FRIDAY, 28 May 2010 (top of page)

14:00 – 17:00        Room LB-1042.03

CHA Executive Meeting

SATURDAY, 29 May 2010 (top of page)

9:00 – 17:00        Room LB-1014.00

CHA Council Meeting

16:00 – 19:00        Room H-767.00

Meeting of Chairs of History Departments

19:30 – 23:30       Brutopia, 1215 Crescent Blvd

Graduate Students’ Welcome Social

Graduate Students’ Welcome Social

All graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are invited to Brutopia, one of our great Montreal pubs, situated at 1215 Crescent Blvd, minutes from Concordia. Along with internationally-inspired tapas and beers brewed on site (a couple of which will be on us), there will be live entertainment, lots of people and lots of fun. Come and join us!

SUNDAY, 30 May 2010 (top of page)

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-423.00

1.         Japanese History Goes Pop: Historical Narratives, Historical Change, and Japanese Popular Culture

1.1       Thomas Lamarre, McGill University
            The Child Bomb: How Japanese Comics “Atomicized” Histories of Childhood

1.2       Matthew Penney, Concordia University
            Arguing On War – Kobayashi Yoshinori, Civic Engagement and Historical Debate

1.3       Marc Steinberg, Concordia University
            From Narrative Marketing to Narrative Worlds: Japanese Media and Marketing             Practice from the 1980s to the Present           

Facilitator: Livia Monnet, Université de Montréal

9:00 – 10:30        Room LB-1014.00

2.         Storytelling and History Education on the Internet: Great Unsolved Mysteries in Quebec and Acadian History

2.1      Peter Gossage, Concordia University
            Le Québec et le Canada français dans le cadre des Grands Mystères de l’histoire             canadienne

2.2      Annmarie Adams, McGill University / Valerie Minnett, Carleton University              Mary Anne Poutanen, Concordia University / David Theodore, Harvard                            University
            ‘She Must Not Stir out of a Darkened Room’: The Redpath Mansion                           Mystery

2.3      Caroline-Isabelle Caron, Queen’s University
            Raconter la légende, révéler les faits: Stratégies de jumelages des légendes                         communautaires avec une base documentaire contradictoire dans Jérôme, l’inconnu             de la Baie Sainte-Marie  

Facilitator: Léon Robichaud, Université de Sherbrooke

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-403.00

3.         Constructing Group Identities in Transnational Communities

Sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism

3.1       Maddelena Marinari, American University
            Assimilated but Undigested: Italian Americans and American Jews in the United             States in the 1930s

3.2       Aya Fujiwara, McMaster University
            The Transformation of Japanese-Canadian Homeland Symbol, 1919-1950

3.3       Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg
            A Transitional Border Zone: Host Society Newspapers and Canadian-Descendent Low             German Mennonites from Mexico in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1978

3.4       Rhonda Hinther, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
            Stories of the Prairie Black Pioneers of Amber Valley: Place, Race, and Memory

Facilitator: Sonia Cancian, Concordia University

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-420.00

4.         Narrating Class: Oral History and Working Class Studies

4.1       Robert Storey, McMaster University
            Through No Fault of Their Own: Injured Workers Accident Stories from the Point of             Production

4.2       Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria
            Remembering Mean Streets in Philadelphia

4.3       Joyce Pillarella, Concordia University
            Behind the Tanks: The Italians of Ville-Émard, Montréal

4.4       Steven High, Concordia University
            Mapping Memories of Work and Displacement: The Sturgeon Falls Memoryscape

Facilitator: Katrina Srigley, Nipissing University

9:00 – 10:30        Room LB-1019.00

5.         Culture Clashes

5.1       Susan Brown, University of Prince Edward Island
            Making Ends Meet in London’s Eighteenth-Century Theatres:
            Performers’ Survival Strategies for Age, Illness and Poverty

5.2       Makaela Mahoney, Memorial University
            Telling Our Story: The Evolution of Theatre in Newfoundland, 1965-1983

5.3       Stephen Henderson, Acadia University
            The Counter-Counterculture: Protesting the Cancellation of The Don Messer Jubilee

Facilitator: Angela Bartie, University of Strathclyde

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-411.00

6.         North West Indies: Transcolonial Linkages Between the British Caribbean and Canada from Emancipation to Decolonization

6.1       Ryan Eyford, University of Manitoba
            Slave Owner, Missionary, and Colonization Agent: Tracing Patterns of Paternalism             from Barbados to the North-West Territories

6.2      Robin Grazley, Queen’s University
             Military Migration and Cultural Transfer between British North America and the West             Indies, 1840s-1860s

6.3       Paula Hastings, Duke University
            West Indians in Canada during the First World War: Organization, Protest, and the            Global Struggle for Racial Justice

6.4       Erin Mandzak, Queen’s University
            Commercial Visions of Tropical Horizons: Canadian Business Interest in the British             Caribbean, 1925-1970

Facilitator: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-407.00

7.         Narrating Masculinity and Youth in Early Twentieth Century Canada

7.1      Kristine Alexander, York University
            “This War is a Young Man’s Job”: Youth and Masculinity in the First World War             Novels of L.M. Montgomery and Ralph Connor

7.2      Jane Nicholas, Lakehead University
            Narrating the Modern Man: Beauty Culture and Masculinity in early twentieth-century             Canada

7.3      Nic Clarke, University of Ottawa
            Northern Supermen or Average Canucks?: The General Health of Canadian                         Expeditionary Force Recruits, 1914-1918

7.4      Heidi MacDonald, Lethbridge University
            On Hold?: Three Male Youths Tell Their Stories of Coming of Age during the Great             Depression

Facilitator: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-401.00

8.         Angels and Demons: Religious Images in Russian High and Low Art

Joint Session with the Canadian Association of Slavists

8.1       Roy R. Robson, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
            Devils in the World: Old Believer Images of Demonic Influence in Russian Society

8.2       Kristi A. Groberg, NDSU Division of Fine Arts
            Fin-de-Siècle Russian Images of Crucified Women: What the Included Demons                         Suggest

8.3       Connie Wawruck-Hemmett, University of Winnipeg
            Angels and Atheists: Illustrative Religious Themes in Komsomol’skaya Pravda,                         1929-36

Facilitator: Alison Rowley, Concordia University

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-427.00

9.         Critical Reflections on Colonial Documents
            Sponsored by The Champlain Society

9.1       Germaine Warkentin, University of Toronto
             Trusting Radisson

9.2       Carolyn Podruchny, York University & Kathryn Magee Labelle, Ohio State               University
             ‘Onontio, lend me your ear’: Wendat Voices in the Jesuit Relations

9.3       Cassandra Bernard, History, University of Ottawa.
             The Baby Collection and Corresponding Elites: Montreal Fur Merchants in Their Own              Words, 1798 – 1804.

