Imagining a new history schedule and panels

Notes

  • Times are listed in EST (GMT-5)
  • Only one panel per session will be offered in a hybrid mode. Attending in person offers the best experience and variety in presentations. Hybrid sessions include Sessions 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1 and the Keynote.
  • Download 2023 Tri-University Conference Bios and Abstracts (pdf)
  • See maps for venue location, parking options, and for way-finding inside the venue

8:00 - 9:00 am Registration

Location

Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) Foyer

Coffee and morning snacks available

9:00 - 10:15 am Session 1 Panels

Session 1.1 - Popular Culture and Media

Location

Room 1-23 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr. Dylan Cyr

Presenters and Titles

  • Corey Safinuk, Objects not Characters: A Look at Background Non-Player Characters in Historical Video Games
  • Eric Vero, Nerds Talking Politics: Fanzines as Historical Sources
  • Kyra Droog, The Mystery of the 1958 Hardy Boys Editorial Rehaul: Representations of History and the Implications of Editing Historic Children’s Literature

Session 1.2 - Canadian Transnational History

Location

Room 1-31

Chair

Dr. Kevin Spooner

Presenters and Titles

  • Michael Humeniuk, “Make Us Partners in Our Homeland:” Indigenous Political Action in the Global Sixties
  • Maglyn Gasteiger, West of Centre: Saskatoon Women’s Liberation and Socialist Feminism in 1970s Saskatchewan
  • Jonathon Zimmer, Alerting the Nation to Famine: The Role of the Media in Exposing Canadians to the Ethiopian Famine of 1984

Session 1.3 - Gender and Sexuality in World War Two

Location

Room 1-43

Chair

Dr. Daria Ho

Presenters and Titles

  • Jamie Zettle, Queer Sites, Queer Identities: Espionage, Identity, and Subjectivities in Wartime France
  • Rui Li, “Good Wife, Wise Mother” and Manchukuo Women’s Education under the Kingly Way during World War II

Session 1.4 - Scots Talk

Location

Room 1-42

Chair

Dr. Cathryn Spence

Presenters and Titles

  • Brenna Clark, Littorals and Livestock: Reimagining Scottish Economic History and North Sea Trade through the Genetic Analysis of Parchment Charters
  • Kristen Becker, Legal Reform and Union in Cromwellian Scotland
  • Grant Schreiber, Beyond ‘Bare Ruined Choirs:’ Reassessing Monastic Loss in Reformation Britain
  • Katherine Foran, More Than Just Sisters, Wives and Daughters: Active Women in the Scottish Wars of Independence

10:15 - 10:30 am - Break

Location

BSIA Foyer

10:30 - 11:45 Session 2 Panels

Session 2.1 - Through a Nationalist Lens

Location

Room 1-23 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr. Geoffrey Hayes

Presenters and Titles

  • Kaitlin Haggert, A Theology of Liberation: Nationalism, Race, and Colonial Legacy within African Initiated Churches in Apartheid South Africa
  • Isabella Villarinho, A Transnational Aspect of the Cold War: Family Rosary Crusade, Religion and Politics in Brazil (1962-1964)
  • Anton Parkhomenko, The Red Road to Victory: Examining Systemic Deficiencies in Early Soviet Combat Training

Session 2.2 - Gender and Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Location

Room 1-31

Chair

Dr. Linda Mahood

Presenters and Titles

  • Sarah Bergman, Everyday Abuses of Institutional Life: Patient-Family-Staff Interactions at the Ontario Hospital Woodstock, 1919-1968
  • Jacqueline Girard, Hidden Mothers: The Experiences of Unwed Mothers in the Hôpital de la Miséricorde, PQ from 1940 to 1970

Session 2.3 - Race, Gender, and Age in Histories of Africa

Location

Room 1-43

Chair

Dr. Daria Ho

Presenters and Titles

  • Catherine Ramey, Gendering the Curriculum: Canadians, Education, and the West Central African Mission, 1879-1920
  • Alyana Calhoun, Education or Assimilation: Education as a Colonial Tool in Lusophone Africa
  • Abigail Opoku, “Changed men would require changed women:” The Organization of Female Education in the Gold coast before the 1930s
  • Tolulope Akande, Colonial Roots: A Question of Juvenile Delinquency in Nigeria, 1920-1960

Session 2.4 - Environments of Change: Bridging Disciplines and Communicating History

Location

Room 1-42

Chair

Erin Kurian, PhD Cand.

