Members of the History Department are keeping busy this summer with their involvement in a number of major conferences. See below for a list of graduate students and faculty representing the department at the 16th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, the Canadian Historical Association Annual meeting, and many others.
Graduate Student Attendance
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women 2014, Toronto, ON, May 22-25, 2014
Sarah Hogenbirk, “Looking Back, Planning Ahead: Canadian Women’s Services, 1946” (poster), May 22-25, 2014.
Beth Robertson, “Anatomy of Another Plane: Mystifying Sex in North American Psychical Research, 1925-1935,” May 22, 2014.
Learn more about the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.
Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Catharines, ON, May 26-28, 2014
Madelaine Morrison, “The Sounds of Silences: Approaching the Study of Canada’s Musical History,” May 27, 2014.
David Banoub, “The 1891-92 Royal Commission and the Imagined Civil Servant,” May 28, 2014.
Nicole Marion, “’For the Children’s Sake’: Canadian Cold War Anti-Nuclear Activists and the Discourse of Parenthood,” May 28, 2014.
Dorothy Smith, “Technology, Needs, Behaviour, Attitudes: Making Connections,” May 28, 2014.
Sara Spike, “Lighthouses and the Politics of Vision Along the Late Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotian Coast,” May 28, 2014.
Will Tait, “Rebuilding a Mission: the Canadian United Church in South Korea 1946 – 1958,” May 28, 2014.
Emmanuel Hogg, attending as the Managing Editor of Histoire sociale/Social History and Managing Director of JCHA.
Learn more about the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting.
Other Conferences
Ian Wereley, attended “New Perspectives In Environmental History” at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 12, 2014.
Kathryn Boschmann, “Places of Play: Childhood Memories in Ottawa in the Post-War Period,” Fort Garry Lectures: Graduate History Conference at the University of Manitoba, May 1-3, 2014.
Sara Spike, “‘sights worth looking at’: Skilled Visions at Late Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotian Agricultural Exhibitions,” at the 20th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, May 1-3, 2014.
Naomi Alisa Calnitsky, “Rereading Inter-Colonial Trade and Slavery in the 18th Century French Atlantic: A Spatio-Economic Approach” at the Historical Materialism Conference, “Confronting Crisis: Left Praxis in the Face of Austerity, War and Revolution,” York University, Toronto, May 8-11, 2014.
Sarah Hogenbirk, “’Snaps and Scraps:’ Pasting Together Canadian Women’s Military Service, 1940-1950,” at the 25th Military History Colloquium, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 9-10, 2014.
Naomi Alisa Calnitsky, “A Re-Assessment of the Successes and Failures of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada with Attention to the Perspective of Mexican Migrants” at the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Congress, “Environments, Societies, Imaginaries: The Americas in Motion,” in Quebec City, May 16-18, 2014.
Faculty Attendance
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women 2014, Toronto, ON, May 22-25, 2014
Susanne Maria Klausen, “For the Sake of the White Nation: The State’s Racialized Response to Clandestine Abortion in Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1990,” May 23, 2014.
Barbara Freeman (Journalism), “Skirting the Edges of ‘Hard News’: Women Newspaper Journalists and the Impact of Feminism in Their Workplace, 1960s-1970s,” May 24, 2014.
Andrew M. Johnston, “The Theory and Practice of Gender in International History: What Transnational Feminists Have Taught Me,” May 25, 2014.
Annette de Stecher (School of Arts and Culture), “Contemporary Vision, Traditional practices: Continuity, Change, and Resistance in Wendat Arts,” May 25, 2014.
Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Catharines, ON, May 26-28, 2014
Erica Fraser, Panel on “Sochi and Beyond: Russia’s Anti-Gay Legislation, Human Rights and the Practice of History,” May 25, 2014.
Dominique Marshall, “Local and Global Humanitarianism: The History of Oxfam in Newfoundland, 1965-2013,” May 26, 2014.
Daniel Macfarlane (Canadian Studies), “Compromised rivers: Envirotechnical Nationalisms in the St. Lawrence and Niagara Megaprojects,” May 27, 2014.
Joanna Dean, “Considering (other) Animals as Historical Subjects,” May 27, 2014.