DAY ONE: FEBRUARY 26, 2026

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!

16.00 – 16.10: WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs

16.10 – 17.30: SESSION ONE

Session 1 A: Research Methods and Community Connections
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator:听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听
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”

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.

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.

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.

DAY TWO: FEBRUARY 27, 2026

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.听

9.20 – 9.30: WELCOME

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs

9.30 – 10.50: SESSION ONE

Session 1 A: Indigeneity, Settler-Colonialism and the Making of Communities
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator:听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 20^th Century America”

10.50 – 11.00: BREAK

11.00 – 12.00: SESSION TWO

Session 2 A: Defining the Borders of Community in North America
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator:听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”

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.

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.

14.00 – 14.15: BREAK

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

15.15 – 15.25: BREAK

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”

16.25 – 16.45: SNACK BREAK

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”

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!

18:00: MIKE’S PLACE

DAY THREE: FEBRUARY 28, 2026

TIME TBD: BONUS SOCIAL

Exhibition Tour of听Memories are made in the kitchen听at Food & Agriculture Museum
Location: / Moderator: Underhill Co-Chairs & Ingenium Staff

9:30 AM – 9:50 AM: CHECK-IN AND COFFEE

Location: 4th Floor, Paterson Hall, History Department Atrium

9:50 AM – 10:00 AM: OPENING REMARKS

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Address by Underhill Planning Committee

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM: SESSION 1

Roundtable 1: The Difficulty of Doing History: Reflections on the Challenges of the Historian鈥檚 Craft
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Rebecca Friend

• Declan Da Barp (he/him), 杏吧原创 University
• Patricia Roussel (she/her), 杏吧原创 University
• Alan Jones (he/him), 杏吧原创 University
• Lauren Stoyles (she/her), 杏吧原创 University

Panel 1: Activist Histories, Historians as Activist
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: No毛 Bourdeau

• Avishi Gupta (she/her), McGill University: Mobilizing 鈥榳ith鈥� Women: A Study of Consciousness-Raising and Formation of Feminist Protest Spaces in Post-Emergency India (1978-2005)
• Romy Shoam (she/her), 杏吧原创 University: Narrating Naches (1973-1986): Historicizing a Montreal Jewish Gay Group
• Breanna Kubat听(she/her), 杏吧原创 University: Methodologies of Agency: The Role of Legitimacy in Knowledge Production and Public Discourse
• Candide Mawoko听(she/her), University of Ottawa: Exploring Neighborhoods, Identity, and Political Agency in Kinshasa: A Methodological Approach

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: BREAK听

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM: SESSION 2

Roundtable 2: The Importance of Doing Visual History
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Amie Wright

• Elena Senecal (she/her), University of Victoria
• Emma Awe (she/they), 杏吧原创 University
• Jihad Baayoun听(he/him), 杏吧原创 University
• Sierra Hill (she/her), 杏吧原创 University

Panel 2: Contemporary Experiences: Creating Historical Knowledge in the Public Sphere
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Beth McNeill

• Geneva Gillis (she/her), McMaster University: The Community Building Power of Small Ontario Museums
• Fionnuala Braun (she/her), 杏吧原创 University: Towards an Archive for the Future: Recording Living Histories of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan
• Meghan Jennings听(she/her/elle), 杏吧原创 University: Linguistic Intangible Heritage in GLAMs: A Path Toward Decolonization and Accessibility
• Aidan Power (they/him), 杏吧原创 University: Mapping the Collection: Visualizing the Ottawa Field Naturalists鈥� Club鈥檚 Contributions to the Museum of Nature

12:45 PM – 1:15 PM: LUNCH

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM: LUNCHEON KEYNOTE听

Location: Room 433, Lounge

Dr. Marc Saurette, Associate Professor, 杏吧原创 University: Meandering into the Ludic Century: Historians and the challenge of games

For Dr. Marc Saurette’s bio, see our Keynote Announcement

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM: SESSION 3

Panel 3: Methods and Methodology: Windows to the Past
Location: Room 436, Seminar Room / Moderator: Olivia Lester

• Rachel McNally听(she/her), 杏吧原创 University: In Between History and Political Science: The Historical Development of Policies on the Resettlement of Refugees with Disabilities (1951 to present)
• Bryanna Busby (she/her), 杏吧原创 University: Birks At 145: The Intersection Between Business and History
• Eugene Henry (he/him), 杏吧原创 University: Prime Sites: Perceptions of Soil and Geological Determinism in Late 20th Century Viticulture
• Kristijan Tosheski听(he/him), Queen鈥檚 University: Changing Heritage Landscapes in Skopje: The Evidence of Declassified Remote Sensing

