The IHRC is an internationally known migration studies center with expansive archives documenting immigration to the United States, from the latter 19th century to current refugee migrations. Key areas of coverage include European and Near Eastern immigrants (1880-1930) and 20th-century refugees, such as Displaced Persons after World War II and Southeast Asian, African, and current movements. The Center has exceptional collections of fraternal organization records, personal files, and immigrant and refugee assistance organization materials, as well as ethnic print collections.

Grant-in-Aid Awards are intended to help defray expenses of visiting graduate students, professors and independent scholars from the U.S. and abroad consulting the Center’s archival and library collections. Grants are available through the generosity of donors to the IHRC’s ethnic and general funds, as well as the director’s research fund. Awards are made on a competitive basis and for research in a specific IHRC collection. IHRC sources to be consulted should be indicated in the application.

Prior to submitting an application, applicants are strongly encouraged to consult the IHRC Website (http://ihrc.umn.edu/) and to contact IHRC collections staff (ihrc@umn.edu) for information about each collection and relevance to proposed work.

Although researchers are welcome to extend their stay in Minnesota for additional research at other locations, the IHRC grant requires a five-day residency at the Center. During the residency, the recipient will offer a research-in-progress talk and have opportunities to interact with members of the vibrant IHRC community at the University of Minnesota. Researchers receiving a grant-in-aid award will be required to acknowledge the IHRC and receipt of the grant in any resulting publication.

Application Deadline: June 1, 2009

Availability: Awards are available for travel to the IHRC at any time between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, for work in any collection.

Terms of Award: Individual grants of up to $500 to assist with travel and research-related expenses associated with a research residency at the IHRC of not less than one work week (5 business days). Applications requesting less than $500 will receive equal consideration.

Who May Apply? Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars, in the U.S. or internationally, who live more than a day’s drive from the Twin Cities and who need to do research in the IHRC collections for which the grant-in-aid is sought.

Selection Criteria:
• Demonstrated connection between research needs and specific collections at the IHRC
• Language proficiency (for projects requiring sources in languages other than English)
• Preference for newer scholars (and graduate students), international scholars, and the use of the following collections: Czech/Slovak, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Polish, and Refugee-Related Materials

Application Materials:
• Proposal of no more than 2 pages describing the research project, the collections to be consulted, and estimated budget
• Current curriculum vitae
• Estimated dates of residency
• Names and contact information (including email) for two references

Send application materials by June 1, 2009, to Haven Hawley, Acting Director: ehh@umn.edu

or to the following postal address:
Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota
311 Andersen Library / 222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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.

Jamal Adam, a counselor and instructor at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, partnered with the IHRC in fall 2008 to prepare a "Global Diversity" day exhibition at MCTC focused on Somali immigration.

Participants were selected through a competitive process, and finalists represent a wide variety of scholarship, college teaching experience, and backgrounds. The institute, organized by the National History Center, is one of 19 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that teachers can work in collaboration and study with experts in humanities disciplines. The program is also co-sponsored by the American Historical Association, the history department at American University, the Community College Humanities Association, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and the National Portrait Gallery.

Directed by Maureen Murphy Nutting, Professor of History at North Seattle Community College, and Alan Kraut, Professor of History at American University, the month-long program will bring together 25 two- and four-year college professors and immigration experts for four weeks at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The participants and the institute leaders will also take a three-day research trip to New York City to explore the immigrant experience of Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and the Downtown Tenement Museum.

The participants will explore four basic areas during the summer institute: American immigration part of a global phenomenon; migrations between cultures; changes in immigration law, policy, and practice; and approaches and resources for teaching immigration history. Those who complete the institute will take what they learn back to their communities, enrich their U.S. history courses and other courses that deal with immigration, and improve teaching and learning. Those who complete the institute will take what they learn back to their communities, enrich their U.S. history courses, and improve teaching and learning.

A new 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.

Join a stimulating and in-depth discussion of these issues Tuesday, April 14, 2009, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center.

The panelists will discus whether children's interests are being neglected in the pursuit of immigration control. They will address questions such as which laws should apply to these children, and how -- or whether -- the U.S. enforcement approach should be changed to minimize harm to citizen children of undocumented parents.

Speakers include:
• 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

The exhibition focuses on Greek immigration to the United States and was created by IHRC researcher and filmmaker Maria Iliou and historian Alexander Kitroeff. The display features images from the IHRC's Greek American Collection, including the exceptional publishing materials of the Demetrios P. Callimachos Papers. Many images from that and other collections are available through COLLAGE, the IHRC's online digital images collection.

The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) opened the exhibition on Nov. 7, 2008, at the Museum of the Olive Oil Production-Lesvos. In March 2009, the exhibit will begin traveling to other halls in the cluster of regional museums directed by PIOP, which organizes location-specific museums emphasizing the distinct historical cultures of Greece.

The exhibition includes the award-winning documentary film of the same name produced in 2007 by Maria Iliou. The film was produced from research in more than 50 collections of Greek American materials and with interviews of prominent Greek Americans.

The documentary narrates the migration of Greeks to America from 1890 to 1980 and is subdivided into three parts: Immigrants 1890-1920, Becoming Americans 1920-1960, and The Revival of Ethnicity 1960-1980.

A Greek-language volume accompanying the exhibition is available and the documentary film in either Greek or English can be purchased in a DVD format.

Additionally, there will be no Saturday reading room hours during the week of spring break at the University of Minnesota (March 16-22). Usual building access schedules will resume on Monday, March 23.

All IHRC collections have brief finding aids available online. Researchers are encouraged to visit the IHRC website to consult online finding aids and to contact staff with specific questions about their projects prior to visiting Andersen LIbrary.

An IHRC public access terminal is available in suite 311 for walk-in researchers. Visitors without appointments may have a longer waiting time for staff consultations or in the servicing of material requests.

The conference will take place in Ann Arbor, MI and Minneapolis, MN during the week of April 6-10, 2009, and has been coordinated by Joshua Cole (History, University of Michigan) and Patricia Lorcin (History, University of Minnesota). The IHRC will host the second part of the conference April 9-10 in Elmer L. Andersen Library.

The full program is now available.

Although the modern nations of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia share a legacy as former colonies of France, the different modes of colonial control in each region and the different patterns of accommodation and resistance to European imperialism shaped their histories in divergent ways. Likewise, different areas within the Maghrib had their own relationship to political and religious movements emanating from the Middle East and elsewhere.

The experiences of the peoples of North Africa thus provide a useful comparative basis for contemporary reflection on the major turning points of the last hundred years: on the legacies of colonialism and anti-colonial forms of nationalism, on the meaning of the cold war and its end, and on the emergence of post-colonial societies facing new challenges in the late twentieth century. This conference brings scholars from North Africa to meet with specialists and students from two U.S. universities for a fruitful exchange of views and research agendas.

The schedule for the conference will be:

April 6-7, University of Michigan
April 6: 9:30-12:00, 2:00-4:00
April 7: 10:00-12:00, 2:00-4:00
All sessions in 1014 Tisch Hall

April 9-10, University of Minnesota
April 9: 9:30-12:00, 2:00-4:00
April 10: 10:00-12:00, 2:00-4:00
All sessions in 120 A,B C, Andersen Library

The University of Warwick program will be held May 5-14, 2009. Highlights of the scheduled events include:

Tuesday 5th May, 10.30-12.30
Symposium: Diaspora Studies and Diasporic Identities: Italians and OthersSpeakers: Donna Gabaccia (Minnesota), Stefano Luconi (Florence). Main discussant: Robin Cohen (Oxford)
Venue: Social Studies Building. Room S0.13

Friday 8th May, 1-6pm
Workshop: Interrogating the usefulness of the diaspora paradigm for the study of migrant, transnational and postcolonial cultures and literatures
Venue: Humanities Building. Room H0.60

Monday 11th May, 5.30-7pm
Seminar: Gender and Theory in an Interdisciplinary Field: International Migration Studies
Venue: Ramphal Building. Room R3.25

Wednesday 13th May, 5-7pm
Public lecture: Imagining Nations of Immigrants
Venue: Humanities Building. Room H0.52

Thursday 14th May, 3-5pm
Seminar: Do Words Matter? The History of Ideas meets the Digital Archive
Venue: Ramphal Building. Rooms R0.03/4

The events are open to the public and have been organized by the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study, in collaboration with the Department of Italian and the Social Theory Centre at Warwick University.

