Friday March 5, 7pm
Cabaret/Variety Show hosted by the Tri-University History Conference and The Making Box Inc., comedy club to kick off Saturday’s conference “Looking Back and Leaping Forward.”
Performers:
Siyobin
and
Ishra Blanco,
Mary Wyga
Snow.
@Invoketress
Guelph Spoken Word Artists:
Audny Cashae-Stewart
@audnycashae
Fira Astrali
@fira_astrali
Also Appearing:
The
Making Box
Inc.
@themakingbox
Saturday, March 6, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
|
9:00-9:30 |
Introductory Remarks Introduction Territorial Acknowledgement Housekeeping Thank you Message from the Tri-University Graduate History Program Director | |
|
9:30-11:00 |
Session 1 | |
|
PANEL 1A: Sex and Sexuality Facilitator: Dr Jane Nicholas | ||
|
Kief Godbout-Kinney, Memorial University, PhD Sociology |
AI and Sex Robots: An Examination of the History and Technologization of Sexuality | |
|
Jennifer Baker, University of Waterloo |
A Murderous Wife as both Perpetrator and Victim: Seventeenth-century English Judicial and Social Oversight to Control Women in Domestic Abuse Cases | |
|
J. Gary Myers, York University, PhD History |
Gay Ghetto to Gay Village to Post Gay: Nostalgia & Crisis in Toronto’s Church-Wellesley Village | |
|
PANEL 1B: Perseverance in Medical History Facilitator: Dr Adam Crerar | ||
|
Samantha Franco, Western University, MA History |
“Death strikes down the innocent and the young”: Tracheotomy in the Saving of a Child’s Life during the Diphtheria Epidemic of Victorian London, 1850-1900 | |
|
Paul Mansell, Wilfrid Laurier University, PhD History |
Perseverance against an Epidemic: The Great Sickness of 1740 | |
|
PANEL 1C: Perseverance in the Early Ages Facilitator: Dr Mary Anne Gonzales | ||
|
Erin Kurian, University of Waterloo, MA Student |
The Medieval Leather Trade: An Environmental Perspective | |
|
Luke Van Vuuren, Queen’s University, MA Candidate |
“When Christian Identities Collide: The New Latin Church in the Crusader States.” | |
|
Mihai Giboi, Wilfrid Laurier University, MA History |
Across the Danube: Vlad Tepes’ Use of Unconventional Warfare, 1461-1462 | |
|
11:00- 11:15 |
Break | |
|
11:15- 12:45 |
Session 2 PANEL 2A: Perseverance in the Military Facilitator: Dr Tara Abraham | |
|
Jake Breadman, Western University, MA Public History |
The Poised Paterfamilias: The Construction of Georgian Military Masculinity in Lieutenant John Le Couteur’s Journal | |
|
Kemal Koyu, University of Waterloo, MA History |
Chaos, Consolidation, and Counterattack: Sarajevo Besieged | |
|
Krenare Recaj, University of Waterloo, MA History |
Delaying the Inevitable: Canada and Kosovo | |
|
PANEL 2B: Lessons from Africa Facilitator: Dr Catherine Carstairs | ||
|
Kyle Prichard, Wilfrid Laurier University, PhD History |
Okwoienoma, or War is Unwelcome: Igbo Women and Survival during the Nigerian Civil War. | |
|
Isaac Toyin, University of Guelph, MA History |
Africa’s Economic Crises and Neoliberal Interventions: The Case Study of Ghana and Nigeria | |
|
PANEL 2C: In the Pursuit of Equality Facilitator: Dr Blaine Chiasson | ||
|
Haley Clark, University of Guelph, MA Sociology |
Understanding Educational Approaches of Students with Disabilities | |
|
Cassandra Dodds, University of Guelph, MA History |
Inequality in the Eighteenth Century | |
|
Okilah Desmond Ofori, University of Guelph, MA History |
"We have not thrown our Culture away”: Cultural Identity and Expression among Ghanaian Immigrants in Toronto, 1967-2000 | |
|
12:45-1:45 |
Lunch | |
|
1:45-3:15 |
Keynote Speaker: Dr Jaipreet Virdi University of Delaware Activism in Crisis: Making Space for Disability Discourse | |
|
3:15-3:30 |
Break | |
|
3:30-5:00 |
Session 3 | |
|
PANEL 3A: The State and Colonialism Facilitator: Dr Susan Roy | ||
|
Jonathan Chan, University of Waterloo |
Colonialism in Pixels: The Replication of Colonialism through Game Mechanics | |
|
Evan Cater, University of Waterloo |
Stand Fast for Peace and Freedom!: The British Labour Party and the Sudetenland Crisis of 1938 | |
|
Mallory Davies, University of Waterloo, PhD History |
“Teen Motherhood is Costing the Government…”: The Shifting Educational Policy Regarding Teen Mothers in Vancouver, 1973-1982 | |
|
PANEL 3B: Perseverance out of the Second World War Facilitator: Dr. Karen Racine | ||
|
Sean Remz Concordia University, MA Department of Religions and Cultures |
Perseverance of Hungarian Holocaust Survivors under Communist Rule | |
|
Amanda Hooper, University of Waterloo |
The Allied Forces, the Holocaust, the United Nations,and the Emergence of Human Rights | |
|
Angelo Laskaris, University of Toronto PhD History |
The Children of the 1940s Memories of the Nazi Occupation, the Resistance, and the Civil War in Greece | |