THURSDAY, FEB 19:
3:30-5:00 – Registration
5:00-7:00pm – Historian’s Craft Roundtable Discussion
Title: “Methodological Implications of ‘Borderless’ History”
Moderated by: Dr Kathryn McPherson (York University History Department)
Discussants:
- Dr. Deborah Neill (York History Department)
- Dr. Gilberto Fernandes (Public Historian)
- Lydia Wytenbroek (York History, PhD ABD)
Location: Schulich Executive Learning Centre, Private Dining Room
FRIDAY, FEB 20:
8:30-9:30am – Breakfast and Registration
Session 1: 9:30-10:45am
Panel A: Violence
Moderator: Chelsea Bauer (York University)
- Lacey Batemen – Am I Next?: Media Representations of Violence Against
Indigenous Women in Canada
- Samantha Henderson – Put Myself on the Last Train: Jewish Ghetto Police, 19401944
- Katherine Little – None is Too Many: Canada's Failure to Prosecute War
Criminals
Panel B: Law and Legitimacy
Moderator: Luke Hagemann (York University)
- Katelyn Arac (Queen’s University) – Judicial Responses to War Criminals in
Canada: the Shifting Definition of War Crimes Within the Canadian Legal
System
- David Cross (York University) – Inventing the Author: The Book Trade and
Copyright Law in Eighteenth Century Britain
- Aaron Miedema (York University) – God, Skill, or Luck? Early Modern Italian
musings on the Ordeal by Combat
- Mike Rast (Concordia University) – ‘The Mad Dance of Death’: Enforcing the
Law in Northern Ireland, 1920-1923
Panel C: Issues in Health and Scientific Inquiry
Moderator: Kevin Burris (York University)
- Maximilian Smith (York University) – "The men that God made mad":
Explaining Irish Psychiatric Institutionalization in Nineteenth-Century North
America
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Reut Ulman – (York University) – Conceptualizing Slavery: Charles Darwin and
Thomas Huxley
Stephen Van Andel – Spermatorrhea
Session 2: 11:00am-12:45pm
Panel A: World Wars: Memory and Representation
Moderator: Ashlee Bligh (York University)
- Kate Barker (York University) – Breaking the News By Following the Rules:
Canadian War Correspondents in World War Two
- Samantha Desroches (University of Western Ontario) – Selling Peace in the Form
of War: Canadian Christmas Advertisements during World War I
- David Hussey (University of Waterloo) – Valiant Hearts: The Great War as an
Object of Commemoration
- Carly Naismith (York University) – Shrapnel Fragment: Remnant of Total War
Panel B: Historiography
Moderator: Kevin Guertin (York University)
- Preston Arens (University of Waterloo) – Emerging State, Emerging
Historiography: Some Thoughts on the Historiography of the Ethiopian
Revolution
- Shannon Conway (Memorial University of Newfoundland) – An Analysis of a
Sample of the Historiography of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
- Robert Harris (Guelph) – Establishment and Criticisms of the Cultural Historical
Paradigm
- Jean Smith (York University) – The historiography of food in the British West
Indies: issues and contexts
Panel C: Immigration and Interethnic Relations
Moderator: Maryann Buri (York University)
- Michael Akladios (York University) – "We Give Christ and Make Him
Indigenous in Everything": Ecumenism and the Establishment of the First Coptic
Orthodox Church in Toronto, 1962-1978
- Tristan Johnson (University of Western Ontario) –Spit Out of the Melting Pot:
The Muslim-American Experience After 9/11
- Vanessa Lovisa (McMaster University) – The Roman Catholic Church and
Immigration
- Erica Washburn (Boston College) – Women’s Work: The Americanization of the
Post-WWI Immigrant
Lunch – 12:45-1:30PM
Session 3: 1:30-3:15pm
Panel A: Nationalism and Communal Identity
Moderator: Carly Simpson (York University)
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Michelle Fu (York University) – From “Imagined” to Visible Community(s):
Reading The Body Politic, 1971-1978
Matthew Gayford (University of Waterloo) – Before the Martial Races:
Communal Identity as a Factor in 18th Century Sepoy Recruitment
Cindy Walker (York University) – Moo…ving the Nation Forward: Canada's
Animal Contagious Diseases Act, 1869.