Global REM, in conjunction with the European Studies Consortium, will sponsor "Racism vs. Xenophobia: Transatlantic Perspectives," with a scholarly presentation, discussion, and reception following the event.

The event pairs two scholars from different disciplines: a sociologist, Michele Lamont (Harvard University), whose work has focused on racism and xenophobia both in France and the U.S., and a linguist, Ruth Wodak, who focuses on racism and xenophobia in political discourse in Europe. Each presenter will speak for 20-25 minutes, with the presentations followed by conversation between the two scholars and the audience. A reception follows.

Speakers will be:

Michele Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African-American Studies, Harvard University.

Ruth Wodak, Dr. Habil Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.

Gristel Ramler, Head of Private Archives Services of the State Archives, and Archivist Birgit Nurme will be conducting research in the Estonian Archives in the U.S. Collection at the IHRC. They will conduct research and consult with IHRC staff for four weeks to link the exceptional collection of materials to related holdings in Estonia, Sweden, Germany, and other countries.

IHRC Research Archivist Daniel Necas is supervising the project, which will lead to a digital integration of finding aids for selected materials. The project is part of multi-archive effort to reunite virtually cultural materials created by and about Estonians who migrated during the 20th century.

The partnership is supported by the Immigration History Research Center, the government of Estonia, and the Estonian Archives in the U.S., Inc., of Lakewood, N.J. The Estonian Archives in the U.S., Inc., transferred a large portion of its collections to the IHRC in 2003 while continuing to operate within the Estonian American community.

The IHRC holds the largest collection of Estonian diaspora materials in the world and receives continuing financial support for collections and research through an ongoing relationship with the Estonian Archives in the U.S., Inc. Among the types of funding provided is a graduate fellowship for a University of Minnesota student conducting research in the Estonian American collections of the IHRC.

Ms. Lam's research Interests include Finnish-Russian social and cultural contacts in Late Imperial and early Soviet Russia, Finnish migration to Soviet Karelia, imperialism and colonialism, nationalism.

The Karni Scholarship, established as a memorial tribute to the pioneering historian and publisher of Finnish American research and literature, 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 fifth year of the award competition.

As a reminder, department nominations for graduate student fellowships for 2009-2010 are due February 1. Fellowships are available for students enrolled in the University of Minnesota Graduate School conducting research furthered by consulting materials in the Arab American, Estonian American and Latvian American collections at the IHRC. February 1 is the annual deadline for fellowship applications, and available funding is listed each fall on the IHRC website.

The IHRC also offers travel support to researchers consulting IHRC collections through the grants-in-aid program. These opportunities are supported by the ethnic studies funds and the Michael G. Karni Scholarship of the IHRC. Scholars must spend a minimum of one week in residence at the IHRC (two weeks for the Karni Scholarship). Funding is available to graduate students, faculty and independent scholars living outside of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Ethnic Studies grants support travel to the IHRC at any time between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. The deadline for ethnic applications for 2009-2010 is May 1, 2009.

Scholars applying for the Michael G. Karni Scholarship must use the award for travel from January 1 to December 31, 2010. The deadline for Karni Scholarship applications in November 1, 2009.

For more information about IHRC funding opportunities and the research collections, please visit the IHRC website. Updates will be posted throughout the year. For additional information or to apply, contact Haven Hawley, IHRC acting director and program director.

Are your association’s records relegated to some boxes in a back room – or simply tossed periodically without review? Do your staff and members continually reinvent the wheel because your “institutional memory�? is lost?

You can avoid costly mistakes – and even see a return on investment from your association records! – by learning how to identify and maintain appropriate records. This workshop gives you the practical information and tools you need to identify records of enduring archival value and start an archives program that will benefit your association.

Upon completing this workshop, you’ll be able to:

* Establish the essential elements of an archives/records management program
* Set appropriate goals for your archives program
* Systematically review your associationÕs records
* Decide on the value of including various types of records in your archives
* Begin preserving and protecting your important records by storing them appropriately
* Keep track of your archival records for easy access
* Evaluate whether your records are best kept in house or at another institution

Who should attend? This workshop is for you if you’re an association CEO, communication staffer, records manager, or librarian who wants to ensure effective management of your association’s important records.

Previous attendees have said that some of the most important aspects of the workshop for their organization included learning about:

* “Steps to getting started.�?— Jeff Flom, American Massage Therapy Association
* “Preservation issues.�?— Diane A. Fagen, American Veterinary Medical Association
* “Learning about fragility of various media.�?— Michael Walters, American Veterinary Medical Association
* “Storage containers and materials.�?— Richard Collins, American Bar Association

"Association Archives: Preserving Your Institutional Memory" will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Elmer L. Andersen Library on May 15, 2009. Registration is required.

The fee for early bird registration (for non-members of SAA) is $235, with a deadline of April 15, 2009. Registration after April 15 is $285. Those interested in attending the workshop can register directly with Society of American Archivists at SAA non-member rates.

A $25 discount is available to all organizational members of Friends of the IHRC. Please contact Kalju Kubits, president of Friends of the IHRC, to gain information about the discount prior to registering with SAA.

A limited number of scholarships are available through direct registration with IHRC/Friends of the IHRC. Underrepresented groups and organizational members of the Friends of the IHRC may request scholarships that waive all but $25 of the workshop fee. Scholarships will be awarded on a rolling basis. Early requests for financial assistance are urged, and all scholarship awards will be announced on or before April 15, 2009.

To apply for a scholarship, contact Kalju Kubits, Friends of the IHRC, or Haven Hawley, acting director/program director of IHRC. A scholarship committee will determine recipients, and additional information about scholarship guidelines will be posted on the IHRC website by Feb. 1, 2009.

The course will be taught by Anne M. Ostendarp, and enrollment is limited to 30 students.

Archival Recertification Credits-ARCs: 5; General CEU Credits: 0.75

Presenters in the 2007 series included Hakim Aberrezak (French and Italian); Donna Gabaccia (Immigration History Research Center and History); Bernard Maegi (History); Vera Fennell, Kathy Fennelly and Crystal Myslajek (Humphrey Institute); and Margaret Werry (Theatre Arts and Dance), as well as Franca Iacovetta from the University of Toronto (History).

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. Richard Stachow, video photographer for the College of Liberal Arts, arranged videography; Mari Magler, associate director for Disability Services, coordinated captioning for accessibility.

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.

For more information on the courses, visit the IHRC Courses and Syllabi and the Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration Teaching Resources pages.

Understanding Diversity: A Universal Perspective
HSEM 2046: Taught by Indira Y. Junghare

Topics in Asian Literature: India through Time: Historicity and Periodization
ALL 3900/5900: Taught by Bali Sahota

Black Paris: The African Diaspora and Paris, France
AMST 3920 (Also meets with GLOS 3900 Sec 005 and AFRO 3920 Sec 001): Taught by Trica Keaton

Global Migration & Photography
ANTH 3980: Taught by Barbara Wolbert

There Must Be Some Way Out of Here: Humans on the Move
AMST 1012: Taught by Professor Trica Keaton

Space, Identity, and Agency in the Black Diaspora
GWSS 4690/ GWSS 5690: Taught by Zenzele Isoke

Diversity, Solidarity and the American Mosaic
SOC8090: Taught by Joe Gerteis with Penny Edgell and Doug Hartmann

Research presentations about refugees (forced or voluntary) or memory and cultural transmission among immigrant groups are sought, with preference given to researchers working in the IHRC collections or migration documentary projects.

Interested researchers, independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to contact Haven Hawley. FFI: ehh@umn.edu

Up to two full-year fellowships will be available to support Estonian American studies, one full-year fellowship for Latvian American studies, and one single-semester fellowship for Arab American studies will be available to support graduate students. Fellows must be able to conduct research in IHRC collections in the areas of their fellowships.

