March 6th and 7th, 2008
Thursday Schedule
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| 8:15 – 8:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| Defining Canadian-ness SESSION CHAIR: Andrew Denstedt |
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| Cartography and Citizenship: Reading Ontario Public School Maps of the Northwest Rebellion Peter Anderson (Carleton) |
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| 8:30- 10:05 Session A (Concurrent) |
“Making the Canadian Team”: Hockey, Memory and Canadian Identity Tom Rorke (Carleton) |
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| “Our Friends, the Russians”: The Canadian Media’s Treatment of the Soviet Union 1941-1945 Christopher Miller (Carleton) |
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| Changing Ideas in Medieval and Early Modern Europe SESSION CHAIR: Julie Columbus |
Religious Roots SESSION CHAIR: Susan Joudey |
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| Vagando or suam voluntatem adimplere: ninth century differences in the depiction of itinerate monks Corinna Prior (Carleton) |
Place and Power in Radical Baptism Henry Suderman (Alberta) |
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| 10:25 – 12:00 Session B | Miserere Mei, Deus: Savonarola, Reform and the World of the Renaissance Joseph Imre (Bristol) |
“A Natural Consequence”: The re-construction of Mi’kmaq womanhood in 17th century Acadia Michael Gagné (Carleton) |
| The Noose and the Ax: Capital Punishment in Early Modern Italy Brad Meredith (Dalhousie) |
Self-fulfilling Self-organized Self-catechesis: Exploring the Foundations of a Youth-led Movement Sebastien Despres (Memorial) |
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| 12:10 — 1:20 | Luncheon Address (History Lounge): “Representing the Pre-Christian Past in the Twelfth-Century Chronicle” Dr. Marc Saurette, Carleton University, |
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| Reading Between the Lines: History in Text SESSION CHAIR: Dave Banoub |
Walking Softly: Diplomacy in Practice and Theory SESSION CHAIR: Melissa Horne |
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| The Impact of Plague Literature on Charitable Giving in Early Modern England Amanda McQuarrie (Dalhousie) |
Retracing Canada’s Sovereigntist Snowshoe Tracks in the Arctic: The Manhattan Voyage of 1969 Colin Grittner (Carleton) |
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| 1:30 – 3:10 Session C |
Underground Drinking: Finding Traces of Female Alcoholics in Histories of Victorian Britain Julia Skelly (Queen’s) |
Fighting the Cold War on the Cheap: Senator Robert A. Taft and the Policy of Liberation Matt Trudgeon (Queen’s) |
| Britain and its Far Eastern Defence System: The Importance of the Dutch East Indies, 1931 – 1941 Coen van Haastert (Queen’s) |
The Poverty of Theory in Foreign Relations History: Post-National Visions for a Post-Modern World Brian Foster (Carleton) |
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| Bitter Divisions: Newfoundland Newspapers and their coverage of the IWA Loggers’ Strike, 1959 Courtney Lundrigan (Memorial) |
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| What is the Norm? Revolution, Resistance and Propaganda SESSION CHAIR: Rachel Grier |
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| Vera Figner: Redefining the Role of Women in Russian Revolutionary Terrorism 1861 – 1881 Dinah Jansen (Carleton) |
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| 3:30 – 5:00 Session D |
The Facts about Feminine Hygiene: Marketing Lysol to Women in North America during the Interwar Years Kristin Hall (Laurentian) |
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| “If we lose the post office we will lose everything”: Representing Contentious Politics in the Rural Resistance to Canada Post Restructuring in the 1980s Lorna Chisholm and David Tough (Carleton) |
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Friday Schedule
| Time | Topic | |
| 8:30- 10:05
Session E (Concurrent) |
Constructing the Genders SESSION CHAIR: Kate Talarico |
Legal Implications SESSION CHAIR: David Tough |
| “Are You Men” as “Sentimental Twaddle”: Manhood Class, and Professional Football in Britain at the Outbreak of War, 1914. Raph Costa (McMaster) |
Land Speculation in upper Canada Glen Walker (McGill) |
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| Circulating a Culture of Fear: Cold War Propaganda in Redbook, Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping, 1950-1955 Erica Lyons (Windsor) |
Canadian Military Law as a Subject of Historical Study Marc-Andre Hemond (Manitoba) |
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| Defining Canadian State and Political Trials Yana Gorokhovskaia (Carleton) |
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| 10:25 – 12:00 Session F
(concurrent) |
Environmental Impact SESSION CHAIR: Liam Kennedy |
Global Variations on a Political Theme SESSION CHAIR: Tom Rorke |
| Environmental Factors Shaping the Slave Trade Through Libya in the Nineteenth Century Michael Ferguson (McGill) |
The Harmony of Interests and the Producer Ideology: The Peculiar Politics of Isaac Buchanan Doug Nesbitt (Trent) |
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| “Once there was a camper”: Mary S Edgar, Summer Camp and the Gendering of Nature Jess Dunkin (Carleton) |
The Forgotten Holocaust: World War II Atrocities and Japanese/Chinese Relations Andrew Crosby (Carleton) |
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| Goldbugs of the North: gold Boosterism in Depression Era Ontario Natalie Napier (Carleton) |
“Design for Victory”: The Southern California School of Anticommunism and Cold War American Grassroots Conservatism Hubert Villeneuve (McGill) |
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| 12:10 — 1:20 | Lunch | |
| 1:05 – 2:40 Session G 433 Paterson Hall only |
(Un)Healthy Bodies SESSION CHAIR: Jenna Smith |
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| Society Insists on an Upright Position’: The Lady-Cyclist, Bodies and Performances in Public Spaces in Ontario, 1890-1910 Laura Jackman (Carleton) |
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| No Soup for You: Immigration and the Early Days of Health Care in New Brunswick, 1847 Krista Montelpare (Windsor) |
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| Building the House of Health: Children’s Bodies and Ideal Health in Inter-War Canada Valerie Minnett (Carleton) |
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| 3:30 – 4:45 Session H 433 Paterson Hall only |
Spaces of Representation SESSION CHAIR: Emily Lonie |
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| “Globalizing Heritage: William Lyon Mackenzie House and Toronto’s Cultural Renaissance Andrea Terry (Queen’s) |
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| Paris 1931: Museum and Counter-Museum of the Colonies Alexander Comber (Carleton) |
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| Protest at the Vancouver Art Gallery: A History of Vancouver’s (un)official Civic square Lisa Kilner (Carleton) |
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| 5:00 – 5:15 | Closing Remarks | |
| 6:00 Humanities Theatre PA 303 |
Keynote address (Humanities Theatre PA 303) | |
| Introduction by Dr. Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture, School for Studies in Art and Culture – Art History and Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. |
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| “Winners’ History: Exhibiting the Group of Seven.” Dr. Lynda Jessup, Queen’s University |
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