2026 Colloquium Schedule

DAY ONE: FEBRUARY 26, 2026

15.30 – 16.00: REGISTRATION

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

Join us on the 4th floor of Paterson Hall, where participants can check-in before we kick-off the 2026 Underhill Colloquium!

16.00 – 16.10: WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs

16.10 – 17.30: SESSION ONE

Session 1 A: Research Methods and Community Connections
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Aiden Power (he/they)

• Kegan Rumig (he/him), Carleton University – “Identifying Historical Communities: Letters and Correspondence of Sir John Beverley Robinson”
• Lydia Robb (she/her), Carleton University – “Researching Early Modern Textiles in Historical Costuming Facebook Groups: What Mass Collaboration Offers”
• Kavita Mistry (she/her), Carleton University – “Modelled by Many: Community Knowledge and Creative Engagement with Digital Heritage”
• Madeline deJonge (she/her), Carleton University – “Finding Community Along The Foreshore”

Session 1 B: Shared Memory and Commemoration in Historical Practice 
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Jaime Wood (they/them)

• Emma Sharpe (she/her), University of Ottawa – “Unconventional Battlegrounds of National Memory: Hungary’s Memorial to the Victims of the German Occupation in Google Reviews”
• Katrina Hermann (she/her), University of British Columbia – “Remembering Elsewhere: Professionalization of grassroots Holocaust centres in Canada”
• Meghan Torchia (she/her), Queen’s University – “Sugar Cubes and Shock Workers: Public Dining and Social Control in Stalinist Russia”

17.30 – 18.00: BREAK & SOCIAL TIME

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

Feel free to use this time to relax, socialize, or join us for some soft programming in the atrium before we head over to Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for the keynote panel. We will walk over from Paterson around 18.00.

18.00 – 18.30: KEYNOTE PANEL WELCOME & MINGLE

Location: CUAG

Doors open for the keynote panel at 18.00. We will be serving light refreshments and encourage you to browse the gallery’s current exhibitions, Material Journeys, and kahyónha_kárha_atenoseràke_karònyake streamforestlawnsky, prior to the panel starting at 18.30.

18.30 – 20.00: KEYNOTE PANEL

Location: CUAG / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs

Rebecca Dolgoy (she/her) and Alexa Lepera (she/her) will be speaking on their work with community-oriented exhibitions at Ingenium. Specifically, they will be discussing their recent exhibition ‘Memories Are Made in the Kitchen,’ now open at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. The conversation with be facilitated by our co-chairs and a short audience Q & A will follow.

DAY TWO: FEBRUARY 27, 2026

9.00 – 9.20: COFFEE & CHECK-IN

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

Join us on the 4th floor of Paterson Hall to grab some coffee before we begin day two.

For those arriving on day two, please check-in to pick up your name tag and programme. 

9.20 – 9.30: WELCOME

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs

9.30 – 10.50: SESSION ONE

Session 1 A: Indigeneity, Settler-Colonialism and the Making of Communities
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Charlotte Johnston (she/her)

• Marissa Little (she/her), Queen’s University – “The Enduring Legacy of Uepishtikueiau: Exploring the Innu Nation’s Multifaceted Use of Transatlantic Diplomacy in Seventeenth Century New France”
• Samuel Mickelson (he/him), Carleton University – “‘The utilitarian spirit of the age has altered the smiling face of nature no more than at the Chaudière’: The production of Ottawa as capital city in boosterist writing about Akikodjiwan/the Chaudière Falls”
• Magnus Glennie (he/him), Carleton University – “Re-Earthing The Past: De-colonizing Landscape Remediation on Hart’s Point”
• Charlotte Thomson (she/her), Carleton University – “Mapping gender and mobility in New France religious communities”

Session 1 B: Gendered History and Social Memory
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Lauren Stoyles (she/her)

• Ally Robidoux (they/them), Carleton University – “(Un)seen and Unpaid: The Pauper Nurses of Victorian Workhouse Infirmaries”
• Patricia Park (she/her), Western University – “The Radicalization of Girls”
• Simran Kalsi (she/her), Carleton University – “Constructing Crises, Conspiracies, and Ignorance: A Gendered and Epistemic Analysis of the ‘International Jewish Conspiracy for World Domination’ in 20^th Century America”