The IHRC holds extensive archival and print materials for studying the American experience of Estonian, Latvian, and Near Eastern immigrants. The Estonian American collection is the largest Estonian diaspora collection in the world. The IHRC has exceptional strength in ethnic publishing, especially from Latvian and Arab American publishers.

The range of materials in Estonian and Latvian American collections spans Displaced Persons Camp publications and refugee assistance organizations to international scouting and song festivals. Highlights of the Near Eastern collections include the papers of Philip K. Hitti, Mary Mokarzel, and Francis Maria.

Applicants must submit a form for department nomination to their graduate programs by December 15, 2008, to express interest in being nominated for a fellowship.

Departments must submit application materials, including evidence of relevant language proficiency, by February 1, 2009, to the IHRC. Fellowship winners will be announced in spring 2009.

Current or prospective graduate students are strongly encouraged to learn more about the IHRC collections and fellowships at www.ihrc.umn.edu.

The awards are made with support from the Hildegard and Gustave Must Graduate Fellowship in Estonian American Studies Fund, American Latvian Association Graduate Fellowship in Latvian American Studies Fund, Francis Maria Graduate Fellowship in Arab American Studies Fund, and 21st Century Graduate Fellowship Endowment. The IHRC is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.

Award of each fellowship is contingent upon nomination of qualified Graduate School applicants by a current (or prospective) department and final statements of revenue from associated endowments. For more information, please contact Haven Hawley, IHRC Acting Director and Program Director, at ehh@umn.edu.

"As I See It" brings together documentary work from Twin Cities students at the Ubah Medical Academy, the Sheridan Neighborhood youth group Sheridan Shooting Stars, and video projects coordinated by the Minnesota Historical Society. During November and December, additional project work will be displayed on the second and third floors of Andersen Library. View images from Andersen Gallery http://ihrc.umn.edu/community/2008exhibit.htm

The two groups are comprised of young adults in the Twin Cities who compose and perform their own compositions, taking inspiration from the strong oral traditions in Somali culture.

The poetry presentation will begin at 6 p.m., followed by an Open Mic hour at 7 p.m. Refreshments are free, and the event is open to the public.

"Poetry from the Somali Diaspora" is sponsored by the Lost Poets, Young Achievers, Immigration History Research Center (College of Liberal Arts), and Children's Literature Research Collections (University of Minnesota Libraries).

Visitors may tour the exhibition "As I See It: Images from the Lives of Twin Cities Youth" in the Andersen Library Gallery throughout the evening.

The blog will enhance dialogue related to the Institute for Advance Study's México-Minnesota Dialogue Collaborative. Posts in both English and Spanish are welcome for the blog.

For more information, contact Joanna O’Connell of the Spanish and Portuguese Department, College of Liberal Arts.

His presentation will be based on research he conducted during the summer and fall of 2007 as he bicycled around the perimeter of the United States, visiting Latino communities.

Dr. Mendoza is an associate professor of Chicano Studies as well as associate vice provost in the Office of Equity and Diversity.

The presentation is part of the Thursdays at Four series sponsored by Institute For Advanced Study. The event is free and open to the public, and refreshment will be served.

Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement by Diana Selig.
Abstract:"Diana Selig tells the neglected story of the cultural gifts movement, which flourished between the world wars. Progressive activists encouraged pluralism in homes, schools, and chruches across the country . Countering racist trends and the meltingpot theory of Americanization, they championed the idea of diversity. They incorporated new thinking about child development, race, and culture into grassroots programs-yet they were enable to address the entrenched forms of discrimination and disfranchisement faced by African Americans in particular. This failure to grasp the deep social and economic roots of prejudice ultimately limited the movement's power. "

Immigrants Writing Identities: Searching for the Identity of Kawkab Amirka's Editors; a thesis by Karen Braverman Bujanover
Abstract: Karen Braverman focus her thesis on the "individuals who wrote, edited, and published Kawkab Amirka, the first Arabic-language newspaper published in the US, in New York City between 1892 and 1907. The main figures were Najib and Ibrahim Abrili, brothers who had emigrated with their parents and siblings from the Mount Lebanon area to the Us in the late 1870s." Karen "looks into the editors' motivation for publishing the newspaper by looking at the main components of the Arbilis' identity, and the extent to which those reflected the tribulation introduced them by immigration."

W jednosci sila by Joanna Wojdon
Abstract: Joanna writes about the Polish American Congress based mostly on her research done at the Immigration History Research Center.

The reception is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Elmer L. Andersen Library Atrium.

Through photographs and essays, The Somali Diaspora traces the journey of a family from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to their new lives in the United States. The work takes readers from civil war in Africa to the culture shock of arriving in the United States, growing roots in the Somali community, learning English, finding work, and – in a remarkably short time – participating fully in American life.

The reception also welcomes the public to the new exhibition “As I See It: Images from the Lives of Twin Cities Youth,�? on display October 14-December 9 in the Andersen Library Gallery. The exhibit brings together documentary work from students at the Ubah Medical Academy, the Sheridan Neighborhood youth group Sheridan Shooting Stars, and video projects coordinated by the Minnesota Historical Society. During November and December, additional project work will be displayed on the second and third floors of Andersen Library.

Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge will be giving the presentation "Somali Refugees in Europe" at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, October 22, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Room 125 of the Nolte Center for Continuing Education.

The Weisman Art Museum in partnership with Arts Midwest will bring to Minneapolis in summer 2009 the highly-anticipated exhibition Stories of the Somali Diaspora: Photographs by Abdi Roble. It will be on display June 20-September 13, 2009. Additional events during the coming year will include educator training programs, a public performance of poetry by local youth, and highlighting community businesses and organizations.

"They Also Chose Minnesota", a Minnesota sesquicentennial panel discussion, compares earlier migration experiences with more recent ones. Program details.

Saturday, November 8, 2008, 3:00 – 5:45 p.m.
Croatian Hall (Hrvatski Dom)
445-2nd Ave. South, South St. Paul
Free and open to the public

Dinner and Annual Meeting will follow with social hour and appetizers beginning at 6:00 p.m. Paid reservations for the dinner ($25 per person) are required by October 31. See flyer for details about the program and to place your order.

November 1 is the 2008 deadline for applications for the Michael G. Karni Scholarship, which supports research in the IHRC collections related to the Finnish American experience. The IHRC's Finnish holdings range from historically-important cooperative records to rich collections of Finnish music. Applicants should search the IHRC's collections through VITRAGE and COLLAGE or consult with a collections staff member to assist in identifying relevant materials.

The IHRC offers many scholarships and fellowships to support research in its collections, with deadlines throughout the year for applications. For information about applying for a Karni Scholarship visit http://ihrc.umn.edu/educators/pdf/Karnischolarship.pdf

For information about other funding through the IHRC, visit http://ihrc.umn.edu/educators/fellowships.html#ihrc.

Fülöp is also a board member of the Association of Minnesota Hungarians and the Hungarian-American Coalition. On Sunday Göncz also met leaders of the local ethnic Hungarian community and told them about the Hungarian government's efforts to help ethnic Hungarians living beyond the borders.

http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/9304/219/

Examining more than four hundred unique photographs of Italian families, settlements, businesses, and celebrities, Scarpaci celebrates the ways in which this ethnic group has influenced many aspects of American life, including arts, agriculture, industry, religion, cuisine, sports, and politics. Beginning in the late 1870s, this work illustrates how the immigrants and their descendants faced the hardships, disappointments, achievements, and successes of this ongoing experience. Read the press release.

Abstracts (maximum of 250 words) can be submitted through the Conference website. Deadline for submissions of abstracts is 1 October 2008. Deadline for submission of full papers is TBD with convenors.

Funding opportunities: The Conference organisers have a limited number of grants available for participants from the global South. Those in need of a grant to participate can be recommended by the panel conveners. Also, the 3R Foundation may be able to provide funding for travel or accommodation on an ad hoc basis. Please contact the conveners should you require financial support to participate.

