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• IHRC Archives closed for research on Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

  IHRC Archives will be closed for research on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. The reading room will be open 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. for researchers who will have requested their materials in advance.

• Researching & Archiving the Estonians in America Symposium

  Researching and Archiving the Estonians in America. A joint symposium of the Immigration History Research Center and Baltic Heritage Network. Wednesday, May 15 2013 at 1210 Heller Hall, University of Minnesota.

  The symposium will bring interested parties together to share their experience, expertise and ideas as well as map and discuss future scenarios for growth, development and cooperation in researching and archiving the Estonians in America.

  The Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota is home to the largest collection of archival materials about Estonians in the United States. It has become a popular destination for diaspora scholars and archivist alike.

  Baltic Heritage Network (est. 2008) is a non-profit with a mission to foster cooperation between national and private archives, museums, libraries, institutions of research, public associations and organizations collecting and studying the cultural heritage of the global Baltic diaspora.

  https://events.umn.edu/027308
  

• IHRC/IHRC Archives Awards and Appreciation Ceremony

  Please join us at the IHRC and IHRC Archives Awards and Appreciation Ceremony honoring staff, faculty, students, and volunteers!

  May 8, 2013
  4:00 to 6:00 pm
  120 Elmer L. Andersen Library

  Keystone Awards
  Cindy Herring
  Jeff Nelson
  Haven Hawley

  Career Achievement Award
  Prof. Katherine Fennelly

  Certificates of Appreciation
  Michael Anuta
  Katie Evans
  Emily Janisch
  Kris Kiesling
  Halyna Myroniuk
  Mia Overly
  Lisa Vecoli
  Margaret Yzaguirre
  

• Former Director Donna Gabaccia Selected for University's Outstanding Service Award!

  Congratulations to Donna Gabaccia for being selected as been selected as one of two honorees to receive the 2013 University of Minnesota Outstanding Community Service Award--Faculty from the Office of Public Engagement.

  This award is the one of highest honors the University gives to a faculty member for service to the community and recognizes the substantial and significant contributions Prof. Gabaccia made to her work at the IHRC building University-community partnerships and programs benefit university students, faculty, staff, community partners and citizens across the state and provide an exemplary model of a publicly engaged professional.

• Archivists from Tallinn at IHRC Archives

  Continuing a tradition which began in 2009, two archivists from the National Archives of Estonia in Tallinn are currently working at the IHRC Archives. Peeter Valjas and Aet Tonissoo will be with us for a month.

• March 14: Educate, Honor & Unite: A Community Forum for Immigration Reform in 2013 and the 2013 Immigrant of Distinction Award Ceremony

  The IHRC is co-sponsoring the 2013 Immigrant of Distinction Award Ceremony and a community forum on immigration reform.

  • Hear from advocates on the ground regarding current developments in immigration reform efforts
  • Celebrate the achievements of the winners of the 2013 Immigrant of Distinction Award
  • Unite and strategize with fellow advocates
  Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Reception to FollowCowles Auditorium, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

  RSVP by Friday, March 8, 2013 : http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5601105056

• CLA Outstanding Service Award Winner Haven Hawley!

  CLA Outstanding Service Award Winner Haven Hawley!
  Congratulations to the IHRC's Haven Hawley for being one of the recipients of the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Service Awards! Every year, the college invites nominations to recognize and reward outstanding service by academic professional and administrative employees. IHRC staff, Director Erika Lee, and former Director Donna Gabaccia collaborated on the nomination and praised Haven's many talents. The major challenge in nominating Haven for this award, Lee says, "was choosing among her many outstanding contributions as IHRC Program Director. She has consistently provided outstanding service, dedication, professionalism, and vision in all of her multiple roles at the IHRC. As such, she exemplifies the very best of our center, the College, and the University." Congratulations to Haven! We could not be more proud!

• IHRC contributes to DPLA/Europeana exhibition

  IHRC has recently worked with the Digital Public Library of America and the Europeana Digital Library to contribute images of items from the collections of the IHRC Archives to a new on-line exhibition "Leaving Europe: A new life in America."

• New Grad Course: AMST8920: Transnationalism and US-Mexico Borderlands

  AMST 8920, "Topics: Transnationalism and U.S. - Mexico Borderlands" will be taught spring 2013 by Yolanda Padilla. This course will track Chicana/o border studies as it evolved in the 1980's and 90's, examine ways in which border studies influenced and shaped the transnational imperatives that are now fundamental to work in American studies, and observe two case studies that indicate the importance of the borderlands for generating transnational approaches in Chicano/a and American Studies.

• "Tell Us Your Story!" is theme for IHRC's 50th Anniversary

  In 2015, the IHRC will be turning 50, and we're launching a number of initiatives that will highlight our collections and communities. The approaching anniversary is a time for reflection as well as celebration. What has been most significant to you about the IHRC?

• New Videos Available from IHRC Staff Presentations

  Online videos are now available for IHRC Director Erika Lee's October public lecture titled "Local, National, and Transnational Histories of Immigration to the Americas" and an archival workshop led by Program Director Haven Hawley at the "Latvian Diaspora Archives, Libraries and Material Culture" conference in April 2012.

• Online Conference: Migration in a Changing World: Where Do We Go Now?

  An early publication (by Gabaccia, Leinonen, Alexander and Donato) of the IHRC's 2007-2012 project "Gender Ratios and International Migration Project" is among papers to be discussed on Nov. 8. FFI wileyblackwellexchanges.com.

• Legacy Gift Received for IHRC's Finnish American Graduate Fellowship

  IHRC was honored to learn this spring that Arne Gomsi, 1949 Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, had remembered the IHRC in his will. His generous gift has boosted our Finnish American Fellowship, to support graduate students studying Finnish American history and culture.

• Director Erika Lee to Speak at Friends of IHRC Annual Meeting

  The Friends of the Immigration History Research Center Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, at the Croatian Hall in South St. Paul. IHRC Director Erika Lee will be the featured speaker. For information about reserving tickets and agenda topics, read on.

• Integration of Immigrants

  New on-line exhibit of materials documenting integration of immigrants in their new communities has been created as part of the IHRC's participation in a workshop for educators to be held at the University of Minnesota.

• A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S. (William & Bettle Nowlin)

  In 2007 IHRC affiliate Professor Louis Mendoza bicycled 8,500 miles around the perimeter of the U.S. His book blends narratives, blog entries, poetry, and excerpts from conversations along the way as he searched for a deeper, broader understanding of what it means to be Latino in this country. For further description and ordering information.

• World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality

  October 11-13, 2012 (Minneapolis). The conference brings together research on economic inequality and seeks ideas to produce practical results that can be applied at the local level. On Oct. 13th, IHRC affiliate Professor Katherine Fennelly moderates a session on "Color and Ethnicity" that includes a paper on immigration. Sessions are free and open to the public--registration is required. FFI and to register. It is also possible to connect using their streaming webcast link.

• New Web Site from Chicago Council of Global Affairs

  IHRC affiliate Professor Katherine Fennelly served as a member of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs Task Force on Immigration and Economic Competitiveness. Visit the new web site and view the report of the task force recommendations: http://staging.midwestimmigration.org/

• A major honor for Erika Lee

  Congratulations to Erika Lee who has been awarded the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in Humanities, Arts and Sciences for 2012 at the University of Minnesota. Join us at the awards program on Oct. 12 if you're in the Twin Cities.

• Director Lee Awarded Speaker and Specialist Grant

  Director Erika Lee has been awarded a U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant by the U.S. State Department. This grant--given by invitation to American experts in a given field to present lectures, serve as consultants, or conduct workshops and seminars for professional overseas audiences--will allow Prof. Lee to travel to Taiwan in September.

• 2012 AASLH Online Conference Oct. 2012

  Dates: October 4-5, 2012
  Deadline to register is September 27!
  Members pay only $55 for individuals, $95 for a group.
  Visit the Online Conference Website for more information and the full schedule.

• IHRC receives award from the Society of American Archivists

  On August 10, the IHRC formally received the Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award from the Society of American Archivists at its annual meeting held in San Diego, California this year.

• Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund Accepting Proposals

  The Aronson & Associates Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund is now accepting grant proposals. The deadline is Friday, September 28, 2012, and it is the goal of the committee to announce awards by early November 2012.

• Microfilm Duplication Order Deadline is August 15, 2012

  The IHRC will temporarily stop accepting microfilm duplications orders as of Aug. 15, 2012, so that a new quality vendor can be located and ordering processes can be restructured.

• Professor Erika Lee accepts position as IHRC Director

  James Parente, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, has announced that Professor Erika Lee has agreed to serve as director of the Immigration History Research Center. "We are very fortunate that Erika will bring her exceptional scholarly expertise to the leadership of the IHRC during the next three years, and I look forward to working together [...] to ensure the continued distinction of this invaluable international resource," said Parente.

• IHRC Awards Prestigious Graduate Fellowship for Summer 2012

  The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota has awarded the Hildegard and Gustav Must Graduate Fellowship in Estonian American Studies to Kelley Sundin for summer 2012.
  

• "America's Children and U.S. Immigration Enforcement: Is Anybody Looking Out For the Best Interests Of The Children?"

  When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain and subsequently deport undocumented workers, what happens to the children of those workers, many of whom were born in the U.S. and, by law, are U.S. citizens? A special panel discussed this important issue in April 2009. The video tape has been transcribed; both the video and transcription are now available to view online.

• Recently Published: articles from the Gender Ratios project

  Several articles in the Social Science History Summer 2012 Special Section "Gender Ratios and International Migration" feature research from IHRC's Gender Ratios and Global Migration project. Authors Katharine Donato, Donna Gabaccia, Elizabeth Zanoni, J. Trent Alexander, Annemarie Steidl and Johanna Leinonen were among the participants for the IHRC's 2008 Gender Ratios and Global Migration symposium.

• SAA Cites "Digitizing Immigrant Letters" for National Award

  The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has selected IHRC's Digitizing Immigrant Letters project team as recipient of the prestigious Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award.
  

• IHRC hosting an intern from University College London

  
  The IHRC is fortunate to be able to welcome Ego Ahaiwe, graduate student at the UCL's Department of Information Studies.

• Visiting Scholar Grant Application Deadline is June 1, 2012

  The Michael G. Karni Scholarship and the Grant in Aid Program support scholars traveling to conduct research in the historical collections at the Immigration History Research Center. Applications on the theme of immigrant communication will be given preference in 2012-2013, and the deadline is June 1, 2012.

• "Global Goes Local" Conference in St Cloud, Apr 9-11

  A leading conference on the challenges facing new Americans returns April 9-11, 2012 at St. Cloud State University. "Global Goes Local" will ask immigrants, scholars, employers, family experts, health authorities and others to find solutions to immigrants' problems and to celebrate their successes. The free public conference will be in Atwood Memorial Center (SCSU). Parking is free on streets adjacent to campus and $1/hr in the 4th Avenue Parking Ramp. Conference information and schedule

• AASLH Workshop: Exhibit Makeovers

  April 12-13, 2012, Johnson County Museums, Shawnee, KS. $280 members/$355 nonmembers. Learn innovative and engaging ways to bring exhibitions to life for visitors through interpretative storytelling. FYI

• IHRC 2012 Event Honors Volunteers, Supporters and Collaborators

  IHRC staff hosted "Milestones and Merriment" on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Honoring volunteers & supporters and celebrating a year of progress and innovative activities, presentations included: IHRC Keystone Award to Emeritus Professor Hy Berman, IHRC Career Achievement Award to Professor Göran Stockenström, and Certificates of Special Appreciation to Walt Jacobs, Erika Lee, Alexander Lushnycky, Ted and Mary Ringberg, Klaas van der Sanden, Eva Widder and the Friends of the IHRC organization. (photo)

• Latvian Diaspora Archives and Material Culture Conference at IHRC

  The American Latvian Association, Immigration History Research Center and the Latvians Abroad Museum in Latvia will host a conference on Latvian diaspora archives and material culture April 12-14, 2012, at Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota.

