March 14 and 15, 1997
Friday, March 17, 1997
15:00 Opening Remarks
Victoria Dickinson, Aviation Museum of Canada
Dr. G.F. Goodwin, Department of History, Carleton
15:45-16:45 Session 1
Chair: Jake Selwood
1.1 John Nisset, History, “Locating the Individual in Cultural History”
1.2 Jim Opp History, “The language of Lazarus, or the Reappearance of the Disappearing Body”
17:00 Keynote Address
Brian Young, Department of History, McGill University
“Missed Connections’: History and Museums of History- A Montreal Example”
Saturday March 15, 1997
10:00-11:15 Session 2
Chair: Chris Patrusic
2.1 Vicky Arnold, History, “Between the Personal and the Political: Vera Figner’s Feminist and Revolutionary Activities”
2.2. Elizabeth Jonkel, History, “For She to Nature Trusts Her Cause’: The Contribution of Helen Maria Williams to the Burkeian Political Debates of 1790”
11:30-12:30 Session 3
Chair: Corrina Clement
3.1. Nancy Janovicek, Canadian Studies, “Politicizing the Personal: Contemporary Feminist Organizing Around Our Personal Lives”
3.2. Lori Waserman, Canadian Studies, “Breast Cancer Activism and the Women’s Health Movement in Canada, 1970 to the Present”
13:00-14:00 Session 4
Chair: Chris Bartman
4.1 Cathy Harley, History, “Seeds of Discontent: An Examination of Anti-British Sentiment in the American Colonies”
4.2. Judith Rygiel, History, “The Influence of New England on the Cotton Industry in New Brunswick, 1880-1884”
14:00-15:00 Session 5
Chair: Susan Villeneuve
5.1. Anthony Galveas, History, “The Empty Chair Denied: Canada’s Attempt to Join the Pan American Union, 1941-1942”
5.2. Chris Gagne, History, “Between Stability and Containment: Canada the ICC and American Aid to South Vietnam 1955,60”
15:15-16:15 Session 6
Chair: Claire Booth
6.1. Robert Opp, NPSIA, “The Development of the Discourse of Development”
6.2. Logan Atkinson, Law, “Exploring the Relationship Between Law and Literature Through Daniel Defoe’s A Jounal of the Plague Year and Due Preparations for the Plague”
16:30-17:30 Panel Discussion ‘Theory and History’
Dr. Alan Hunt, Department of Sociology & Law, Carleton
Dr. Robert Goheen, Department of History, Carleton
Commentator: Brian Young, Department of History, McGill