For more information, please contact Chris Mommers.

IHRC materials will need to be requested during the week prior to Saturday hours, with no requests accepted after noon on Friday. Researcher requests will be fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis, so please contact staff as early in the week as possible to make sure materials are available for Saturday research visits.

As always, researchers are strongly encouraged to discuss projects with IHRC collections staff in order to gain advice about additional materials that may be of interest. Advance notice allows staff to narrow requests to a smaller volume of documents, photos, or other items from the IHRC large collections.

Materials with usage restrictions and publications kept in the IHRC office suite will not be available during Saturday hours. For more information about IHRC holdings and extended hours, please e-mail the IHRC.

Articles should conform to the gender forum style sheet and should not exceed 8,000 words in length. Please include a bio-blurb of 5 to 10 lines and an abstract of 10 to 15 lines. Use endnotes and fully documented references at the end of the article. For further information on the journal, please visit our homepage or contact us via email.

In view of the upcoming German elections, the seminar will look at new social and cultural trends in Germany, explore which factors particularly influence the German political landscape, and discuss the emergence of new political parties. In this context, the seminar will be focused on issues ranging from immigration to education, from demography to energy policies, and from German reunification to globalization and the European Union. Grantees receive round-trip air travel, travel within Germany, lodging, a partial per diem, and health insurance coverage for the duration of the seminar. Major parts of the program will take place in Berlin, but visits to other German regions will also be included.

Applications are now being accepted for up to 25 awards available in 2009-10. Those eligible to apply include scholars from U.S. universities, colleges, and community colleges who hold full-time teaching appointments and meet other academic requirements (Ph.D., Ph.D. candidacy, or other equivalent degree or qualifications). Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The seminar is to be held in English, and will take place in mid- to late-June 2009. FFI: http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2009/award/Ful9251.htm.

while writing this epic novel about a family of remarkable Italian American women. Read the press release.

Bahjo Mahamud received an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) grant for an educational project aimed at both Somali and non-Somali audiences, focusing on the culture, oral stories, and historical background of a growing immigrant population in the Twin Cities.

As part of her project, she will research Somali history and culture, produce documentation to accompany the IHRC exhibition “As I See It: Images from the Lives of Twin Cities Youth,�? and serve as a docent for group tours.

"Docent-led tours require a great deal of research and the ability to distill knowledge into a public curriculum," according to IHRC Program Director Haven Hawley. Bahjo further brings to the role her experience in public speaking and community knowledge that will allow her to address diverse audiences.

The next deadline for submitting proposals to the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is Monday, October 6, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Instructions for submitting proposals will be posted at the beginning of Fall Semester 2008.

Fascinated by the diverse origins and cultural backgrounds of his subjects, Augustus F. Sherman created a riveting series of portraits, offering viewers a compelling perspective on this dynamic period in our country's history.

The exhibition has drawn strong reviews both nationally and internationally, and it is a recommended event.
"Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits, 1905 - 1920" will be on display July 4-September 20 at the Minnesota History Center.

The government of Slovenia, Office for Slovenes Abroad and the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, in cooperation with the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenia Academy of Arts and Sciences-Institute of Slovenian Migration Studies, have organized and financed an international professional seminar of Slovenian archiving. The seminar, which will accept 15-20 participants, will take place Sept. 15-20 in Ljubljana.

The objectives of the seminar are to cover the fundamentals of archiving, to establish connections with professional archiving organizations in Slovenia, to generate through participants international networks of Slovenian migration archives, and to increase the awareness of the value of collecting and maintaining archives that preserve Slovenian culture around the world.

Applications can be electronically sent to urad.slovenci@gov.si

For more information, contact the Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia in Cleveland, which has the following hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

Send inquiries to:
Dr. Zvone Zigon
Consulate General for Republic of Slovenia
55 Public Square, Suite 945
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
Phone 216-589-9220
Fax: 216-589-9210

In his own research and teaching, Bill created great opportunities for Finnish American scholars, generating significant prominence for the emerging field of study and making the work of others possible through his Union List of Finnish American Newspapers. That work became the seed for the IHRC's own microfilming project, which allows researchers around the world access to all Finnish American newspapers known at the time of the project.

For his many friends and associates, we provide the following article, which details his long service and contributions to the field of Finnish American studies.

A. William Hoglund
(1926-2008)

HOGLUND, Arthur William, 81, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., passed away peacefully in the presence of friends on May 1, 2008. A. William (Bill) Hoglund was born in Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 4, 1926. He distinguished himself as an American historian, writing on agricultural and immigrant history, particularly of the Finns. His dedication and service to Finland led to Hoglund being knighted by the Republic of Finland in October 2004 and awarded the medal of the White Rose, Finland’s highest civilian honor.

Hoglund grew up in the upstate New York Finnish American community of Spencer-Van Etten, a community of abandoned farms that Finnish immigrants purchased and brought back to life as chicken farms. His parents, a Finnish born father and a Finnish American mother, left urban life and became chicken farmers, part of the co-operative farming community that formed there.

After graduating from Spencer High School in 1945, Hoglund attended Cornell University in New York, where he received a B.A. in history in 1949. He then enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he became the student of Merle Curti. He obtained graduate degrees in history (M.A. ’50, Ph.D. ’57). While working on his Ph.D., Hoglund was drafted and spent four years in the United States Army. His dissertation, Paradise Rebuilt: Finnish Immigrants and Their America, 1880-1920, was published as a book in 1960 entitled Finnish Immigrants in America: 1880-1920. Its encyclopedic collection of archival data on that community continues to be the basic source in Finnish immigration research. Rather than a history of immigrant institutions, the book comprised a study of social and intellectual history.

Hoglund accepted a position as assistant professor at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, in 1957 and taught there until 1961. In that year, he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, where he rose to the rank of Professor of History. He remained at the University of Connecticut until he retired in 1997. He was the Government of Finland and David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professor of Finnish Studies at the University of Minnesota during spring 1998.

In his later work, Hoglund continued to cultivate the bibliographic skills he had first nurtured in his dissertation studies. Those skills became central to the Finnish newspapers in America microfilm project, 1984-88. That project resulted in Hoglund’s Union List of Finnish Newspapers Published by Finns in the United States and Canada, 1876-1985, and became the roadmap for the Immigration History Research Center’s Finnish American Newspaper Microfilming Project, which made available all existent newspapers as microfilm.

Hoglund curated the 1992 Library of Congress exhibition Bearers of the Word: Finnish Immigrant Literature in America 1876-1992, which highlighted the Finnish literary tradition in the U.S. and again created a new up-to-date bibliography of Finnish Americana. His own personal collection of materials, begun as a graduate student, grew throughout his career. He collected historic and contemporary materials, gathering together the single most important collection of Finnish Americana in private hands, arguably as significant as the archival collections at the Finnish American Historical Archives at Finlandia University and the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

Throughout his career, Hoglund specialized in immigration to the United States from Finland, although he also was known for his work in migration and ethnic studies. He became the Dean of Finnish American Studies, offering assistance to graduate students and other scholars working with Finnish American materials. His encyclopedic knowledge inspired and assisted a series of young scholars nurtured by the IHRC during the 1970s. In recognition of his long-time connections as a researcher, scholar and supporter at the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, Hoglund contributed to that institution his entire Finnish library and numerous multi-ethnic historical materials. The Arthur William Hoglund Collection, once privately held, currently is being processed so that research materials can be made broadly available to scholars.

Bill Hoglund is survived by his life partner, Kaz Takahashi. A devoted son who cared for his parents while continuing his own academic career, Hoglund was preceded in death by his sister, Thelma, who died at age 19 in 1946; his father, Arthur Alexander Hoglund in 1992; his mother, Sigrid L. Hoglund in 1997.

Friends of the IHRC awards were given to History Day performances, posters, documentaries, or other presentations that highlighted the history of migration, especially with a focus on US immigration, while addressing the year's theme of "Conflict and Compromise."

