An Interdisciplinary Symposium in History
March 8th and 9th, 2007
Thursday March 8th, 2007
8:30: Opening Remarks, Dr. Bruce Elliott (Graduate Supervisor)
Location: 433 Paterson
SESSION A
8:45-10:05: The United States vis-脿-vis the World
Session Chair: Maureen Mahoney
AV Required:
Location: 433 Paterson
Jean-Fran莽ois Juneau, Montr茅al, 鈥溾�榊our Success will be our Success鈥�: The U.S. and West Germany Ostpolitik (1969-1973)鈥�
Maurice Jr. Labelle, Ottawa, 鈥淎 Self-Serving Peace: The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Question (1938-1945)鈥�
Ruben Vroegop, McGill, “Of Warmongers and Gravediggers: Paul Nitze, Team B, and the Committee on the Present Danger”
CONCURRENT SESSION B
B1. 10:25-12:00: Women and Family History (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Melissa Horne
AV Required: PowerPoint
Location: 433 Paterson
Jessica Haynes, 杏吧原创, 鈥淭he Legacy of Scientific Motherhood: Child-Rearing Advice in English Canada in the 1960s and 1970s鈥�
Meghan D. Baker, Edinburgh, 鈥淭o What Extent did Early 19th Century Civil Society Include Women in Scotland?
Melissa Baker, Windsor, 鈥淢idwifery and Western Biomedical Obstetrics: Shaping Guatemala鈥檚 Social Geography鈥�
Marie-Claude Felton, Qu茅bec, “The Role of Family and Professionnal Networks in the Care for Orphans : The Case of Joseph Longis, Son of a Solicitor in 17th century Aix-en-Provence”
B2. 10:25-12:00: Political History (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: David Tough
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 302 Paterson
David Banoub, 杏吧原创, 鈥淕eorge-脡tienne Cartier and Quebec鈥檚 Liberal Order鈥�
Braden Hutchinson, 杏吧原创, 鈥淐ontinentalism, Language and the Birth of Nationalism in Canada, 1869-1895
Ryan Vieira, 杏吧原创, 鈥淒ebate, Democracy, and the Politics of Panic鈥�
Sarah Person, Saskatchewan, 鈥淧opulism and Hugo Chavez鈥�
12:15-1:15: LUNCHEON LECTURE
Location: 433 Paterson
Dr. John C. Walsh: 鈥淩e-Placing Home: Twentieth Century Narratives, Nineteenth-Century Colonization, and the Forests of Upper Canada鈥�
CONCURRENT SESSION C
C1. 1:30-3:10: On Landscape and Nature (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Susan Joudrey
A/V Required:
Location: 433 Paterson
Sharon Arsenault, 杏吧原创, 鈥淧ublic Debate and the Creation of Prince Edward Island National Park鈥�
Lisa Forbes, UBC, 鈥淗ow Travel Guidebook Writers Negotiated Changes to the Rural English Landscape, 1760-1800鈥�
C2. 1:30 -3:10: Money Matters 鈥� Business and Profit (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Thomas Rorke
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 432 Paterson
Sean Speer, 杏吧原创, 鈥淭aking Care of Business: The Origins and Historical Evolution of the Business Council on National Issues, 1976-1988鈥�
Gordon Holmes, McMaster, 鈥淩egional and National Patterns of Trade in British North America, 1820 to 1900鈥�
Chris Clarke, Sask., 鈥淪uperstar鈥檚 Legacy: Body Image, Steroids and Profit in Professional Wrestling, 1977-2005鈥�
SESSION D
3:30-5:00: Military History
Session Chair: Erika Reinhardt
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 433 Paterson
Adam Lajeunesse, Calgary, 鈥淒ieppe to D-Day: A Reappraisal of the Strategic and Tactical Lessons taken from Operation Jubilee鈥�
Abraham Roof, Calgary, 鈥淎 Separate Peace? The Soviet Union and the Formation of British Strategy in the Wake of Barbarossa, June-September 1941鈥�
Michael Freethy, 杏吧原创, 鈥溾�榃elcome to the Suck鈥欌�� of the Real!鈥� History/Memory and Jarhead鈥�
6:00 Tour of the Canadian War Museum
Transportation Provided
Dinner to follow at Pub Italia: 434 Preston St.