Facilitator: Nicole St-Onge, University of Ottawa

10:30 – 11:00

Nutrition Break 

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-423.00

10.      Roundtable on Death by a Thousand Cuts - Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 2009

            Participants:

                        Emily Hill, Queen’s University
                        Jean-François Lozier, University of Toronto
                        Johanna Ransmeier, McGill University
                        Gregory Blue, University of Victoria
           
Facilitator: Frank Chalk, Concordia University

11:00 – 12:30        Room LB-1014.00

11.      Claiming Public Space

11.1     Dan Horner, York University
            “L’ordre le plus parfait a régné partout”: The Fête-Dieu Procession and the Contested             Use of Public Space in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

11.2     Robert Cupido, Mount Allison University
            Réinventer la Fête nationale, Re-imagining La Patrie

11.3     Diane Joly, Université Laval
            Les processions de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal: une histoire énigmatique du             patrimoine

Facilitator: Alan Gordon, University of Guelph

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-420.00

12.      Researchers, New Media and Archives: Case Studies of Immigrant
            Subjectivity
            Sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and
            Transnationalism

12.1     Justin Schell, University of Minnesota
            612 to 651 and Beyond: Online Video Archives as Site, Process, and Product of                         Research

12.2     Stacey Zembryzcki, Concordia University
            What Happens After the Interview?: Using New Media to Understand the Experiences             of Sudbury’s Ukrainians

12.3     Sonia Cancian, Concordia University & Donna Gabaccia, University of                            Minnesota
              Old Archives Respond to New Media: The Immigrant Letters Project

12.4     Elena Razlogova, Concordia University
              Storytelling in the Digital Age

Facilitator: Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-403.00

13.      Working-Class Public History

13.1     Jessica Mills, Concordia University
              What’s the Point?: Storytelling, Place and Community

13.2     Nicole Lang, Université de Moncton à Edmundston
              Donner la parole aux travailleuses et aux travailleurs: le projet des lieux historiques               ouvriers au Nouveau-Brunswick

13.3    Shauna Janssen, Concordia University
             Quartier Ephémère: Indeterminate Territories and Curatorial Practice in the              Industrial  Space

13.4     William Hamilton, Concordia University
            Controversies and Consequences: Working Class Public History and Kirkland Lake,             Northern Ontario

Animateur: David Frank, University of New Brunswick

11:00 – 12:30        Room LB-1019.00

14.      Radical Canadians

14.1     Barbara Freeman, Carleton University
            My body belongs to me, not the government: The Feminist Media Strategy Behind the             Abortion Caravan Campaign of 1970

14.2     Ian Milligan, York University
            Growing Up on the Line: Leftists, Labour, and the Artistic Woodwork Strike, 1973

14.3     Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada
            We Should Blow Our Own Stories: The Company of Young Canadians, the New Left,             and the Canadian Media, 1965-1975

14.4     Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary
            Slocan Man vs. Beer Can Man: Self-representations of Back-to-the-Land Movement in             the Radical Press in the West Kootenays, 1973-1991

Facilitator: Sean Mills, New York University

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-411.00

15.        Narrating Slavery and Emancipation: Stories of the Enslaved in Nova Scotia and Jamaica, 1780-1805

15.1     Elizabeth Vibert, University of Victoria
            Free Men Contained: Gender and the Meaning of Freedom in Late Eighteenth-Century             Nova Scotia

15.2     H. Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont
            From Slavery to Slavery: African Americans in Nova Scotia during the Age of Loyalty

15.3     Meleisa Ono-George, University of Victoria
            Mistress of Prospect Pen: Intimacy, Power and Fiction in Early Nineteenth-Century             Jamaica

Facilitator: Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-407.00

16.      (Re-)Telling and Disrupting Iconic Masculinities

16.1     Jeffery Vacante, University of Western Ontario
            Saint-Denys Garneau and the Idea of Manhood in Interwar Quebec

16.2     Mary-Ellen Kelm, Simon Fraser University
            Embodying manhood: Rodeo Stories and Rodeo Masculinities

16.3    Willeen Keogh, Simon Fraser University
            (Re-)Telling Newfoundland Sealing Masculinities: Narrative and Counter-Narrative

16.4     Bonnie Schmidt, Simon Fraser University
            (Re) telling and Disrupting Iconic Masculinities: Female Police Officers and the             Subversion of the Masculine Police Culture of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Facilitator: Christopher Dummitt, Trent University

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-401.00

17.      (Re)Constructing Belongingness: Contested Borderlands in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union

17.2     Svetlana Frunchak, University of Toronto
             Imagining the (Non)existing City: Official Cultural Representations of the Borderland              in Late-Stalinist Ukraine

17.3    Michael Kasprazak, University of Toronto
             Against the Imperial Republic: The communist Perceptions of Poland’s Eastern                          Borderlands in the Interwar Years

17.4     Michael Szala Newmark, University of Toronto
             Polish Conceptions of Kiev in the 19th Century

Facilitator: Andrew Wise, Daemen College

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-427.00

18.      Colonial Anxieties

18.1     Maxime Dagenais, University of Ottawa
            “My acts have been despotic, because my delegated authority was despotic”:                Lord Durham and the Special Council of Lower Canada, June to November 1838

18.2    Kenton Scott Storey, University of Otago, New Zealand
            ‘Fire,’ ‘Murder,’ and ‘Indian Invasion’: Interpreting a Manifestation of Colonial                         Anxiety in Victoria’s British Colonist

18.3    Megan Harvey, John Lutz and Kate Martin, University of Victoria
            Telling Stories about Race: Tracking ‘The Yellow Peril’ in Victoria, B.C. 1861-1910

18.4    Victoria Freeman, University of Toronto
            Toronto Has No History!: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism and Historical Memory in             Canada’s Largest City

Facilitator: Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto

12:30 – 14:00

Business Meetings

- Canadian Committee on Women’s History        Room H-407.00
- Aboriginal History Study Group        Room H-411.00     
- Business History Group        Room H-423.00
- Active History        Room H-427.00
- Labour/Le travail Editorial meeting        Room LB-1042.03
- Oral History Group        Room LB-1019.00

 

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-420.00

19.      LAC and the Access Act: Revelation, Restriction, and Litigation – A                         Round Table

            Participants:

Amir Attaran, University of Ottawa
Jim Bronskill, Canadian Press, Ottawa
Larry Hannant, Camosun College
Steven Hewitt, University of Birmingham

            Facilitator: Craig Heron, York University

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-423.00

20.      Memory on the go

20.1     Alan Gordon, University of Guelph
            Walking and Talking: The Emergence of the Walking Tour as Ideological Narrative,             Quebec City in the 19th Century

20.2     Jack Little, Simon Fraser University
            Like a Fragment of the Old World: The Historical Regression of Quebec City in Travel             Narratives and Tourist Guidebooks, 1799-1913

20.3     Kathryn Harvey, Independent Scholar
            The Nun’s Walk

Facilitator: Alan Stewart, Dawson College

14:00 – 15:30         Room H-403.00

21.      Engaging the State from the Sidelines: Citizenship Stories of Inclusion, Exclusion and Activism in Canada

21.1     Julie Gilmour, McMaster University
            Canadian Citizenship Performed: Canadian Citizenship Ceremonies, 1946-7

21.2     Cara Spittal, University of Toronto
             Tory Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage to the
             Rise of the New Right.

21.3     Nadia Lewis, University of Toronto
            Becoming American and Canadian: Iraqi Community Activism and Claims to                         Citizenship in Toronto and Detroit, 1970 to 2000

21.4     Adam Chapnick, Canadian Forces College
            Telling Canada’s National Story: The Evolution of Citizenship and Immigration                         Canada’s A Look at Canada

Facilitator: Aya Fujiwara, McMaster University

14:00 – 15:30        Room LB-1014.00

22.      Getting Graphic with the Past

22.1    Alyson E. King, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
            Cartooning History: Canada’s Stories in Graphic Novels

22.2    Sean Carleton, Trent University
            Getting Graphic with the Past: ‘May Day’ and Graphic History as a New Method of             Historical Storytelling

22.3    Jessica van Horssen, University of Western Ontario
             Telling Stories Graphically

Facilitator: Matthew Penney, Concordia University

14:00 – 15:30        Room LB-1019.00

23.      Rethinking Reform and Resource Industries

23.1     Robert McDonald, University of British Columbia
            Our Local New Deal: Harry Cassidy and 'Intellectual Reformism in 1930s British             Columbia

23.2     Ben Bradley, Queen’s University
            Can’t See the Forestry for the Trees: Hiding Logging Operations in British Columbia’s             Provincial Parks, 1940-1970

23.3     Eryk Martin, Simon Fraser University
            Class Politics, the Communist Left, and the (Re)Shaping of the Environmental                         Movement in B.C., 1973-1978