"Wave Your Red Kerchief Goodbye: The Conflicts and Compromises of American Communists" by Clara Linehan received the top prize from the Friends of the IHRC for its creativity and wide-ranging use of archival resources, including those at the IHRC. Her solo performance combined song and narrative, with facsimiles of archival materials as props to convey an immigrant's experience to the audience.

Luke Stone and Heather Stone received second prize for their group poster presentation "Welcome to the Big House: The Compromise of German-American Rights During World War II." Their oral presentation accompanying the poster brought attention to questions of citizenship, American identity, and the forced movement of a small number of Germans back to Germany during wartime in the United States.

Third prize was awarded to Abby Norling Ruggles, Collin Knopp Schwyn and Nico Dregni for their multimedia presentation "Let It Be: Urban Renewal on Milwaukee Avenue," studying public policy and community development in an area known for its immigrant history.

Judges Jeannette Pafko, co-president of the Friends of the IHRC, and Haven Hawley, IHRC program director, selected winning presentations to receive $50 awards.

We hope to receive advice about community needs and concerns as staff work toward programs that address the capacity and access needs of the IHRC collections. By focusing on processing alongside increased public access, we are putting our full effort into fulfilling our commitment to preserve the past while making room for materials yet to come.

The IHRC preserves historical materials and makes them available to the public -- from genealogists to international scholars and high school students to University faculty members. Our collections are uniquely broad and deep in migration related to the United States.

As many of our supporters are aware, storage space for IHRC materials has been near capacity for some time. For more than two years, we have greatly slowed the rate of our acquisitions. We had hoped that reviewing opportunities on a case-by-case basis could keep the growth of IHRC materials within immediate space limits, but we have surpassed cavern capacity. Although three caverns were originally proposed for construction beneath Elmer L. Andersen Library, the final project included only two, leaving much less than a decade’s growth for archival collections. Since arriving as the new program director last fall, I have had to postpone acquisition of supplements to established IHRC collections and worked to match offers of new collections to appropriate repositories. This is a very difficult task.

The University Libraries, with support from the IHRC, continues to seek funding for an additional underground cavern and to explore many options. The IHRC's initial hopes for temporary offsite storage with archival conditions has proven too costly, however. We are developing a program to help the IHRC adjust to the immediate lack of space and our need to create greater access to materials at hand. For the remainder of 2008, the IHRC will temporarily halt acquisitions and direct staff resources to processing existing materials. Our staff members have begun assessing the content and themes of materials in IHRC collections, and we are in the preliminary stages of forming a collections policy to guide us.

Processing takes place on many levels and, usually, several times during the life of a collection. Archivists arrange materials for easier access in preservation folders, remove duplicates and damaged items, and usually compact collections. These tasks frequently are not done immediately after material is received, because time often gives perspective about which materials have the richest resource potential. At the IHRC, we have the additional difficulty of arranging for specialists to work in multi-lingual collections. Funding, specialist availability, and staff supervision must be coordinated carefully. We also will work to balance researcher demand for materials, our ongoing relationships with many communities and donors, and the IHRC's need to prioritize processing collections that have the greatest potential for compaction.

All archival institutions go through periods in which they adjust how much they acquire in order to process the materials already on hand. The IHRC is beginning a multi-year plan to address the capacity and processing issues, and my goal is to have an initial phase of assessment completed by this time next year. The earliest that we might be able to consider selective acquisitions would be about January 2009, but please understand that we will have very restricted capacity for some years after that.

I encourage IHRC supporters to talk with me about donations that will need to be delayed or about learning to assess your own community’s future needs. Our goal is to create space so that we can continue adding to our collection, and I have no doubt that we will be able to do so. In the meantime, I will provide advice on interim steps so that we can support each other in preserving materials that cannot be immediately acquired by the IHRC.

We will hold informational meetings to discuss these issues in depth and to learn more about the types of educational programs and resources that will best support our community. Please note that the meetings have the same content but that we are scheduling two in different locations so that everyone has a chance to attend. The meetings will be:

Sunday, May 18th, 2-4 p.m.
Sokol (CSPS) Hall, 383 Michigan St., St. Paul, MN 55102

Thursday, May 22nd, 6-8 pm
Andersen Library, 222 – 21st Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55455
(cavern tours after meeting)

We are beginning to plan support and outreach programs starting in fall 2008, and we will use public feedback to tailor training, resources, and archival contacts to the IHRC community’s needs. I look forward to seeing you either at Sokol Hall or at Andersen Library in May, and I especially would like to thank Czech & Slovak Sokol Minnesota for providing space for our St. Paul meeting.

Within the challenge before us lies a great opportunity. In turning our attention to the collections, we renew our commitment to preserving the voices of immigrants, in their own words, pictures, and documents. As I work with IHRC supporters, I hope to gain advice on how to best serve our diverse community.

Haven Hawley, Program Director, IHRC

The first meeting will be Sunday, May 18th, 2-4 p.m. at Sokol (CSPS) Hall, 383 Michigan St., St. Paul, MN 55102. The Friends of the IHRC will provide refreshments and have made arrangements for the off-site meeting in order to encourage community participation in the public forum.

A second meeting will be held May 22nd, 6-8 pm at room 120 of Andersen Library, 222 – 21st Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55455. A cavern tour will be offered at the conclusion of the campus meeting, and refreshment beverages will be provided.

Haven Hawley will provide information about archival capacity, possible options, and projects that the IHRC has underway to work with ethnic communities to continue preserving historical materials. The meetings will contain similar information and discussion opportunities, but they are being held in different locations to provide convenient access to the public.

For more information about the IHRC, contact Haven Hawley at 612-625-4800 or ehh@umn.edu.

These grant-in-aid awards may be used to support travel costs of researchers needing to consult the following IHRC collections during a minimum one-week period term of residence: Czech/Slovak, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Polish. Grants are open to graduate students, faculty and independent scholars in the U.S. or internationally who live more than a day's drive from the Twin Cities. Grants may be used to travel to the IHRC at any time between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. For further details and application information.

The program will include 20 students telling immigrant stories shared with them by elders from many communities. Students in a Post Secondary Teaching and Learning course taught by Molly Collins conducted interviews, wrote oral histories, and developed historical analysis skills as part of their training.

The public is invited to hear selections from those oral histories on May 1st from 12:45-1:20 p.m. in room 120, Anderson Library. Refreshments will be served.

Presentation Outline:

*Study Overview and Methods
*ORR Data and National Trends
*Vignettes of Refugee Experiences
*Interviews with Refugees and Key Informants
*Conclusions
*Recommendations
*Questions and Answers

Linda K. Kerber will be giving the inaugural distinguished lecture in legal history in the Ronald A. and Kristine S.
Erickson Legal History Lecture Series on Tuesday evening, April 22nd, 7:00 p.m. at the Law School, Room 25 (subplaza). Kerber is a distinguished scholar whose work on citizenship has won multiple prizes. Her lecture "Stateless in America" is from her current research.

O'Shaughnessy presents the Ethnic Dance Theatre in "First Love: A Bulgarian Tale," April 18 - 20, St. Paul, MN. Ivan loves Tudora. Todora loves Kolyo. And Kolyo loves....who? Find out at "First Love: A Bulgarian Tale" featuring vibrant music, dance and colorful costumes from exotic Bulgaria. Live music by the EDT Folk Orchestra and guests, Mila Vocal Ensemble. F-Sat at 8 PM; Sun at 2 PM. Tickets $12 - 25 at 651-690-6700 or order online at www.ticketmaster.com . Ask about group discounts. Visit Ethnic Dance Theatre online at www.ethnicdancetheatre.com.

The IHRC has available several small grants of $250 each to support travel costs of researchers needing to consult the following IHRC collections during a minimum one-week period term of residence: Czech/Slovak, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Polish. Grants are open to graduate students, faculty and independent scholars in the U.S. or internationally who live more than a day's drive from the Twin Cities. Grants may be used to travel to the IHRC at any time between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. For further details and application information.