10.50 – 11.00: BREAK

11.00 – 12.00: SESSION TWO

Session 2 A: Defining the Borders of Community in North America
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: TBD

• Rebecca Hartley (she/her), University of Toronto- “‘To Make Herself Conversant with Imperial and Canadian History’: Community Commemorations and the Women’s Canadian Club of Toronto, 1908-1939”
• Emma Bock (she/her), McGill University – “‘Elles aiment cependant la dans [sic] jusqu’à l’excès‘: Gendered Performances of Community in Colonial St. Louis”
• Kaitlyn Carter (she/her), Queen’s University – “Regulating Regiments: Establishing Masculine Emotional Community in the British Army during the War of 1812”

Session 2 B: Networks of Action: Community, Policy, and Activism
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Kate Moulden (she/her)

• Emma Schlitt (she/her), Carleton University – “Writing Mental Health Governance as History: Community, Policy, and Power in Nepal”
• Alex Throndson (he/him), University of Alberta – “‘A Strong and Independent Voice’: Maintaining the Indian Association of Alberta in the Changing 1960s”
• Aidan Power (he/they), Carleton University – “Accessing the Archive: Visualizing Historical Protests On Parliament Hill”

12.00 – 12.50: LUNCH

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

Lunch will be served in the atrium during this time. If you are joining for the keynote luncheon, please make your way to the lecture hall around 12.50.

12.50 – 14.00: KEYNOTE LUNCHEON

Location: 3rd Floor, Paterson Hall (PA303) / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs

Starting at 13.00 sharp, Professor Alex Nahwegahbow (she/her) will be speaking at on her methodology and practice of care and relationality with Indigenous art, histories, and material culture, followed by a short audience Q & A.

14.00 – 14.15: BREAK

14.15 – 15.15: WORKSHOPS

Workshop A: “Strike a Match: A Queer Matchbook Making Workshop”
Location: Room 433, Lounge

• Marienza Miserere (she/her), McMaster University

Workshop B: “Horrible History Classes and Dressing up as Cowboys: Childhood Encounters with the Field we all Love”
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room

• Claire Blackmer (she/her), Carleton University

15.15 – 15.25: BREAK

15.25 – 16.25: SESSION THREE

Session 3 A: Capital, Culture, and Community Across Borders
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Sadie Cann (she/her)

• Nicholas Langer (he/him), Carleton University – “Defining a Modern Commonwealth: The Role of Canada and Queen Elizabeth II in the 1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting”
• Eugene Henry (he/him), Carleton University – “Imagined Confréries: New York Wine Communities and the Co-constitution of Burgundian Place”
• Aasiyah Khan (she/her), Carleton University – “Double Diaspora: Identity, Isolation, and Islam”

Session 3 B: Practicing Place: Design, Governance, and Power
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Rebecca Friend (she/her)

• Candide Mawoko (she/her), University of Ottawa – “Producing Community Through Authority: The Chef de Quartier and Neighbourhood life in Kinshasa (1970-1992)”
• Briana Kroeker (she/her), Carleton University – “Fostering a Sense of Belonging: Using Critical Placemaking to Inform Housing Policy”
• Aymen Aiblu (he/him), Carleton University – “Rooftops and Alleyways: Constructing Community in the Saharan Built Environment”

16.25 – 16.45: SNACK BREAK

16.45 – 17.50: SESSION FOUR

Session 3 A: Queer Histories of Practice and Connection
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Emma Awe (they/them)

• Amber Collins (she/her), Carleton University – “‘Dykes in the Streets’: Canadian Roots of the Dyke March and Lesbian Visibility”
• Gabryelle Iaconetti (she/they), Concordia University – “Community in Conversation: Canadian Bisexual Zines in the Early Twenty-First Century”

17.50 – 18.00: CLOSING REMARKS

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs

We will be wrapping up another year of Underhill with some brief remarks. Afterwards, people are free to head out or join us in heading over to the Mike’s Place for snacks and socializing!

18:00: MIKE’S PLACE

DAY THREE: FEBRUARY 28, 2026

TIME TBD: BONUS SOCIAL

Exhibition Tour of Memories are made in the kitchen at Food & Agriculture Museum
Location: Canada Agriculture & Food Museum / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs & Ingenium Staff