Panel 4: Historians and Histories: Exploring the Agency of Historical Actors
Location: Room 433, Lounge / Moderator: Dani Reimer

• Sophia Cohen Galvao (she/her), McMaster University: Antinous, the Victorian: J.A. Symonds and the Creation of a Queer Icon
• Kieran Martin (he/him), Nipissing University: Constructing the Life of a Minor Perpetrator: Biographical Method and the Case of Oskar Gr枚ning
• Victoria Salomon (she/her), 杏吧原创 University: Espionage in the Aegean: The Carabinieri in the Dodecanese
• Olivia Young (she/her), 杏吧原创 University: Transing the Asylum: Madness, Nonnormativity, and Space

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM: UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION AND COFFEE

Location: History Department Atrium

Ally Krueger- Kischak (any/all)
Athena Mosely (she/they)
Brett Bertelsen (she/her)
Gracie Henneberry (she/her)
Heather Thompson (she/her)
James Goodyear (he/they)
Lucien Oliver Hanley (he/they)

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM: SESSION 4

Workshop 1: It鈥檚 All Made Up Anyway: Considering Historical Research Through Creative Writing

贵补肠颈濒颈迟补迟辞谤:听Charlotte Johnston听(she/her), 杏吧原创 University

Location: Room 436, Seminar Room

Materials to bring: pen, paper, laptop (optional)听

Workshop 2: History-ing While Black: A Workshop on Historical Practice As Blackness听

Facilitators:听Dr. Alicia Edwards (she/her) and听Asantewa Nkuah (she/her), 杏吧原创 University

Location: Room 433, Lounge

Materials to bring: pen, paper, laptop (optional)

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM: CLOSING REMARKS听

Location: Room 433, Lounge / Address by Underhill Planning Committee

Paterson Hall, Room 303

Paterson Hall, Room 303

Opening Remarks

Underhill 2024 Planning Committee

Opening Keynote

Audra A. Dipt茅e, Associate Professor, 杏吧原创 University, The future of history: Reflections from a Caribbean historian

For Audra’s bio, see our Keynote Announcement

Paterson Hall, 4th Floor

Meet and greet and refreshments in the History Department foyer

Paterson Hall, Room 436 (Seminar Room) / Moderator: Amie Wright

• James E. Rubino (Virtual), University of Guelph, Picturesque Mountains in the Common Eye: A Close Reading of William Bathurst鈥檚 Two Scottish Tours 1826 and 1857 Manuscript
• Meaghan Bulger (Virtual), Dalhousie University, 鈥淩eimagining Architecture and Memorial Aesthetics in Ypres鈥�: Selective Restoration in Inter-War Flanders
• Kat MacDonald, Queen’s University, Spectres of the Limestone City: Tourist Narratives at Sites of Pain in Kingston, Ontario

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: No毛 Bourdeau

• Cristina Paolozzi,听杏吧原创 University, A Space for Revolution: Coffee and coffeehouses in eighteenth-century France
• Nicholas Morrison, 杏吧原创 University, Echoes from the Polygon: Expanding the Dimensions of Late Soviet Environmentalism in Kazakhstan, 1965-1989
• Larissa Farias,听Paraiba State University, The 鈥淢imeograph Generation鈥� in Brazil: Dictatorship and Resistance through Poetry

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: Kavita Mistry

• Olivia Lester, 杏吧原创 University, Gender and Hockey During the Summit Series Era
• Reilly Ikebuchi (Virtual), University of British Columbia, Anatomy of a Riot: Comparative Perspectives of the 1832 Paisley Cholera Riot
• Michael Carrier, 杏吧原创 University, The Iliad: The Narrative That Launched a Thousand Dimensions
• Zac Code, University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg, The Conveniently Forgotten: Historiography of German-Canadian Internment During the Second World War

Catering in the History Department foyer

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: Dr. Laura Madokoro

• Julia Stanski,听University of Alberta, “A Woman Like Me:” Knowledge, Narrative, and the Louis Bull Surrender
• Samuel Mickelson,听杏吧原创 University, Complicating the Settler Colonial Turn? On Thinking Critically about Ottawa Valley History
• Steve Schwinghamer (Virtual), 杏吧原创 University, Heterosexist Exclusion in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1953-1978
• Katie Carson,听杏吧原创 University, 鈥淎 Sick Civilization鈥� – Aim茅 C茅saire鈥檚 鈥淏oomerang Effect鈥� in the 1970 October Crisis

