Imagining a new history schedule and panels

Location

Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) Foyer

Coffee and morning snacks available

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

Location

BSIA Foyer

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

Location

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Campus Foyer

Location

CIGI Campus Auditorium and Hybrid

Performance

Kevin McKay

Welcome

Dr. Peter Goddard

Opening

Dr. Susan Roy

Essay prize winners announced

Dr. Peter Goddard

Keynote chair

Dr. Talena Atfield

Keynote

Dr. Omeasoo Wāhpāsiw

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

Location

BSIA Foyer

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

Location

BSIA Foyer