Roundtable Particpants

Gillian Wagenaar, Kian Drew, Muràd Alizada, John Loudfoot

11:45 - 12:45 pm Lunch

Location

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Campus Foyer

12:45 - 2:30 pm Performance by Kevin McKay & Tri-U Welcome and Keynote Address by Dr. Omeasoo Wāhpāsiw

2:45 - 4:00 pm Session 3 Panels

Session 3.1 - Intervening Methodologies

Location

Room 1-23 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr. Peter Goddard

Presenters and Titles

  • J. Gary Myers, History with Humility Using Community-Campus Engagement Workshops
  • Shriya Dasgupta and Oyeshi Ganguly, Memory and Collective Amnesia: The Role of Oral History in Challenging Conventional Historical Wisdom
  • François Lamoureux, Monuments and Urban Places: Expanding the Commemorative Framework

Session 3.2 - Public History

Location

Room 1-31

Chair

Cody Groat, PhD cand.

Presenters and Titles

  • Christine Green, Examining Indigenous Representation in Northwestern Ontario Community Museums
  • Anthony Cerullo, What's the Story, Where's the History: Tracing the Life and Legacy of St. Anne's Residential School
  • Brianne Casey, Wrangling the White Man’s Indian: The Construction of Indigenous Peoples in the Calgary Stampede, 1945-1990

Session 3.3 - Structures of the Holocaust

Location

Room 1-43

Chair

Dr. Gary Bruce

Presenters and Titles

  • Amanda Hooper, Stolpersteine and Social Media: Holocaust Remembrance in the Online World
  • Sebastian Walsh-Murray, Definitions of Death: Linguistic Violence and a Path to the Holocaust
  • Rebecca Dragusin, Roma Repression: Labour Ideology’s Influence on Romanian Roma Experience in Bogdanovka Camp from 1942 to 1944

Session 3.4 - Pre-Modern Histories

Location

Room 1-42

Chair

Dr. David Porreca

Presenters and Titles

  • Olivia Douglas, Cinaedus or Dandy? Clothing, Masculinity and Sexuality in Roman Antiquity
  • Robyn Jennings, A Rereading of Medieval Mystical Castration Narratives: The Influence of Homosocial Literary Networks on Medieval Clerical Masculinity
  • Jennifer Baker, Mythologizing the History of Abortion: The Trans-National Entanglement and Appropriation of Medieval Law Across Space and Time
  • Henry Silva Paiane, Humanists or/and Jesuits?: Education in Portugal During the Sixteenth Century

4:00 - 4:15 pm - Break

Location

BSIA Foyer

4:15 - 5:30 pm Session 4 Panels

Session 4.1 - History Through and On Film

Location

Room 1-23 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr. Joe Buscemi

Presenters and Titles

  • Jolie Summers, To what extent does Bend It Like Beckham reflect changing attitudes to race and gender in British society in the early 2000s?
  • Nicholas Morrison, Constructive Cinema: Analyzing Late Soviet Kazakh Film
  • Hannah Pinilla, Reproducing Mexico During the Golden Age of Cinema: The Roles of Exceptional Women On and Off-Screen in the Nation Building Project

Session 4.2 - Issues of Race in North America

Location

Room 1-31

Chair

Dr. Dana Weiner

Presenters and Titles

  • Vera Zoricic, From the Digital Dark Age to Web Archives: Cultural Nationalist Women “Mother” a Black Nation
  • Jonathan Di Carlo, “May the [Goddamndest, Toughest Voting Rights Bill] please the court?:” The Regression of the Voting Rights Act in the Supreme Court from Katzenbach to Shelby
  • Aaron Waitson, Understanding American Nationhood: Constructions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through the Blackface Minstrel Performance in American Popular Culture

Session 4.3 - England from the Reformation to Victoria

Location

Room 1-43

Chair

Dr. Douglas Peers

Presenters and Titles

  • Thomas Smith, Reimagining the Lord Mayor's Shows: Constructing a 3-D Model of the Bower’s Tomb from Anthony Munday’s Chrysanaleia (1616)
  • Quinn Downton, Reinventing the Phantasm: The Society for Psychical Research, Spiritualism, and Mourning in Late Victorian Britain
  • Anna Cassell, “I Am Not a Thief, and I Am Not Alone”: A Comparative Analysis of Late-Victorian Representations of Working-Class and Pauper Children and Childhood

Session 4.4 - Canada in War and Peace

Location

Room 1-42

Chair

Dr. Matthew Wiseman

Presenters and Titles

  • Madison Hendricks, The Inner Lives of Rural Women: Analyzing Roseltha Wolverton Goble's Diaries
  • Michael Postiglione, “The services of the horse is not a thing of the past:” Performing Cultural Memory as Duty and Order
  • Emily Oakes, The Soldier-Horse Relationship in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces During the First World War

5:30 - 6:30 pm - Social Reception

Location

BSIA Foyer