23.4     Benjamin Isitt, University of Victoria
            “Out of the Kitchen, Into the Fight!”: The Women’s Auxiliary of the United Fishermen             and Allied Workers’ Union in British Columbia

Facilitator: Andrew Perchard, University of Strathclyde

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-401.00

24.      Stories of the Sinful South

24.1     Lynn Kennedy, University of Lethbridge
            Telling Stories, Salacious & Salutary: Gossiping in the Antebellum South

24.2     Marise Bachand, University of Western Ontario
            How Overspending Ladies Challenged Southern Patriarchy

Facilitator: Gavin Taylor, Concordia University

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-407.00

25.      All Talk, Uncertain Action: The Promise and Peril of Queer Oral History
             Sponsored by the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality

25.1     David Churchill, University of Manitoba
            Vampires, Grave Robbers, and the Queer Politics of Oral History

25.2     Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University
            Excavating Queer “Stories”: Archiving Oral History and Memory Studies

25.3     Elise Chenier, Simon Fraser University
            Hidden from Historians: A Status Report on Lesbian Oral History in Canada

25.4     Jane Nicholas, Lakehead University

Facilitator: Jane Nicholas, Lakehead University

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-411.00

26.      Telling the Story of the Soviet Union Twenty Years After the Cold War

26.1     David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock University
            The Continued Importance of Russian History at Canadian Universities

26.2     Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa
            New Perspectives

26.3     Alison Rowley, Concordia University
            The Cultural Turn

Facilitator: Valentin Boss, McGill University

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-427.00

27.      Telling Our Stories: Indigenous Narratives

27.1     Susan Neylan, Wilfrid Laurier University
            Two Roads Inside: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Narratives of Being Aboriginal             and Being Christian on British Columbia’s North Coast

27.2     Peggy Brock, Edith Clowan University
            Keeping Account: The Diary of Tsimshian, Arthur Wellington Clah

27.3     Liam Haggarty, University of Saskatchewan
            Storytelling Economics: Historical Knowledge and Social Connectedness in Aboriginal             and Métis Communities

Facilitator : John Lutz, University of Victoria

15:30 – 16:00

Nutrition Break 

16:00 – 17:30              D.B. Clarke Theatre,  Hall Building

28.      CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario
            “Don’t Speak For Me”: Oral History Amongst Vulnerable Populations

17:30 – 19:00        Room TBA

President Reception, hosted by Judith Woodsworth, President, Concordia University

 

MONDAY, 31 May 2010 (top of page)

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-420.00

29.      Colonial Encounters, Performances, and Narrative in the Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth Century Transatlantic World

29.1     Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia
            The Iceberg and the Cathedral: Wonder, Nature, Artifice, and Encounter in London             and the Inuit World, 1576-1772

29.2     Elizabeth Elbourne , McGill University
            Ambiguous Alliance: Joseph Brant’s Performance of Identity and Allegiance in Britain             and on the American Frontier

29.3     Cecilia Morgan , University of Toronto
            Travel, Celebrity, and Narrative in the Transatlantic World: The Case of John Norton,             1804-1816

29.4     Gabrielle Parent, Hebrew University
            Subjects of Interpretation: Second Language Acquisition by Jesuit Missionaries in             Northeastern Ontario, 1842-1880

Facilitator: Keith Thor Carlson, University of Saskatchewan

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-401.00

30.      Claiming Voice

30.1     Laurie Bertram, University of Toronto
            Fylgia/the fetch: Marginalized Narratives, Power, and Superstition in Icelandic                         Canadian Oral Traditions, 1875-1975

30.2     Sarah Bassnett, University of Western Ontario
            Photographic Narratives of Immigrants in Toronto, 1905-1915

30.3     Noula Mina, University of Toronto
            Hellenic Heroes and Greek-Canadian Identity: The Greek War Relief Fund of the             1940s

Facilitator: Pamela Sugiman, Ryerson University

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-427.00

31.      Telling Stories in Medieval European Courts

Joint Session with the Canadian Society of Medievalists

31.1     Steven Bednarski, University of Waterloo
            “To Tell the Truth and Diligently Explain it”: Deposition Tales in Late Medieval                         Provençal Courts

31.2     Alexandra Guerson, University of Toronto
            Manipulating the Courts: Christians and Jews in late fourteenth-century Catalonia

31.3     Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
            Telling Stories About Sanctuary in Late Medieval English Courts

Facilitator: Cynthia Neville, Dalhousie University

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-423.00

32.      Stories of Displacement and Starting Over

32.1     Hourig Attarian, McGill University
            storying memory: narrating the family album

32.2     Stacey Zembrzycki and Anna Sheftel, Concordia University
            We Started Over Again, We Were Young: Postwar Social Worlds of Child Holocaust             Survivors in Montreal

32.3     Yolande Cohen and Linda Guerry, UQAM
            Who are displaced persons marrying?: The Case of Morrocan Jews in Montreal

32.4     Erin Jessee, Concordia University
            Difficult Narratives: Negotiating Survivor, Perpetrator and Ex-Combatant Life                         Histories in Rwanda and Bosnia-Hercegovina

Facilitator: Lisa Ndejuru, Isangano

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-411.00

33.      Canadian and U.S. Border Stories

33.1     Susan E. Gray, Arizona State University
            One Border, Two Cousins, and the Writing of Odawa History

33.2     Carolyn Podruchny, York University
            From the Other Side of the Line: a French Catholic Priest Minister to his Métis Flock at             Pembina, 1840s-50s

33.3     Yukari Takai, York University
            Transpacific and Transborder Migration of Japanese in Early Twentieth-Century             Pacific Northwest

33.4     Sasha Mullally, University of New Brunswick
            Bordering on Bad Medicine: Policing the “Medical Borderlands” between New                         Brunswick and Maine, 1920-1936

Facilitator: Scott See, University of Maine

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-403.00

34.      Popular Politics

34.1     Kelly Bennett, Queen’s University
            The Cumings Sisters’ Loyalists Sewing Shop: A Busy Site of Exchange and Popular             Meeting Spot

34.2     Jarett Henderson, York University
            Much to be thankful for [in Bermuda]: Negotiating Exile, British Subjectness, and             Conditional Loyalty in Lower Canada

34.3     Janet Miron, Trent University
            Classes That Ought Not to Carry Them: Firearm Discussions in Nineteenth-Century             Canada

34.4     Bradley Miller, University of Toronto
            State Power and Community Justice on the Border, 1842-1910

Facilitator: Shirley Tillotson, Dalhousie University

9:00 – 10:30        Room LB-1019.00

35.      History Matters

35.1     Laura Suchan and Melissa Cole, Oshawa Community Museum
            “If history were told in the form of stories it would never be forgotten": Telling                         History One Story at a Time

35.2     Bronwyn Bragg, OISE
            Exploring the Role of Oral History in Documenting Canada’s Second Wave Feminist             Movement (1960-1990)

35.3     Roderick MacLeod, Research Consultant and Writer
            “I was there and I don’t remember it that way!”: Evidence and Historical Memory in             Writing the History of Communities and Community Organizations

35.4     Paul Marsden, Senior Military Archivist, Government Records Branch
            Public History, Public Policy and Public Archives

Facilitator: Lyle Dick, Parks Canada

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-407.00

36.      Making Modern Quebec

36.1     Peter Bischoff, University of Ottawa
            La réception de Rerum novarum dans un sol préparé d’avance: la ville de Québec

36.2     Magda Fahrni, UQAM
            "Tramways et enfants imprudents": Risk, Accidents, and the Early Twentieth-Century             Safety Movement" 

36.3     Nicolas Kenny, Simon Fraser University
            Telling Fin-de-siècle Montreal: A Story of Affect

36.4     Jarrett Rudy, McGill University
            Do you have the time?: Modernity, Democracy, and Beginning of Daylight Saving             Time in Montreal