Panel B: Exploring Historical Sources
Moderator: Barry Torch
- Brennan Dempsey (Dalhousie University) – The Power of Pictures in John Foxe's
Book of Martyrs.
- Samantha James (Wilfrid Laurier University) – "Cornelius Aurelius - The
Upcycling Humanist"
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Amir Lavie (University of Toronto) – Historical Documents on the world wide
web: looking at the development, organization methods and accessibility of
digital Holocaust related materials
Noa Yaari (York University) – Visual Literacy in History: Reconstructing the
Past Using Aristotelian Induction II
Panel C: Faith, Spirituality and Society
Moderator: Jason Chartrand
- Avram Heisler (York University) – Ultramontane Catholicism and Catholic
Society in the Nineteenth Century
- Heather McDonald (University of Waterloo) – “Isn't it great to know there is a
Hereafter": Gender, Spiritualism and Healing in Interwar Canada
- Rachel Spivack (Fordham University) – Popular American Deism and the
Emergence of Secularism
Session 4: 3:30-5:15pm
Archives of Ontario Tours – meeting place TBA
Panel A: Memory and Perception
Moderator: Avram Heisler (York University)
- Eric Benjamin Grube – "One Volk, One Reich, Many Fredericks: Frederick II's
Portrayal in the Third Reich"
- Jesse Kraft (University of Delaware) – James Barton Longacre and the West:
Native American Representations on United States Coins Helping to Build a
National Identity
- John Merritt (Laurentian University) – The Oro Black Settlement: Black
Realities, White Interpretations, 1819-1949
Panel B: World Wars: People and Practice
Moderator: Kate Barker (York University)
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Kevin Burris (York University) – “Men Who Did Not Feel Fear”: Masculinity,
Combat Trauma and Psychiatry in Britain during the First and Second World
Wars
Matthew Poggi (York University) – Italian-Canadians and the First World War: A
Divided Community
Ryan Targa (York University) – Profiteering and Canada’s Great War of 19141918
5:30-6:30 – Cash Bar
6:30 – onwards – Keynote Address and Dinner
Dr. Jeffrey Pilcher (University of Toronto) – “How Beer Travelled the World”
Location: Schulich Executive Learning Centre, Private Dining Room
SATURDAY, FEB 21:
9:00-10:00am – Breakfast and Registration
Session 1: 10:00-11:45am
Panel A: Colonialism and Resilience
Moderator: Preston Arens (University of Waterloo)
- Colin Elder (Dalhousie University) – "And Propagating the Gospel Amongst
Destitute Settlers": Anglican Missionaries in Sault Ste. Marie, 1830-1841.
- Travis Hay (York University) – The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Brief
History of the Thrifty Gene
- Lesley Kimewon (Nipissing University) – Wampum Belts: All My Relations and
the Seven Year's War
- Richard Placzek (York University) – The Wayfinders: Locating Hawai’ian
Subjection
Panel B: Space and Place
Moderator:
- Thomas Russell Freure (University of Waterloo) – The Yser Tower (IJzertoren)
and Flemish Nationalism: A Study in Controversy
- David Leonard (York University) – “This Was Expo”: Ephemeral and Utopian
Spaces at Expo 67
- Shay Sweeney (McMaster University) – “staffing is no longer the primary
problem;” Balancing Expectations and Building Hospitals in Calgary and
Winnipeg, 1948-1960
- Tracey Thomas (York University) – Finding (In)Visible Regional & National
Cultural Boundaries in the Historisches Museum Basel and the Swiss National
Museum in Zurich
Panel C: The Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Moderator: Karen Macfarlane (Ryerson University)
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Luke Hagemann (York University) – Caesar Venator: The Roman Emperor as a
Hunter
Marielle Indar (York University) – “Separating the Holy and the Profane:
Purification Policies in Ezra-Nehemiah”
Tommaso Leoni (York University) – The fornix of Lucius Stertinius in the Circus
Maximus
Tristan Samuels (University of Toronto) – Herodotus and the Black Body: a
Critical Race Theory Analysis
11:45-1:45 – Lunch
Lunch speaker: Dr. Kenton Kroker (York, Science and Technologies Department) – “Dr.
