Highlighting New Interdisciplinary Research
This Graduate Student Conference will run concurrently to the main conference and is open to the public with no registration fee.
Panel 1: Negotiating Memory, Marginalization and the Public Sphere
9:00-10:30am
- Elizabeth Ennis Dawson, Religion and Public Life, Carleton University, Jews in the Margins of Canada and the United States?
- Lauren Montgomery, Political Science, Carleton University, The Impact of Democratization on the Jewish Diaspora in Russia: Jewish Identity and the Institutionalization of Racism, Xenophobia, and Ethnicity
- Tahmina Tariq, History and Philosophy of Religion, Concordia University, The Grande Mosquée de Paris’ Résistance Against Nazism: Local and Global Dimensions to the Silence Behind the Story
Panel 2: Constructing the Past: Strategies for Contemporary Memory Making Processes
1:30-4:00pm
- Meghan Lundrigan, Public History, Carleton University, Broadcast Your Hate: Navigating YouTube and Twenty-first Century Memory-Making Processes
- Erica Fagen, History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Scrolling through Memory: Talking about the Holocaust in the Age of Social Media
- Melanie Guertin, Religion and Public Life, Carleton University, The Importance of Orality in Preserving Holocaust Memory
- Lesley Simpson, Jewish Studies, York University, The Soundscape of Silence, Music and Sound: Narrative Strategy in Ida Fink
- Jason Chalmers, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada’s National Holocaust Monument and the Canadianisation of Holocaust Memory