Facilitator: Brian Young, McGill University

9:00 – 10:30        Room LB-1014.00

37.      War Stories

37.1     Terry Bishop Stirling, Memorial University
            “Such Sad Sights One Will Never Forget”: Newfoundland Women and Overseas                         Nursing in World War One

37.2     Vicki Hallett, Memorial University
            Verses in the Darkness: A Newfoundland Poet Responds to the First World War

37.3     Amy Shaw, University of Lethbridge
            Creating Heroes for the Story: Canadian Soldiers in the Boer War

37.4     Amy Bell, Huron University College
            Murder and the Microscope: The 1942 Dobkin Case

Facilitator: Linda Quiney, University of British Columbia

10:30 – 11:00

Nutrition Break 

11:00 – 12:30        Room  H-420.00

38.      Story in Indigenous History, Method and Pedagogy

38.1    Winona Wheeler, University of Saskatchewan
            Teachings from Early World Indigenous Resistance Writing in the Americas: Warren             Standing Bear and Ahenakew

38.2    Brenda Macdougall, University of Ottawa
            The Written Tradition of Storytelling: Ella Cara Deloria’s Contribution to Sioux Cultural             Preservation

38.3    Aroha Harris, Auckland University
            Theorize This: We Are What We Write

38.4    Mary Jane McCallum, University of Winnipeg
            Creation Stories and Canadian History

Facilitator: Jim Miller, University of Saskatchewan

11:00 – 12:30        Room   H-407.00

39.      Canadian Committee of Women’s History Keynote Address

            Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota
            Intimate Talk Across Borders: Women and the Italian Nation

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-427.00

40.      Social and Political Use of the Story and Narrative of the Social: The Example of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Canadian Judicial Archives

40.1     Eric Debroise, Université de Montréal
            Publicité et histoire: Opinion populaire et faits judiciaires à Montréal de 1693 à 1760

40.2     Arnaud Bessière, Université de Montréal
            Raconter le social à travers les archives judiciaires: l’exemple de l’honneur des                         domestiques au Canada au XVIIe siècle

40.3     Nancy Christie, University of Western Ontario
            Narrating the Plebeian Body: Evidence from the Legal Archives, 1760-1810

Facilitator: Thierry Nootens, UQTR

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-423.00

41.      Lessons from the Field: Preventing Future Mass Atrocities in Burundi, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo

41.1     Frank Chalk and Kyle Matthews, Concordia University
            Mobilizing the Domestic Will to Intervene: Lessons from Canadian and United States             Policies Towards Rwanda’s Genocide of 1994 and Kosovo’s Events of 1999

41.2     Erin Jessee, Concordia University
            From Symbolic Violence to Social Death: Healing the Wounds of Genocide in Rwanda             and Bosnia-Hercegovina

41.3     Philippe Rieder, Concordia University
            Approaches Towards Post-Conflict Resolution, Democratization and Reconciliation:             Genocide Prevention in Rwanda and Burundi

Facilitator: Graham Carr, Concordia University

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-411.00

42.      Teaching Borderlands History – A Round Table

            Participants:

Colin Coates, York University
Susan Elizabeth Gray, Arizona State University
Carolyn Podruchny, York University

Facilitator: Scott See, University of Maine

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-403.00

43.      Culture and Politics in the Postwar World

43.1     George Buri, University of Regina
            Selling Confidence in the Face of Nuclear Annihilation: Civil Defense Propaganda in             Canada, 1948-1963

43.2     Olivier Coté, Université Laval
            John F. Kennedy, président canadien: le traitement médiatique et l'inscription                         mémorielle de son assassinat (novembre 1963)

43.3     Jessica Squires, Library and Archives Canada
            Shaping the Story of Canada the Good: Writing About War Resisters

Facilitator: Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary

11:00 – 12:30        Room LB-1014.00

44.      Raconter l’histoire avec des partenaires du milieu: l’expérience du Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal

44.1     Joanne Burgess, UQAM
            Le Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal: un partenariat pour raconter             l’histoire

44.2     Paul-André Linteau and Jean-Claude Robert, UQAM
              Partenaires: Service de la mise en valeur du territoire et du patrimoine et                           Service des archives, Ville de Montréal.
            Raconter l’histoire des grandes rues de Montréal

44.3     Dominique Marquis, UQAM
               Partenaire: Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne
            Raconter l’histoire et découvrir une collection d’artefacts

44.4     Michelle Comeau, INRS-Urbanisation
               Partenaire; Écomusée du fier monde
            Raconter l’histoire d’un siècle de vie commerciale dans un quartier ouvrier

Facilitator: Jarrett Rudy, McGill University

11:00 – 12:30        Room H-401.00

45.      Religious Voices in Post-War Canada

45.1    Julia Rady-Shaw, University of Toronto
            The Reconstruction Narrative: Canadian Churches and the Future of Religious Life,             1940-1950

45.2    Michael Gauvreau, McMaster University
            Stories of Dechristinization: Voices of Ordinary Quebecers and the Dumont                         Commission, 1968-1971

45.3    Marylin Bernard, Concordia University
            Être juive à Québec: Huit femmes juives – et une étudiante en histoire – racontent

45.4    Catherine Foisy, Concordia University
            Haven’t You Heard?: Quebec’s Deafness to Missionary Stories

Facilitator: Chris Miller, Concordia University

11:00 – 12:30        Room LB-1019.00

46.      Perpetrator Narratives in the two German Dictatorships: History, Biography, and Law

46.1     Gary Bruce, University of Waterloo
            Post-War Perpetrators?: In the Service of the Stasi

46.2     Stephen Connor, Nipissing University
            Greasing the Wheels of Genocide: The German Civil Administration, Intention and             Initiative in the Occupied Soviet Union, 1942-1943

46.3     Hilary Earl, Nipissing University
            Tales of Horror: Stories of Atrocities Committed by the SS on the Eastern Front

Facilitator: Rosemarie Schade, Concordia University

12:30 – 14:00        Room   H-420.00

47.      Film Screening: “How I Filmed the War,” by Yuval Sagiv, Independent Filmmaker
           
12:30 – 14:00

Business Meetings

- Canadian Committee on Labour History         Room LB-1042.03
- Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality         Room H-407.00
- Political History Group         Room  H-411.00
- Canadian Urban History Association & Urban History Review Editorial Committee Meeting         Room LB-1014.00
- Committee on the Second World War        Room H-427.00
- Graduate Students’ Committee         Room H-423.00
- International Committee         Room H-403.00
- Canadian Committee on Military History        Room LB-1019.00
- Editorial Board, Histoire sociale        Room H-401.00

 

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-407.00

48.      Indigenous Storytelling and Story Tellers Viewed Across Disciplines –  A             Round Table

            Participants
Keith Thor Carlson, University of Saskatchewan
            Memory and Meaning: Coast Salish Transformer Stories in a Transforming World
Jonathan Hill, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
            Amazonian Trickster Myths as Folk Psychological Narratives: Some Implications of             Storytelling and Theories of Mind
Edward Chamberlin, University of Toronto
            Convenants and Claims: The Forms and Functions of Storytelling Land Claims
Kristina Fagan, University of Saskatchewan
            A Literary Critic in the Field: Community-Based Approaches to Storytelling
Dennis Tedlock, SUNY at Buffalo
              Mayan Hieroglyphic and Alphabetic Stories

Facilitator: Jean Manore, Bishops University

14:00 – 15:30        Room LB-1014.00

49.      Kitchen Talk: Food, History and Identity

49.1     Andrea Eidinger, University of Victoria
            “Chinese Food on Christmas”: Telling Stories about Jewish Foods in Montreal

49.2     Jennifer Evans, University of Toronto
            “She never did cook the Canadian way”: Immigrant Women’s Changing Relationship             with Food and Cooking in Postwar North Bay, Ontario

