We are happy to share our full Underhill 2025 schedule for Friday, February 28th!

This year we are excited to announce this Colloquium will include a mix of panel presentations, roundtable discussions, workshops, and an Undergraduate Poster Session. Please note this schedule is subject to changes. Check back here for the most up-to-date version! Full program available: Underhill 2025 Full Program

9:30 AM – 9:50 AM: CHECK-IN AND COFFEE

Location: 4th Floor, Paterson Hall, History Department Atrium


9:50 AM – 10:00 AM: OPENING REMARKS

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Address by Underhill Planning Committee


10:00 AM – 11:15 AM: SESSION 1

Roundtable 1: The Difficulty of Doing History: Reflections on the Challenges of the Historian’s Craft
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Rebecca Friend

  • Declan Da Barp (he/him), Carleton University
  • Patricia Roussel (she/her), Carleton University
  • Alan Jones (he/him), Carleton University
  • Lauren Stoyles (she/her), Carleton University

Panel 1: Activist Histories, Historians as Activist
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Noë Bourdeau

  • Avishi Gupta (she/her), McGill University: Mobilizing ‘with’ Women: A Study of Consciousness-Raising and Formation of Feminist Protest Spaces in Post-Emergency India (1978-2005)
  • Romy Shoam (she/her), Carleton University: Narrating Naches (1973-1986): Historicizing a Montreal Jewish Gay Group
  • Breanna Kubat (she/her), Carleton University: Methodologies of Agency: The Role of Legitimacy in Knowledge Production and Public Discourse
  • Candide Mawoko (she/her), University of Ottawa: Exploring Neighborhoods, Identity, and Political Agency in Kinshasa: A Methodological Approach

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: BREAK 


11:30 AM – 12:45 PM: SESSION 2

Roundtable 2: The Importance of Doing Visual History
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Amie Wright

  • Elena Senecal (she/her), University of Victoria
  • Emma Awe (she/they), Carleton University
  • Jihad Baayoun (he/him), Carleton University
  • Sierra Hill (she/her), Carleton University

Panel 2: Contemporary Experiences: Creating Historical Knowledge in the Public Sphere
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Beth McNeill

  • Geneva Gillis (she/her), McMaster University: The Community Building Power of Small Ontario Museums
  • Fionnuala Braun (she/her), Carleton University: Towards an Archive for the Future: Recording Living Histories of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan
  • Meghan Jennings (she/her/elle), Carleton University: Linguistic Intangible Heritage in GLAMs: A Path Toward Decolonization and Accessibility
  • Aidan Power (they/him), Carleton University: Mapping the Collection: Visualizing the Ottawa Field Naturalists’ Club’s Contributions to the Museum of Nature

12:45 PM – 1:15 PM: LUNCH


1:15 PM – 2:00 PM: LUNCHEON KEYNOTE 

Location: Room 433, Lounge

Dr. Marc Saurette, Associate Professor, Carleton University: Meandering into the Ludic Century: Historians and the challenge of games

For Dr. Marc Saurette’s bio, see our Keynote Announcement


2:00 PM – 3:15 PM: SESSION 3

Panel 3: Methods and Methodology: Windows to the Past
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Olivia Lester

  • Rachel McNally (she/her), Carleton University: In Between History and Political Science: The Historical Development of Policies on the Resettlement of Refugees with Disabilities (1951 to present)
  • Bryanna Busby (she/her), Carleton University: Birks At 145: The Intersection Between Business and History
  • Eugene Henry (he/him), Carleton University: Prime Sites: Perceptions of Soil and Geological Determinism in Late 20th Century Viticulture
  • Kristijan Tosheski (he/him), Queen’s University: Changing Heritage Landscapes in Skopje: The Evidence of Declassified Remote Sensing

Panel 4: Historians and Histories: Exploring the Agency of Historical Actors
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Dani Reimer

  • Sophia Cohen Galvao (she/her), McMaster University: Antinous, the Victorian: J.A. Symonds and the Creation of a Queer Icon
  • Kieran Martin (he/him), Nipissing University: Constructing the Life of a Minor Perpetrator: Biographical Method and the Case of Oskar Gröning
  • Victoria Salomon (she/her), Carleton University: Espionage in the Aegean: The Carabinieri in the Dodecanese
  • Olivia Young (she/her), Carleton University: Transing the Asylum: Madness, Nonnormativity, and Space

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM: UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION AND COFFEE

Location: History Department Atrium

Ally Krueger- Kischak (any/all)
Athena Mosely (she/they)
Brett Bertelsen (she/her)
Gracie Henneberry (she/her)
Heather Thompson (she/her)
James Goodyear (he/they)
Lucien Oliver Hanley (he/they)


4:15 PM – 5:00 PM: SESSION 4

Workshop 1: It’s All Made Up Anyway: Considering Historical Research Through Creative Writing

Facilitator: Charlotte Johnston (she/her), Carleton University

Location: Room 436, Seminar Room

Materials to bring: pen, paper, laptop (optional) 

Workshop 2: History-ing While Black: A Workshop on Historical Practice As Blackness 

Facilitators: Dr. Alicia Edwards (she/her) and Asantewa Nkuah (she/her), Carleton University

Location: Room 433, Lounge

Materials to bring: pen, paper, laptop (optional)


5:00 PM – 5:15 PM: CLOSING REMARKS 

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Address by Underhill Planning Committee