Profiling Scholarship Series
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The HRI Profiling Scholarship Series provides a forum for scholars at the University of Regina to talk informally to colleagues, students, and the University of Regina community about a recent scholarly project that is of general interest in the field of the humanities.
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Item Open Access Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities: Red Herring or Barmecide Feast?(University of Regina. Humanities Research Institute., 2010-11-12) Ruddick, NicholasNicholas Ruddick: “Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities: Red Herring or Barmecide Feast?” Nicholas Ruddick’s most recent books are The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel (Wesleyan University Press) and a new edition of Jack London’s classic dog story, The Call of the Wild, in the Broadview Editions series (both 2009). He’s currently working on chapters about science fiction novel-to-film adaptations for three different critical anthologies, the source texts being Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler’s cold war best-seller Fail-Safe, and J.G. Ballard’s most controversial novel, Crash.Item Open Access The Practice of Execution in Canada(University of Regina. Humanities Research Institute., 2010-11-12) Leyton-Brown, KenKen Leyton-Brown: “The Practice of Execution in Canada”. Ken Leyton-Brown is a member of the Department of History; he teaches Legal and Ancient History. His research focuses on Canadian legal history, and emphasizes themes having to do with the role of law in society: what some have termed external legal history. His most recent work, The Practice of Execution in Canada, examines the way in which capital sentences (i.e. the death penalty) were carried out in Canada, and suggests that practice theory is useful in understanding how execution was used by the authorities as a form of communication. His current project looks at Chinese and the Law in early Saskatchewan.Item Open Access “I Love Regina!” . . . and its “Infinite Horizons”: The Art of the Small Prairie City(University of Regina. Humanities Research Institute., 2010-11-12) Ramsay, ChristineChristine Ramsay: "'I Love Regina'... and its 'Infinite Horizons': The Art of the Small Prairie City" Christine Ramsay is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies and Head of the Department of Media production and Studies. Her research is in the areas of Canadian and Saskatchewan cinemas, masculinities in contemporary visual cultures, feminist film theory, philosophies of identity, and the culture of cities. She is currently at work on two critical anthologies, Making It Like a Man! Canadian Masculinities in Practice for Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and Mind the Gap! for the Canadian Plains Research Centre.