We are happy to share our full Underhill 2024 Schedule for Friday, March 22nd!

Please note this schedule is subject to changes. Check back here for the most up-to-date version! Click here to view the full program.

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM Attendee Check-in

Paterson Hall, Room 303

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM Opening Remarks and Keynote

Paterson Hall, Room 303

Opening Remarks

Underhill 2024 Planning Committee

Opening Keynote

Audra A. Diptée, Associate Professor, Carleton University, The future of history: Reflections from a Caribbean historian

For Audra’s bio, see our Keynote Announcement

9:50 AM – 10:20 AM Meet and Greet

Paterson Hall, 4th Floor

Meet and greet and refreshments in the History Department foyer

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM Panel 1: Narratives of Public Space

Paterson Hall, Room 436 (Seminar Room) / Moderator: Amie Wright

  • James E. Rubino (Virtual), University of Guelph, Picturesque Mountains in the Common Eye: A Close Reading of William Bathurst’s Two Scottish Tours 1826 and 1857 Manuscript
  • Meaghan Bulger (Virtual), Dalhousie University, “Reimagining Architecture and Memorial Aesthetics in Ypres”: Selective Restoration in Inter-War Flanders
  • Kat MacDonald, Queen’s University, Spectres of the Limestone City: Tourist Narratives at Sites of Pain in Kingston, Ontario
10:20 AM – 11:20 AM Panel 2: Dimensions of Public Discourse

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: Noë Bourdeau

  • Cristina Paolozzi, Carleton University, A Space for Revolution: Coffee and coffeehouses in eighteenth-century France
  • Nicholas Morrison, Carleton University, Echoes from the Polygon: Expanding the Dimensions of Late Soviet Environmentalism in Kazakhstan, 1965-1989
  • Larissa Farias, Paraiba State University, The “Mimeograph Generation” in Brazil: Dictatorship and Resistance through Poetry
BREAK: 11:20 AM – 11:35 AM
11:35 AM – 12:50 PM Panel 3: Reevaluating Historical Narratives

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: Kavita Mistry

  • Olivia Lester, Carleton University, Gender and Hockey During the Summit Series Era
  • Reilly Ikebuchi (Virtual), University of British Columbia, Anatomy of a Riot: Comparative Perspectives of the 1832 Paisley Cholera Riot
  • Michael Carrier, Carleton University, The Iliad: The Narrative That Launched a Thousand Dimensions
  • Zac Code, University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg, The Conveniently Forgotten: Historiography of German-Canadian Internment During the Second World War
LUNCH BREAK: 12:50 PM – 1:30 PM

Catering in the History Department foyer

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Panel 4: Situating Canadian Historical Narratives

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: Dr. Laura Madokoro

  • Julia Stanski, University of Alberta, “A Woman Like Me:” Knowledge, Narrative, and the Louis Bull Surrender
  • Samuel Mickelson, Carleton University, Complicating the Settler Colonial Turn? On Thinking Critically about Ottawa Valley History
  • Steve Schwinghamer (Virtual), Carleton University, Heterosexist Exclusion in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1953-1978
  • Katie Carson, Carleton University, “A Sick Civilization” – Aimé Césaire’s “Boomerang Effect” in the 1970 October Crisis
BREAK: 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Panel 5: Navigating Memory and Identity

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: Rebecca Friend

  • Alan Jones, Carleton University, Old Memories in a New Home: Antisemitism, Restitution, and Memory Politics in Aufbau
  • Dmitry Prokoptsov, Carleton University, The Fall of an Empire, and the Ever-Evolving Memory: The Memory of the Gulag from Estonia’s and Kazakhstan’s Museums
  • Rebecca Hartley, Queen’s University, Remembrances of Things Past: Nostalgia and Memory in ‘Old Town’ at the Royal British Columbia Museum
BREAK: 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Closing Keynote and Remarks 

Paterson Hall, Room 303

Closing Keynote

Charlie Foran, CM, Making the Truth Up: How biography and biographers negotiate history-misremembered, facts garbled, and stories-too-often-told

Closing Remarks 

2024 Underhill Planning Committee 

For Charles’s bio, see our Keynote Announcement

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The Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is made possible by the generous contribution of the Frank H. Underhill fund.

We wish to acknowledge that this Colloquium (and Carleton itself) takes place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabek/ Omàmiwininiwag. While the conference is virtual, their presence here since time immemorial must be acknowledged.