• Olga Zoltai, Victor Contreras Cited for Immigrant of Distinction Award

  The Minnesota/Dakotas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has selected Olga Zoltai and Victor Contreras to receive its 2012 Immigrant of Distinction Awards. They will be honored at a March 2 ceremony.

• Foreign Relations - American Immigration in Global Perspective

  Recently published: Foreign Relations - American Immigration in Global Perspective by Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota) (in the Princeton University Press series America in the World). "Offering a brand-new global history, Foreign Relations takes a comprehensive look at the links between American immigration and U.S. foreign relations." http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9718.html

• Sheeko Now Online! Hear the Stories of Somali Youth

  Explore the new Sheeko website to hear the voices of Somali youth. Topics include: leaving Somalia, experiences in refugee camps, journeys to the West, living in the Somali diaspora, and adjusting to new places.

• IHRC Fellowship Applications Solicited from UMN Departments

  The application period for 2012-2013 IHRC fellowships for UMN graduate students conducting research in the Center's Estonian, Finnish and Italian immigrant collections is now open.

• Winter Break and Spring Semester Hours at IHRC

  The IHRC office will begin closing 12-1 pm for lunch in January 2012 rather than at 11:30-12:30 so that the Center's administrative hours align with typical academic departments on campus. Read on for more important information about closure and service during the winter break.

• Visiting Scholars Receive Awards to Travel to IHRC in 2011-2012

  The Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota extended offers of award to nine visiting scholars in 2011-2012 for research projects using the Center's historical collections.

• "Cornerstones" Documentary Reveals Community Ethnic Relations

  "Cornerstones," a documentary about the history of North Minneapolis as a changing ethnic neighborhood, premiered on Twin Cities Public Television on Sunday, Nov. 13, and can be streamed from a University of Minnesota website. IHRC Archivist Daniel Necas and researchers from the Houses of Worship project consulted with researchers working on the film.

• New finding aid for Carl Ross Papers

  In the spring of 2011, Student Assistant Mia Overly working with IHRC archives staff processed the papers of Carl Ross, labor activist and historian of Finnish American immigration. A new finding aid is now available on the IHRC web site.

• SPRING '12: "Making the Global Local: Pathways to Minnesota" & "Immigration and Public Policy"

  Instructor: Prof. Donna Gabaccia (CLA 3500/ GloS 4900): This interdisciplinary senior seminar introduces students with global competencies (language, earlier study on Asia, Africa, Europe or Latin America) to collaborative research through the digital humanities.

  Instructor: Prof. Katherine Fennelly, PA5452: Introduction to the most important issues and to authors who have written about proposals for immigration reform in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia.

• Archival Summer Seminar in Germany

  The Archival Summer Seminar, organized by the German Historical Institute, is a two-week program for advanced graduate students in German historical studies. The majority of the time in Germany will be spent in various German archives where participants will be trained to read old German script, discuss research methods, and become prepared for prospective dissertation research trips. Applications are due December 31, 2011.

• History Day Resources at IHRC

  The IHRC has many digital collections available for use by History Day student researchers, as well as on-site archival and print collections. Read on for IHRC links to help you with this year's theme of "Revolution, Reaction and Reform".

• AASLH's Basics of Archives Online Course

  Open registration October 31-December 2, 2011 for American Association for State and Local History's Basics of Archives. Proceed at your own pace through this online course covering the basics of archival management and practices. $85 members / $160 nonmembers.

• UMN Minnesota Population Center Receives $8 Million Grant

  The U's Minnesota Population Center has received an $8 million National Science Foundation grant to develop the world's largest population database with global environmental data. Nicknamed "TerraPop," the unique database will provide a powerful tool for migration scholars in the future.
  

• Institute for Advanced Study Offers Fellowships for 2012-2013

  Fellowships are available during 2012-2013 through the Institute for Advanced Study for University of Minnesota faculty and external scholars collaborating with the center's scholarly initiatives. Many IAS programs deal with globalization, transnationalism and other topics of interest to scholars of immigration and migration.

• New major addition of digital content!

  During the spring and summer of 2011, the IHRC digitized the entire collection of records compiled by the Ukrainian Folk Ballet of the Twin Cities. The project has added over 1500 new items to the IHRC's digital archive. Read more and view images

• Introducing Researchers in Residence for Fall 2011

  A warm midwest welcome to Rim Triki and Florence Vychytil. Each is in residence for an extended period so there are many occasions for conversations. [continued]

• Report: 2011 Summer Seminar "Europe - Migration - Identity"

  "Europe--Migration--Identity" was a 2011 summer workshop held at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in cooperation with the German Historical Institute (GHI). The program included 2 keynote lectures, several panel discussions, and graduate student presentations. Final report.

• We Rock Long Distance in Ghana, Part 2

  This September, UMN graduate student Justin Schell returns to Ghana for a second phase of We Rock Long Distance, documenting immigrant hip-hop in the Twin Cities. His film "Travel in Spirals" screens at the Twin Cities Film Fest on September 24.
  

• Friends of the IHRC - Annual Meeting

  The annual dinner meeting of the Friends of the IHRC will be held on Saturday, November 12, 2011, 6-9 p.m. at the Minnesota Humanities Center, 987 Ivy Ave E, St. Paul MN, 55106. Advance registration is required. Cost of dinner and program:$25 per person.
  

• More Access to IHRC Collections!

  IHRC staff organize and create finding aids for archival and print materials at the Center, making it possible for researchers to learn more about the vast holdings at University of Minnesota.

• CLA Announces Novak Scholarship

  The College of Liberal Arts recently announced the establishment of the Louis P. and Mary Ann Novak Scholarship. Preference will be given to students with an interest in studying Central European (in particular Croatian or Hungarian) studies, or first-generation college students, or students majoring in history in CLA at the University of Minnesota.

• Gabaccia, Hawley in the News

  Director Donna Gabaccia and Program Director Haven Hawley contributed to features on Minnesota Public Radio and in the Washington Post recently.

• Expanding "Digitizing Immigrant Letters"

  In mid-June, Donna Gabaccia and Daniel Necas visited Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to confer with colleagues and to lay the foundation for a symposium and archivists' workshop on letter-writing during international migration. (These events will be held in Vienna in Spring 2012, with support from the University of Minnesota's Center for Austrian Studies.)

• Visit the IHRC at the Minnesota State Fair!

  "University of Minnesota Day" at the Minnesota State Fair is Sunday, Aug. 28, so visit us in your maroon and gold! IHRC will staff a booth the morning and early afternoon of Aug. 28 to feature our projects to collect and share immigrant letters from the past and recent video interviews with new immigrants.

• Immigrant Theme in "Street Scene" Production

  The University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center will lead a free panel discussion entitled "Our Migration Stories: Historical and Contemporary" following the July 17, 2011, matinee of "Street Scene" at Minneapolis Theatre Garage.

• Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims

  Drawing essays from a conference sponsored by IHRC, German Historical Institute and the International Institute for Social History, Volume 8 in the Studies in Global Social History series covers the 1830s-1930s Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas migrations. Edited by Donna Gabaccia and Dirk Hoerder. Published 2011.

• IHRC Grants in Aid deadline for 2011-12 is June 1, 2011

  The Immigration History Research Center offers Grants In Aid to support researchers traveling to use the Center's expansive historical collections. The deadline for the coming year is June 1, 2011. For more information, see Grants in Aid.

• "The Clothes I Wear" video & discussion

  Free & open to all on Friday, May 27: There will be a showing of the student and UMN faculty-produced video The Clothes I Wear along with a discussion with Professor Kathy Fennelly and videographer Ramon Hough of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

• Keit Osadchuk and Mia Overly Recognized with Awards

  Congratulations to IHRC staffers Keit Osadchuk (Undergraduate Research Assistant) and Mia Overly (Senior Administrative Assistant). Each has been selected for an Outstanding Student Employee Award given by the Office for Student Affairs.

• IHRC Research Presentations Available Online

  Presentations from "The Global Goes Local: The Social Conditions of Immigrant Workers and Families in Minnesota Conference" -- including the first public reports on the Sheeko Project -- are now available online!

• Mustafa Jumale receives award

  Congratulations to Mustafa Jumale, student recipient of the 2011 Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award. Jumale has been an integral team member on both the Minnesota 2.0 and Sheeko projects at IHRC.

• Global Goes Local: Conference on Social Conditions of Immigrant Workers & Families in MN

  The second annual conference of "The Global Goes Local: The Social Conditions of Immigrant Workers and Families in Minnesota Conference" will be held April 11-12, 2011, at the Atwood Student Center, St. Cloud State University. Conference events are free and open to the public.

• Guglielmo awarded Saloutos book prize

  Congratulations to Jennifer Guglielmo who received the 2010 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award for her book Living the Revolution, Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945.

• Selection Guidelines for Potential Donors of Archival Materials

  We invite your comments about the Immigration History Research Center's collection acquisition guidelines. We prioritize acquisitions in order to ensure that we have the resources to preserve and make accessible for future generations a remarkable and distinct group of documents for understanding immigrant experiences. For information about IHRC priorities, please read more.

• "Sheeko" and "A Heart Connects Us..." in the Media

  Amanda Bankston's article in mndaily.com incorporates interviews with Mustafa Jumale, Andy Wilhide and Donna Gabaccia to describe the Sheeko research project. Max Sparber's column 'Max About Town' (minnpost.com) informs readers about the IHRC exhibition "A Heart Connects Us: The Experience of Migration and the 'Minnesota School' of Immigration History."
  

• First Fridays: Focus on Military Censorship and Detention Camps

  Haven Hawley and Linnea Anderson will speak about "Wartime Military Censorship and Detention Camps" at noon on Friday, March 4, in Room 120, Elmer L. Andersen Library. The presentations draw upon the historical collections of the Immigration History Research Center and the Social Welfare History Archives.

• IHRC Honors Supporters at 2011 Awards Event

  A foot of snow and blustery weather did not stop IHRC supporters from gathering on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, to celebrate a year of progress and innovative activities. The IHRC's new exhibition "A Heart Connects Us" and an array of foods kept attendees talking before and after the awards ceremony. For information about awards and the event, visit this link.

• 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

  "Then and Now: Immigrants, Workers and the Search for Justice" is a commemorative series of events marking the 100th anniversary of one of America's worst industrial tragedies. Films, discussion and tours will take place over a series of dates March-May, 2011. More...

• IHRC Scholarly Collaboration & Programming Update

  Read an update on the Immigration History Research Center's research activities and programs written by Donna Gabaccia, IHRC Director and Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History. Click here!

• Grant Proposal Opportunity

  The Leah Kayless Ingber Designated Fund is now accepting grant proposals. The deadline is Tuesday March 15, 2011 and it is the goal of the committee to announce awards by Tuesday May 2, 2011.