49.3     Anne Clendinning, Nipissing University
            “Putting English Cookery on the Map”: Interwar Food Narratives and the Search for             England’s National Cuisine           

Facilitator: Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-427.00

50.      In Court

50.1    Mima C. Petrovic, University of Toronto
            Reading Litigants’ Stories in Annulment Trials Judged by the Paris Officialité in the 17            th and 18th Centuries: An Historical Assessment

50.2    Jean-Philippe Garneau, UQAM
            Les usages judiciaires du passé: la Nouvelle-France sous la plume des juges                         bas-canadiens

50.3    Thierry Nootens, UQTR
            “She Was a Very Young Girl, Quite Ignorant of Law …”: les magistrats québécois et             les droits financiers des femmes mariées au début du 20e siècle

Facilitator: Eric Reiter, Concordia University

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-423.00

51.      Political Refugees and the Politics of Refugees After World War II: Migration in the Era of Displaced Persons, Enemy Aliens, and Cold War Alliances

Sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism

51.1     Laura Madokoro, University of British Columbia
            Lost in the “national interest”: Canada and refugees from Communist China (1949)

51.2     Tina Mai Chen, University of Manitoba
            Storied Lives: Migration, Repatriation, and the Politics of Moving Home for Chinese             Residents of Burma, 1937-1947

51.3    Christian Lieb, University of Victoria
            Refugees, Displaced Persons, and the Limits of Political Recognition

51.4     Nino A. Scavello, University of Guelph
            Pawns in the Cold War: Canadian Public Policy and Displaced Persons,
            1950-1957

Facilitator: Lisa Chilton, University of Prince Edward Island

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-401.00

52.      Place-Making

52.1     Elizabeth Jewett, University of Toronto
              Slicing the Course: Understanding Landscapes of Golf in Canada, 1873-1945.

52.2     Krista Weger, York University
            Mountain Memories: Narrating the Local and Regional Along Ontario's Niagara                         Escarpment

52.3     Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Université Laval
            Images et performances narratives dans la culture urbaine congolaise: des récits du             plein au récit de l’absence

Facilitator: Patrick Dramé, Bishop’s University

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-411.00

53.      Political History: New Developments and Solid Foundations –  A Round             Table
Sponsored by the CHA Political History Group

            Participants
Christopher Dummitt, Trent University
Larry Glassford, University of Windsor
Shirley Tillotson, Dalhousie University
Matthew Hayday, University of Guelph

Facilitator : Marcel Martel, York University

14:00 – 15:30        Room LB-1019.00

54.      Writing the History of Quebec’s English-Speaking Communities

            Participants
Lorraine O’Donnell, Concordia University
Patrick Donovan, Université Laval
Kevin O’Donnell, Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network
Roderick MacLeod, Research Consultant and Writer

Facilitator: Brian Young, McGill University

14:00 – 15:30        Room H-420.00

55.      Brothers, Sisters and Secular Cousins: Missions and Development in Central America and Africa

Joint Panel with the Canadian Society for Church History

55.1     Catherine Legrand, McGill University
            Development, Liberation Theology and the Peasant Movement of Agrarian Reform:             Quebec Catholic Missionaries in Honduras, 1955-1975

55.2     Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens, California State University of Northridge
            Cross-Cultural Catholic Cooperative Development: From Antigonish to Guatemala

55.3     Ruth Compton Brouwer, Professor Emerita, King's University College,
              University of Western Ontario
              “Reason over Passion”: CUSO’s Divided Response to the Nigerian Civil War,                           1967-1970

Facilitator: Rhonda Semple, St. Francis Xavier

14:00 – 15:30         Room H-403.00

56.      Gender, War, Consumption

56.1     Helen Smith and Pamela Wakewich, Lakehead University
            “Telling” Connections: Negotiating Inclusion/Exclusion in Narratives about Women’s             Wartime Work

56.2     Ian Mosby, York University
            Mrs. Consumer and Canada’s Housesoldiers Go to War: Food, Gender and the                         Politics of Consumption During Canada’s Second World War

56.3     Christine McLaughlin, York University
            Kitchen Stories: Ladies’ Auxiliary 27 of UAW Local 222 in 1940s Oshawa, Ontario

56.4     Martin Weger, York University
            Rationalizing Shopping in Postwar Canada: Canadian Tire ‘Money” and the Origins of             Canada’s First Customer Loyalty Program

Facilitator: Magda Fahrni, UQAM

15:30 – 16:00

Nutrition Break 

16:00 – 17:30

            GENERAL MEETING        Room H-110.00

18:00 – 20:30                 Montefiore Club, 1195 Rue Guy
            THE CHA PRESIDENT’S GALA

20:00 – 23:00                           Montefiore Club, 1195 Rue Guy                           
CLIO-PALOOZA! – CHA SOCIAL – DANCE with Dave Gossage and the Celtic
Mindwarp

TUESDAY, 1 June 2010 (top of page)

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-401.00

57.      Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violence, Memory, and Heritage

57.1     Heather Igloliorte , Carleton University
            We were so far away: Sharing the Difficult Histories of Inuit Residential Schools

57.2     Cynthia Milton, Université de Montréal
            Public spaces, contestation and conflict over Peru’s recent past

57.3     Monica E. Patterson, Concordia University
            Teaching Tolerance Through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist             Memorabilia

Facilitator: Erica Lehrer, Concordia University

9:00 – 10:30          Room H-411.00

58.      The Unexpected Stories of Indigenous History

58.1     Robert A. Innes, University of Saskatchewan
            Customary Kinship Practices and Tribal History

58.2     Susan M. Hill, Wilfrid Laurier University at Brantford
            The Woodland Cultural Centre: 40 years in the telling of Eastern Woodlands                         Indigenous History

58.3     Aroha Harris, University of Auckland
            Sharing Our Differences Together: whakapapa of experience in post-war Auckland

Facilitator: Mary Jane McCallum, University of Winnipeg

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-407.00

59.      Theatre, History, Storytelling – A Round Table

            Participants
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
David Fennario, Playwright
Edward (Ted) Little, Concordia University, Department of Theatre
David Dean, Carleton University, Company Historian, National Arts Centre Ottawa
Milena Buziak, Director and Producer      

Facilitator: Susan Brown, University of Prince Edward Island

9:00 – 10:30        Room LB-1014.00

60.      Giving Voice

60.1     Chris Dooley, York University
            “The older staff, myself included, we were pretty institutionalized ourselves”:                         Authority and insight in practitioner narratives of psychiatric deinstitutionalization in             Prairie Canada

60.2     Jason Ellis, York University
            Telling Stories about Disabled Identities: Approaches to the Social History of                         Disability in Interwar Canada

60.3     David Hood,  Saint Mary's University
            The Poor and Homeless: We Can Best Remember Them With Stories

Facilitator: Denyse Baillargeon, Université de Montréal

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-420.00

61.      The Biographical (re)turn I: Biographies of Politics and the Politics of Biography

61.1     Roderick J. Barman, University of British Columbia
            Biography as ‘Against the Grain’ History

61.2   David S. Churchill, University of Manitoba
            Personal Memoir and the Politics of Sexuality: Paul Goodman, John Rechy and                         Biography in the History of Sex Trade

61.3     Veronica Strong-Boag, University of British Columbia
            Running Rapids: Cynicism and Sympathy in the Writing of Feminist Biography

Facilitator: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba

9:00 – 10:30        Room LB-1042.03

62.      Fictions and Fanciful Tales of University Life, 1910-1950

62.1     Paul Stortz, University of Calgary
            ‘How I Killed my English Prof’: Stories of Professors as the Intellectual Embodiment             on Canadian Campuses, 1910-1950

62.2     Lisa Panayotidis, University of Calgary
            To Say Farewell: Valedictory Addresses in University Yearbooks, 1915-1930

62.3     Elizabeth Smyth, University of Toronto
            Facts and Fiction in Catholic Higher Education: The Case of St. Michael’s College,             University of Toronto

Facilitator : Katharine Rollwagen, University of Ottawa

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-403.00

63.      War and Propaganda

63.1     Peter Mersereau, University of Toronto
            ‘The Right Films for the Right Time’: The German Film Industry and the Spirit of 1914

63.2     Alison Rowley, Concordia University
            Stories of the Powerless: Photojournalism and Russian Picture Postcards in World             War I

63.3     Paul Baxa, Ave Maria University
            Palladian Settings and the Shaping of the Axis Narrative in Fascist Propaganda during             the Second World War

Facilitator: Jeff Webb, Memorial University of Newfoundland

9:00 – 10:30        Room H-423.00 64.     