During 2003 - 2005, the IHRC received over 1,100 linear feet of archival and print materials from the Estonian Archives in the USA in Lakewood, New Jersey. In 2005, basic records for the first ca. 250 individual collections of personal papers and organizational records were created during the accessioning process and included in the IHRC's on-line directory of finding aids. Recently, another phase of the project has been completed by uploading additional ca. 350 records for the remaining archival collections. More archival processing work will be needed to expand these records and develop more detailed, searchable finding aids. View the new Estonian Archives in the USA collections directory .

"Stepping Off, Falling Deeply Into America" offers selections culled from the IHRC's collections and comments by Raspanti, who is a long-time community liaison for the IHRC and performance artist. Her research presentation gives voice to newer and older immigrant experiences.

The IHRC presentation is included among other poetry selections from the Andersen caverns, and the presentation will be held in Room 120. Refreshments are provided.

The IHRC will offer limited reader services after 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 20. The Elmer L. Andersen Library Reading Room will close at 4:30 p.m. that day, rather than having extended hours. The Andersen Library building will be closed on Friday, March 21.

Regular hours will resume on Monday, March 24.

Volunteers will provide information about the research center, Friends of the IHRC, and the Immigrant Heritage Recipe Cookbook, which will be for sale at the table. Look for more volunteer opportunities to be posted soon on the IHRC website!

Meet members of the Friends of the IHRC, University faculty, College of Liberal Arts and Libraries staff, and supporters throughout the Twin Cities. The evening will begin with socializing, hors d'oeuvres and beverages, with an awards presentation scheduled for 6:15 p.m.

Long-time supporters as well as new faces can meet and greet those whose efforts make the IHRC both an internationally-known research archives and a vibrant multi-ethnic community. If you aren't a volunteer, come to learn more about the Center.

RSVP to Haven Hawley at 612-625-0553 or ehh@umn.edu if you would like to attend; responses before Feb. 22 appreciated!

The presentation is noon to 1:10 p.m. in Murphy Hall, Room 228. Professor Martinez will review the current American demographic transition, then trace the build up to the 2006 immigrant rights movement. He will discuss newspaper coverage of the movement, drawing from more than 12,000 stories published in 2006. An open discussion with the audience will conclude the event.

Professor Martinez’s talk kicks off the speaker series “Global Media - Diasporic Cultures,�? which is co-sponsored by the Immigration History Research Center, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and other University partners. Courting multicultural, often nomadic, audiences, 21st-century media makers seek to acquire, shape, and re-shape cultural materials in order to transmit products that draw upon and market to different racial, cultural, and national identities. The speakers in this series have produced cutting-edge research that sheds light on genres, styles, and stars of this multinational media era, as well as the cultural, social, political, and economic phenomena that drive trends in this media landscape.

Members of the university community, as well as communities within the Twin Cities, who attend these talks will be able to engage with the speakers about specific cases of media products and persona that reflect upon global media cultures, and discuss the often problematic deployment of race, ethnicity, gender, and national identities represented in many media trends. For more information, visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Undergraduate Student Internship with the Immigration History Research Center and the Asian American Studies Program, University of Minnesota

January, 2008

This position is located at the Immigration History Research Center, 311 Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S., West Bank Campus. Student will assist curatorial staff of the IHRC and faculty in the Asian American Studies Program in conceptualizing and designing a digital exhibit focusing on Southeast Asian refugee migration to Minnesota that will be used for research and teaching purposes. Other research for the project may involve the development of K-12 curriculum projects around the digital exhibit.

Students can sign up for the internship through AAS 3993 Directed Study for variable credit. (2-4 credits; 6-10 hours per week). Internship would require meeting weekly or as needed with faculty advisor and IHRC supervisor.

Duties: research archival and other materials relating to the themes of the digital exhibit, work with IHRC staff on design and production of digital exhibit.

Qualifications: advanced undergraduate standing; interest in Asian American and migration studies; curriculum development; public outreach. Intern should be self-directed and work well collaboratively. Technical expertise is not a requirement.

Terms: Begins after January 22, 2008 up to 10 hours/week, flexible schedule to be arranged M-F between 8:00-4:30, to May 17, 2008

Academic goals and professional skills relating to the internship:
Intern will learn about Southeast Asian American history; explore how knowledge and histories about refugee and immigrant populations are produced, collected, and disseminated. Students will have an opportunity to develop digital technology skills.

This beautiful volume, highlighted by color and archival images from the IHRC's own collections, includes categories from soups to desserts. The spiral binding ensures ease of use in your kitchen. Limited quantities available. Price: $11.95 + p/h and tax, as applicable. To order, fill out the order form at this link.

The Immigrant Heritage Recipe Collection was compiled and edited by Mary Ann Novak, Cindy Herring, and Judy Rosenblatt. The IHRC staff thanks the Friends of the IHRC for co-sponsoring the cookbook and CLA External Relations for providing design assistance.

The IHRC is open 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday-Friday, with a one-hour closure for lunch, as posted. Researchers may use materials in the 2nd floor Reading Room during the entire day, but new requests or office services are not available during the mid-day break.

When University of Minnesota faculty began doing research in the Mesabi Iron Range in the 1960s, they found a wealth of materials unknown to and unappreciated by American archival institutions. Ethnic communities possessed photos, documents, publications, and family materials fundamental to telling the story of immigration, but no archives at that time existed focusing on migration. Key figures such as Timothy Smith, Hy Berman, Clarke Chambers, and Rudy Vecoli transformed that challenge into an opportunity through which the University of Minnesota takes part in preserving and interpreting unique materials for future generations.

More than four decades later, that tradition still defines the IHRC. As we face the space limitations of having two caverns under Andersen Library rather than the three initially proposed, the IHRC continues to work toward increasing our available space and ensuring optimal care for the materials entrusted to us. Our initial hope to locate affordable off-site storage with archival conditions has not been realized. Although a third cavern remains a goal, working out the funding and necessary partnerships with a fiscally responsible plan are years away. Like the leaders of the IHRC in the past, we realize the opportunity that lies within this challenge.

The IHRC has been at – and even over – capacity for some time, and we must work to compact the collections in order to make room for future acquisitions. This will require a short-term moratorium on acquisitions, creation of a collections policy to guide the IHRC in communicating with potential donors, and placing an emphasis on processing materials. In upcoming blogs, I will be writing more about each of these issues. Acquisitions and processing always overlap in an archival institution's operations, and it is common for an archives to go through periods where processing must take priority. The IHRC will continue acquisitions after achieving a balance between these two areas.

Acknowledging the limits of the IHRC’s current capacity allows the staff to process collections at hand, produce more detailed finding aids and to increase digital access. We will be able to create space by compacting collections in order to sustain their preservation. Researchers will gain greater access to collections as staff write fuller descriptions and better organize materials.

A recess from acquisition will provide a different kind of space, one that will refresh the relationship of the IHRC to communities, scholars, and our supporters. Staff will better understand how materials across the IHRC’s collections relate to each other, helping us to promote ethnic and migration studies to emerging scholarly trends. Processing materials allows staff members to undertake the research that recovers stories our collections have not yet told.

We will do a much better job of appreciating the uniqueness and shared values of each of the communities and individuals who have entrusted us with their valuable historical materials. Iron Range communities, displaced persons after World War II, and today’s immigrants have so many stories yet to be told through the IHRC’s collections. And there are many more stories that the IHRC must make room for. I hope that you will be a partner with the IHRC as we fulfill our commitment to preserve and to help future generations hear those stories.

Address: 165 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413 (612-824-5500)

Also presenting are Anita Gonzalez, who wrote an essay for the book and Tara Huie, who wrote a travelogue. Anita cocurated the exhibit Nine Months in America: An Ethnocentric Tour by Wing Young Huie at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. She teaches liberal studies at the University of Minnesota. Tara and Wing were newly married when they embarked on their 9-month journey. Her observations catalog the serendipity and humor of life on the road.

This event is free and open to the public.