• We're Redesigning How to Answer Thousands of E-Mails, Phone Calls and Visits

  The IHRC staff's redesign of its patron services processes will be featured at the University of Minnesota's 2011 Quality Fair and Forum on Thursday, Feb. 3, at the Carlson School of Management. CIndy Herring and Sara Wakefield will present a poster session on how staff respond to thousands of e-mails, phone calls and patron visits each year.

• Thank You for Your Year-End Donation to IHRC

  The IHRC thanks all who have made end-of-year donations to support the Center's operations and in support of fulfilling the Vecoli Chair Endowment Fund. The University of Minnesota Foundation will accept donations on behalf of IHRC by mail, online or phone. For information, visit Foundation (and read further).

• Minnesota 2.0, Facebook and Media

  StarTribune.com, Minnesota Public Radio and the UMN Daily have recently highlighted Minnesota 2.0, a team research study led by IHRC Director Donna Gabaccia to investigate how young immigrants use social networking sites to express ethnic identity.

• IHRC Announces 2011 Grant and Fellowship Deadlines

  Grants in aid, the Michael G. Karni Scholarship and six fellowships are available for scholars conducting research in the IHRC's historical collections in the 2011-2012 school year. See Grants & Fellowships for deadlines or to learn about these funding opportunities.

• Recently Published: Uncle from America

  The IHRC proudly announces the publication of Uncle from America, a memoir by Kenneth Dexter Miller, from a manuscript in the IHRC's Kenneth Dexter Miller Papers.

• 'Tuo per sempre' (Yours forever)

  Montreal's Peggy Curran at The Gazette interviews IHRC affiliate Sonia Cancian (historian and research associate at Concordia University) about her new book Families, Lovers and their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada. Full article | More info

• International Summer School in Rusyn Language and Culture

  Prešov University in Prešov, Slovakia, announces its second annual three-week Studium
  Carpato-Ruthenorum International Summer School for Rusyn Language and Culture. Dates: June 12-July 3, 2011. Application deadline: February 1, 2011. FFI & application

• Limited Access Dates for IHRC Collections & Winter Closures

  The IHRC collections staff will be in all-day trainings Friday, Nov. 12, and Wednesday, Nov. 17. No historical materials will be pulled from the cavern for walk-in researchers. Limited ready reference materials will be available.

  Due to the 2010-2011 winter furlough and seasonal holidays, Elmer L. Andersen Library will be closed Friday, Dec. 24 through Saturday, Jan. 1.

• Call for Papers: Europe - Migration - Identity (Summer Seminar)

  Themes: migration, identity formation, and Europe
  Submission deadline: December 10, 2010
  3-day Seminar: August 25‐27, 2011 at the University of Minnesota

• Friends of IHRC Annual Dinner to Celebrate Center's 45th Anniversary

  IHRC Director Donna Gabaccia will speak at the 2010 Friends of the IHRC's Annual Meeting and Dinner on Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Minnesota Humanities Dinner. Her talk will highlight the Center's emerging Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project and note the 45th anniversary of the IHRC.

• Graduate Seminar "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Migrations"

  Offered in spring 2011 by professors Cawo M. Abdi & Donna R. Gabaccia, an important goal of this seminar is to allow students to develop expertise on a single migration (usually meaning two connected areas of the world), while interpreting that migration from global perspectives. FFI

• SVOBODA Indexes Available as PDF

  IHRC staff Mia Overly, Dan Grussing and Chris DiSalvi have completed scanning the 4 volume Svoboda Ukrainian Daily index and posted the files online.
  

• CARLA Hosts Lunchtime Panel on Ethical Dilemmas of Research with Immigrants

  The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition will sponsor a lunchtime panel at 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13, discussing the experiences of graduate students in ensuring high ethical practices for research involving immigrants.

• "We Rock Long Distance" Documents Minnesota's Hip-Hop Influences

  University of Minnesota graduate student Justin Schell will travel to Ghana next month with M.anifest to film musical collaboration between one of Minnesota's most talented rising musical stars and his grandfather, a noted scholar and musician from a different African generation.

• Funding Opportunities for Scholars at the University of Minnesota and Cornell University

  Proposals are now being accepted by the University of Minnesota and Cornell University for three programs funding research on "Abundance and Scarcity," that fit within the University of Minnesota Press Quadrant initiative, or promise collaboration with researchers studying "Settlement, Integration & Membership."

• Capacity in the Cavern: It's a Long Race, but IHRC is in Great Shape

  By Haven Hawley, IHRC Program Director
  While space (and budgets) are getting tighter here at the University, the Immigration History Research Center is making headway in processing its print collections -- with the support of our community friends.

• Immigration & Ethnic History Society Requests Panel Proposals for 2012 OAH

  The Immigration and Ethnic History Society encourages IEHS members to submit panel proposals for the Organization of American Historians Annual Conference to be held in Milwaukee, April 19-22, 2012.

• UMN Press Hosts Book Launch for Authors of Finnish Sauna History

  The University of Minnesota Press announces a reception for Michael Nordskog and Aaron Hautala, author and photographer of The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition starting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30, at the American Swedish Institute.

• Angles of Incidence (2006) video installation in Minneapolis MN

  The Finnish/British duo of Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts present the three-channel installation, Angles of Incidence (2006) at the Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis MN. The actual voices of Somali and Afghan refugees are juxtaposed with images of the empty rooms through which they must pass on their journey to becoming Finnish citizens.

• Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant awarded to IHRC

  The Minnesota Historical Society has awarded a Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant to the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. The project titled Minnesota's Immigrant Life Writings will identify unpublished Minnesota collections with an emphasis on letters, diaries, memoirs and oral histories in languages other than English and create an online directory that will help to make them more accessible to scholarly and community researchers.

• Transcripts & closed captions available for Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration seminars

  Videos with closed captions from the Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration graduate seminars presented by leading scholars fall 2007 through spring 2009 at the University of Minnesota are available online.

• LCTL database upgrade

  The LCTL project recently upgraded the LCTL database of Less Commonly Taught Languages course offerings in North America. The database is a part of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota.

• Grant Proposal Opportunity

  Aronson & Associate Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund is now accepting Grant Proposals. The submission deadline is September 17, 2010.

• Recently Published: American Latvians: Politics of a Refugee Community

  In her new book Professor Ieva Zake (Sociology Department--Rowan University) offers a detailed look into the life of American Latvian political refugees and also provides a novel perspective on the Cold War as experienced by certain ethnic groups. American Latvians: Politics of a Refugee Community has been published by Transaction Publishers.

• Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholars Program

  The Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholars Program supports scholarly research projects using materials from the U Libraries' rare and special collections. Deadline to submit an application: September 30, 2010.

• IHRC Bibliographies Available as PDF

  The following bibliographies have been scanned and are available online: Hungarians in the United States and Canada (1977), Serbs in the United States and Canada (1992), Slovenes in the United States and Canada (1981).

• IHRC Hours for Monday 7/19/2010

  IHRC administrative service and self-service online research: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. (closed Monday afternoon)
  Walk-in consultation with collections staff: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.; however, all collections requests must be submitted by 10 a.m.
  Reading Room: 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.

• Walk-In Consultations & Appointments with IHRC Staff Begin July 7

  Effective July 7, 2010, archival staff are available for walk-in consultations 10-11 a.m. and 1-2 p.m. or by appointment at other times during weekdays at the IHRC. Finding aids for IHRC collections are available online, and an access terminal is always available during office hours.

• Congratulations to Estonian scholar Maarja Merivoo-Parro

  Maarja Merivoo-Parro, a graduate student at Tallinn University and a 2009 Research-in-Progress presenter at IHRC, has successfully defended her Master's Thesis, New Yorgi Eesti Haridusselts ja pagulased (The New York Estonian Educational Society and Refugees).

• Available soon: "The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition"

  The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition by Michael Nordskog and Aaron Hautala will soon be released through the University of Minnesota Press following a two year pursuit by the authors to find notable saunas.

• Transatlantic Research Project Featured in Austrian Studies Newsletter

  Teamwork may not be typical for historians, but it has become second nature to James Oberly, Annemarie Steidl, and Wladimir Fischer as they collaborate to conduct their team research project, "Understanding the Migration Experience: The Austrian-American Connection, 1870-1914."

• Tools for Discovery grant funds digital letters pilot project at IHRC

  The IHRC has received a $4,000 Tools for Discovery grant from the U's College of Liberal Arts for a project titled "A Heart Connects Us: Immigrant Letters and the Experience of Migration." The grant supports work on a pilot project to digitize, translate, and create access online and through an exhibition to letters written by immigrants in North America.

• Web Systems and Servers Maintenance on June 19

  The IHRC and Global REM websites are among those scheduled for routine server maintenance on June 19 between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Systems may be shut down without warning during this period. Both sites should be online again after 6 p.m.
  

• IHRC Spring/Summer 2010 Newsletter is online

  Click here to view current newsletter.

• IHRC participates in World Language Day

  Three members of the Minnesota 2.0 team ­Justin Schell, Andy Wilhide, and Mustafa Jumale­participated in this year's World Language Day, a yearly event that brings high school students to the University of Minnesota to explore the languages and cultures of the world.

• Recently Published: Families, Lovers, and their Letters

  Through analysis of 400 private letters, Families, Lovers, and their Letters by Sonia Cancian takes the reader into the passionate hearts and minds of ordinary people caught in the heartbreak of Italian postwar transatlantic migration to Canada.

• Digitizing Immigrant Letters Pilot Project

  Please visit the web pages featuring a set of newly digitized, transcribed and translated letters written by immigrants or their loved ones. All letters included in this pilot project for an intended large research initiative by the IHRC can be found in the Center's archival collections.
  Explore the Digitizing Immigrant Letters Pilot Project

• Letters Symposium May 17 & 18

  Program for Letters Symposium May 17 & 18

• UMN-Twin Cities Intercession May 17-21 at IHRC

  Patrons planning to use IHRC historical collections are reminded to make appointments for collection services during the UMN-Twin Cities semester intersession of May 17-21. The IHRC will host The Migration Letter Conference May 17-18, and collections staff will participate in research projects with visiting scholars throughout the week.

• Poster Display in IHRC

  Poster projects from the spring 2010 class "Writing Studio" (WRIT 1201) taught by Molly Rojas Collins are currently on display afternoons in 308 Andersen Library through May 17. The variety in topics shows the diversity in subjects researched by the students.
  

• Processing the Hoglund Collection

  The IHRC has completed another phase of the A. William Hoglund Collection processing project. IHRC undergraduate research assistant Adam Grant has recently described his experience working on the project: "I've been working on the Hoglund collection for two years, starting off with the books that were donated, ..."

• Meghan DeLisi to receive Outstanding Student Employee Award

  Congratulations to Meghan DeLisi, Student Senior Administrative Assistant in the IHRC, who has been selected for an Outstanding Student Employee Award given by the Office for Student Affairs.

• IHRC Grant in Aid Program Deadline is June 1, 2010

  The IHRC offers Grants In Aid awards to assist graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, independent and other scholars traveling to conduct research for a specified residency at the IHRC. The deadline for applications for 2010-2011 awards is June 1, 2010.

• Artistic thought: Conception and Experience

  Provost Tom Sullivan invites you to join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities.

  This series is co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study (which provides yet more series information on their web site). All sessions in this series are free and open to the public, and are supported by a generous grant from the McKnight Foundation.

