Local Meets Global schedule and panels

Location

Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) foyer

1A — Environment, Landscape, and Internal Colonialisms

Location

Room A

Chair

Dr. Adam Crerar, Wilfrid Laurier University

Presenters and Titles

• Scott MacGregor, Western University, Beneath the Picturesque: The Making of a "Benign" Highlands
• Bram Fookes, University of Guelph, Wildlife or Warfare? Competing visions for the Meaford Tank Range after 1945
• Emily Golden, Independent Scholar, Divergent Paths: Masking the Economic Desperation of 1893 with the Gospel of American Exceptionalism

1B — Feminism, Women’s Activism, and Representation

Location

Room B

Chair

Dr. Tarah Brookfield, Wilfrid Laurier University

Presenters and Titles

• Kiandra Rodgers, Wilfrid Laurier University, Interrogating Canadian Second-Wave Feminism: Branching Out Magazine, 1973-1980
• Mya Trombley, University of Guelph, Protest by the Crown?: Exploring the Role of Black Beauty Queens during the “Black is Beautiful” and Black Power Movements in the United States
• Adelina Nexhipi, University of Waterloo, Across Space and Time: Albanian Women's Migration and Integration Experiences in Canada

1C — War, Governance, and Global Power

Location

Room C

Chair

Dr. Andrew Hunt, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

• Murad Alizada-Hamidlinski, University of Waterloo, Orde's Judges: Consistency of Canadian courts martial punishment during the Second World War

• Taj Matharoo, University of Waterloo, Living with the Bomb: Civil Defence in the Waterloo Region, 1961-1972

• Joel Botter, University of Waterloo, Invisible Hand, Iron Fist: An Analysis of the Role of the International Monetary Fund in Russia's Market Transition of the 1990s as a Case Study for the limits of International Institutions

1D — Empire, Science, and Colonial Knowledge

Location

Room D

Chair

Dr. Dan Gorman, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

• Qian Huang, York University, Chinese Species in the Jardin d’Acclimatation: Dabry de Thiersant’s Natural-History Network and Local Faunal Knowledges, 1862-1868
• Diyan Zhou, Bard College, Cultural Exchange with Ethnic ‘Others’ : A Study of the Green Dragon Cave Temple Complex in Zhenyuan
• Elizabeth Heaton, University of Guelph, The Shaping of a Young Queen: The Youth of Mary, Queen of Scots in the French Courtt

2A — Canadian Histories, Land, and Global Connections

Location

Room A

Chair

Dr. Susan Roy, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

• Elizabeth Spence, Wilfrid Laurier University, The Most Modern Town North of ‘60”: Pine Point and the Making of Canada’s Cold War Northern Identity

• Aibhlin Janicki-Zeballos, Wilfrid Laurier University, The 1911 Federal Election, Brantford Partisan Newspapers, and Local Identity

• Daniel Berry, University of Guelph, Red Maple Leaf, Red Star: The Unique Relationship Between the "Near Neighbours" Canada and the Soviet Union, From the Mid- to the Late Cold War

2B — Gender, The Body, and Regulation

Location

Room B

Chair

TBD

Presenters and Titles

• Melissa Hughes, University of Waterloo, Where's the bathroom? Origins of Sex-Segregated Public Restrooms in Nineteenth Century Britain

• Sukhmani Mukkar, University of Waterloo, Empire in the Domestic: The Making of the "Good Widow" in Colonial Bengal, 1825-18

• Emma Craib, Brock University, How Voices Capture: Jewish Historical Commissions and Women's Holocaust Testimony

2C — War, Society, and Everyday Experience

Location

Room C

Chair

Dr. Geoff Hayes, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

• Astrid Woerner Kropp, University of Waterloo, War Without the Battlefield: Emma Kaufman and the Civilian Life of Global Conflict
• Aly Firth, Wilfrid Laurier University, Duty in Drag: The Life of First World War Drag Star Ross Hamilton
• Christian Haworth, Wilfrid Laurier University, The Soul of the Soldier: Grief and Salvation in Protestant Canada During the First World War

2D — Culture, Technology, and the Politics of Knowledge

Location

Room D

Chair

Dr. Susan Neylan, Wilfrid Laurier University

Presenters and Titles

• Gavin Watson, University of Guelph, The Garb of Old Gaul: The Changing Roles of Tartan and the Kilt in Defining a British Scotland, 1745-1855

• Kess Carpenter, Wilfrid Laurier University, Off the Hook: Dial-a-Porn in 1980s America

• Leah Williams, University of Guelph, The Stock Market as an Archive of Society

Location

BSIA Atrium

3A — Food, Environment, and Power

Location

Room A

Chair

Dr. Bruce Muirhead, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Topics

• Seth Heng, University of Waterloo, The Geography of Taste: Food, Place, and Stories of Belonging

• Kenneth Hall, University of Guelph, Chinese Restaurants in Kingston, Ontario Before World War Two: A Community Case Study of Commercial Foodways in A Diaspora

• Lydia Kinasewich, University of Guelph, "Freedom to Drink What We Want": Milk Pasteurization Policy Debates in British Columbia, 1954-1991

3B — Medicine, Health, and Institutional Power

Location

Room B

Chair

Dr. Linda Mahood, University of Guelph

Presenters and Topics

• Abigail Sherwood, University of Guelph, "Diminishing the ravages of the most voracious of all diseases": Investigation of Public Health Responses to Endemic Tuberculosis in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1848-1900
• Brian Gibb, Wilfrid Laurier University, "The trouble with an opium monopoly": Imperial Japan and the Supply of Morphine in Occupied China, 1895-1923
• Christine Trivino, University of Waterloo, Dancers for Life: HIV/AIDS, Queer Memory, and Community Engagement

3C - Class, Labour, and Social Conflict

Location

Room C

Chair

TBD

Presenters and Topics

• Sophia Cohen Galvao, McMaster University, A Question of Representation? Starving Workmen, Seditious Socialists, and the West End Riots, 1886

• Cameron Ambroise-Sanscartier, Concordia University, Fighting on the American Color Line: How Black Masculine Identity Was Negotiated Through Boxing in the Jim Crow Era

• Ryan Snopek, York University, Republic of Laymen: Science, citizenship, and imagination in the Gernsback era

3D — Space, Infrastructure, and Historical Knowledge

Location

Room D

Chair

Dr. Douglas Peers, University of Guelph

Presenters and Topics

• Aysha Shafiq, Center for Digital and Innovative Research, Guelph, Epistemology of Breaking Space: What happens to historical knowledge when spatial units are reconfigured

• Robert Dienesch, Independent Scholar, The Mirror of Might:  Deconstructing Pre-War Expectations and the Russian Military Performance in Ukraine

• Eugene Henry, Carleton University, Cellars in the Sky: Constructions of French Viticultural Places in New York City Spaces

BSIA Atrium