Programme for “Contested National Identities”
Wednesday, October 16th
3:00-4:00
Registration and coffee
4:00-4:15
Opening Remarks and Words of Welcome from the Organizing Committee
4:15-5:30
Session #1: Empty Time, Empty Land, Empty Spectacle: Art and Cinema in
Colonial Constructions of Nationhood
Chair: Constanza Burucua, Western University, London Ontario
Paper 1.1
May Chew, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario, “Imagined Sounds: Interactive
Technologies and the Myth of Participation”
Paper 1.2
Erin Sutherland, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario, “Indigenous Imagery in the
National Imaginary”
Paper 1.3
Caroline Damiens, Inalco, Paris France, “Les Tchouktches dans le cinéma soviétique: de
la représentation d’un peuple arriéré à la revendication de l’égalité”
Paper 1.4
Leah Decter, Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario, “Five Blanket Suite: A Reckoning
with the Great White North”
5:45-7:00
Reception at Brough Hall
Thursday, October 17th
8:30-9:30
Registration and continental breakfast
9:30-10:45
Session #2: Nation Building
Chair: Paul Nesbitt-Larking, Huron University College, London Ontario
Paper 2.1
Lucas Savino, Huron University College, London Ontario, “Making Indigenous Peoples
Legible. Modern State Formation and Its Discontents”
Paper 2.2
Helia Gianeella Ramirez-Munoz, Huron University College, London Ontario,
“Racialized and Post-Colonial Identity in the Australian Democracy: Deficit in
Indigenous Political Participation”
Paper 2.3
Bojan Baca, York University, Toronto Ontario, “Enjoy Your Nationality! Nationalism as
an Instrument of Depoliticization in Montenegro”
Paper 2.4
Sevan Beukian, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, “Collective Memory,
Territoriality and National Identity: Examining post-Soviet Armenian Nation Building
(1988-2010)”
10:45-11:00
Morning coffee break
11:00-12:15
Session #3: Minority Groups and Nation Building
Chair: Pascal Maeder, University of Basel, Basel Switzerland
Paper 3.1
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah and Erwin Selimos, University of Windsor, Windsor Ontario,
“Border City: Representing Locality and Multiculturalism in a Transnational City”
Paper 3.2
Vytharane Devarajan, Western University, “The Lions of Lanka: Analyzing the
Historical Roots of the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict”
Paper 3.3
Ramon Fonkoué, Michigan Technological University, Houghton Michigan,“Du projet de
l’état-nation à l’État sans nation au Cameroun: essai sur un demi-siècle d’amnésie”
12:15-1:45
Lunch at Brough Hall
1:45-3:00
Session #4: Spirituality and National Identity
Chair: Ramona Mielusel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette Louisiana
Paper 4.1
Sterline Sama Lindor, L’Université de Paris VIII, Paris France, “La question identitaire
haïtienne entre fiction et réalité: Le mythe, au fondement d’une identité nationale”
Paper 4.2
John-Daniel Steele, Huron University College, London Ontario, “The Danish Cartoons
Controversy: Ignorance, Imperialism and Immigration”
Paper 4.3
Bill Acres, Huron University College, London Ontario, “The Textbook of National
Religion: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the World Religions Text”
3:00-3:15
Afternoon coffee break.
3:15-4:30
Session #5: Indigeneity, Resistance, and Identity
Chair: Teresa Hubel, Huron University College, London Ontario
Paper 5.1
Vicki S. Hallett, Memorial University, St. John’s Newfoundland, “‘She Taught Us How
to be Labradorian’: Doris Saunders and Oppositional Labrador Identity”
Paper 5.2
Sandra Krahn, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba, “The Impact of Settler and
Indigenous Relationships on Family Identities”
Paper 5.3
Jocelyn Kent, Huron University College, “Food Security and Cultural Identity in
Nunavut”
Paper 5.4
Stacy Ernst, Carleton University, Ottawa Ontario, “Robert Houle: Transnationalism,
Aboriginal Sovereignty, and What History Buried”
4:30-5:00
Break with coffee and snacks
5:00-6:00
First Keynote address
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Manitoba, “Ge Go Wani Ke
Kan Aande Wenjiwan, ‘Don't forget where you come from’”
Friday October 18th
8:30-9:30
Continental breakfast
9:30-10:45
Session #6, Querying Hybridity
Chair: Lucas Savino, Huron University College, London Ontario
Paper 6.1
Daniel Bauer, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville Indiana, “Challenging
Mestizaje: Reflections in Identity in Coastal Ecuador”
Paper 6.2
Rachel Hunt, Huron University College, London Ontario, “Oppression and Liberation:
An Examination of Igbo Women in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Emecheta’s The
Joys of Motherhood”
Paper 6.3
Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University, Normal Illinois, “Mapping the Vietnamese
Diaspora in Clément Baloup’s Mémoires de Viet Kieu”
Paper 6.4
Jennifer Boum Make, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, “L’identité piednoire: apatridité et métissage”
10:45-11:00
Morning coffee break
11:00-12:15
Roundtable: Contestation, Integration, Resistance: Immigration and National
Identity
Moderator: Mark Blagrave, Huron University College, London Ontario
Discussant 1
Patrick Imbert, L’Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario, “Relational Identities in Canada
and the Valorization of Change”
Discussant 2
Paul Nesbitt-Larking, Huron University College, London Ontario, “Citizenship,
Multiculturalism and (Post)National Identities”
Discussant 3
Pascal Maeder, University of Basel, Basel Switzerland, “Germans into Europeans:
Nationhood and Expellees in Postwar Canada”
Discussant 4
Judy White, University of Regina, Regina Saskatchewan, “Our research evolves as we
learn more about our research and one another”
12:15-1:45
Lunch at Brough Hall
1:45-3:00
Session #7: Culture and Identity
Chair: Geoff Read, Huron University College, London Ontario
Paper 7.1
Wenjun Deng, L’Université de Paris-III, Paris France, “La construction d’une identité
nationale dans le cinéma chinois sur la Guerre sino-japonaise”
Paper 7.2
Ramona Mielusel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette Louisiana, “La
représentation de la (dés)intégration des populations minoritaires en France
contemporaine”
Paper 7.3
Christina Brassard, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, “Laurentie de Mathieu Denis
et Simon Lavoie: une (ré)itération d’un mythe”
Paper 7.4
Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario, “Food,
Citizenship and Power: Indian Policy and Indigenous People in Northern Canada in the
Post-WWII Period”
3:00-3:15
Afternoon coffee break
3:15-4:30
Session #8: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism
Chair: Bill Acres, Huron University College, London Ontario
Paper 8.1
Geoff Read, Huron University College, London Ontario, “‘Il servit la France jusqu'au
sacrifice de sa vie’: Masculinity and the Political Contestation of National Identity in
Interwar France”
Paper 8.2
Andrea Stevenson Allen, Western University, London Ontario, “Premature
Nationalization: Lesbian Women and Brazilian Nationalist Ideologies”
Paper 8.3
Afsana Tabibi, York University, Toronto Ontario, “Afghan Women ‘Speak Back’:
Agency and Colonial Representations in the Contemporary West”
4:30-5:00
Break with coffee and snacks
5:00-6:00
Second Keynote address
Cynthia Enloe, Clarke University, Boston Massachusetts, “What Makes It So Hard to Be
a Nationalist Feminist?”
6:00-6:15
Closing remarks