• Prasa Amerykańska Wobec Wyborów w Polsce w Latach 1947 i 1989

  Recently published: Prasa Amerykańska Wobec Wyborów w Polsce w Latach 1947 i 1989 by Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdańsk) "presents the American media response to the two watershed elections in Poland after World War II, the timing of which coincided with Cold War's opening and closing chapters."

• Virtual Guestbook: Students Visiting IHRC and Conducting Research

  "I'm looking for an oral history about a Minnesota immigrant." We've heard that a lot during the spring 2010 semester, but that's just one of the many research requests we've fielded from students whose instructors rely upon the IHRC for primary resource materials and public history advice.

• Appointments with IHRC Staff Will Reduce Patron Wait Times

  The IHRC has limited archival staffing beginning March 27. Researchers should send an e-mail to ihrc@umn.edu to request appointments with archival staff. Walk-in researchers may consult the IHRC's on-site public access terminal, but those arriving without appointments will experience delays in collection access.

• A Workshop for Interpreters & Interpreter Managers

  Session I - Introduction to Interpreter Ethics & Protocols is conducted in English covering the interpreter role, ethics and protocol for the profession of interpreting.

  Session II - Language-Specific Skills Training provides participants the opportunity to improve interpreting skills through role playing, error analysis and skill-building exercises.
  

• Processing Estonian language materials

  The IHRC is continuing its successful collaborative efforts with the Estonian Archives in the U.S.A. based in Lakewood, New Jersey, and with the National Archives of Estonia in Tallin. In March 2009, Gristel Ramler and Birgit Nurme of the National Archives of Estonia added descriptive information for 101 archival collections that the IHRC had received from Lakewood. With support from all three institutions, the project resulted in significantly improved access to these collections of personal papers. The finding aids are available on-line.

• IHRC Names Juha Meriläinen as Karni Scholarship Winner

  The IHRC is pleased to announce Juha Meriläinen as the recipient of the 2010 Michael G. Karni Scholarship. Rev. Dr. Juha Meriläinen is a University Lecturer in the Department of Church History, University of Helsinki.

• Patterns, Politics, and Experiences of Migration: Understanding Contemporary Trends

  March 29th at 3:30 p.m.: A round table discussion with panelists: Katherine Fennelly (Humphrey Institute), Helga Leitner (Dept of Geography), Donna Gabaccia (Department of History) and discussants: Mark Hoffman and Laura Thaut (Dept. of Political Science). Light refreshments and coffee. FFI: Details and campus location
  

• Research in Progress: Ulla Aatsinki

  Ulla Aatsinki, Fulbright Scholar at Michigan Technical University during 2009-2010, gave a Research in Progress Talk on "Finnish Roots, American Wings? Efforts to Socialize Finnish-American Children by American Schools."

• Virtual Guestbook: Scholars Enjoy Spring in Minneapolis

  The IHRC welcomes Jan Rath, director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, for a cluster of lectures and special meetings March 22-23. We also bid farewell to Juri Estam, a visiting scholar who presented a talk at the Center on March 17.

• Helpful Guides: FAQs about Archives & Other Quick Answers

  Have you been wondering what the difference is between archives and a library? How to preserve family history? Or whether the records of your organization might be archival -- and should be preserved? Several online guides can help you answer these questions.

• Grants Available from MPC, CARLA & NEH

  Grants are available from several sources for researchers and educators who are working in areas of demographic analysis, less commonly taught languages, and cultural history. The IHRC encourages scholars to consider using IHRC collections for work in these areas.

• Virtual Guestbook: Early March 2010 Visitors

  Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Sciences-Po, Paris, will visit IHRC on March 4 to give a presentation, and Italian journalist Francesco Durante will begin extended research at the IHRC the same day. Kristel Tammik and Margit Laanemets of the National Archives of Estonia will begin a month-long residency on March 8 as visiting scholars at the IHRC.

• New Collection Descriptions

  New descriptive information has recently been posted for five collections: Papers of Raisa Zuk-Hryskievic, Oral History of Ramon Leon (Latino Economic Development Center, Minneapolis), Oral History of Nyango Nambangi (Minnesota African Women's Association), Ivan Czuy Papers, and Ivan Batiuk Papers.

• IHRCStaff to Honor Volunteers and Halyna Myroniuk on March 9

  Save the Date! Please join us in celebrating the many contributions of IHRC volunteers and the distinguished career of Halyna Myroniuk at the IHRC at our 2010 Appreciation Event, 4:30-7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 9, at Elmer L. Andersen Library.

• Symbols and Language in the Transmission of Culture

  Join IHRC and our partners Feb. 25-26 for events on the communication of culture and identity through symbolic communication and language. Marija Dalbello speaks at noon on Thursday, Feb. 25, at Andersen Library, and several speakers will discuss the history of Hmong written language later that evening and on Friday, Feb. 26, at other locations.

• Virtual Guestbook: IHRC Visiting Scholars

  The IHRC hosted Guido Tintori for much of last week as a presenter for Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration events. Ulla Aaatsinki conducted research in the IHRC collections for the week and presented her work at a Research-in-Progress Talk. We will welcome Rachel Batch on Feb. 18 for extended research.

• Feb. 11 GREM Events Will be Held at IHRC as Scheduled

  Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration events will be held at the IHRC, 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library, as scheduled. The noon seminar is unchanged, and the afternoon panel at 2:30 pm will continue with two panelists (Donna Gabaccia and Guido Tintori) rather than three participants. We look forward to seeing you!

• Lunch and Learn: From the Tropics to the Snowbelt Midwest

  Thursday, March 25, 2010, Noon - 1:00 p.m., $15 - includes lunch
  Presenter: Dr. Cawo Abdi, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  Let's have a conversation about how the face of Minnesota is changing. This season's Lunch and Learn series will focus on immigration.

• "The Journey: The Greek American Dream" Opens in Soufli, Greece

  The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation has organized the exhibition "The Journey: The Greek American Dream" which is opening February 5, 2010, in the multi-purpose hall of the Silk Museum, Soufli, Thrace, in Greece. The exhibition features many images from the IHRC's historical archives.

• "Linked Lives" Teach-In Today at Coffman Memorial Union!

  Join scholars, activists, educators and community members in exploring immigrant involvement in homelands and the ways that those connections are interpreted by others. IHRC sponsors a full slate of speakers, showings of "Letters from Karelia," and discussion panels at Coffman Memorial Union. Click on "Linked Lives" program agenda for times and speakers or the calendar notice (on right) for more information.

• Immigration Reform and Angel Island at 100 Years

  A century after Angel Island opened, the United States once again is poised to debate immigration policy reform. Will Congress pass legislation echoing the rejection many Chinese immigrants found at the "Ellis Island of the West" or the welcome into American life that others received? Read Erica Lee's essay in the Los Angeles Times.

• Spring 2010 courses on migration, race, and ethnicity in the U.S. and globally

  The IHRC and the Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration network collect information about courses that pertain to migration, race, and ethnicity in the U.S. and globally. See the comprehensive listing of courses at the University of MN related to this topic.
  

• IREX Offers Short-Term Grants for Research Abroad

  The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) announces fellowship opportunities for 2010-2011 to support short-term research abroad by scholars in countries ranging from Albania to Uzbekistan.

• Recently Published

  Book: Italians of Lackawanna, NY: Steelworkers, Merchants, and Gardeners by John Andreozzi

  Chapter: "'From St. Paul to Minneapolis, All the Hands Clap For This': Hip-Hop in the Twin Cities" by Justin Schell (in Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide, Mickey Hess, Editor)
  

• Hmong Publications from IHRC Affiliates

  The Minnesota Historical Society Press will soon release Paul Hillmer's A People's History of the Hmong (2009), and the Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center has just issued volume 10 of the online Hmong Studies Journal.

• Prof. Caesar Farah, 1929-2009

  The IHRC regrets to announce the passing of Professor Caesar Farah, an exceptional scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic history. Dr. Farah's distinguished career and commitment to fostering scholarship in these fields at the University of Minnesota provided invaluable support for the IHRC's formation of and growth in Near Eastern collections. His influence on a generation of scholars and in advocating for engagement in order to move forward on critical issues in the Middle East will long be remembered.

• Winter Break Service Hours

  Elmer L. Andersen Library will be closed Dec. 24-5, Jan. 1 and Jan. 18. The IHRC will have limited services for collection requests through January 19, 2010, to allow staff to work on administrative projects during the winter break. As always, please consult in advance with collections staff about requests in order to decrease the wait time for materials.

• Don Pafko Named Slovakia's Honorary Consul in MN

  Don Pafko, long-time IHRC supporter and former president of Friends of the IHRC, has been named as Honorary Consul for Slovakia, with Minnesota being the newest addition to the Slovakian consular network in the United States.

• Limited Researcher Services at IHRC Dec. 10-11, 2009

  The IHRC will have limited researcher services on Thursday, Dec. 10, and Friday, Dec. 11, due to staff training. Kindly notify staff in advance of your visit in order to reduce your waiting time and to ensure that requested materials will be available.

• Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans Holds Inaugural Meeting

  Congratulations to the organizing committee of Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans (HORA) for a well-attended and enthusiastic inaugural meeting of this new ethnic association in Minnesota.

• IHRC Partner MN Humanities Center Wins Regional Emmy

  The Minnesota Humanities Center production "Iron Range: Minnesota Building America" has received a Regional Emmy Award. IHRC staff and collections provided assistance in the production of this important film and accompanying educational materials.

• Nelly Ortiz speaks at St. Cloud State University

  Nelly Ortiz shares a first hand account of migration to the United States. (see flyer)
  Date and Time: Friday, 12/04/09 at 2:00 p.m.
  Location: Atwood Theater at St. Cloud State University

• Fellowship Opportunity: Gender and Migration at CHR

  Institution: The Center for Historical Research at Ohio State University
  Theme: "The Intersection of Diaspora, Immigration, and Gender in World History"
  Research focus: The period from the 19th century to the present
  Applications due: February 1, 2010

• Publication Party for "My Flag Grew Stars" on Dec. 1

  The IHRC invites you to join in celebrating on Tuesday, Dec. 1, the publication of My Flag Grew Stars, a book that captures the journey of Professor Emeritus Tibor Zoltai and Olga Zoltai as refugees and new Americans, with research conducted at Elmer L. Andersen Library archival collections.

• Minnesota Historical & Cultural Grants Available

  The Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, passed in November 2008, raises new funds from a sales tax increase to be divided among projects benefitting the outdoors, clean water, parks and trails, and arts and cultural heritage.

• Cavern Tours and First Fridays Program at Andersen Library

  Explore "Virtue and Vice in the Stacks" and the Elmer L. Andersen Library caverns the first friday of every month throughout 2009-2010.

• Recently Published

  From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952 by Elliott Robert Barkan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 598 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34851-7.

• Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism (CCMET)

  The Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism is a new academic organization created to foster and facilitate collaboration among historians working in this field. Those interested in the history of migrations, ethnicity, transnationalism and related subjects are invited to join the CCMET listserve or visit the web site. (more)

• Recently Published

  The Wartime Experiences of a Cleveland Czechoslovak Legionnaire: the World War I Diary of Ladislav Krizek by Stephen Sebesta

  Rússia - Ascensão e Queda de Um Império - Uma História Geopolítica e Militar da Rússia, dos Czares ao Século XXI by João Fábio Bertonha

• Legal History Workshop

  Friday, October 16, 10:10-12:10, Mondale Hall 55.
  The Legal History Workshop will be hosting Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is currently working on transitional justice, postcolonial citizenship, and war crimes trials in Asia following WWII. Capozzola will be presenting a paper from his current research titled "A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945."

