DAY ONE: FEBRUARY 26, 2026
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15.30 – 16.00: REGISTRATION
Location: 4th Floor, Paterson Hall, History Department Atrium
Join us on the 4th floor of Paterson Hall, where participants can check-in before we kick-off the 2026 Underhill Colloquium! |
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16.00 – 16.10: WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs |
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16.10 – 17.30: SESSION ONE
Session 1 A: Research Methods and Community Connections
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator:聽Aiden Power (he/they)
- Kegan Rumig (he/him), 杏吧原创 University – “Identifying Historical Communities: Letters and Correspondence of Sir John Beverley Robinson”
- Lydia Robb (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Researching Early Modern Textiles in Historical Costuming Facebook Groups: What Mass Collaboration Offers”
- Kavita Mistry (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Modelled by Many: Community Knowledge and Creative Engagement with Digital Heritage”
- Madeline deJonge (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Finding Community Along The Foreshore”
Session 1 B: Shared Memory and Commemoration in Historical Practice聽
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Jaime Wood (they/them)
- Emma Sharpe (she/her), University of Ottawa – “Unconventional Battlegrounds of National Memory: Hungary’s Memorial to the Victims of the German Occupation in Google Reviews”
- Katrina Hermann (she/her), University of British Columbia – “Remembering Elsewhere: Professionalization of grassroots Holocaust centres in Canada”
- Meghan Torchia (she/her), Queen’s University – “Sugar Cubes and Shock Workers: Public Dining and Social Control in Stalinist Russia”
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17.30 – 18.00: BREAK & SOCIAL TIME
Location: 4th Floor, Paterson Hall, History Department Atrium
Feel free to use this time to relax, socialize, or join us for some soft programming in the atrium before we head over to 杏吧原创 University Art Gallery (CUAG) for the keynote panel. We will walk over from Paterson around 18.00. |
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18.00 – 18.30: KEYNOTE PANEL WELCOME & MINGLE
Location: CUAG
Doors open for the keynote panel at 18.00. We will be serving light refreshments and encourage you to browse the gallery’s current exhibitions, and, prior to the panel starting at 18.30. |
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18.30 – 20.00: KEYNOTE PANEL
Location: CUAG / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs
Rebecca Dolgoy (she/her)听补苍诲 Alexa Lepera (she/her) will be speaking on their work with community-oriented exhibitions at Ingenium. Specifically, they will be discussing their recent exhibition 鈥楳emories Are Made in the Kitchen,鈥� now open at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. The conversation with be facilitated by our co-chairs and a short audience Q & A will follow. |
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DAY TWO: FEBRUARY 27, 2026
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9.00 – 9.20: COFFEE & CHECK-IN
Location: 4th Floor, Paterson Hall, History Department Atrium
Join us on the 4th floor of Paterson Hall to grab some coffee before we begin day two.
For those arriving on day two, please check-in to pick up your name tag and programme.聽 |
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9.20 – 9.30: WELCOME
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs |
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9.30 – 10.50: SESSION ONE
Session 1 A: Indigeneity, Settler-Colonialism and the Making of Communities
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator:聽Charlotte Johnston (she/her)
- Marissa Little (she/her), Queen’s University – “The Enduring Legacy of Uepishtikueiau: Exploring the Innu Nation鈥檚 Multifaceted Use of Transatlantic Diplomacy in Seventeenth Century New France”
- Samuel Mickelson (he/him), 杏吧原创 University – “‘The utilitarian spirit of the age has altered the smiling face of nature no more than at the Chaudi猫re’: The production of Ottawa as capital city in boosterist writing about Akikodjiwan/the Chaudi猫re Falls”
- Magnus Glennie (he/him), 杏吧原创 University – “Re-Earthing The Past: De-colonizing Landscape Remediation on Hart鈥檚 Point”
- Charlotte Thomson (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Mapping gender and mobility in New France religious communities”
Session 1 B: Gendered History and Social Memory
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Lauren Stoyles (she/her)
- Ally Robidoux (they/them), 杏吧原创 University – “(Un)seen and Unpaid: The Pauper Nurses of Victorian Workhouse Infirmaries”
- Patricia Park (she/her), Western University – “The Radicalization of Girls”
- Simran Kalsi (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Constructing Crises, Conspiracies, and Ignorance: A Gendered and Epistemic Analysis of the ‘International Jewish Conspiracy for World Domination’ in 20th Century America”
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10.50 – 11.00: BREAK
