Panel Session One: 9:00 - 10:15 AM
Theme 1: War and Conflict Part 1
Chair
Roger Sarty
Presenters and titles
- James Howey (Waterloo): You Get What You Want, but Not What You Need
- Kemal Koyu (Waterloo): The Siege of Sarajevo: Modern Warfare, Modern Resistance
- Matthew Morden (Laurier): Britain’s First Basra: The Boer War as a Failed Attempt at Counter-Insurgency
Theme 2: Gender and Queer History
Chair
Jamie Zettle
Presenters and titles
- Maude Stephany (Guelph): (Re)Making Transgender History Now: The Rhetoric of Silence in Trump’s America
- Maggie McKoen (Laurier): The First Decade of Gay Liberation: Vancouver-Based Queer Activism and the Canadian Government, 1970-1979
- Jonathan Chan (Waterloo): When Giving or Receiving Objects, Men and Women Should Not Come into Physical Contact”: Laws that Prohibited Chinese Men from Employing White Women in the 1910s
- Natasha Stephenson (Nipissing): Proof of Life: A Queer Oral History of North Bay
Theme 3: Canadian Histories
Chair
Julia Roberts
Presenters and titles
- Jelena Uzelca (Waterloo): Lord Beaverbrook’s Official War Artists: Building a Language of Patriotism
- Georgia Gingrich (Laurier): 'Lost my grit:' Post-WWI Compensation for CEF Veterans and the Conflation of Gender Roles
- Duncan Smith (Waterloo): Representations of Ethnicity through Recipes in Chatelaine Magazine during the Postwar Era
- Julianne Scott (Waterloo): 'A Matter of Concern to Us as a Nation:' Analyzing Briefs to the Royal Commission on Health Services 1961-64
Panel Session Two: 10:30 - 11:45 AM
Theme 1: Digital Histories
Chair
Ian Milligan
Presenters and titles
- Rebecca MacAlpine (Waterloo): “Decentering History” through Digital Methodologies: A Case Study of Gender-Based Violence in Seventeenth-Century England
- Lisa Baer-Tsarfatri (Guelph): Word Embeddings and Critical Analysis: Methodological Approaches to the Meaningful Study of History Text
- Sarah McTavish (Waterloo): To Maintain the Image of Unity: Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Usenet’s LGBT Community
- Rebecca Nickerson (Waterloo): Mapping Segregation
Theme 2: Constructing Narratives
Chair
Adam Crerar
Presenters and titles
- Elaine Jones (Waterloo): What Makes a House a Home: Alternative Education in Niagara-on-the-Lake
- Cassandra Dodds (Guelph): Restoration and Authenticity under La Commission des Monuments Historiques
- Paul Mansell (Laurier): Robert Jenkins, His Ear and His Use in Propaganda
- Oklikah Desmond Ofri (Guelph): Easing Racial Tension: United States and the Making of Martin Luther King Day, 1983
Theme 3: Post-War Reconstruction
Chair
Eric Story
Presenters and titles
- Catherine Timms (Waterloo): Little Boxes on the Home Front: Wartime Housing Limited as a Prototype of Vertical Integration in Canadian Housing Development, 1941-1947
- Hayden Bulbrook (Waterloo): GIS Zeitgeist (Temporary Title)
- Nicholas Small (Laurier): Thomas Arthur Bisson, the Zaibatsu, and the Occupation of Japan
Panel Session Three: 2:30 - 3:45 PM
Theme 1: Witchcraft and Theology
Chair
Troy Osborne
Presenters and titles
- Charan Mandur (Waterloo): Law-Abiding Malevolence: The Impact of Western Ideology on African Witchcraft
- Nico Mara-McKay (Guelph): Witchcraft Pamphlets at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment
- Luke Van Vuuren (Queen's): The Clash of Christian Identity in the Crusader States—Catholic and Orthodox Disagreement in Theology and Religious Practice
- Brenna Clark (Guelph): Enemies of Society: Observations on the Uses of Scottish Witchcraft Trial Records as Sources for Social History
Theme 2: Analysing Colonial Power Structures
Chair
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
Presenters and titles
- Saif Zaman (Waterloo): Slavery in Early 19th Century Calcutta Society
- Emma Smith (Waterloo) and Emma Stetler (Guelph): Policies of Smudging at Universities
- Jade Biggar (Brock): Taste and Sight: The Sensory Key’s to Britain’s Empire and Tea Industry
- Christine Wilson (Waterloo): Ghana Research Trip
Theme 3: Popular Representations
Chair
Jane Nicholas
Presenters and titles
- Teghan Barton (Waterloo): A Century of Covers: Anne Shirley and the Depiction of Idyllic Girlhood
- Jonathan Jackson (Waterloo): “The Medium is the Message”: Canadian History on Television
- Trevor Parsons (Waterloo): Sojourning Down Under: Sir Gilbert Parker and Australian Federation, 1885-1901
- Anthony Phu (Laurier): Representations of the Métis in Colonial Era Literature
Panel Session Four: 4:00 - 5:15
Theme 1: War and Conflict Part 2
Chair
Geoffrey Hayes
Presenters and titles
- Krenare Recaj (Waterloo): Criticism, Conviction, Kosovo
- Ty Backer (Nipissing): Recycling of a Regiment: The Effect of the Algonquin Regiment’s Replacement System During the Fall of 1944
- Cameron Baer (Laurier): A Great Military Marketplace? The Mystery of the Aztec Flower Wars
Theme 2: 20th Century Communism
Chair
Dan Gorman
Presenters and titles
- Brad Allan McNeal (Waterloo): The Hungarian Revolution from Thought to Action
- Tanroop Sandhu (Waterloo): Insurgent Doctrine in the First Indochina War
- Ryrie Dirksen (Nipissing): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Case Study of the Mennonite Selbstschutz in Molotschna Ukraine, 1918-1920
Theme 3: Sensory Histories
Chair
Catherine Carstairs
Presenters and titles
- Jake Breadman (Brock): A Sensory Analysis of the Family Compact’s Politicization of Sir Isaac Brock, 1812-1840
- Carina Cino (Brock): Ritual Bodies: The Use of the Eyes and Corporeal Body in Masonic Ritual
- Melissa Fowler (Brock): Sensing the Sounds of Terror: An Analysis of the War of 1812
- Danielle Sinopoli (Brock): Touch and the Other Senses: A Two-Fold Analysis of Medicine and Intimacy in the Nineteenth Century British Household