Yearly Archives: 2022

Neil Dukas – New Book Release May 1st – Sometime in Africa

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Note this new book from one of our own members.

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NEW from Neil Bernard Dukas

the author of “A Military History of Sovereign Hawai’i” and “The Battle of Nu’uanu, 1795”

Sometime in Africa

 
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Order your copy of Sometime in Africa on AMAZON
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available in Paperback and (Kindle) eBook formats
Hardcover (US and Canada only)

 

AMAZON.COM (us) / AMAZON.CA (canada) / AMAZON.CO.UK (uk)
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Kaladar Books

120 Ward St, Unit 5226  Larkspur, CA 94977-9024 USA

www.kaladarbooks.com

Mariupol steelworks siege echoes 1942 fighting at Stalingrad tractor plant

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

Legion Magazine
Front Lines
Mariupol steelworks siege echoes 1942 fighting at Stalingrad tractor plant

Photo credit:Mariupol City Council- Reuters

Mariupol steelworks siege echoes 1942 fighting at Stalingrad tractor plant

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

A desperate band of Ukrainian fighters and more than 1,000 terrified civilians have been holed up beneath a sprawling factory complex for more than seven weeks—the last defenders of the besieged city of Mariupol.

Facing an unrelenting barrage of bunker-busting bombs from the air and missile strikes from the sea, the holdouts were surrounded by Russian troops and in dire need of food, ammunition and medical supplies.

 

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Military Milestones
The last of the Allied convoys to the Soviet Union

Photo credit: Wikimedia.org

The last of the Allied convoys to the Soviet Union

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

In the summer of 1941, Nazi Germany launched an invasion on the Soviet Union, despite a non-aggression pact signed by the two countries in 1939.

The Soviets were unprepared when some 3.5 million German troops attacked along a front stretching nearly 3,000 kilometres. The USSR turned to the Allies for help.

 

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Thursday: A Canadian teacher fights American nativism; One week to immigration conference!

