Face to face with history schedule and panels

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8:30 - 9:00 am Welcome and Opening

Welcome

Dr. Jane Nicholas

Opening

Dr. Blaine Chiasson

Kess Carpenter and Carolyne Ticky

Tri-U History Essay Prize Winners Announced

Dr. Jane Nicholas

9:00 - 10:30 am: Session one panels

Panel 1: The Artemisia Project: Exploring the Historical Foundations of Rape Culture in Early Modern Europe

Chair

Dr. Jane Nicholas

Presenters and titles

  • Devon Sherwood, The Space Between Medieval and Modern: Early Modern Developments in Western European Concepts of Rape.
  • Jennifer Baker, Uncovering Sexual Violence in Marriage: The Legality of Marital Rape in Seventeenth Century England.
  • Rebecca MacAlpine, Teaching History of Sexual Violence through Trauma Informed and Feminist Pedagogies.

Panel 2: War and Society in a Global World

Chair

Dr. Blaine Chiasson

Presenters and titles

  • Jihad Baayoun, The Khan Strikes Back: New Findings on Khubilai’s Disastrous Expedition Against Japan, 1274-1281.
  • Megan Hamilton, Liberal Intentions and a Colonial Mindset: The Imperial War Graves Commission in East Africa.
  • Emily Oakes, Elora’s Soldiers.

10:45 am - 12:15 pm: Session two panels

Panel 3: Sisters or Strangers? New Perspectives on Women's History

Chair

Dr. Catherine Carstairs

Presenters and titles

  • Victoria Cosby, Examining and Understanding the Emotional Bond of Sisterhood: The Dobbs Sisters from Upper Canada to India.
  • Catherine Ramey, Canadian Missionary Education in the Central Angolan Plateau: The Mission of Creating "A new womanhood."
  • Megan Blair, "Babies needn’t follow”: Birth Control, Abortion, and Activism at Ontario Universities, 1965-1974.

Panel 4: High Roads, Low Roads: Scottish History Revisited

Chair

Dr. Peter Goddard

Presenters and titles

  • Catherine Bredin, Encountering "the Other": Constructions of the Highlander in Two Travel Journals.
  • Kyle Chapman, Defining the Nation: Landscape Art and the Highland Myth.
  • Dylan Parry-Lai, The Global Scot in the Antipodes: John Douglas and the Forging of Global Scottish Identities and Networks.

12:15 - 12:45 pm: Break

12:45 - 2:15 pm: Session three: Keynote

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Power Relations in Polish Villages during the German Occupation and the Holocaust

Dr. Lukasz Krzyzanowski

Introduction

Dr. David Smith

Moderator

Steph Plante

2:30 - 4:00 pm: Session four panels

Panel 5: Choosing Violence in the US, Canada, and Britain

Chair

Dr. Dana Elizabeth Weiner

Presenters and titles

  • Jared Warren, Why We Fight: Ontario High School Students and the First World War.
  • Adam Palmquist, Violence is as American as Cherry Pie.
  • Sarah Campbell, "Everything We Do Can Come To Pass Through Our [British] Union": An analysis of the Success of the British Union of Fascists as a Social Movement.

Panel 6: How to Represent the Past?

Chair

Dr. Kate Bruce-Lockhart

Presenters and titles

  • Alisha Rao, Hybridized Encounters and the Mughal Empire: How India became an "Untidy State."
  • Brandon Dickson, Global Governance of History in the Rwandan Archives: Gatekeeping the Past or An Accepting Narrative Approach, Archives and Narrative of 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
  • Anna Pearson, "Poppy Town North": Hybrid Experimental Learning and the Warpath -- the Algonquin Regiment Study Tour 201.
  • Oliver Johnson, Civic Identity and the Chinese Bourgeois Elite in Colonial Hong Kong.

4:15 - 6:00 pm: Session five panels

Panel 7: Stories We Tell Ourselves

Chair

Dr. Adam Crerar

Presenters and titles

  • Robert Flewelling, Fabricated Floods: Riverine Colonialism and Riparian Rights in Ohswe:ken/the Grand River Valley, 1824-1861.
  • Steph Plante, The Stories We Tell in Our Home on Native Land: Representations of Resistance and Resilience to Colonial Violence and Oppression in Canada in Indigenous Women’s Memoirs and Life Writings, 1973-2016.

  • Arshad "Ash" Desai, "We are a people that come out of struggle": Black Canadian Freedom Riders and the South African Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, 1970-1992.

  • Peter Triandafyllou, Lost Ages, New Ages: Histories of the Black Loyalists.

Panel 8: History and Biography

Chair

Dr. Dan Gorman

Presenters and titles

  • Trevor Parsons, "A Disgrace to the Cloth": George Marshall and the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Bay of Quinte.
  • Ryan Snopek, Robert Goddard and His Moon Rocket: Seeing, Hearing, and Touching Outer Space in the 1920s.
  • Nick Small, Thomas Arthur Bisson and the Zaibatsu: Face to Face in Postwar Japan.
  • Jessica Frank, Solzhenitsyn: Disillusioned Child of the Soviet Project.