Historian or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State.”
Location: Schulich Executive Learning Centre, Private Dining Room
Session 2: 2:00pm-3:45pm
Panel A: Women, Empire and Authority
Moderator: David Hussey (University of Waterloo)
- Jan Anderson (York University) – Of No Nation: Writing Enslaved Women into
Human Sorority and Citizenship in the Americas
- Aliyah Bridgemohan (York University) – The Role of Indentured Women in
British Guiana: 1850-1880
- Maryann Buri (York University) – Beyond Slaves and Wives: Free Black Women
and the Church in Eighteenth Century Benguela
Panel B: Human Rights in History
Moderator: Tommaso Leoni (York University)
- Sandy Barron (University of Calgary) – “Through Obstinacy or the Act of God”:
Emerging Accommodation of Deaf Defendants at the Old Bailey, 1725-1817
- Joanna Pearce (York University) – “The Tactile Babble under which The Blind
have hitherto Groaned”: The War of the Dots, Home Teaching Societies, and
Lending Libraries for the Blind, 1880 – 1920
- Becky Schaefer (University of Toronto) – Lying to Tell the Truth: Flora
MacDonald Denison's Biographical Fabrications in Support of Women's Suffrage
in the 1917 New York State Referendum
- RaeAnn Swanson (University of Northern Iowa) – “God Will Deliver Us”:
Human Rights Violations from Guatemala to Iowa and Back, 1980-2013.
Panel C: Cultural Histories: (Re)Presenting Culture
Moderator: Noa Yaari (York University)
- Sadie Evans (University of Victoria) – “We Covered Everything But
Hemmeroids”: Women’s Representation in 1970s American Television
Comedies”
- Haley G McConnell (York University) – Good Night, John-Boy. Good Morning,
Disability History: Disability History on Walton's Mountain, 1936-1945, 19721981
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Nicole Winger (Western University) – “Making It” in New York City: The
Supremes at The Copacabana, 1965
Session 3: 4:00-5:45pm
Panel A: Commodities, Food and Agriculture
Moderator:
- Katherine D’Arolfi (McMaster University) – Women and China: Objectified
Consumers
- Edward Dunsworth (University of Toronto) – Green Gold, Red Threats: Tobacco
Farmworkers in Depression-Era Ontario
- Jackson Yue Bin Guo (University of Toronto) – The Declining Military Farms
and the Shrinking Imperial Authority: Tuntian in the middle and late Ming
Dynasty
Panel B: Gender and Sexuality
Moderator:
- Farhana Ahmed (York University) – Voices from the periphery: Revisiting the
‘Hijra’ gender
- Joe Galusha (Boston College) – Brain or Brawn: Forging a New Masculine
Identity Through Agricultural Education
- Jacqueline Kirkham (McMaster University) – "'It's Better to Push Safety than
Push Daisies': A Gender Analysis of British Columbia Forest Products' Safety
Week, 1953-55."
- Hilary Mackinlay (Dalhousie University) – Public Professions and Languishing
Laundry: Expressions of Masculinity in the Pacific Whaling Journal of Thomas
Creighton, 1843-46
Panel C: Cultural Histories: Building and Buying Culture
Moderator:
- Thomas Blampied (University of Toronto) – “Under the Aegis of Uncle Sam”:
Leisure and Tourism in the Canal Zone and Panamanian Cities
- Milorad Lazic (George Washington University) – “In five years Yugoslavia
would be Balkan only geographically”: Yugoslav Consumerism Seen Through
American Eyes, 1945-1960
- Eliot Perrin (Concordia University) – "It's your city, only you can save it!": Save
Montreal and the Struggle for Housing and Heritage in 1970s Montreal"