• Korean Quarterly, IHRC Work to Preserve Digital Information

  The Spectrum Trust Foundation of St. Paul, Minn., has awarded Korean Quarterly and Immigration History Research Center a $2,500 grant to support their work to initiate a digital newspaper archive preserving an important Korean-American ethnic publication.

• IHRC Awards 2 Prestigious Graduate Fellowships

  The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota has awarded two of its most prestigious graduate fellowships: the Francis Maria Graduate Fellowship in Arab American Studies and the American Latvian Association (ALA) Graduate Fellowship in Latvian American Studies.

• Karni Scholarship Offers Support for Finnish-American Collection Research

  The Michael G. Karni Scholarship provides up to $850 to support IHRC research about Finnish-American experience. The deadline for the 2010 funding cycle is November 1, 2009.

• Thank You to Collections Intern & Public Services Assistant for Summer 2009

  Recent University of Minnesota graduates Addie Mrosla and Ann Brigl contributed during summer 2009 to the IHRC as a collections intern and public services student assistant, respectively.

• IHRC Awards 16 Grants in Aid to Visiting Scholars

  Sixteen scholars have been awarded 2009-2010 grants in aid to support travel to and research in the historical collections of the Immigration History Research Center. Award recipients include doctoral candidates, independent scholars, creative artists, and heritage preservation personnel, with topics ranging from gender violence and refugee policies to Greek identity in the American Midwest.

• Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978) Papers at the IHRC

  During the spring semester of 2009, the IHRC conducted a processing project that resulted in a new finding aid for the Hitti collection. Student assistant Mary George worked with Daniel Necas to complete the project. The finding aid as well as a new web feature showcasing selected items from the collection are now available on-line. More ...

• Newly published

  The 2 volume set Daily Life in Immigrant America 1820-1870 (by James M. Bergquist) and Daily Life in Immigrant America 1870-1920 (by June Granatir Alexander) is being released in soft cover. Readers will find the approach similar to David Kyvig's Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.

• 2010 Census: Stand Up and Be Counted!

  This is the theme of 2009 Friends Annual Meeting which will be held Sunday, November 8, 2009. The meeting will focus on the importance of the census, and in particular its value for documenting ethnic communities. For additional information see http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/pdfs/Friends2009savethisdate.pdf

• IHRC Program Director Haven Hawley Awarded Short-Term Leave

  IHRC Program Director Haven Hawley has been awarded a six-week professional development leave to work on a book-length manuscript titled "Bodice Rippers to Printing Grippers," focusing on printing technologies related to marginalized American publishers in the 19th century.

• Recently Published

  Edited by Ieva Zake, newly published Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S., Political Activism of Ethnic Refugees references materials in the IHRC and presents the little known history of anti-Communism and the Cold War in the U.S. from the point of view of émigrés from Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, and Cuba.

• Editor and IHRC Associate Lou Ann Matossian Receives Ethnic Media Award

  New America Media, the nation's first and largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations, honored Lou Ann Matossian, an editor of the Armenian Reporter, at the 2009 National Ethnic Media Expo & Awards in June for excellence in international affairs reporting. Matossian has a long association with the IHRC and currently serves on the Collections Advisory Council.

• Edmund Valtman Papers at the IHRC

  A new web display featuring the Papers of Edmund Valtman (1914-2005) from the Center's archival holdings is available for viewing. Valtman, born in Estonia, was a cartoonist who immigrated to the U.S. in 1949, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1962. More...

• U Libraries' Technical Services Completes IHRC Newspaper Catalog

  The IHRC is pleased to announce that a multi-year project to catalog ethnic newspapers in the Center's collections has successfully concluded. Technical Services staff of the University of Minnesota Libraries finalized on July 2, 2009, cataloging entries for the IHRC's holdings of 46 Greek through Ukrainian titles.

• Gabaccia named to Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities

  Please join us in congratulating IHRC Director and History professor Donna Gabaccia who has been named to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for the 2009-10 academic year.

• June 26 Research Closure & IHRC Summer Hours

  The Immigration History Research Center will be closed on Friday, June 26, and staff will offer limited researcher services on Thursday, June 25. Other summer closures at the IHRC in Elmer L. Andersen Library include Friday and Saturday, July 3-4, and Monday, September 7.

• Research Note: Immigrant, Refugee, and Diasporic Hip-Hop in the Twin Cities

  [Research Note allows researchers to comment on IHRC collections of interest or to make material from IHRC research-in-progress talks available to the public.]

  By Justin Schell

  The Twin Cities rank alongside Toronto, Los Angeles, London, and New York as a center of global migration, with hip-hop an inescapable and dynamic force in the lives of its newest residents.

• IHRC Grant-in-Aid Program Deadline is June 1, 2009

  The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) offers grants of up to $500 to assist scholars traveling to conduct research at the IHRC. The deadline for applications for 2009-2010 grants is June 1, 2009.

• Jamal Adam Selected for 2009 NEH Immigration Institute

  The IHRC congratulates affiliate Jamal A. Adam on being selected as one of 25 participants for the "American Immigration Revisited" National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in 2009.

• Is Anybody Looking Out for Best Interests of Children?

  When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain and subsequently deport undocumented workers, what happens to the children of those workers, many of whom were born in the U.S. and, by law, are U.S. citizens? A special panel at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14 titled "America’s Children and U.S. Immigration Enforcement: Is Anybody Looking Out For the Best Interests Of The Children?" discusses this important issue.

• IHRC Collections Contribute to Greek Museum Exhibition

  The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation announces the opening on March 20 of the exhibition The Journey : The Greek American Dream at the Rooftile and Brickworks Museum N. & S. Tsalapatas-Volos in Greece.

• Spring Break at the IHRC

  The IHRC and Elmer L. Andersen Library will be open to researchers Monday, March 16 through Thursday, March 19. The building will be closed to researchers on Friday, March 20, which is a university holiday.

• Conference Explores North Africa as Central to 20th Century

  Historians from Europe and the United States have often treated North Africa as marginal to the central dramas of the twentieth century. "Placing the Maghrib at the Center of the 20th Century: From Colonial Histories to Post-Colonial Societies" will examine the role of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in the unfolding of the recent past.
  

• Professor Donna Gabaccia at University of Warwick

  IHRC Director Donna R. Gabaccia currently is a Visiting Scholar in the Immigration program of the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. In May 2009, she will be a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick and participate in an international symposium on diaspora studies.

• "Racism vs. Xenophobia" event on March 13

  Racism and xenophobia have long shaped the circumstances under which people emigrate, as well as the opportunities and constraints facing immigrants and their communities. Explore this topic at a presentation and discussion to be held 3-5 p.m. on Friday, March 13, at 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library.

• National Archives of Estonia & IHRC Form Partnership

  During March 2009, the IHRC welcomes representatives from the National Archives of Estonia (Rahvusarhiiv) to the University of Minnesota as part of an international partnership promoting preservation of and access to Estonian cultural materials.

• Karni Scholarship Awardee Announced for 2009

  The IHRC is pleased to announce Kitty Lam as the recipient of the 2009 Michael G. Karni Scholarship. Ms. Lam is a graduate student in the Department of History at Michigan State University. The IHRC will host an informal noon presentation by Ms. Lam on Thursday, February 5, 2009.

• Research Funding Deadlines for 2009

  The IHRC offers fellowships for University of Minnesota graduate students and grants to scholars outside the Twin Cities to promote research in the Center's collections. Deadlines in 2009 are February 1, May 1 and November 1.

• IHRC to host "Association Archives" Workshop on May 15

  The Immigration History Research Center will host a Society of American Archivists workshop on May 15, 2009, to train ethnic, religious, and other community group members about how to create and maintain their own archives. Please keep reading for registration and scholarship information!

• Video Archives Expand for Global REM Seminars

  Videos with closed captions from the Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration seminars presented by leading scholars in fall 2007 at the University of Minnesota are now available.
  

• Spring 2009 Courses on Migration at the U

  Upcoming spring 2009 courses on migration at the University of Minnesota encompass a range of themes from many departments. From photography to literature and the American mosaic to Paris, these courses can be used to fill requirements as well as electives in the coming semester.

• End-of-Year Holiday Week Hours

  The IHRC will have limited services for collection requests during the winter break (December 19, 2008 through January 19, 2009). Also, Elmer L. Andersen Library will be closed Dec. 25-26 and Jan. 1-2. Please consult in advance with collections staff about requests as limited staffing will increase the wait time for materials.

• Call for Research in Progress presenters

  IHRC is scheduling presentations for the Spring 2009 Research in Progress series. During 2008-2009, IHRC programs will promote research on refugees and on migration and memory.

• Estonian, Latvian & Arab American Fellowships Announced

  The Immigration History Research Center will award fellowships in 2009-2010 of up to $15,000 to University of Minnesota graduate students making use of the IHRC’s extensive Estonian, Latvian, and Arab American collections.

• Thanksgiving Holiday Week Hours

  The IHRC will have limited service for collections requests during Thanksgiving week (Nov. 24-28). The IHRC and Elmer L. Andersen Library will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27 and Friday, Nov. 28. Please consult in advance with collections staff about requests Monday through Wednesday, as limited holiday week staffing will increase wait time for materials.

• "As I See It: Images from the LIves of Twin Cities Youth"

  View images from this exhibition on display October 14-December 9 in the Elmer L. Andersen Library Gallery. More...

• Young Somali Poets to Present Original Works at IHRC

  The Last Poets and The Young Achievers will perform original works of "Poetry of the Somali Diaspora" at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20th, in room 120 of Elmer L. Andersen Library.

• México-Minnesota: Communicating Across Borders

  The new University of Minnesota blog México-Minnesota will provide news, views, and information about connections between Minnesota and Mexico, both in the past and in the present.

• Meditations on Immigration and Cultural Belonging

  Louis Mendoza will give a multimedia presentation titled "A Journey Across Our America: Meditations on Immigration and Cultural Belonging" at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, in room 125 of the Nolte Center.

• Recently Published

  Books and theses recently published featuring research done at the IHRC include Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement, by Diana Selig; Karen Braverman Bujanover's thesis, Immigrants Writing Identities: Searching for the Identity of Kawkab Amirka's Editors; and W jednosci sila by Joanna Wojdon.

• "Somali Diaspora" Publication Reception & Exhibit

  The work of Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge in documenting Somali migration and life has inspired a year-long series of events, starting with a reception 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 21, celebrating their new book, The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away.

• Friends of IHRC Annual Meeting

  "They Also Chose Minnesota" is the theme for the Friends of IHRC annual meeting and dinner this year. Join us on Saturday November 8, 2008...

• Karni Scholarship application deadline Nov. 1, 2008

  November 1 is the 2008 deadline for applications for the Michael G. Karni Scholarship, which supports IHRC research related to the Finnish American experience....

• László Fülöp awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic

  Foreign Minister Kinga Göncz granted the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic to architect László Fülöp during a ceremony in Chicago on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. (more...)

• New Publication: "The Journey of the Italians in America" by Vincenza Scarpaci.

  The author takes a photographic approach towards unraveling the history and legacy of Italians and their presence in America.

• Panel at the World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, 4 - 8 February 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands

  We are soliciting abstracts for papers to be included in a panel entitled, "Is humanitarianism compatible with refugee rights?" This panel will be part of the World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, organised by the universities of Bochum, Groningen and Wageningen.