For further information:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/huie_looking.html

In search of contemporary Asian America, celebrated photographer Wing Young Huie--the only member of his family not born in China--traveled with his wife, Tara, through nearly forty states to explore and document the funny, touching, and sometimes strange intersection of Asian American and American cultures. "Looking for Asian America" illustrates their rich and surprising journey across the United States.

Through Huie's eyes, keenly aware of his own Midwestern roots and perspective, we witness such images as a Vietnamese Elvis, Miss Congeniality on her cell phone in San Francisco's Chinatown, a Hmong street sign in rural North Carolina, a meditating Falun Gong protestor in Washington, D.C., a bubble tea Valley Girl, and a Chinese
theme park in Orlando. Huie's camera captures ABCs (American-born Chinese), FOBs (fresh off the boat), and a self-described "redneck Chinese restaurant owner" near the Okefenokee Swamp. Taken together the photographs reveal a complex portrait of the U.S. cultural landscape, and their dignified elegance invites a closer, deeper look.

Accompanied by the personal reflections of both Wing and Tara Huie, the nearly one hundred spectacular photographs tell a story that both mirrors and contradicts stereotypes of Asian Americans, ultimately questioning what it means to be ethnic and American in the twenty-first century.

"Looking for Asian America shows real people engaged in the full range of human activity. This is no small accomplishment for the photographer or his subjects. For Asian Americans, both the newcomers and the native born, it is extraordinary to be merely ordinary. To others even if not themselves, Asian Americans appear to be
contradictions of identity--a Chinese Yankee is a knock-off."--Frank H. Wu, from the foreword.

Wing Young Huie documents the socioeconomic, ethnic, and cultural realities of his home state, Minnesota. His photographs have been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and he is a recipient of the Bush Artist and McKnight fellowships. He is the author of
Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban Neighborhood and Lake Street USA.

Rather than studying the immigration histories of a few classic “nations of immigrants�? such as the U.S. or Canada, the course will ask students to tackle issues related to human mobility from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and to compare and to connect scholarly literatures on population movements in differing regions of the world. Students will discuss concepts and paradigms that encourage analysis of migration at scales above and below the individual national state and across a wide variety of temporal scales, from the short to the very long term. Students will be encouraged to prepare a research prospectus that uses local sources to answer global questions.

History 5990 (Readings in Comparative History) will meet Tuesdays 5:45-7:45 p.m. in SocSci 760. The course is open to graduate student historians, humanists and social scientists, regardless of geographic area of expertise or disciplinary training.

The IHRC joins the archives and special collections units of Elmer L. Andersen Library in making materials available until 8 p.m. on Thursdays for researchers. The pilot program, which is intended to increase access to scholars working in the diverse collections housed in Andersen Library, began in October.

Extended Thursday hours will be especially valuable to researchers visiting from out of town and independent scholars who cannot visit Andersen Library during daytime hours.

Researchers seeking to work with IHRC holdings need to request materials in advance. They also can continue using a collection already in the Reading Room. IHRC staff will not be able to send items to the Reading Room after 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Please contact IHRC collections staff to arrange for materials to be delivered for Thursday evening hours.

November 1 is the 2007 deadline for applications for the Michael G. Karni Scholarship, which supports IHRC research related to the Finnish American experience. The IHRC's Finnish holdings range from historically-important cooperative records to rich collections of Finnish music. Applicants should search the IHRC's collections through VITRAGE and COLLAGE or consult with a collections staff member to assist in identifying relevant materials.

The IHRC offers many scholarships and fellowships to support research in its collections, with deadlines throughout the year for applications. For information about applying for a Karni Scholarship or for other funding through the IHRC, visit Grants and Fellowships.

In an era enamored by technological futurism, the extent and intensity of the current memory boom are something of a surprise--especially in Europe. Politicians, business people, and eye witnesses are key to it. Many countries recently liberated from dictatorship are renationalizing their collective recollections. Most recently, pro-integration intellectuals and Brussels bureaucrats have discovered memory for their purposes too: Europe's lack of collective memory, they believe, hampers the process of European unification.They propose creating a transnational public memory that can legitimate the transformation of the EU into a superstate. What is the role of historians in this process? Is it to help construct or rather to deflate the project's rhetoric and so lay bare its subtexts? Professor Jarausch's presentation is bound to generate intense discussion. Konrad Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the co-founder of the UNC/Duke Center for European Studies and former co-director of the Zentrum fuer Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam. An immensely curious and personable researcher, he has written or edited over thirty books in modern German history.

Location: Room 710 (Ford Room), Social Sciences Building, Minneapolis Campus

Event Notice

Sponsored By: Center for German and European Studies
Additional Sponsors: Austrian Studies, Ctr for Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Department of History

Slavic Wonders: Feasts and Saints in Ancient Moscow, Prague and Krakow Listen to music from this concert now!

A haunting and atmospheric experience of the music that resonated through these ancient cities. With soaring soprano lines, powerful harmonies and deep, sonorous textures, this concert mingles tales of folk heroes and saints with stunning 12-part motets from the Russian Orthodox tradition, magnificent double-choir works from the Polish Renaissance, and the mysterious chant of medieval Bohemia. Hailed by critics as "ethereal and captivating" with a "supernatural" vocal range and blend, The Rose Ensemble has presented this program to capacity crowds across the United States and Europe. Don't miss this showcase of the signature Rose sound before the group brings Slavic Wonders to Spain to represent the United States in an international choral competition.

Saturday, October 20, 2007, 8:00pm
Pre-concert presentation at 7:00pm
Basilica of St. Mary
88 North 17th Street, Minneapolis
Purchase Tickets ($35, $25, and $17, reserved seating)

Sunday, October 21, 2007, 4:00pm
Pre-concert presentation at 3:00pm
Church of the Assumption
51 West 7th Street, St. Paul
Purchase Tickets ($35, $25, and $17, reserved seating)
POST-CONCERT WINE & CHEESE

Join us and socialize with friends and performers at a complimentary wine and cheese reception following the show.

Wine generously provided by: The Wine Thief

REM at Minnesota

CLA has long nurtured scholarly expertise and teaching excellence on race, ethnicity, and migration (REM). The U of M was the birthplace of immigration history in the 1920s, and it was an early innovator in interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate education through its American Studies Program. The Immigrant Archives and Center for Immigration Studies (later joined as the Immigration History Research Center, IHRC) again put Minnesota on the scholarly map in the 1970s.

A formal REM initiative resulted from funding from the Graduate School between 1999 and 2001. REM distinguished itself by linking the study of ethnic “whiteness�? and racialized minorities. A REM-inspired cluster of Americanist faculty has sustained itself through institutional linkages among CLA centers, departments, and programs (African and African-American Studies, American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian-American Studies Chicano Studies, GWSS, IHRC, etc.) As a result of recent hires, conversations in the Institute for Advanced Study around the Politics of Population symposium and collaborative, and the institutionalization of programs in the Institute for Global Studies, REM is now positioned to become an equally innovative initiative we will call “Global REM.�?

Continue reading the outline for this initiative.

For fiscal year 2007-2008, grants can be awarded to researchers intending to use the Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Italian or Latvian collections. Grants may be used to travel to the IHRC at any time between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008. For further details.

ABSTRACT: In this study, we address the theoretical and empirical debate over the impact of mass immigration on industrialization in the United States from 1880 to 1920. In particular, we measure the contribution of immigrants and their descendants to the growth and industrial transformation of the American workforce. The initial description compares the immigrant (both first and second generation) share of each industrial sector in 1880 and 1920 and then measures the immigrant share of the growth of each sector from 1880 to 1920. These methods underestimate the role of immigration, since the grandchildren of immigrants are absorbed into the long resident population. This is particularly salient since immigrants and their children constituted one-third of the American workforce in 1880 and were concentrated in cities. Through an application of shift share analysis (akin to indirect standardization), we estimate employment by industrial sector in 1920 of the 3rd generation immigrants (the grandchildren of immigrants) separately from the 4th and higher generation. The addition of the 3rd generation to the 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in 1920 shows that almost 7 of 10 manufacturing workers were of recent immigrant stock. The long resident native born white population was overrepresented in agriculture, good jobs in the public and business services, and in migration streams to the West. The slowdown and eventual closing of the door to European immigration in the 1920s created a huge demand for industrial workers that led to the expansion of the African American "Great Migration" to cities in the Northeast and Midwest.