Paterson Hall, Room 433 (History Lounge) / Moderator: Rebecca Friend

• Alan Jones, 杏吧原创 University, Old Memories in a New Home: Antisemitism, Restitution, and Memory Politics in Aufbau
• Dmitry Prokoptsov, 杏吧原创 University, The Fall of an Empire, and the Ever-Evolving Memory: The Memory of the Gulag from Estonia’s and Kazakhstan’s Museums
• Rebecca Hartley, Queen’s University, Remembrances of Things Past: Nostalgia and Memory in ‘Old Town’ at the Royal British Columbia Museum

Paterson Hall, Room 303

Closing Keynote

Charlie Foran, CM, Making the Truth Up: How biography and biographers negotiate history-misremembered, facts garbled, and stories-too-often-told

Closing Remarks听

2024 Underhill Planning Committee听

For Charles’s bio, see our Keynote Announcement

Opening remarks from Dr. Paul Nelles, Graduate Program Chair of the 杏吧原创 History Department

Opening Keynote – David Dean and Rick Duthie, ‘Theatrical Pasts’

Moderator: Jackie Mahoney (she/her), 2nd year MA student, 杏吧原创 University.

See full description attached听

Moderator: Dr. James Opp, Public History Graduate Program Head, 杏吧原创 University

Panelists:

• Emma Awe (she/they), Ph.D. Candidate, 杏吧原创 University
• Rebecca Friend (she/her), Ph.D. Candidate, 杏吧原创 University
• Amie Wright (she/her), Ph.D. Candidate, 杏吧原创 University听

Moderator: Kavita Mistry, Ph.D. Student, 杏吧原创 University听

• Jackie Mahoney (she/her), 杏吧原创 University, Repertoire-y Theatre: Using Performance to Subvert Archival Expectation
• Suki Lee (she/her), 杏吧原创 University, An Experiment on Digital Humanities and the Discipline of History
• Nicholas Surges (he/him), 杏吧原创 University, The Sobibor Uprising and the Telegenics of Genocide: Problematizing Filmic Representations of the Holocaust

Facilitator: Scott Coleman, Ph.D. Candidate, 杏吧原创 University听

The Underhill Colloquium invites presenters, volunteers and the audience to participate in a workshop which introduces the program Obsidian.md for research note-taking and organization. In this workshop, you will be introduced to the basics of markdown syntax and program functionality. We will review how to create zettlekasten notes, templates, insert metadata and much more. The workshop aims to provide participants the skills to begin personalizing Obsidian for their research needs and goals.听

NOTE: This workshop requires separate registration from the main conference. This can be found 听

Moderator: Rebecca Friend (she/her), Ph.D. Candidate, 杏吧原创 University

• • Alexa Lepra (she/her), 杏吧原创 University, Exploring Representations of Black History at the Canadian Museum of History
  • Christine Green (she/her), Lakehead University, Constructing a Collective Past: Locating Indigenous Histories in Local Narratives
  • Natalie Amato (she/her), 杏吧原创 University, Multiculturalism and Canada鈥檚 Stage: Assessing the diversity of the National Arts Centre鈥檚 English Theatre Program, 1969-1980
  • Emma Bower (she/her), 杏吧原创 University, Hands-on Approaches to Teaching History

Moderator: Emma Awe (she/they), Ph.D. Candidate, 杏吧原创 University听

• No毛 Bourdeau (he/him), 杏吧原创 University, 鈥淚 am jeopardizing everyone wherever I go, as a man or as a woman, it doesn鈥檛 make any difference鈥�: Toward a trans* history of the Holocaust
• Hannah Pinilla (she/her), 杏吧原创 University, The Co-Creation of 鈥楾aste of Home: Tracing Identity, Agency, and Memory in the Oral History of a Thai-Canadian Restaurateur鈥�
• Sin茅ad O鈥橦alloran (she/her), 杏吧原创 University, 鈥淢ovemented鈥�: A Sensory Archive of a Transitory Childhood听

A Case Study from the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary.鈥�

Moderator: Scott Coleman, Ph.D. Candidate, 杏吧原创 University.

See full description attached

Closing Remarks听

Closing remarks from Dr. Paul Nelles, Graduate Program Chair of the 杏吧原创 History Department and the听

2023 Underhill Planning Committee听