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11.00 – 12.00: SESSION TWO
Session 2 A: Defining the Borders of Community in North America
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator:聽TBD
- Rebecca Hartley (she/her), University of Toronto- “‘To Make Herself Conversant with Imperial and Canadian History’: Community Commemorations and the Women鈥檚 Canadian Club of Toronto, 1908-1939”
- Emma Bock (she/her), McGill University – “‘Elles aiment cependant la dans [sic] jusqu鈥櫭� l鈥檈xc猫s‘: Gendered Performances of Community in Colonial St. Louis”
- Kaitlyn Carter (she/her), Queen’s University – “Regulating Regiments: Establishing Masculine Emotional Community in the British Army during the War of 1812”
Session 2 B: Networks of Action: Community, Policy, and Activism
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Kate Moulden (she/her)
- Emma Schlitt (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Writing Mental Health Governance as History: Community, Policy, and Power in Nepal”
- Alex Throndson (he/him), University of Alberta – “‘A Strong and Independent Voice’: Maintaining the Indian Association of Alberta in the Changing 1960s”
- Aidan Power (he/they), 杏吧原创 University – “Accessing the Archive: Visualizing Historical Protests On Parliament Hill”
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12.00 – 12.50: LUNCH
Location: 4th Floor, Paterson Hall, History Department Atrium
Lunch will be served in the atrium during this time. If you are joining for the keynote luncheon, please make your way to the lecture hall around 12.50. |
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12.50 – 14.00: KEYNOTE LUNCHEON
Location: 3rd Floor, Paterson Hall (PA303) / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs
Starting at 13.00 sharp, Professor Alex Nahwegahbow (she/her) will be speaking at on her methodology and practice of care and relationality with Indigenous art, histories, and material culture, followed by a short audience Q & A. |
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14.00 – 14.15: BREAK
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14.15 – 15.15: WORKSHOPS
Workshop A: “Strike a Match: A Queer Matchbook Making Workshop”
Location: Room 433, Lounge
- Marienza Miserere (she/her), McMaster University
Workshop B: “Horrible History Classes and Dressing up as Cowboys: Childhood Encounters with the Field we all Love”
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room
- Claire Blackmer (she/her), 杏吧原创 University
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15.15 – 15.25: BREAK
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15.25 – 16.25: SESSION THREE
Session 3 A: Capital, Culture, and Community Across Borders
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Sadie Cann (she/her)
- Nicholas Langer (he/him), 杏吧原创 University – “Defining a Modern Commonwealth: The Role of Canada and Queen Elizabeth II in the 1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting”
- Eugene Henry (he/him), 杏吧原创 University – “Imagined Confr茅ries: New York Wine Communities and the Co-constitution of Burgundian Place”
- Aasiyah Khan (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Double Diaspora: Identity, Isolation, and Islam”
Session 3 B: Practicing Place: Design, Governance, and Power
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Rebecca Friend (she/her)
- Candide Mawoko (she/her), University of Ottawa – “Producing Community Through Authority: The Chef de Quartier and Neighbourhood life in Kinshasa (1970-1992)”
- Briana Kroeker (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “Fostering a Sense of Belonging: Using Critical Placemaking to Inform Housing Policy”
- Aymen Aiblu (he/him), 杏吧原创 University – “Rooftops and Alleyways: Constructing Community in the Saharan Built Environment”
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16.25 – 16.45: SNACK BREAK
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16.45 – 17.50: SESSION FOUR
Session 3 A: Queer Histories of Practice and Connection
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Emma Awe (they/them)
- Amber Collins (she/her), 杏吧原创 University – “‘Dykes in the Streets’: Canadian Roots of the Dyke March and Lesbian Visibility”
- Gabryelle Iaconetti (she/they), Concordia University – “Community in Conversation: Canadian Bisexual Zines in the Early Twenty-First Century”
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17.50 – 18.00: CLOSING REMARKS
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs
We will be wrapping up another year of Underhill with some brief remarks. Afterwards, people are free to head out or join us in heading over to the Mike’s Place for snacks and socializing! |
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18:00: MIKE’S PLACE
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DAY THREE: FEBRUARY 28, 2026
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TIME TBD: BONUS SOCIAL
Exhibition Tour of聽Memories are made in the kitchen聽at Food & Agriculture Museum
Location: / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs & Ingenium Staff |
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