DAY 2 – Friday March 9th, 2007
CONCURRENT SESSION E
E1. 8:30-10:05: On Display 鈥� Museums and the Expo (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Pascale Salah
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 433 Paterson
Lorna Chisholm, 杏吧原创, 鈥淲hat is in a Name? The Anne Frank House Not the Secret Annex: Representation and Identity at 263 Prinsengracht鈥�
Jennifer Wilhelm, 杏吧原创, 鈥淭owards a New Museum Politics?: The Virtual Museum of Canada and the Politics of Participation鈥�
Duncan Cowie, McGill, 鈥淓xpo and Canadian Multiculturalism: The Influence of the Experience鈥�
E2. 8 :30-10 :05: Canadian Ethnic Identities (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Jennifer Anderson
A/V Required: PowerPoint, overhead projector
Location: 302 Paterson
Chris Kostov, Ottawa, 鈥淎 Clash of Identities: The Case of Macedonian Canadians in Toronto (1940-1996)鈥�
Jan P. Raska, Ottawa, 鈥淲hose Truth Should Prevail? Canadian Czechs and Slovaks and the Wartime 鈥楨nemy Aliens鈥� Registration Issue (1939-1942)鈥�
Lauren Wheeler, 杏吧原创, 鈥淲innipeg and Jewish Refugees鈥�
CONCURRENT SESSION F
F1. 10:25-12:00: The Nation Through the Arts (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Kristina Guiguet
A/V Required: overhead projector, PowerPoint
Location: 433Paterson
Brenda McDermott, York, 鈥淧rojecting Canada: The Illustrated Lectures of Frank Yeigh鈥�
Emma Peacocke, 杏吧原创, 鈥淭he History of a Literary Encounter鈥�
F2. 10 :25-12 :00: Memories of Nazism in Europe (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Robin Wallace
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 302 Paterson
Mark Celinscak, York, 鈥淢emory, History and Testimony: Rereading Warsaw Ghetto Diaries and Memoirs鈥�
Karen Priestman, Wilfrid Laurier, 鈥淐ompliance as Defiance: One School Against the Nazis鈥�
Mandy Koroniak, 杏吧原创, 鈥淪creening the Past: Representations of Nazism in East German National Film鈥�
12:00-1:00: LUNCH
CONCURRENT SESSION G
G1. 1:05-2 :40: National Identity鈥搕he International Scene (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Alexander Comber
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 433 Paterson
Bill Molos, York, 鈥淐onstructing an (In)coherent National Identity: Examining the Emergence of Greek National Identity
Fr茅d茅ric Cyr, Montr茅al, 鈥淔ritz Fischer, German Historiography and the Reconstruction of National Identity
G2. 1:05-2:40: Questions of Religion, Morality, and Theory (Concurrent Session)
Session Chair: Mandy Koroniak
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 302 Paterson
David Vance, 杏吧原创, 鈥淐harles Templeton鈥檚 Epistemological Journey鈥�
Joel Kropf, 杏吧原创, 鈥淭he (A/Im) Moral Human Animal: The Rhetoric of Animality in the Canadian Debate on Capital Punishment, 1957-1976鈥�
David Tough, 杏吧原创, 鈥淟eft: On the Semantic Trail of an Orientation鈥�
Glenn Walker, Queen鈥檚, 鈥淗istorical Metonym: From Local to Global History鈥�
SESSION H
3:00 -4:45: Science and Health
Session Chair: Mary-Ann Shantz Lingwood
A/V Required: PowerPoint
Location: 433 Paterson
Erich Weidenhammer, Dalhousie, “Human Health and the Aerial Environment in Britain 1772-1790”
Valerie Minnett, 杏吧原创, 鈥淒isease and Domesticity on Display: The Montreal Tuberculosis Exhibition, 1908鈥�
4:45: Closing Remarks, Dr. A.B. McKillop (Chair, History Dept.)
6:00: Keynote Address
Introduction: Dr. Susanne Klausen
Location: Humanities Lecture Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall
Dr. Angus McLaren:
Professor, Department of History, University of Victoria,
鈥淕landular Eugenics: Sex, Race, and Rejuvenation in the Early Twentieth Century鈥�
Reception and Banquet to follow at Baker’s Grille in the University Centre
Reception: 7:30
Dinner: 8:00
After-dinner address by Dr. Victoria Dickenson (McCord Museum, Montreal)