DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

11th Annual Univ. of maine/ UNB History Graduate Student Conference Program

 

11th Annual University of Maine / University of New Brunswick

International History Graduate Student Conference

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB

25-27 September 2009

FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER

3:00pm – 4:45 pm      Welcome and Registration                                  [Memorial Hall]

5:00pm – 6:00pm       Keynote Address                                                  [Memorial Hall]

Dr. Stephen Hornsby, University of Maine, Director of the Canadian-American Center, “Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres and the Mapping of Northeastern North America.”

6:00pm – 7:30pm       Wine and Cheese Reception                                [Memorial Hall]

SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER

8:35am – 9:00am       Refreshment Break                                                   [Tilley Hall]

9:00am – 9:50am       Session 1 — Media and Regionalism                       [Tilley 104]

Chair: David Bent

Paul Collins, Memorial University, “Canada’s Plan to Torch St. John’s: Upper Canadian Arrogance or Tabloid Journalism?”

Ashley Harding, University of New Brunswick, “Nathan Cohen is for Mourning: A Cape Breton Play in Toronto, 1953”

9:50am – 10:05am     Break                                                                         [Tilley Hall]

10:05am – 10:55am   Session 2 — Memory and Landscape                     [Tilley 104]

Chair: Patrick Webber

Robert Hodges, University of Maine,            “An Exploration into Historical Memory: Lumber, Roadside Attractions, and the World's Largest Axe!”

Robert Gee, University of Maine, “Scenic Overlook: Economic Development and Landscape Change in Coastal Maine”

10:55am – 12:00pm   Session 3 — New Brunswick Activism                    [Tilley 104]

Chair: William Pratt

Patrick Webber, University of New Brunswick, “‘Not So Provincial’: Activism at the University of New Brunswick, 1961-1972”

Christy Clarke, University of New Brunswick, “Jack and Jill Went up the Hill to Stop an International Slaughter: Two Seal Pups Awaken Global Concern for Seals in the Canadian North Atlantic”

Anthony Hampton, University of Guelph, “‘I don’t think Canadians are going to sit still and let it happen’: The New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution and Citizens’ Response to the Meech Lake Accord”

           

12:00pm-12:45pm     Lunch                                                                         [Tilley Hall]

12:45pm-1:35pm       Session 4 — North American Unions in the           [Tilley 104]

                                    Twentieth Century

Chair: Iain O’Shea                                                    

Paul Gibson, University of Maryland, “‘We Always Win’: The Baltimore Police Strike and the Decline of Public Unionization”

Patrick Marsh, University of New Brunswick, “The Historiography of Machinists: A Survey of Moncton as a Rail Town”

1:35pm-1:45pm         Break

1:45pm-2:35pm         Session 5 — The Rise and Fall of Nations

Chair: Don Nerbas

Mischa Evan Kaplan, University of Toronto, “Defining the Limits of Cold War Categorization: The Nigerian Civil War 40 Years On”

James Horncastle, University of New Brunswick, “The Balkan Paper Tiger: An Evaluation of the JNA’s Strength Prior to the Collapse of Yugoslavia”

2:35pm-2:50pm         Refreshment Break                                                   [Tilley Hall]

2:50pm-4:05pm         Session 6 — The Power of Language                      [Tilley 104]

Chair: Anthony Hampton

Gay Fanjoy, University of New Brunswick, “Labeling Female Offenders and Victims in the Saint John Courts, 1870-1908”

Aneesh Murali Mohan and Benedict Gauthier, University of Western Ontario, “Antisemitism: Policy and Public Speeches in Britain during the 1930s”

Gregory Jones-Katz, University of Maine, “Toward a Re-Enchantment of the Past”

4:05pm-4:15pm         Break                                                                          [Tilley Hall]

4:15pm-5:20pm         Session 7 — National and International                  [Tilley 104]

Policy Making                       

Chair: Mark McLaughlin

Brent Clowater, University of New Brunswick, “Of Car Parts and Cuisinarts: The Science Council of Canada, the 1965 Auto Pact, and the Truncation of Canadian Industry”

Steven Haynes, Kent State University, “Opportunity in Crisis: The United States and the Tacna-Arica Dispute”

Tyler J. Turek, University of Ottawa, “The Irony of Constraint: Canada-US Relations During the Korean War”

           

7:00pm                                   BANQUET

The Garrison District Ale House, 426 Queen St.

SUNDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER

8:15am-8:45am          Refreshment Break                                                   [Tilley Hall]

8:45am-9:35am          Session 8 — Female Agency and Activism              [Tilley 104]

Chair: Patrick Marsh

Peggy Solic, University of Maine, “Feminist Solidarity and Global Sisterhood: The Development of an Idea in US Feminist Thought.”

Bonnie Morgan, University of New Brunswick, “Agency and Anglicans: Women’s Resistance to Prescriptive Ideology in the 1930s Coastal Newfoundland Community”

9:35am-9:40am          Break

9:40am-10:45am        Session 9 — The Borderland Experience               [Tilley 104]

Chair: Thomas Wendleboe

David Stanley,            Dalhousie University, “Cross-Border Collaborators in Canadian Shipbuilding, 1880-95”

Gary Campbell, University of New Brunswick, “Cat and Mouse: The Dynamic of Cutting Trespass Timber in the Disputed Territory”

Peg Kearney, University of Maine, “Land, Loyalty, and Self-Interest: One Family’s Journey from Neutrality to Exile”

10:45am-11:00am      Refreshment Break                                                   [Tilley Hall]

11:00am-11:50am      Session 10 — Health, Sexuality and Race               [Tilley 104]

Chair: Michelle McDonald

Thomas Wendleboe, University of New Brunswick, “Hard Sell: Constructing the Male Body in Cold War Popular Culture”

Mike Aloisio, University of Western Ontario, “Black Heath in Detroit 1915-1930”

11:50am-12:35pm      Lunch                                                                         [Tilley Hall]

12:35pm-1:25pm       Session 11 — The Canadian War Experience:      [Tilley 104]

Discourses and Reflections  

Chair: Ashley Harding

Katrina Ackerman, University of New Brunswick, “‘Daddy, What Did YOU Do in the Great War?’ Fatherhood, Propaganda and the First World War”

Michael deJong, University of New Brunswick, “Memory, Memorials and the Politics of History: The Canadian War Museum and the Holocaust Gallery Controversy”

1:25pm-2:15               Session 12 — The Canadian War Experience:      [Tilley 104]

Canada on the Front Line

                        Chair: Craig Johnson

Alex Souchen, University of Ottawa, “Canadians at the Sharp End: D-Day, 6 June 1944”

William Pratt, University of New Brunswick, “The Experience of Armoured Warfare: 1 Canadian Armoured Brigade”

2:15pm-2:30pm         Break                                                                         [Tilley Hall]

2:30pm-3:20pm         Session 13 — The Influence of the Media in          [Tilley 104]

                                    International Affairs

Chair: Mike Aloisio

Lucas Calhoun, University of Maine, “Framers of the News: Media and Governmental Actors Shaping Coverage of Tiananmen Square”

Iain O’Shea, University of New Brunswick, “Training Equality: The 1901 Selborne Scheme and the Periodical Discourse on the Naval Training Reforms”

3:20pm-3:30pm         Closing Remarks                                                       [Tilley 104]