Five of our first-year MA students gave papers at “From Colony to Nation Revisited,” the 14th Annual McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference in History, held at Queen’s University on March 3-4, 2017.
- Jessie Gamarra, spoke on “Building Schools for Tomorrow’s Citizens: How Educators and Architects Developed School Design in Ontario from 1867-1967”;
- Diana Hiebert presented “A Complicated Craft: Fan Bird Carving in Migratory Mennonite Communities”;
- Leah Iselmoe discussed “Reading the Crests: Decolonizing Collection Documents of Indigenous Objects within Cultural Institutions”;
- Nicola Krantz gave a paper entitled “Land Loss and Reconciliation in Alex Janvier’s Canadian Modernism”; and
- Marie-Maxime de Andrade addressed the topic “I’m dreaming of Montreal’s White Christmas for all its Children: Montreal Victorian Christmas Imagery and the Normativity of White Childhood”.
Congratulations on a job well done!