Remembering the Conquest

64.1     Michel Ducharme, University of British Columbia
            Remembering Defeat: The Paradox of French Canadian Historical Thought

64.2     Alexis Lachaine, York University
            Our History has not even yet begun: Why Quebecois nationalists of the 1960s                         downplayed the Conquest of 1759

64.3     Nicole Neatby, Saint Mary’s University
            Re-enacting a Defeat: Mission Impossible

Facilitator: Donald Fyson, Université Laval

9:00 – 10:30        Room LB-1019.00

65.      Unearthing Biographies in Environmental History: A Methodological Engagement

65.1     Kirsten Greer, Queen’s University
            Birds and Biography: Writing the “life geography” of military surgeon Andrew Leith             Adams (1827-1882), 22nd Regiment of Foot

65.2     Jennifer Bonnell, University of Toronto
            A Sensuous Understanding of Place: Charles Sauriol and the Fight to Protect Toronto’s             Don River Valley, 1946-1989

65.3     Jim Clifford, York University
            Using Working-Class Autobiographies and Oral Histories to Write Environmental             History from Below

65.4     Carla Hustak, University of Toronto
            The Stories Rocks Can Tell: Marie Stope’s Evolutionary Narratives of Plant Sex in New             Brunswick’s ‘Fern Ledges’

Facilitator: Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario

10:30 – 10:45

Nutrition Break 

10:45 – 12:15        Room H-411.00

66.      Film and Public Memory

66.1     Bruno Ramirez, Université de Montréal
            Filmic Narration as a Way of Revealing the Unknown Past

66.2     Ronald Rudin, Concordia University and Robert McMahon, Royal Ontario                           Museum
            Film Screening: “Remembering a Memory”

Facilitator: Suzanne Langlois, York University

10:45 – 12:15        Room H-401.00

67.      Aboriginal Agency – Stories of Resistance

67.1     Mark Kuhlberg, Laurentian University
            Tragedy or Progress: The Flooding of Lac Seul, 1915-1934

67.2     Stephen Dutcher, University of New Brunswick
            Aboriginal Agency, State Control, and ‘Local Power Contests’ at the Six Nations of the             Grand River Reserve, 1939-41

67.3     Robert L.A. Hancock, University of Western Ontario
            Towards a Genealogy of Aboriginal Rights, 1965-1982

Facilitator: Daniel Rueck, McGill University

10:45 – 12:15        Room H-407.00

68.      So What IS the story?: Exploring Fragmentation and Synthesis in                         Current Canadian Historiography

            Participants:
Peter Baskerville, University of Alberta
                        The Commonality of Counting
Lyle Dick, Parks Canada
                        Fragmentation and Synthesis from the Standpoint of Critical History
Steven High, Concordia University
                        Canadian History from the Inside-Out
Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario
                        Of Parliament and Owls
Adele Perry, University of Manitoba
                        Destabilization and National History
Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto
                        Microhistory, Macro-history and Historians as Teachers

Facilitator: Chad Gaffield, SSHRC President

10:45 – 12:15         Room LB-1042.03

69.      Reading Women’s Lives

69.1     Laurie Marhoefer, Syracuse University
            What Slumbered Within Her?: Media, Censorship, and Stories of Lesbian Sexuality in             Weimar-era German, 1918-1933

69.2     Holly Karibo, University of Toronto
            Motor City Memoirs: Sex Work, Race, and Memory in McGowan’s Motor City Madam

69.3     Jane Nicholas, Lakehead University
            “I was a 555-pound freak”: Celesta ‘Dolly Dimples’ Geyer and the Autobiography of             Diet

Facilitator: Lara Campbell, Simon Fraser University

10:45 – 12:15         Room H-403.00

70.      Biography and Identity

70.1     Colleen Gray, McGill University
            Changed in the Telling: Biography, History and Identity in Eighteenth-Century                         Canada

70.2     Susan Dalton, Université de Montréal
            Collective biographies in Italy, 1800-1840

70.3     Tom Mole , McGill University
            Nineteenth-Century British Pantheons as Collective Biography

70.4     Eve-Marie Lampron, Université de Montréal
            Des biographies aux identités, de l’individuel au collectif: les femmes de lettres             françaises et italiennes en quête de leur histoire (1770-1845)

Facilitator: Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University

10:45 – 12:15        Room LB-1014.00

71.      Growing (Up) Consumers: Examining Consumer Culture in the Histories of Childhood and Youth

71.1     Katharine Rollwagen, University of Ottawa
            From Ingenuity to Homogeneity: Dressing the Teenager in the Pages of Chatelaine,             1954-1964

71.2     Jason Reid, Ryerson University
            “Sitting Pretty In Your Room”: The Rise and Fall of Decoration Expertise in the                         Bedrooms of America’s Teens, 1900-1985

71.3     Jo-Anne McCutcheon, Canadian Development Consultants International Inc.
            Hairstyles, Gender, and Generations in Canada: Combing Through the Evidence

71.4     Angela Rooke, York University
           Come and join us in our fun': Children, Christian Consumerism, and Lessons in the            Spiritual Value of Money, 1880-1930

Facilitator: Paul Stortz, University of Calgary
           
10:45 – 12:15        Room H-420.00

72.      War Reporting – Then and Now

72.1     Beatrice Richard, Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean
            Raconter la guerre ou “Raconter sa guerre”?: Le dilemme du légionnaire Paul Caron

72.2     Geoff Hamm, University of Toronto
            Intelligence as Storytelling, Storytelling as Intelligence: British Military Intelligence             and the Ottoman Empire, 1895-1914

72.3     Jean Martin, Department of National Defense
            L’histoire en direct: l’historien militaire, témoin des opérations canadiennes actuelles,             en Afghanistan et ailleurs

72.4     Gillian Steward, University of Calgary
            Factualized Narrative Fiction by War Journalists as a Critique of Journalistic Practice

Facilitator: Susan Mann, York University

10:45 – 12:15        Room H-423.00

73.      Telling the Conquest from Sources

73.1     François Cartier, Musée McCord, Montréal
            Le journal de James Wolfe devant Québec: controverses autour d’une source majeure             de notre histoire

73.2     Helene Quimper, Commission des champs de bataille nationaux, Québec
            Québec, ville assiégée 1759-1760 ou Le désir de rendre la parole aux acteurs et                         témoins des événements

73.3     Laurent Turcot, UQTR
            The Surrender of Montreal to General Armherst, (1760) de Francis Hayman: raconter             et représenter la victoire anglaise en terre canadienne

73.4     Jeffers Lennox, Dalhousie University
            L’Acadie Trouvée: The Search for Boundaries and Imperial Conflict, 1750-1756

Facilitator: Catherine Desbarats, McGill University

 

10:45 – 12:15        Room LB-1019.00

74.      Environmental History of the Atlantic Region

74.1     Mark J. McLaughlin, University of New Brunswick
            Green Shoots: Environmental Awareness in New Brunswick prior to the                                     Environmental Movement