• Latvian Chorus "Shield of Songs" materials on-line

  Selected materials from the IHRC's collection of records of the Latvian chorus "Shield of Songs" document the activities of the choir from its 1945 inception in a displaced persons camp in Germany through the following three decades. View images and read more.

• Andersen Library Reading Room to Offer Saturday Hours

  Patrons requesting materials in advance will have access to IHRC materials in the Elmer L. Andersen Library Reading Room on Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm, starting Sept. 6, 2008. Limited services will be available in the Reading Room for all special collections at Andersen Library.

• Rac(e)ing Questions: Gender and Race (online journal issue) seeks contributions by 9/15/08

  To complete an upcoming issue on Rac(e)ing Questions, the multidisciplinary online journal gender forum seeks two more contributions discussing intersections of race and gender in literature, film, or culture. We welcome contributions from all disciplines. Completed manuscripts should be submitted via email to gender forum by September 15, 2008.

• Fulbright Scholar award related to demography, migration, and the sociology of population, 2009-2010

  The Fulbright German Studies Seminar offers U.S. scholars the opportunity to meet in Germany to discuss current issues relevant to both Germany and the international community. This year's seminar will be dedicated to "Germany's Future: New Parties - New Solutions?"

• Umbertina awarded Premio Acerbi for 2008

  Congratulations to novelist Helen Barolini whose Italian edition of Umbertina has been awarded the coveted Italian literary prize Premio Acerbi for 2008. Ms. Barolini conducted research in the IHRC collections...

• Student Receives UROP Grant for IHRC Research

  Undergraduate student Bahjo Mahamud has received a UROP grant for a creative historical project at the IHRC that combines scholarly research and the strong oral history tradition of the Somali community.

• MN History Center Displays "Ellis Island Portraits"

  An exhibition opening July 4 at the Minnesota Historical Society features striking photographs of new immigrants at Ellis Island in their native costumes, taken by an untrained, yet highly gifted, registry clerk at the turn of the century.
  

• IHRC News, Spring/Summer 2008 issue

  The IHRC's 2008 Spring/Summer 8-page newsletter is available for viewing online http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/about/pdf/08springsummernews.pdf

  See also current schedule for 2008-2009 Community Events at the IHRC.

• Position Available at IHRC

  IHRC Principal Office and Admin Specialist. Temporary: one-year, half time. Requisition # 156308. Read description and apply online at www.umn.edu/ohr.

• Slovenian Archives Training in Ljubljana

  Applications are now being accepted by a Republic of Slovenia archival training program scheduled in September 2008 in Ljubljana. The program supports preservation of cultural materials related to Slovenian migration.

• Bill Hoglund, Finnish-American Scholar, Remembered

  It is with sadness that the IHRC shares with our community news of the death of Bill Hoglund (A. William Hoglund), a long-time supporter of and researcher associated with the IHRC, who passed away on Thursday, May 1, in Florida.
  Bill was a faculty member for many years in the History Department at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, and in 2004 he donated his large and distinguished collection of Finnish American and multi-ethnic research materials to the IHRC.

• Friends of IHRC Award History Day Prizes

  The 2008 winners of the Friends of the IHRC Immigration History topic awards for History Day are Clara Linehan of Chisago Lakes Middle School; Luke Stone and Heather Stone of Cyber Village Academy; and Abby Norling Ruggles, Collin Knopp Schwyn and Nico Dregni of Seward Montessori School.

• IHRC Announces Temporary Acquisition Halt in 2008

  The IHRC is committed to preserving materials that document immigrant experience and making them available to the public. In 2008, our staff will be continuing to assess our collections and process materials as we place a temporary hold on acquisitions. Outreach programs will provide archival training and education, as well as resources, in 2008 and beyond.

• IHRC Community Meetings on May 18 & 22

  The IHRC will hold community meetings on Sunday, May 18 and Thursday, May 22, 2008, about the capacity issues facing archival collections at the University of Minnesota. Program Director Haven Hawley will speak at both meetings, which will be held in St. Paul and at the University, and seek information about community needs.
  

• $250 grants-in-aid available at IHRC

  The IHRC has available several small grants of $250 each to support travel costs of researchers needing to consult IHRC collections during the fiscal year 07/01/08 - 06/30/09. Deadline to submit application is May 1, 2008. More...

• Reading Immigrant Stories May 1st at IHRC

  Students from the U of M present excerpts on May 1 from "Life History Project" reports that record the experiences of immigrants from many cultures in coming to the United States.

• Employment Outcomes for Refugees

  When: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:45-2:30 p.m.
  Where: Wilkins Room 215, 2nd floor of HHH Center
  301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN

• Apr 22: "Stateless in America"

  Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Legal History by Professor Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa. Flyer.

• Apr 18-20: Ethnic Dance Theatre in St. Paul

  "First Love: A Bulgarian Tale" opens April 18 at O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul.

• Grants-in-aid available at IHRC for F09

  Deadline to submit applications: May 1, 2008.

• New information about IHRC's collections on-line

  New information about additional ca. 350 archival collections has recently been made available on the IHRC web site.

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• Poetry from the IHRC Collections on April 4

  Playwright and historian Celeste Raspanti will present poetry from the IHRC collections at the University Libraries' First Fridays Series on April 4, from noon to 1 p.m. in Elmer L. Andersen Library.

• Spring Break Hours at IHRC

  Please note special hours March 17-21 at the IHRC during the University's Spring Break.

• Volunteers Needed for March 15th IHRC Outreach

  The IHRC needs volunteers to help staff an information table at International Women's Day on Saturday, March 15th, at Coffman Memorial Union. Contact Haven Hawley if you can staff a shift between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

• IHRC Hosts Volunteer Party on Friday, Feb. 29

  The IHRC community will celebrate the volunteers at the heart of the IHRC at a special appreciation event 5-7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 29, in the Elmer L. Andersen Library Atrium.

• Check out the Elmer Andersen's Exhibits

  Destination Shaanxi: Material Culture at the End of the Silk Road- Running November 8, 2007-February 15, 2008, the exhibit features generous gifts and loans from members of the USCPA-MN Chapter bringing to life the twelve centuries of decorative arts from Shaanxi Province, China.

  More more information about this exhibit view http://ihrc.umn.edu/community/exhibit.htm

• Global Media-Diasporic Culture Series Opens Feb. 1

  Chicano Studies professor Richard Martinez gives a presentation titled “Newspaper Coverage of the Immigrant Rights Movement 2006�? Friday, Feb. 1 at noon, opening an exciting schedule of talks in the Global Media – Diasporic Cultures Series this spring.

• IHRC Offers Spring Internships for Undergraduates

  Undergraduate students can gain experience in public history and digital archives while receiving course credit for Spring 2008. For details, see the complete internship description!
  

• 90 years of immigration studies at the University of Minnesota

  90 years of immigration studies at the University of Minnesota
  "The Minnesota School of Immigration and Refugee Studies" Article by Donna R. Gabaccia

  http://ihrc.umn.edu/publications/pdf/winterwebminnesotaschool1.pdf

• The IHRC's Cookbook: "Deliciously Tasteful" Is Just the Start

  The Immigrant Heritage Recipe Collection, a "deliciously tasteful�? cookbook that brings together 130+ diverse recipes from the IHRC's ethnic collections and the center's friends, is now for sale!

• IHRC and IR(MN)

  There are many links between the IHRC and the Iron Range in Minnesota (IRMN). The Center is currently developing a project focusing on exploring these connections. Continue
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• IHRC Hours of Service

  Andersen Library will be closed Monday, Dec. 31 and Tuesday, Jan. 1. The IHRC will resume regular working hours on Wednesday, Jan. 2.

• Turning Challenges into Opportunities -- An IHRC Tradition

  Haven Hawley, IHRC Program Director

  Although I’ve only been on the job since late August, my work as the new IHRC program director has settled into a busy pattern of meetings, research, and friendly faces, highlighted by glimpses of the Mississippi River flowing past Elmer L. Andersen Library. Underneath the banks of that river, in caverns carved out of sandstone and limestone, the collections of the Immigration History Research Center are secure but at capacity. Dealing with the lack of space for expansion is among the most pressing of the challenges – and opportunities – on which staff will be focusing in the coming year. I find inspiration from learning about the origins of the Immigration History Research Center and the work of people like Timothy Smith.

• December 18 "International Migrants Day"

  To call attention to the lives of people now living outside their birth countries (today numbering close to 200 million), the U.N. in 2000 proclaimed December 18 to be "International Migrants Day." On that day, in 1990, the U.N. General Assembly passed an International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. For further information, see: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/events/migrants/
  http://www.radio1812.net/

• IHRC News, Fall/Winter 2007-2008 issue

  The IHRC's 2007-2008 Fall/Winter 8-page newsletter is available for viewing online http://ihrc.umn.edu/about/pdf/0708fallwinternews.pdf
  

• Thanksgiving Week Notice

  Due to the Thanksgiving holiday week schedule, patrons should submit requests for material the day prior to conducting research at the IHRC. Please send queries by e-mail to ihrc@umn.edu.

• Wing Young Huie for a slide show and book signing

  Join Wing Young Huie, author and photographer of Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour by Wing Young Huie for a free slide show and book signing. Time: 7:00 pm Friday, November 16 at Minnesota Center for Photography...
  

• 'Comparing Global Migrations' Grad Course for Spring 2008

  A new spring 2008 graduate-level readings course titled "Comparing Global Migrations" will focus on the study of human mobility as an increasingly global and interdisciplinary field...

• Reading Room Open Late on Thursdays

  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....

• Karni Scholarship Deadline: Nov. 1, 2007

  November 1 is the 2007 deadline for applications for the Michael G. Karni Scholarship, which supports IHRC research related to the Finnish American experience....

• Konrad Jarausch, "The Europeanization of Memories: Nightmares or Daydreams?"

  Thursday, October 25, 2007, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  Free ! For description and further information.....

• A "Deliciously Tasteful" Cookbook from the IHRC

  The Immigrant Heritage Recipe Collection, a “deliciously tasteful�? cookbook that brings together 130+ diverse recipes from the IHRC’s ethnic collections and the center’s friends, is now for sale! This beautiful volume includes categories from soups to desserts, highlighted by color and archival images from the IHRC's own collections. Limited edition, spiral bound. Price: $11.95 + p/h. 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.

• New Graduate Course in Spring 2008

  AMST 8920: Oceanic Space & Movement in Atlantic/Pacitic/Indian Ocean Worlds, Reading and Theorizing Oceanic Space and Movement, Instructor: Kale Bantigue Fajardo. (course description)

• Rose Ensemble "Slavic Wonders" concerts Oct. 20 & Oct. 21

  To anyone interested in Central European history, don't miss two concerts this weekend by the highly acclaimed Rose Ensemble of St. Paul. Held both Saturday night, October 20, (8 PM with a pre-concert talk at 7) at the Basilica in Mpls, and Sunday afternoon, October 21, (4 PM with a pre-concert talk at 3) at Church of the Assumption in St. Paul, both shows will be followed by a complimetary wine and cheese party, giving you a chance to meet the performers and friends of the Rose. Tickets can be ordered online at www.roseensemble.org . In addition, Student Rush tickets will be available at the door five minutes prior to the show for $8.00 to those with valid Student ID's.
  (Continue reading for details and to listen to music now.)

• Friends of the IHRC Annual Meeting

  "Looking to the Future on our 30th Anniversary" is the theme for the Friends of IHRC annual meeting and dinner this year. Join us on Saturday evening, November 3.