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A newsletter from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In This Issue:
Program News & Events
  • 2022 Thomas G. Barnes Lecture: “‘Practically American’: What a Canadian Schoolteacher’s Fight Against California’s Anti-Alien Laws Reveals About the Boundaries of American Identity”
  • 2022 conference: “Implementing Migration Policy: Excavating the Administrative and Bureaucratic Processes Behind Migrant Admissions and Deportation”
External Events
  • Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Displacement
  • Canadian authors at the Bay Area Book Festival
PROGRAM NEWS & EVENTS
THIS THURSDAY: 2022 THOMAS GARDEN BARNES LECTURE
“Practically American”: What a Canadian Schoolteacher’s Fight Against California’s Anti-Alien Laws Reveals About the Boundaries of American Identity
Thursday, April 28 | 12:30 pm PT | 223 Moses | RSVP here
Former Hildebrand Fellow Brendan Shanahan explores the case of Katharine Short, a Canadian immigrant to California who challenged early 20th-century anti-immigrant laws. In 1915, Short found her job as a California schoolteacher at risk when the state began enforcing a law barring non-citizens from public employment. She responded with a vigorous legal, public relations, political, and diplomatic campaign to save her job and those of other non-citizen schoolteachers in the state. Shanahan will discuss what the case shows about the disparate impact of the state’s anti-alien hiring laws, comparing the experiences of favorably portrayed immigrants (like white, middle-class Canadians) vs. less favored non-citizens (such as Mexican blue-collar laborers).
Brendan Shanahan is a socio-legal historian focusing on (North) American immigration and citizenship policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from UC Berkeley, received a Hildebrand Fellowship for work in Canadian Studies, and won the 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He is currently a postdoctoral associate at the MacMillan Center and visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Yale.
NEXT WEEK
2022 Conference: Implementing Migration Policy: Excavating the Administrative and Bureaucratic Processes Behind Migrant Admissions and Deportation
May 2-3 | 1:00-5:00 pm PT | IGS Library, Moses Hall | Learn more and RSVP here
The question of how to effectively manage international migration is one of the most difficult tasks facing governments in today’s globalized world. While much attention is paid to the ways politicians and activist groups influence immigration policy, commentators have often ignored the importance of administrative actors, such as bureaucrats, tasked with implementing these decisions. Often hidden from public view, these individuals operate behind the scenes to transform formal policy into on-the-ground practices which impact migrant populations in a variety of ways.
This conference will bring together acclaimed senior and emerging scholars to evaluate different immigration policies in a global context. Participants will discuss how bureaucratic agencies and civil society organizations influence immigration policy and resettlement in developed countries in North America, Europe, and East Asia. Comparisons will be drawn between countries with relatively liberal immigration policies, such as Canada, with those that maintain more restrictive regimes. The conference will be organized into the following sessions:
May 2:
May 3:
The panel discussion portions of this event will be livestreamed. For in-person attendees, a public reception will also be held on the evening of May 2. To view the full list of speakers and RSVP, please visit our conference page.
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Displacement
Monday, April 25 | 5:00 pm PT | Zellerbach Hall | RSVP here
Canadian Studies faculty affiliate Daniel Aldana Cohen joins other faculty members in Berkeley’s new cluster in climate equity and environmental justice for a special panel of the global impacts of climate change. The World Bank estimates that by 2050, 216 million people from the developing world will be forced to leave their homes due to climate-induced disasters and social unrest caused by scarcity. This conversation, moderated by University of Toronto professor Karen Chapple, will discuss the adaptation challenges facing both the sending and receiving regions from the perspectives of sociology, city planning, geography, engineering, and urban policy.
This event will be livestreamed and recorded for later viewing; learn more here.
Canadian Authors at the Bay Area Book Festival
May 7 | Berkeley | View full schedule here
The Bay Area Book Festival is one of the world’s premier celebrations of writers, readers, and the written word. Now back in person after two years online, the festival line-up includes two exciting literary voices from Canada thanks to the generous support of the Consulate General of Canada San Francisco.
“We Read in Order to Come to Life”: Grief, Joy, and the Magic of Literary Form
2:00 pm | Buy tickets here
In this panel, Pik-Shuen Fung will discuss her acclaimed debut novel Ghost Forest, which explores the narrator’s grief for her “astronaut” father, one of many such fathers who remained in Hong Kong while the rest of the family emigrates to Canada.
What’s New in Native American Literature for Kids
2:45 pm | More information
Cree children’s author David A. Robertson (On the Trapline, The Great Bear), two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, will participate in a panel on exciting new trends in Native American literature for young people.
Canadian Studies Program
213 Moses Hall #2308
Canadian Studies Program | Univ. of California, Berkeley, 213 Moses Hall #2308, Berkeley, CA 94720

ANZAC Day in the Bay Area

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Today is ANZAC Day, and the 107 anniversary of the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign. While the Royal Newfoundland Regiment would not arrive until September, this was where the first Newfoundlanders to die in World War I rest. It is heartening to recall the words of the Turkey’s modern founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – himself a former Gallipoli commander:

“You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”

Yesterday the Australian American Chamber of Commerce and the New Zealand American Association of San Francisco once again hosted their annual ANZAC Day Service – and, unfortunately, the Royal Canadian Legion was not able to be represented this year.

ANZAC 2022

Below are some pictures courtesy of the Australian American Chamber of Commerce and SF Kiwis – New Zealand American Association San Francisco.

Below are also a couple of videos courtesy of SF Kiwis – New Zealand American Association San Francisco.

Keith Cooper reading “In Flanders Field”

Taps Bugle Call

Join Us For Our Memorial Day Service – Sunday, 29 May 2022

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Join the Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion (representing the San Francisco Bay Area) for their annual Memorial Day Service, supported by our  U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC) Arkansas Division. The service will take place at the Royal Canadian Legion plot in the Greenlawn Cemetery on 1100 El Camino Real in Colma, California. If you are unable to attend in person and wish to view the online stream, please register at:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2HCF92YRtOV1orcTmlUOg

More information can be found at https://royalcanadianlegionus25.com/memorial-day-service/