74.2     Rainer Baehre, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Memorial University
            The Story of Crow Gulch: Resettling an Outport Ghetto in Corner Brook,                                     Newfoundland during the 1960s

74.3     Dean Bavington, Nipissing University
            Fishing, Farming and the Blue Revolution: An Aqua-Cultural History of Newfoundland             & Labrador Cod Fisheries

Facilitator: Colin Duncan, Queen’s University

12:15 – 13:15         Room H-411.00

75.      Film Screening: “Remembering a Memory,” by Ronald Rudin, Concordia University and Robert McMahon, Royal Ontario Museum

12:15 – 13:15

Business Meetings

- Public History Group        Room H-401.00
- History of Childhood and Youth        Room H-423.00
- Media and Communication History Committee         Room H-403.00
- Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism Room H-407.00

13:15 – 14:45          Room H-423.00

76.      Sites of Memory

76.1     Geneviève Susemihl, Greifswald University (Germany)
            Heritage Sites as Keepers of Stories and History

76.2     Pamela Peacock, Queen’s University
            “It’s all about the customer’: How Perceptions of Audience Expectation Shape the             Presentation of Women’s History at Fort William, Fort Henry and Upper Canada             Village

76.3     Rose Fine-Meyer, University of Toronto
            Including Women: The Development and Integration of Canadian Women’s History             Narratives into Toronto Ontario Classrooms and Historic Sites, 1971-2001

Facilitator: Julie Perrone, Concordia University

13:15 – 14:45         Room H-411.00

77.     Moved by the State: Forced Relocations in Postwar Canada

77.1     Martha Walls, St Francis Xavier
            Colonialism, Resistance and the Relocation of the Mi’kmaq from Sydney, Nova Scotia,             1899-1926

77.2     James Kenny, Royal Military College
            New Brunswick’s Modernization Moment: The Mactaquc and Northestern New                         Brunswick Relocation Plans, 1960-75

77.3     Tina Loo, University of British Columbia
            Razing Africville: The Dynamics of State Power in Postwar Canada

Facilitator: Suzanne Morton, McGill University

13:15 – 14:45        Room H-429

78.      Stories and Miracles

Joint Session with the Canadian Catholic Historical Association

  Allan Greer, McGill University
From Teenage Runaway in Europe to Missionary in Canada: A Jesuit Story
                               
Jacalyn Duffin, Queen’s University
Miracles and Wonders: Finding Canadian Medical History in the Vatican Archives

 

13:15 – 14:45        Room H-407.00

79.      Narrating Irishness at Home and Abroad

79.1     Gavin Foster, Concordia University
            Lemass is gone, and the earlier he is forgotten the better: An Irish Civil War Story

79.2     Michael Kenneally, Concordia University
            Mapping Private Geographies in Contemporary Canadian Historical Fiction

79.3     Rhona Richman Kenneally, Concordia University
            Telling Stories: Irish Food, Culture, and Identity

79.4     Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Concordia University
            Fiddling Devils and Ranting Priests: Contesting Musical Space and Moral Hegemony             in Rural Ireland and Rural Quebec

Facilitator: Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria

13:15 – 14:45         Room H-420.00

80.      The Biographical (re)turn II: Biography and Historical Methodology

80.1     Jean Barman, University of British Columbia
            Taking everyday people seriously, but how? Tracking French Canadians in the early             Pacific Northwest

80.2     Esyllt Jones, University of Manitoba
            The Passion of Policy: History, Biography and Affect in Canada’s Transnational                         Movement for Socialized Medicine, 1930s-1940s

80.3     Stephen J. Brooke, York University
            Subjects of Interest: Biography, Politics and Gender History?

Facilitator: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba

 

13:15 – 14:45        Room H-403.00

81.      Family Tales

81.1     Forrest Pass, Saguenay Herald and Assistant Registrar,
            Office of the Secretary to the Governor General
            The “Family Crest Craze” and the Democratization of Genealogy in the United States             and Canada, 1880-1902

81.2     Gillian Poulter, Acadia University
            Telling Family Tales: Scrapbooks, Albums and Memory

81.3     Sharon Murray, Concordia University
            Telling Pictures: A Mission Family’s Story of India

81.4     Valentin Boss, McGill University
            Telling Wartime Stories: The Vanishing British Embassy

Facilitator: Martha Langford, Concordia University

 

13:15 – 14:45        Room H-401.00

82.      Framing the Story? Commissioning and Collecting Film Footage in Wartime

82.1     Yuval Sagiv, Independent Filmmaker
            The (hi)stories of the Battle of the Somme

82.2     Suzanne Langlois, York University
            The case of UNRRA filming in the Ukraine and Byelorussia (1947)
           
Facilitator: Jean Lévesque, UQAM

13:15 – 14:45        Room LB-1019.00

83.      Temporalité, mémoire et récit: Enjeux historiques et théoriques dans l’espace Canado-Québécois

83.1     Patrick-Michel Noël, Université Laval
            Du récit en discipline historique: entre enjeu épistémologique et vecteur identitaire

83.2     Judith Dubois, UQAM
            Les événements internationaux racontés dans le journal  La Presse au tournant du             XXe siècle: des choix liés aux attentes des lecteurs

83.3     Alexandre Turgeon, Université Laval
            Savoir se passer du présent, savoir ce passé du future: la temporalité chez le                         caricaturiste Robert La Palme: le cas du 29 mai 1956

83.4     Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon, Université Laval
            La temporalité de la conflictualité canado-québécoise: esquisse d’une histoire compare             de la mémoire

Facilitator: Martin Pâquet, Université Laval

13:15 – 14:45        Room LB-1014.00

 84.      Mapping the Past: Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations in Historical Geographic Information Systems

84.1     Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin, University of Toronto
            Envisioning Watershed History: The Don Valley Historical Mapping Project

84.2     Stephen Bocking, Trent University
            Stories of People and the Land: Exploring Regional Environmental History using GIS

84.3     Sherry Olson, McGill University
            Horizons of the Past, Horizons of the Future: Rebuilding a Neighbourhood in Montreal

84.4     John Lutz, University of Victoria / Patrick Dunae, Vancouver Island University             / Jason Gilliland, University of Western Ontario
           Turning Space Inside Out – HIGS and Race in Victorian Victoria

Facilitator: Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto

14:45 – 15:00

Nutrition Break 

15.00 – 16:30        Room H-423.00

85.      Telling Stories through People, Places, and Things: Material Culture and the Dissemination of Knowledge

85.1     Elsa Olu
            Néo-Muséologie

85.2     Jennifer Anderson, Library and Archives Canada
            Making Labour History: Archive Stories

85.3     Anthony Di Mascio, Museum of Civilizations
            The Material Culture of Classrooms in Nineteenth-Century Canada

85.4     John Willis, Museum of Civilizations
            The Story of Anita Shapiro

Facilitator: Jean Martin, Department of National Defense

15.00 – 16:30        Room H-411.00

86.      Reconciliation – A Round-Table

Sponsored by the CHA Aboriginal History Study Group

            Participants
Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University
           Reconciling Recognition: The Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative
Kenny Blacksmith, Founder/Executive Director, Gathering Nations
International
Victoria Freeman, University of Toronto
           History and Community-Based Reconciliation Processes: Reconciling Historical            Discourse and Practices Inside and Outside of the Academy
Cecil Chabot, University of Ottawa
           Beware the Windigo: Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation
Jim Miller, University of Saskatchewan

Facilitator: Jean L. Manore, Bishop’s University

15.00 – 16:30        Room H-415.00

87.      Telling Our Stories, Telling Their Stories in Gender and Family History – A Round Table

Sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Women’s History

            Participants
Sandra Borger, Simon Fraser University
                        Overcoming Trauma and Fear through Story-Telling
Peter Gossage, Concordia University
                        Doing History and Telling Stories: Some Thoughts
Sharon Myers, University of Prince Edward Island
                        Keeping Secrets: Reflections on Silence and Storytelling
Katrina Srigley, Nipissing University
                        The Stories We Tell: Storytelling and Family Identity