• Fellowship/Award Fall Deadlines for 2008-2009

  November 1, 2007 to submit application for Michael G. Karni Scholarship in 2008
  December 15, 2007 to submit Request for Nomination for available IHRC Fellowships in 2008-2009 (American Latvian Association Graduate Fellowship in Latvian American Studies, Hildegard and Gustav Must Graduate Fellowship in Estonian American Studies)

• Legal History Workshop

  Please Note -- Change in Location for the Legal History Workshop:
  Date: Friday, September 21 (this week)
  Time: 10:10-12:10
  New Location: 308 Andersen Library

  Presenting: Stephen Porter, University of Chicago, “Human Rights and the Problem of Formal Equality: American Policies of Refugee Relief at Home and Abroad in the Early Cold War�?

  Copies of Stephen's paper can be picked up in the History Department Mail Room (636 SST) or electronically from Barbara Welke at welke004@umn.edu
  

• Haven Hawley joins IHRC Staff as Program Director

  Please join the staff of the IHRC in welcoming Haven Hawley as Program Director. Haven comes to the IHRC after working for three years at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Haven has a Ph.D. in History from Georgia Institute of Technology, is an historian of the science and technology and book publishing, and has considerable expertise on Rare Books.

• Karni Scholarship application deadline Nov. 1, 2007

  The Michael G. Karni Scholarship award is intended to help defray expenses of visiting professors, lecturers, or graduate students from the United States or abroad using the archival sources of the University of Minnesota’s Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), with emphasis on projects relating to the Finnish American experience. The deadline is November 1, 2007 to submit an application for travel in 2008. Read the full announcement (pdf).

• Community-based Organizations in Refugee Integration

  The Migration Policy Institute has recently published a report under the title Bridging Divides: The Role of Ethnic Community Based Organizations in Refugee Integration.

  Two examples of such organizations are documented in the IHRC collection of Refugee Studies Center Records for two of the dominant refugee groups in the Twin Cities area, from Southeast Asia and Somalia.

  View digitized samples and read more

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• Two Receive Grant-in-Aid Awards for '07-'08

  Two scholars are the recipients of IHRC Ethnic Studies Funds Grants-in-Aid for 2007-2008. With assistance from the Ukrainian American Studies Fund, Halyna Sarancha, from the University of Ternopil, Ukraine, visited the IHRC in Summer 2007 and presented her research on post-war Ukrainian migrations to the United States. Kenyon Zimmer, University of Pittsburgh, will visit the IHRC in 2008 with the support of the Italian American Studies Fund. Kenyon’s research focuses on Jewish and Italian anarchists in the twentieth-century U.S.

  The next round for grant-in-aid applications will be posted in Spring 2008.

• Want to learn Arabic?

  While the majority of IHRC’s collections are in English, several do contain materials in other languages. The IHRC’s especially rich Phillip K. Hitti and Frank Maria Papers as well as the Near East-related print holdings are among those containing materials in Arabic. Would you like to be able to fully explore these collections? Mizna, a forum located in Minneapolis which promotes Arab culture, is offering evening classes to learn the language. FFI: phone 612-788-6920, Web: http://mizna.org/classes/index.html

• Book Arts in the IHRC collections

  The annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) is held in Minneapolis July 11-14, 2007. Many fine print and book arts enthusiasts are among the participating crowd. Can the IHRC collections offer items of interest to this group?

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• IHRC Affiliate Erika Lee named Fesler-Lampert Professor in Public Humanities

  Erika Lee has been named Fesler-Lampert Professor in Public Humanities for 2007-08. The Fesler-Lampert Professorship is designed to strengthen the ties between humanities scholars and the broader community. The position recognizes and supports the research of humanities faculty whose work promotes the public good and involves community partners. Erika received the award based on her past achievements and the very important book project she has underway on Angel Island, for decades the major port of entry for immigrants coming to the U.S. from Asia and the Pacific Rim generally. She receives $40,000 in research support. Congratulatons to Erika!

• Updated online catalog holdings for Hmong Cultural Center's research archives

  The Hmong Cultural Center Resource Library is the largest collection of Hmong-related academic research publications in Minnesota and most likely the United States. The most distinctive and specialized portions of the library are the dissertations/theses and peer-reviewed journal article collections. Access that library Web site at: http://www.hmongcenter.org/library1.html

• IHRC News, Spring/Summer 2007 issue

  The IHRC's 2007 Spring/Summer 6-page newsletter is available for viewing online http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/about/pdf/07sprsumnews.pdf

• Refugees from Liberia

  Among the refugees arriving in the United States in the last decade and a half, a large group comes from Liberia. Many of them have settled in Minnesota. Learn more about the Liberians from the IHRC collections and even more from a project sponsored recently by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

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• IHRC receives archival records of the Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee

  Following negotiations between former IHRC Head of Research Collections/Associate Director Joel Wurl and Janusz Krzyzanowski, President of the Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee (PAIRC) in 2005-2006, the Immigration History Research Center has recently received ca. 100 linear feet of archival records of the PAIRC. The collection spans the years 1946-2001.

  Read more and view digitized samples from the collection

  Previous collections updates

• “Global R(ace)E(thnicity)M(igration)�?: Building on Interdisciplinary Strengths

  The College of Liberal Arts (UM) has made diversification and internationalization top priorities. Diversification and internationalization will be achieved through interdisciplinary collaborations of faculty, students and community. Global REM is designed to strengthen an existing cluster of interdisciplinary research centers, departments, programs and faculty that have made substantial contributions to the diversification of research and teaching. U.S.-focused in its earlier iterations, this cluster is now poised to undertake a new initiative by internationalizing its focus.

• Ethnic Studies Grants-in-aid at the IHRC

  Thanks to the generosity of donors during the recent Endowment Campaign, the IHRC now offers small grants of $250 to support travel costs of researchers needing to consult its ethnic studies collections for a minimum one-week period. 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.

• Susan Grigg, curator of IHRC 1981-1985

  Susan Grigg died May 5 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester where she was being treated for cancer. Susan received her Ph.D. in American history and archives administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her M.L.S. from Simmons College. Before coming to Minnesota, she worked at Yale; she left here to head the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, worked at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, MA, and then served for ten years as head of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. She is survived by her husband, the Rev. Jace Kahn.

• Change in IHRC research office hours

  The IHRC will be closed for research on Wednesday and Thursday, May 2 and 3, from 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. The Center will remain open to on-site researchers 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on both days.

• Sucheng Chan Collection at the IHRC

  The IHRC has recently received the initial shipments of materials from Professor Sucheng Chan, scholar of Asian American studies. This is the first installment of a large amount of published and unpublished materials that are scheduled to arrive over the next couple of years. The recent shipment comprises 15 linear feet of contemporary as well as older scholarship on Asian Americans (including copies of dissertations from universities nation-wide), fiction by Asian Americans, periodicals and research source files, particularly pertaining to Professor Chan's research on Cambodian refugees.

  Read more and view samples

  Previous collections updates

• Immigrants and Industrialization in the United States, 1880 to 1920

  Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series: Speaker: Charles Hirschman, Ph.D. (Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington). Date: Monday, April 30, 12:15-1:15 in 50 Willey Hall. Continue reading for the abstract.

• Black American Paris and the Other France: Social Race and the Politics of Migration

  Lecture by Prof. Trica Keaton, Friday, April 20, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 125 Nolte (U of M)
  Presented by the Department of French and Italian (U of M)

• Voices from Silence: Policies and Narratives Post-9/11

  This panel discussion will address how the events of 9/11, and subsequent legislation such as the USA Patriot Act, have affected the lives of refugee, immigrant and religious minorities. Monday, April 23, 2007 (7:00-9:00 p.m.), Location: Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Institute, 301--19th Ave. S., Minneapolis MN. Free and open to the public. Further information on panelists and co-sponsors.

• Great Conversations: Global Immigration Issues

  Donna Gabaccia, Director of the Immigration History Research Center, traces global immigration issues with Ruben Martinez, award-winning journalist and author of The New Americans and Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. May 8, 7:30 p.m. Ticket and location information.
  

• Pre-1965 immigration reform debate reflected in the IHRC holdings

  About half-a-century ago, many voices in the United States were calling for a major overhaul of the immigration law. Of the foreign born at that time, the largest group were those born in Italy. And not surprisingly, Italian Americans were very active in trying to change the immigration laws they viewed as discriminatory and unfair. In the name of equality, they were willing to join forces with some other immigrant groups whose nationalities were not favored by the quota system of the 1952 Walter-McCarran Act. Shortly after the enactment of that legislation, the American Committee on Italian Migration (ACIM) was established by Italian Americans.

  Read more and view digitized samples

• Photographic Exhibit: World Heritage Sites in Croatia

  Opening Reception on Friday, March 30, 2007 6-9 PM, Place: Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street NE, Minneapolis.
  Opening remarks by the Consul General of Croatia in Chicago, Hon. Zorica Matkovic. Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the photo exhibit World Heritage Sites in Croatia celebrates the 25th anniversary of the inclusion of Croatian landmarks on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The exhibit opened in Paris last year, toured Europe, showed in Argentina, and is now making its North American tour in Kansas City, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago and New York.

• Distinguished McKnight University Professorship

  Congratulations to Prof. Eric Weitz (history) who has been awarded the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship for 2007 for his significant accomplishments at the University of Minnesota. Weitz will hold the title "Distinguished McKnight University Professor" for as long as he remains at the University of Minnesota. This award honors and rewards the highest-achieving faculty at the University of Minnesota who has attained full professor status. Weitz is a member of the IHRC's Faculty and Student Advisory Council.
  

• A Visible Heat Rising (reading by Prof. Edén Torres)

  Details: Tuesday, March 20, 4th Floor Old Main, Macalester College, 11:50am-1pm, Refreshments provided.

  Edén Torres will be reading from her novel in progress, tentatively titled, “A Visible Heat Rising.�? The manuscript follows the lives of two Mexican American women growing up­and old­in Minnesota. The main characters, Chita and Fia, come of age in a racist rural township during the Civil Rights era. Outside their homes and friendship they are isolated from Mexican culture. Nevertheless, Chita and Fia bear every tension, every adversity with love, humor, and a good dose of righteous defiance. Though they spend much of their lives romanticisizing the Southwest, they eventually come to understand that through their friendship they've created a Chicana homeland in Minnesota.

• "Mastering the Art of Cooking: Cookbooks as Historical Resources"

  Friday, March 2. Join us at noon for a "First Fridays" presentation in 120 Andersen Library. Cookbooks can be a surprisingly rich source of historical information, and cookbook collections are becoming more common in academic libraries. This presentation will explore cookbook collections as research materials and individual cookbooks as historical artifacts. Speakers: Julie Kelly, Magrath Library; Donna Gabaccia, Department of History/Immigration History Research Center; Linda Schloff, Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest Historical Society; Beth Kaplan, University Archives. View the flyer for more details.

• Professor Eithne Luibheid to lecture March 1.

  The Global Sexualities Research Collaborative is pleased to announce that Professor Eithne Luibheid, author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border, will present a lecture Thursday, March 1st at 3:30 p.m. in Room 402 in Walter Library(U of Minnesota). Luibheid is a member of the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, as well as the director for the Committee on LGBT Studies. Her talk, is entitled "Genealogy, Intimacy, and the Shifting Boundaries Between Legal and Illegal Immigration." Refreshments and a brief reception will follow the presentation. (more...)
  

