice.
Ellēnikē phonē =Hellenic voice
Ellēnikos astēr =The Greek star.
Fra noi =among us.
Gazzetta del Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : 1949)
Gazzetta del Massachusettsthe ambassador.
Gazzetta Italiana (Hudson, Ohio)
Gazzetta Italiana (Seattle, Wash.)
Gwiazda polarna.
Hellenic voice (Natick, Mass.)
Hellēnikos typos =Saloniki-Greek press.
Il Pensiero =The Thought.
Italian-American digest.
Kanadai magyarság =Canadian Hungarians.
Kanadai/Amerikai magyarság.
Kanadský Slovák =The Canadian Slovak.
La Voce Italiana =The Italian voice.
Laiks (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. : 1949)
Makedonska tribuna =Macedonian tribune.
Meta =The goal = Das Ziel = Le but.
Naród polski =Polish nation.
Narodna voli︠a︡ (Scranton, Pa.)
Naše slovensko.
Nova zori︠a︡ (Chicago, Ill.)
Novoe russkoe slovo =New Russian word.
Novyĭ shli︠a︡kh =The New pathway = Le Nouveau chemin.
Nowy dziennik =Polish daily news.
OSIA news
Our voice (Cleveland, Ohio : 1959)
Pol Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : Chicago ed.)
Pol Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : National ed.)
Pol Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : Polish National Alliance of Brooklyn, U.S.A. ed.)
Pol-Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : Association of the Sons of Poland ed.)
Polish American journal (Buffalo, N.Y. : Polish National Alliance of Brooklyn, U.S.A. ed.)
Polish American journal (Scranton, Pa. : 1948)
Post eagle.
Post-gazette (Boston, Mass.)
Prosveta (Chicago, Ill.)
Slovák v Amerike =Slovak American.
Straż =The Guard.
Svoboda (Jersey City, N.J.)
Tėviškės žiburiai =The lights of homeland.
The GreekAmerican.
The Ukrainian weekly.
Ukraïnsʹki shchodenni visti =Ukrainain daily news.
Ukraïnsʹki visti =The Ukrainian news.
Zgoda.

Gabaccia will form and direct a small team of University-based researchers and community-based immigrant youth and archivists to create, collect, and analyze life writings by youth from Hmong, Mexican, and Somali refugee groups in the Twin Cities. The chair supports research in the humanities that reaches beyond the academy by engaging community partners in jointly planned projects and reaching wider audiences for humanities scholarship. For more information, see Fesler-Lampert Chair.

For days that Andersen Library is open, the IHRC collections staff are available Monday-Friday mornings 8:30-11:30 am and afternoons 12:30-4:30 pm. The IHRC suite is closed during lunch.

However, researchers can use materials in the reading room of Andersen Library 8:30 am-4:30 pm on all days when the building is open. Except for the dates listed above, Andersen Library is open Monday-Friday 8:30 am-4:30 pm and Saturday 9 am-1 pm. Because of limited staff on Saturdays, IHRC researchers must request materials by noon the previous day in order to give staff time to make items available.

The Twin Cities are home to artists and communities from across the world—places as varied as Laos, Thailand, Somalia, Philippines, Vietnam, Ghana, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guatemala, Russia, and elsewhere. Music is both a process and a product of global cultures.

In the research project Immigrant, Refugee, and Diasporic Hip-Hop in the Twin Cities,” I trace the evolution of hip-hop amongst immigrant, refugee, and diasporic members of the Twin Cities in real time—and with it, new American identities—as these artists engage with issues of generational conflict, ethnic pride, violence, struggle, and loss. The project will become a documentary and a book.

There are two broad components to my project. First, it looks at how artists from different parts of the world living in the Twin Cities, a place many are surprised to find out has hip-hop at all, use this globally-popular music and culture to express the multiple components of their identity, where they have come from, where they are, and where their futures might lead them. Secondly, I look at hip-hop’s place more broadly within and between these communities. This includes not only understanding the tensions it causes and potentially resolves, but also how the music is viewed as a marker of homogenization or difference.

Artists engage a host of issues through their words, beats, and actions in and beyond hip-hop. These include:

• The kinds of communities they see themselves part of, whether it be a specifically ethnic community here in the Twin Cities, or as part of a larger pan-ethnic movement, such as Pan-Africanism
• How this self-representation works against, and sometimes conforms to, dominant stereotypes concerning immigrants
• The complex ideas of “home” that are utilized through their music
• How artists engage with ideas about “tradition” and “traditional” cultural practices
• What it means for these artists to “go back” to their home country, if that is even possible
• Beliefs that hip-hop contributes to gang violence and murder
• How hip-hop can both worsen, as well as resolve, generational gaps that develop within a given community

Moreover, in engaging with these realities, artists often make connections to fellow artists spread out through the country and the world, constructing alliances for a global majority instead of a local minority in the fight for social justice. These social alliances between different groups, often crossing normally divisive lines, tackle some of the most important contemporary political issues, including immigration reform, affordable housing, support of progressive local and national politicians, health care access, homelessness, an end to youth violence, and greater minority representation in the Twin Cities.

These artists construct alliances not only with each other, but also with Caucasian as well as more established African American and other minority groups. Such music makes visible (and audible) the realities of global migrations on a local level, as well as how people from different parts of the world are able to coalesce around an artistic form for entertainment, education, and social justice.

Justin Schell is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society program, part of the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature department. He is also a free-lance writer and videographer. His documentary research is a work in progress.