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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear colleagues –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m happy to invite you all to our next History Speaker Series, which is being given by
<b>Dr. Kristine Alexander</b> (University of Lethbridge) on <b>Tuesday, May 7<sup>th</sup> at 2pm in HH 117.
</b>Coffee and snacks will be served.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, HeForShe, and Renison University College.<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Talk details are available on our webpage, or are below for your convenience. Please share.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Pre-History of the 'Girl Effect': Girlhood, Racial Hierarchies, and International Relations in the 1920s and 1930s<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Invest in a girl and she will do the rest." This slogan is at the heart of the Nike Foundation's "Girl Effect" campaign, which insists that girls across the global south have the potential -- and the responsibility
-- to lift their families and communities out of poverty. With this twenty-first-century context in mind, I will use the global Girl Guide movement (which was established in Britain in 1909 and had attracted over a million members in 40 national and colonial
contexts by the 1930s) to better understand the longer history of how class-specific and racialized ideas about girls and girlhood have been used to further particular visions of imperial-international relations and "development."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies, Associate Professor of History, and Director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS) at the University of Lethbridge.
Her research uses interpretive techniques from across the humanities and social sciences to better understand how young people interacted with global processes and events across the twentieth century. Her book Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism
in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press 2017) was awarded the Wilson Prize and the Canadian History of Education Association Founders' Prize for Best English-Language Book. Her current projects include edited volumes about young people and war and a global history
of youth from the 1920s to the present, as well as monograph (co-authored with Dr. Kristina Llewellyn) about the Model UN movement in Canada.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ian Milligan</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
Associate Professor<br>
Department of History, Faculty of Arts<br>
University of Waterloo<br>
200 University Avenue West<br>
Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada<br>
519-888-4567, ext. 32775<br>
<a href="http://ianmilligan.ca"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://ianmilligan.ca</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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