Conflict, Cooperation, and Commemoration schedule and panels

Location

Arts Research Centre main lobby.

Snacks and refreshments provided.

Panel 1.1 - Communities, Conflict, Confrontation

Location

MCKN 114 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr. Douglas Peers, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

1. Chandini Jaswal: “Memories of 1947: Ordinary Voices, Extraordinary Stories.”
2. Ashlyn Cudney: “Domestic Violence and Spousal Reconciliation in 17th Century Bute.
3. Temirlan Joldybayev: "How did WW2 change the Central Asian Society? Analysis of social, political and economic aspects of change."

Panel 1.2 - Premodern Scotland

Location

MCKN 113

Chair

Dr. Susannah Ferreira, University of Guelph

Presenters and Titles

1. Michael Hems: “‘Gud sone, serue a mychtty man’: Political Didacticism in Medieval Scottish Poetry.”
2. Katherine Foran: “‘By right of his wife’: The Scottish Wars of Independence and female autonomy through Chronicles.”
3. Brenna Clark: "'aundit in bitt': the Changing Nature of the Witch-hunt in Scotland’s Orkney and Shetland Islands, 1594-1644."
4. Grant Shreiber: "'of good life and conversation': Piety and morality in Aberdonian mortifications.”

Panel 1.3 - Historicizing Political Memory

Location

MCKN 103

Chair

Dr. Tara Abraham, University of Guelph

Presenters and Titles

1. Benji Smith: “Presidency of Chaos: A Historiography of President Clinton’s Impeachment.”
2. Preston Jordan Lim: "Nourishing the Living Tree: Vincent MacDonald and his Constitutional Thought."
3. Sebastian Walsh-Murray: “Deadly Definitions – Linguistic Violence and the Holocaust.”

Location

Arts Research Centre main lobby.

Panel 2.1 - The Nationalist Project, Worldwide

Location

MCKN 114 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr. Geoffrey Hayes, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

1. Gabriel Contreras Soto: “Finnish Communism and the Soviet Invasion: A Political History of the Winter War (1939-1940).”
2. Bradley Shoebottom: ““A Cairn and a Cross”: War Memorialization in France During the Great War by the Canadian Corps.”
3. Raymond Li: “Pan-Asianism, Ethnic Consciousness, and the Propaganda of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere: A Study Centered on Five Races Under One Union in Manchukuo.”
4. Trevor Parsons: “Majesty without Spectacle? Royal Visitors to Late Nineteenth-Century Canada.”

Panel 2.2 - Colonialism, Violence, and Knowledge-Production

Location

MCKN 113

Chair

Dr. Susan Roy, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

1. Mayar Alfarra: "Counterinsurgency in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Incarceration and Other Modes of Colonial Domination.”
2. Beatrice Lowson: “Learning to a "Good Mind": Utilizing Two-Row Wampum/Covenant Chain Methodologies as a Settler Scholar.”
3. John McConnell: "Breaking the Ice: Investigating Interactions Between Inuit Groups and Hudson's Bay Company Traders."
4. Jake McIvor: "Boys and Their Toys: The History of Gender and Geoengineering."

Panel 2.3 - Alternative Narratives of the Second World War

Location

MCKN 111

Chair

Dr. Alex Souchen, University of Guelph

Presenters and Titles

1. Gillian Wagenaar: “Letters from the Boiler House: Conflict and Communication in a Second World War Canadian Internment Camp.”
2. Jamie Zettle: “Refracted masculinities and sexualized uniforms: Queer readings of SOE agents' use of military garb.”
3. Daniel Berry: "An Arrow in the Wrong Direction: The Avro Arrow’s Cancellation, and its Repercussions on Canada’s Aviation Industry."

Panel 2.4 - History and the Environment

Location

MCKN 103

Chair

Dr. David Porreca, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

1. Nicole Vankooten: “Turning a New Leaf: The Medieval English Legacy of Canadian Forestry Management.”
2. John Loudfoot: “The Environment of Infrastructure: A Premodern Case Study.”
3. James E. Rubino: “Picturesque Mountains in the Common Eye: A Close Reading of William Bathurst’s Two Scottish Tours 1826 and 1857 Manuscript.”

Panel 3.1 - Roundtable: Examining Commemorations, Celebrations and Memorials in Atlantic Canadian History

Location

MCKN 114 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr Bonnie Huskins, University of New Brunswick

Participants

1. Catherine D’Aoust
2. Michelle Connick
3. Sandi Stewart

Panel 3.2 - Carceral Lives

Location

MCKN 103

Chair

Dr. Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, University of Waterloo

Presenters and Titles

1. Alyana Calhoun: "Creating the New Man: Re-Education Camps in Mozambique (1974-1992).”
2. Catherine Ramey: “An Incarcerated Education: Memories of Prison Education under Spain’s Francoist Dictatorship, 1939-1975.”
3. Shelby Page: “Destruction of Culture: Canadian Families Impacted by Japanese Internment Camps.”
4. Emily Wood: "Menstruation and Memory: Survivor Testimonies of Reproductive Trauma in Nazi Camp Systems."

Panel 3.3 - Narrating Race

Location

MCKN 113

Chair

Deirdre McCorkindale, University of Guelph

Presenters and Titles

1. Michael Humeniuk: ““The Pen is as Mighty as the Sword”: The Decolonial Rhetoric of Global Combat Literature.”
2. Ryan Snopek: “Future in the Margins: Reading Race in Early American Science Fiction.”
3. Brianne Casey: "Beyond the Sacred Fire: Tatanga Mani's Life, Activism for Indigenous Rights, and Prophecy for the Cold War World."

Location

Arts Research Centre main lobby.

Panel 4.1 - Deliberating Sex, Defining Bodies

Location

MCKN 113

Chair

Dr. Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph

Presenters and Topics

1. Kess Carpenter: “The “Anti-Antiporn” Feminist Countermovement, 1983-1985.”
2. Aidan Hughes: "'There is no such thing as taking too much steroid': Venice's Bodybuilding Subculture through the Underground Steroid Handbook (1981)." 
3. Matt Edwards: “On the Table, In the Books: Tracing Queer Bodies in Anatomy and Endocrinology at the University of Toronto, 1927-1980.”
4. Jennifer Baker: "Birds of Darkness: Power and Agency in Seventeenth Century English Economies of Sex."

Panel 4.2 - Locality and History

Location

MCKN 114 and Hybrid

Chair

Dr. Matthew Hayday, University of Guelph

Presenters and Topics

1. Kyle Mastarciyan: “Fearful Asymmetry: A Commentary on the Scholarship of English and Scottish Immigration in Upper Canada.”
2. Mark Andrew Hamilton: “The Aesthetic Activism of ACT UP Montréal: Posters, Pamphlets, and Performance as Protest.”
3. Bram Fookes: "The Meaford Tank Range: An Environmental and Social History."
4. Lee Barich: “Mountains Beyond Mountains: Commemorating the Past in Kitchener’s Downtown Revival."

Panel 4.3 - Contesting Authority

Location

MCKN 103

Chair

Dr. Ben Bradley, University of Guelph

Presenters and Topics

1. Kristen Becker: "The Law of Treason in Scotland c. 1450-1688."
2. Vera Zorcic: “The Black Women’s United Front: Women who Shaped Black Power Politics and Ideology.”
3. Shamylla van der Hall-Rose: “Battle of the Concrete: Exploring the urban history and popular narrative of skateboarding and ‘Found Space’ contrasted by the development of the China Creek South Skateboard Park.”