An Interdisciplinary Symposium in History, March 5-7, History Department, Paterson Hall.
The Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is one of the longest running history graduate conferences in Canada. Since 1995, graduate students in the History Department at Carleton University have organized this annual colloquium in which master’s and doctoral students from all disciplines were invited to present papers on any history-related topic.
This year’s theme, “PASTS ECHOING PRESENTS: HISTORIANS AS PERFORMATIVE COLLABORATORS,” highlighted the historian’s multiple performed roles, and specifically our roles as collaborators – with our sources, with the past, and with the present. The conference aspired to promote self-reflexive dialogues about how histories can be and are performed, and how they are collaborative in nature, informed by a myriad of personalities and contexts, both past and present.