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CFP: The Past’s Digital Presence

Yazan: Candace | 14 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, CFPs, Conferences

The Call for Papers is live for this graduate student conference at Yale to be held in February 2010. I have a couple of ideas for projects that would be suitable just not sure how far along I’ll be by the time the CFP is due (Sept 10, 2009). Here are the details from the […]

Local strawberries

Yazan: Candace | 14 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Food

I’ve been filling up on beautiful, juicy, bright red strawberries. Local even. This is a great time of year in this part of the country.

Grilled Tofu

Yazan: Candace | 02 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Food

On nights when it’s too hot to light the oven a great favourite here is grilled tofu. I have a small countertop grill that’s just right for a single brick, marinated in tamari, hot sauce, garlic powder, and water. Grill each side for 10 minutes, basting every few minutes with more of the marinade — […]

A Midwife’s Case

Yazan: Candace | 28 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Birth, History, Women

On Pickwick Avenue, in Leamington, Ontario there is a Heritage Centre on the second floor of the Mennonite Home. When I was there last month I received a tour from Astrid Koop and one of the treasures she showed me was the midwife case of Mrs. Sara Matthies (nee Retzlaff). According to the record, Sara […]

Birth Stories

Yazan: Candace | 25 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Birth, Book, History, Oral HIstory

I was thrilled to find In Her Own Voice: Childbirth Stories from Mennonite Women on the shelf at the university library last week. These narratives were collected in 1988 by Katherine Martens and Heidi Harms in Manitoba through a government initiative to collect oral history interviews. The women interviewed represent three separate waves of Mennonite […]

Mennonite Midwives

Yazan: Candace | 19 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Birth, History, Mennonite, Midwives

More from Marlene Epp. This time it’s “Midwife-Healers in Canadian Mennonite Immigrant Communities: ‘women who made things right.’” Histoire Sociale/Social History 40 (November 2007): 323-344. This one has a tiny mention of Pelee Island on page 326.

Sisters or Strangers?

Yazan: Candace | 15 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Book, History

Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History edited by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and Frances Swyripa. I picked this up for Epp’s article “The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women” but want to read the rest.

Local asparagus

Yazan: Candace | 15 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Food, Pelee Island

Last weekend I was out in Harrow (coming back from not catching the boat to Pelee Spring Song). After a morning playing with my nieces I picked up some “thin” asparagus – the barn had a small assembly line with workers grading and separating the freshly picked stalks. Today I’m marinating it in oil, balsamic […]

Downloading online videos

Yazan: Candace | 14 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Flash, Organizing, Web Applications, Windows, Yahoo

Twice this week I’ve answered questions about capturing online videos for research purposes. Scholars who are doing research based on clips of historical commercials are worried that their source materials may become unavailable and that their research will be more difficult to complete or share if this happens. This is the step-by-step how-to that will […]

Facebook Tip

Yazan: Candace | 11 December 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Web Applications

Are you suffering Facebook Frustration because no one comments on your status updates? Just like blogging, a good way to attract visitors to your site is to interact with the community by commenting on other people’s sites. The more you comment elsewhere the more chance others will see your name and stop by to visit […]

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