The Tri-University Graduate History Program is a partnership among three programs at three universities in south-western Ontario: the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.
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
Location
CIGI Campus Auditorium and Hybrid
Performance
Welcome
Dr. Peter Goddard
Opening
Dr. Susan Roy
Essay prize winners announced
Dr. Peter Goddard
Keynote chair
Keynote
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