Facilitator: Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University

15.00 – 16:30        Room H-420.00

88.      The Biographical (re)turn III: Empires, Life Geographies and Diasporas

88.1     Laila Parsons, McGill University
            Biographies and the Historiography of the 20th-Century Arab World

88.2     Alan Lester, Sussex
            Relational Space and Life Geographies in Imperial History

88.3     Camilla Schofield, Balliol College, Oxford University
            Shared History: Biography, Populism and the Generational Perspective in Postwar             Europe

Facilitator: Brian Lewis, McGill University

15.00 – 16:30          Room H-407.00

89.      Political Biography: The State of the Art – A Round Table
            Sponsored by the CHA Political History Group

            Participants:
Peter C. Newman, Journalist and Author
John English, University of Waterloo
Adam Chapnick, Canadian Forces College
Cara Spittal, University of Toronto

Facilitator: Stephen Henderson, Acadia University

15.00 – 16:30        Room H-403.00

90.      Stories by Teachers, Stories About Schools

90.1     Paul Axelrod, York University
            No longer a ‘Last Resort’: The End of Corporal Punishment in the Schools of Toronto

90.2     R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar, University of Western Ontario
            Pre-Modern High: Secondary Education in English Canada, 1900-1940
                                   
90.3     Helen Raptis, University of Victoria
            Amy Brown and the Development of Teacher Identity in British Columbia

Facilitator: Jo-Anne McCutcheon, Canadian Development Consultants International Inc.

15.00 – 16:30        Room CJ 5-306 (Loyola Campus)

91.      Media and Politics

Joint Session with the Canadian Communication Association
Free shuttle buses will be available to transport delegates from the
downtown campus to the Loyola Campus.

91.1     Duncan Koerber, University of Toronto Mississauga
            Style over Substance: Newspaper Coverage of Early Election Campaigns in Canada

91.2     James Cairns, Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford)
            “A parliament of man become a parliament of women”: Constructing femininity             through mass mediated civic rituals, 1900-1945

91.3     Suzanne Bowness, University of Ottawa
            Tracking Editorial Relationships Through the Correspondence Corners of
            Nineteenth-Century Canadian Magazines

91.4    Gene Allen, Ryerson University
            The (Bi)National News: Canadian Press and the Service français in the 1960s

Facilitator: Mary Vipond, Concordia University

15.00 – 16:30        Room H-401.00

92.      Timelines for Conflicting Witnesses: Three Historical Case Studies

92.1     Stan Ruecker (University of Alberta), Johanna Drucker (University of                         California, Los Angeles) and Susan Brown (University of Guelph and University of             Alberta)
            Introduction

92.2     Megan Meredith-Lobay, University of Alberta
            Conflicting Origin Myths of the Argyll DálRíata in early Medieval Texts

92.3     Geoffrey Rockwell, Sean Gouglas, Harvey Quamen, Victoria Smith
            and Sophia Hoosein, University of Alberta
            The History of Humanities Computing in Canada  

92.4     Bethany Nowviskie, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library
            The Production and Reception History of Swinburne’s 1866 ‘Poems and Ballads’

            Facilitator: Eric Sager, University of Victoria

 

15.00 – 16:30        Room H-771.00

93.      Rifts in the Rapids: The St. Lawrence Seaway Then and Now

93.1     Rosemary O’Flaherty, Concordia University
            Community Legacies: 50th Anniversary Seaway Celebrations

93.2     Daniel MacFarlane, University of Ottawa
            Productive Disagreement: The Rise and Fall of an All-Canadian Seaway

93.3     Maggie Wheeler, Carleton University
            The Damming Silence: Eradication and Reconstruction of Memory, Story and                         Community in the Seaway Valley

93.4     Claire Frances Parham, Siena College, Loudonville, New York
            Beyond the Interview: How One Oral Historian Became a Storyteller

Facilitator: Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario

15:45 – 16:45        Room MB 3-210

94.     Porter Lecture
Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Sociological Association and the Canadian Historical Association

The John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award

Dominique Clément, University of Alberta
Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982

Understanding the Populations of the Past:

New Developments and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

A Mini-Conference, organized by Danielle Gauvreau, Concordia University  

All sessions will take place in H-435.00.  

TUESDAY, 1 JUNE 2010

8:45 – 9:00

      Opening statement 

9:00 – 10:00

      Opening conference - Chad Gaffield, Ottawa University.  

10:00 – 10:15              Pause 

10:15 – 11:45 / 10 h 15 – 11 h 45  

Session 1 - Hidden Histories: Historical Population Studies with New Census Sources

1.1     Claude Bellavance et France Normand, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
            La population de Trois-Rivières à l'aube de la seconde industrialisation, 1901-1911 

1.2     Lisa Dillon, Université de Montréal
            Aging and social reproduction in 1911 Canada 

1.3     Patricia Thornton and Danielle Gauvreau, Concordia University 
            A Geography of Encounter: Immigration and Cultural Diversity within Quebec,            1881-1911 

1.4     Marc St-Hilaire, Université Laval
            La franco-canadianisation de la ville de Québec et son impact sur les destins             individuels : une  comparaison hommes-femmes 

      Facilitator: Gordon Darroch, York University 

11:45 – 12:30

Session 2 - Social and Spatial Histories of Three Canadian Cities : Applications of Historical GIS

2.1     Patrick Dunae (Vancouver Island University), Jason Gilliland (University                       of Western Ontario) and John Lutz (University of Victoria)
           Dangerous Places? Mapping « Chinese Space » in 1891 Victoria, BC 

2.2     Jason Gilliland and Don Lafrenière (University of Western Ontario),                                  Sherry Olson (McGill University), John Lutz (University of Victoria) and                       Patrick Dunae (Vancouver Island University)  
            Residential Segregation and the Built Environment in Three Canadian Cities, 1881-            1961 

      Facilitator: Patricia Thornton, Concordia University  

12:30 – 13:30           

Lunch 

13:30 – 15:00

Session 3 - Widowhood and the life course 

3.1     Guy Brunet, Université Lyon 2
           La veuve, le veuf et l'orphelin. Ruptures d'union et réseaux familiaux dans un contexte            de forte mortalité. L'exemple de la Dombes (France) du milieu du XVIII° siècle au            milieu du XIX° siècle 

3.2     Marie-Ève Harton, Université Laval
           Demeurer en état de viduité ou se remarier? Le cas des habitants et habitantes âgé(e)s            entre 50 et 59 ans de la ville de Québec à la fin du XIXe siècle 

3.3     Gail Campbell, University of New Brunswick
           Till Death Us Do Part: Widows and Widowers in Charlotte County, New Brunswick,              1845-75 

3.4     Hannah M. Lane, Mount Allison University
           Wealth-holding in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine, 1841-1881  

      Facilitator: Peter Gossage, Concordia University

15:00 – 15 :15         

Pause 

15:15 – 16:45

Session 4 - The challenge of sources : preservation, linkage, and exploitation

4.1     Svenja Weise, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
           Sex, survival and subsistence – A mediaeval Danish perspective 

4.2     Mikolaj Szoltysek, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
           Rethinking Eastern Europe: household formation patterns in the Polish-Lithuanian            Commonwealth and European family systems 

4.3     Sherry Olson, McGill University
           Two by two: tracking personal identities in Montreal, 1881-1901 

4.4     Richard Marcoux, Université Laval  
            Les risques de l’oubli de l’histoire démographique récente en Afrique francophone  

      Facilitator: Bertrand Desjardins, Université de Montréal