• Norman Johnston DeWitt Fellowship awarded

  Congratulations to Jeff Manuel who has been awarded the Dewitt Fellowship for 2007-08. Each Department can nominate only one candidate, and there is only one fellowship awarded annually in this particular University-wide competition which supports advanced graduate students in the humanities. Jeff is a member of the IHRC's Faculty and Student Advisory Council and a graduate instructor in the History Department.

• "Aid groups fear mass return home of refugees"

  - reads a headline from the London Times above an article reporting on refugee crisis in the Middle East. "About three million [Afghan] refugees in Pakistan, two million in Iran, and two million so called 'internal refugees' mostly living in Kabul, together constitute the world's biggest refugee population." The date is not in 2006 or 2007 but rather March 26, 1988, following the announcement of the anticipated withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Someone working at the United States Committee for Refugees clipped this article, and now it can be found - along with many other items providing information on refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and many other parts of the world over two and a half decades from ca. 1970 to 1995 - in one of the major archival collections held at the Immigration History Research Center - the Records of the United States Committee for Refugees (recently renamed United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants). A new, preliminary folder inventory for the collection has been made available for the first time on-line.

  Images of several items selected from this collection are available for viewing at the IHRC web site by clicking here.

• Law and Order: The Career and Legacy of Minneapolis Mayor Charles Stenvig

  A museum exhibit in the first floor gallery of Andersen Library, cosponsored by the Friends of the IHRC, free and open to the public. The exhibit will be available from March 8 to May 7, 2007. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. The gallery is also open Saturday, May 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Directions and parking for Andersen Library.

• Karni Scholarship Awardee Announced

  The IHRC is pleased to announce Paul Anthony Lubotina as the recipient of the 2006-2007 Michael G. Karni Scholarship. Dr. Lubotina is an instructor in American History at Northern Michigan University. The title of his project is “Political Activities of Finnish Immigrants during the Great Depression.�? The IHRC will host an informal noon presentation by Dr. Lubotina in May 2007.

• A Mighty Fortress exhibit featured in Twin Cities media

  New sounds inside the Mighty Fortress (by Karl Gehrke, Minnesota Public Radio, December 21, 2006) "A new exhibit at the University of Minnesota challenges the stereotype of Lutherans as staid, white Scandinavians. The recent arrival of immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia has created many ethnically diverse Lutheran congregations in the Twin Cities. As the exhibit demonstrates, you can hear as well as see the changes. " Continue..

• UNICO National fellowship awarded for Spring 2007

  Elizabeth Zanoni, a Ph.D. student in the Department of History, is the first University of Minnesota graduate student to be awarded the UNICO National Graduate Fellowship in Italian American Studies. Liz will hold the fellowship in Spring 2007. Liz is interested in the development of transnational consumer culture and the history of migration from Italy to the United States.

• Testing for Citizenship

  The IHRC has always collected documentation on how applicants for the United States citizenship have been tested by the government and what has been provided to help them prepare for the examinations. These volumes include various English lessons manuals, textobooks on citizenship or "Americanization" and practice questionnaires issued by the government or service organizations assisting the foreign born. The latest addition to this group of materials is the New Pilot Naturalization Exam recently released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (November 30, 2006). The 144 questions and answers as well as more facts about the test redesign are available at the US CIS web site. See if you'd pass!

• New Web Site - Ethnic Trends in Minnesota

  Resources beyond IHRC holdings. A new web site has been launched providing information about the foreign-born and ethnics in Minnesota - "Ethnic Trends".

• New Research Guide

  A new research guide "Reparations, Reconciliation and Forced Migration" by Megan Bradley has been made available by the Forced Migration Online network at their web site.

• IHRC News, fall/winter 2006 issue

  The IHRC's 2006 fall/winter 4-page newsletter is available for viewing online (2006 fall/winter news.pdf).

• A Workshop on Race and Pedagogy, Institute for Advanced Study at UMN

  Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 2006. Keynote Speaker: Michael Omi (Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley): "The Contradictions of Colorblindness: Race and Its Discontents" (for further information).

• IHRC hours change

  Due to staff reorganization, the IHRC office hours have been temporarily changed to Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. until further notice. Thank you for your understanding.

• UMN News: U conference explores immigration myths with experts and Minnesota mayors

  Immigration, particularly the brouhaha surrounding unauthorized or illegal immigrants in the United States, was the topic du jour at a recent full-day conference on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The nearly 200 people who attended, including high school students and educators, business leaders and immigration lawyers, left more informed about some common myths and truths about immigration. Continue reading Pauline Oo's article at http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/Feature_Stories/Eye_on_immigration.html#

• The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Assessments and Testimony

  A panel composed of Prof. Charles Gati (Johns Hopkins University), Dr. Robert O. Fisch (University of Minnesota, emeritus) and Laszlo Fulop (Minnesota Hungarians) participants in the 1956 Revolt will offer assessments and testimony on the events of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Date: Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006, 8:00 PM...(more)

• The International Institute of Minnesota is holding a Winter Clothing Drive

  All clothing will be given to newly arrived refugees and asylees who will experience their first Minnesota winter this year. Dates: Friday, November 17th, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. and Saturday, November 18th, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Read more to learn which items will be accepted, the dropoff address and contact info.
  

• IHRC Web Site Selected as Encyclopaedia Britannica iGuide

  ...by an editorial group at Encyclopaedia Britannica that identifies and screens other Web sites to supplement the encyclopaedia's own content. These Web sites, called iGuide sites, are then presented as recommended resources for online readers. The IHRC's Web site (http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/) has been approved as a Britannica iGuide site. Listen to a 90 second "U Moment" describing this announcement http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/events/media/britannica_iguide.mp3.

• Conference: Getting Some Perspective on Immigration

  Sponsored by Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Humphrey Institute (Cowles Auditorium); Date: 11/01/06, Time: 8:30-3:30. Registration Required by 10/25/06. FFI: Lisa Thalacker, 612-624-8842 email: cspg@umn.edu

• Friends of IHRC Annual Meeting and Potluck Lunch

  All interested community members are invited to attend the 29th annual meeting and potluck lunch of the Friends of the Immigration History Research Center on Saturday Oct. 21, 2006. Membership dues may be paid at the meeting. Attendees who are unable to bring a potluck contribution are welcome but are asked to make a voluntary contribution for the cost of their lunch. See flyer for more details (pdf format). FFI: Kathy Gruett, Friends president, klabriolagruett@msn.com or phone 952-894-9490

• Exhibit: 1956 Hungarian Revolution

  An exhibit sponsored by the Minnesota Hungarians along with the Immigration History Research Center will open in the Elmer L. Andersen Library on October 22, 2006 and remain open for 4 weeks. The exhibit depicts the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt and its international significance. FFI: http://minnesotahungarians.onza.net/ or http://www.mbk.org/

• Labor & Immigration Conference

  Date: Sept. 21, 2006 (8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.), Location: Carpenters Hall, 700 Olive Street, St. Paul MN
  Designed for union officers, board members, staff, stewards and activists. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service in partnership with the Resource Center of the Americas and other community organizations. Pre-registration required; deadline is Fri. Sept. 15, 2006. $20 registration fee. FFI Deborah Rosenstein, drosenstein@csom.umn.edu or call 612-626-2034.

• Karni Scholarship application deadline Nov. 1, 2006

  The Michael G. Karni Scholarship award is intended to help defray expenses of visiting professors, lecturers, or graduate students from the United States or abroad using the archival sources of the University of Minnesota’s Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), with emphasis on projects relating to the Finnish American experience. The deadline is November 1, 2006 to submit an application for travel in 2007. Read the full announcement (pdf).

• Migration, Movement, Mobility ("Topics in Comparative History")

  New course in Fall 2006, Research Seminar: History 8990
  Tuesdays, 3:30-5:20 p.m.
  For more information and permission to enroll: Donna R. Gabaccia, Professor of History and Director, Immigration History Research Center (drg@umn.edu)
  

• International Fellows Program

  One of the 'feathers in the cap' of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs is the International Fellows Program. Each year the program hosts 16-20 mid-career professionals from Asia, Africa, Latin American and the former Soviet States as they work on academic and professional development programs here from August to June. This dynamic group includes heads of NGOs, attorneys working on human rights issues, specialists in environmental protection, educators, law enforcement professionals, and many others.

• Sociology professors win award for article on diversity

  U of MN sociology professor Douglas Hartmann, a member of the IHRC's Faculty and Student Advisory Council, and his colleague Joe Gerteis have been awarded the 2006 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for their 2005 Sociological Theory article, "Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms."

• Old friends reunite to enjoy Czech roots

  Donna Gabaccia, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, said it is common for the children of immigrants to try to reconnect with their neighborhood in their later years. In New York, people who grew up in Brooklyn neighborhoods have created Web sites to connect with friends from their youth, she said. See article in Chicago Tribune, July 25, 2006

• Summer intern helps with Finnish American collection projects

  With gifts contributed to the IHRC’s Timo Riippa Fund for Finnish American Studies, the Center is hosting an intern from Germany for a 10-week stay that began July 17. The intern, Tanja Aho, was born in Finland but grew up in Germany and has dual Finnish/German citizenship. A student of Finnish and American studies at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald, Germany, she is working at the IHRC on a collection of poems and other writings by the Finnish-American author Terttu Kätkä.

• July 4 Quiz in Star Tribune

  So you think you know about immigration?
  It's a frequent lament: If only Minnesota's newest immigrants were like Ole and Lena -- or Johann and Bertha -- who swiftly learned English, shunned government handouts and observed the same laws that so many of today's immigrants ignore. But don't believe stereotypes, say the folks at the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
  Star Tribune
  http://www.startribune.com/462/story/531837.html
  

• Bibliography for “Teaching American History Workshop�?...

  compiled by FlorenceMae Waldron for a workshop with the Northfield Public Schools, held at the IHRC on June 12, 2006 (one page, pdf format).

• IHRC Affiliate Katherine Fennelly Named 2006-2007 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs.

  View the news article (pdf).

• IHRC News, spring/summer 2006 issue

  Read online or print out the 4 page spring/summer 2006 issue of IHRC NEWS (requires Adobe Acrobat). The News is mailed/posted twice a year.

• Griego: Immigration in the U.S. - a history lesson.

  Donna Gabaccia, IHRC director, offers perspective in May 11 Rocky Mountain News article.

• Fellowships/Awards Currently Available

  For listing, descriptions, application and deadline information
  

• The oral history resources list...

  of selected books, online aids, and published collections, prepared by IHRC staff and distributed at the Center’s February 17 symposium on oral methodologies, has been posted as a reference for interested researchers. (in pdf format)

• Resources for welcoming immigrants available:

  Minnesota Community Campaign consortium offers a resource kit to help groups welcome new Minnesotans. The kit may be seen at the IHRC. (Description)

• U Libraries subscription for use at U of MN : The online collection "North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories, "...

  containing ca.100,000 pages of primary source information covering 1800–1950. FFI: U Libraries

• Guide to the Records of the National Italian American Foundation at the IHRC.

  Available free (pay $2.23 US postage + $1.50 handling fee = $3.73; inquire if non-US). Contains essays, detailed inventory, photographs (some text is also online in this site's "Research Sources�?).Contact IHRC to order.

• A Research Guide to Ukrainian and Carpatho-Rusyn American Newspapers, Periodicals, and Calendars-Almanacs on Microfilm, 1886-1976.

  Details and order form.