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Snacks are provided at the talk.
For more information on our Spring 2007 Seminar Series, please visit the following URL: http://www.pop.umn.edu/seminar/seminar.shtml

Trica Keaton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has pursued graduate study at the Université de Paris V and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where she was also a visiting scholar. Professor Keaton is also a long-term Non-Resident Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her first book, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion was published in 2006 by Indiana University Press. Professor Keaton is currently co-editing an anthology tentatively titled Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Her current research focuses on politics of race and migration in relation to the African diaspora in the U.S. and France.

This event follows the recent release of the Minnesota Advocates report “Voices from Silence: Personal Accounts of the Long-Term Impact of 9/11.�? The panel discussion is the first in a series of community dialogues on the long-term impact of 9/11, culminating in a day-long conference this fall which will explore in depth the issues raised in the Minnesota Advocates’ report.

The sites depicted in the exhibit include the historic towns of Dubrovnik and Trogir, the palace of Roman Emperor Diocletian in Split, the Early Christian basilica in Porec, the Renaissance cathedral in Sibenik, and the Plitvice Lakes National Park. The photographs are by renowned Croatian photographers.

Exhibit runs: March 28 – April 22, 2007

For more information call Vanca Schrunk at 612-788-3328 or 612-419-7470. For directions, please visit www.northrupkingbuilding.com.

Professor Torres is a Professor in Chicana/o Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Chicana Without Apology: The New Chicana Cultural Studies. She will visit Macalester in conjunction with Women’s History Month. This year’s theme, “Women Create�? explores the connections between feminism and the creative impulse.

According to Professor Luibheid, "Although government policies and media representations posit a clear distinction between legal and illegal immigration, contemporary scholarship suggests that each are socially produced, and that the line between them 'can be crossed in both directions'(Ngai, 2004). Focusing on same-sex couples who are seeking inclusion within the spousal reunification provisions of immigration law, this talk raises critical questions for queer scholars/activists about the ways that sexuality figures in producing, contesting, and refiguring the distinction between legal and illegal immigration."

In 1969, just months after Hubert H. Humphrey narrowly lost the Presidential election to Richard Nixon, the city where he began his political career, Minneapolis, elected a mayor with no previous political experience, no party affiliation, and no platform aside from his pledge to “take the handcuffs off the police.�? Labeled the “George Wallace of the North�? by his opponents, Charles Stenvig’s 1969 mayoral victory marked a decisive shift in Minneapolis’ political landscape.

Minnesota had long been a stronghold of New Deal liberalism and progressive politics as illustrated by the careers
of Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale. Campaigning on the themes of “law and order,�? resentment against so-called student and black militants, Christian values, and fiscal conservatism, Stenvig was elected
for three separate terms as mayor.

Law and Order: The Career and Legacy of Minneapolis Mayor Charles Stenvig, an exhibit on display at the University’s Andersen Library Gallery, explores not only Stenvig’s local impact but also his connection to a burgeoning national movement. Jeff Manuel and Andy Urban, PhD candidates in History at the University of Minnesota and the exhibit’s curators, began looking at Stenvig’s career during a graduate seminar in public history that encouraged students to research topics of local interest. Using video footage, historical photographs, campaign memorabilia, audio clips, and oral histories, the exhibit examines Stenvig’s relationship to the anti-war movement, affirmative action and busing, crime, moral values, and masculinity.

See also related Star Tribune news article: Nick Coleman:" Charlie Stenvig:We're still trying to figure him out"

The Karni Scholarship, established as a memorial tribute to the pioneering historian and publisher of Finnish American research and literature, 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 third year of the award competition.

This collaborative exhibition by photographer Wing Young Huie and Allison Adrian, an ethnomusicologist, is currently at the Elmer Andersen Library, University of Minnesota (West Bank). Open 12/21, 12/22, 12/27 and 12/28. Hours 8 am - 4:30 pm. Admission is free. The exhibition will travel to Olson Campus Center at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, March 16, 2007. Check for times at www.luthersem.edu or call 651-641-3456.

"A Mighty Fortress, Far from Lake Wobegone," highlights 16 immigrant Lutheran congregations in the Twin Cities. The churches span three synods and offer a melting pot of origin, style and language.

Directions and parking for Elmer L. Andersen Library.

Find out more about the artists and U of M co-sponsors of the exhibit.

MPR's feature on the exhibit including some of the recordings.

"Lutherans, yes -- Typical, no" St. Paul Pioneer Press, 12/21/06.

For more information contact:

Wing Young Huie Photography & Gallery
2525 Franklin Ave E, Suite 100
Mpls, MN 55406
612-375-0191

www.wingyounghuie.com
Open by appointment.

Place: the auditorium of the Minnesota History Center, St. Paul. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, and the Minnesota Historical Society. For more information, contact Laszlo G. Fulop, MH/ MBK/HAC/AHF, MH Secretary - Architect & Planner, Minneapolis, MN 55436, Tel/fax: 952-930-0043. http://minnesotahungarians.onza.net, http://www.mbk.org

Please bring new or gently used winter outerwear (coats, jackets, mittens, gloves, scarves, and hats) to the Institute building (1694 Como Avenue, Saint Paul, 55108).

Due to limited space, donations can only be accepted on these days. Please contact Emily if you have questions: ewoodall@iimn.org, 651-647-0191 x336

Featured speakers:
Demetrios Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute
Donna Gabaccia, Professor and Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

Getting Some Perspective on Immigration will provide a context to the immigration debate by exploring immigration myths, for example that the United States' immigration challenge is unique in the world, and that America has always been a nation welcoming of immigrants. Facilitated break-out sessions will build on this contextual information and allow conference participants an opportunity to articulate a set of common values that should undergird immigration policy. Their observations and recommendations will be presented to a panel of state and local officials, including St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak (invited).

Sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance

Cooperating organizations: Chicano Studies Department, University of Minnesota; Citizens League; and League of Women Voters Minnesota

This conference was made possible in part by a contribution from the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center

Registration is $25 (due October 25). The conference agenda is online at www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cspg.
Contact Lisa Thalacker at 612-624-8842 or cspg@umn.edu for more information.

The objects of scholarly study are not always sedentary; nor do they always stay fixed in a single place. Thoughts, ideas, commodities, and cultural productions may travel with—or independently of—mobile people. Finding the appropriate body of theory, terminology, and methods for the study of people and ideas “on the move,�? remains a large challenge to scholars across many disciplines.

The purpose of this research seminar is to give students in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to undertake carefully focused research projects while developing cross-disciplinary conversations about their methodological, theoretical or interpretive choices, about their sources, texts, or data, and about the scholarly genres preferred by differing disciplines for interpreting, writing and communicating about research. Students who are developing research projects about any aspect of mobility will be welcome, regardless of geographical or chronological expertise, and whether focused on mobile people or mobile ideas or cultures. Possible research topics might include (but are not limited to) tourists or tourism, travelers or travelers’ writings; merchants or pilgrims; human rights, cosmopolitanism or internationalism; im/em/migrants; nomadism; transnational families, ideas or networks; empires or border-crossing; slave trades or trafficking; merchants, businessmen, and trade; diasporas, ideo-scapes or ethno-scapes; globalization, past or present; everyday mobility or residential choice; transportation; refugees, asylum, banishment or exile.

Program facilitators are looking for families who would enjoy serving as cross-cultural hosts for an individual Fellow. The Fellows don't live with host families--they live in apartments close to the University--but they greatly benefit from forming a friendship with an American family who can meet them at the airport when they arrive in early August, include them in some family holidays or outings, and generally help them to understand this complex society.

If you would like to learn more about the Humphrey Fellows Program and the Cross-cultural Host Program, please get in touch with Sharon Anderson.

See the Hubert H. Humphrey International Fellowship programs Web page for further information about the program itself.