UNB-UMaine Graduate Conference 2005

7Th Annual University of Maine and University of New Brunswick International Graduate Student Conference
21-23 October 2005

Preliminary Program

Friday, 21 October

3pm – 3:30 pm Welcome and registration. [Tilley Hall, Lobby]

3:30pm – 5 pm

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Judd (University of Maine) "North American Environmental History: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States." [Tilley Hall 104]

5pm – 6 pm Wine and Cheese Reception [Tilley Hall 28]

Saturday, 22 October

8:30am – 9am Refreshments [Tilley Hall 28]

9am – 10am

1.1 20th Century Right-wing Radicals [Tilley Hall 5]

James Brittain, University of New Brunswick, "Systemic Silencing of Political Voice: The Relevance of the National Front Agreement (1958-1974) within Contemporary Colombian Society."
Val Deacon, York University, "Cagoulard Characteristics: Defining the members of the Comité secret d'action révolutionnaire."

1.2 Acadians and Loyalists: history and commemoration. [Tilley Hall 104]

Kristy Martin, Carleton University, "Life in the "Olden Days": Representing Childhood in Heritage Villages: A Case Study of King's Landing and Acadian Village."
Roger Marsters, Dalhousie University, "Commemorating Acadia: English-Canadian historiography, biculturalism, and the creation of Grand Pré."

10am – 10:15am Break [Tilley Hall 28]

10:15am – 11:30am

2.1 Immigration and Community Formation. [Tilley Hall 5]

Amy O'Reilly, University of New Brunswick, "Irishness in a Pre-Famine Immigrant Community: Glasgow, 1780-1845."
Gay Fanjoy, University of New Brunswick, "But the twain did meet: Community formation in New Brunswick Fundy-coast fishing villages."
Maria VandenBerg, University of New Brunswick, "PEI Migration: 1873 to 1945."

11:30am – 12pm Lunch [Tilley Hall 28]

12pm – 1:15pm

3.1 Civil-Military relations [Tilley Hall 5]

Keith Mercer, Dalhousie University, "Bluenosers confront John Bull: The Story of British Naval Impressment in Nova Scotia, 1775-1815."
Ian Andrews, University of New Brunswick, "Military Aid to the Civil Power: The Cape Breton Coal Strike of 1909 – 1910."
Josh Peters, University of New Brunswick, "Civil-Military Relations: The Case of the Israel Defense Forces."

1:15pm – 1:30pm Break [Tilley Hall 28]

1:30pm – 2:45pm

4.1 Military history and commemoration. [Tilley Hall 5]

Robert Harding, Dalhousie University, "Continuity and Commemoration: Newfoundland's Cultural Memory of the Battle of Beaumont Hamel."
Tony Kennedy, University of New Brunswick, "S.L.A. Marshall's Controversial Contribution to Military History and Tactics."
Deborah Bulmer, University of New Brunswick, "From Wheatfield to Battlefield: Canadian Junior Officers in the years preceding the Second World War."

4.2 Women and Twentieth Century Canadian Culture. [Tilley Hall 104]

David Bent, University of New Brunswick, "Modernity and Rural Women: The Women's Institute of Nova Scotia and the Campaign for Rural Modernization, 1918-1956."

Heather Molyneaux, University of New Brunswick, "Now She Can Cope: Sedatives, Tranquillizers and the Image of the Hysterical Housewife."

2:45pm – 3pm Break [Tilley Hall 28]

3pm – 4pm

5.1 Cultural Constructions of Forests and Trails. [Tilley Hall 5]

Abigail Smith, University of Maine, "A Culture of Walking: The Creation of Trail Landscapes and Trail Narratives along the Appalachian and Sierra Nevada Ranges, 1876-1925."
Dale Potts, University of Maine, "Henry Red Eagle and Walter MacDougall: Woods Laborers, Popular Literature and Cultural Perceptions of the Maine North Woods, 1930-1950."

5.2 Community and Modernity. [Tilley Hall 104]

Shawna Stairs, University of New Brunswick, "'Tending to the Uplift of Humanity': Inspector George Mersereau and New Brunswick Schools: 1884-1900."
Stephen MacPherson, University of New Brunswick, "Marysville after the Boss, 1922-1957: A Small Town's Quest for Empowerment."

4pm – 4:15pm Break [Tilley Hall 28]

4:15pm – 5:15pm

6.2 Forest fires and forest exploitation [Tilley Hall 5]

Terrence Currie, University of Ottawa, "Ottawa Valley's Great Fire of 1870: An Ecological History."

Melanie Aube, University of New Brunswick, "Assessing the historical impacts of forest exploitation on the Miramichi River watershed, New Brunswick."

6.2 North-Eastern North America's Bourgeoisie: Papers and Politics. [Tilley Hall 104]

Joy Giguere, University of Maine, "The Parsons' Papers: the archival records of a prominent Maine family."
Don Nerbas, University of New Brunswick, "The Politics of Saint John's Bourgeoisie, 1919-1927."

6:30pm Banquet [Alden Nowlan House Graduate Student Pub]

Sunday, 23 October

9am – 9:30am Refreshments [Tilley Hall 28]

9:30am – 10:45am

7.1 Religious Images and Objects. [Tilley Hall 5]

Dale Block, University of Calgary, "Instruments of Faith: The Religious Significance of the Telescope and the Microscope in the 17th Century."
Katie Poulin, Pennsylvania State University, "Painting Antwerp in the 16th Century: Issues of Gender, Artistic Style and Religion in the Art of Jan van Hemessen."
Emily Soldera, Carleton University, "Conduits of Faith and Knowledge: Sacred Objects in Museums."

10:45am – 11:00am Break [Tilley Hall 28]

11am – 12:15pm

8.1 Industry and Community. [Tilley Hall 5]

Murray McEachan, University of New Brunswick, "Wooden Walls and Satanic Mills: A comparison of the Portsmouth dockyard and the cotton mills of Lancashire as industries in the early Industrial Revolution in Britain."
Joseph Gerth, University of Massachusetts, "The Vast Roles of Cincinnati's Breweries from 1800 to Prohibition."
Brian Payne, University of Maine, "'Intrusions of Strangers': Modes of Production and Defining Local Culture in the 19th Century Gulf of St. Lawrence Mackerel Fishery."

12:15pm – 1pm Lunch [Tilley Hall 28]

1pm – 2:15pm

9.1 Modern Germany. [Tilley Hall 5]

Anthony Nardini, Villanova University, "Varieties of Nationalism and German Unification: A Brief Historiographical Survey."
Peter Mersereau, Dalhousie University, "The Phoebus Scandal: The military, the cinema, and the battle for hearts and minds in Weimar Germany."
Michael C. Wallo, Pennsylvania State University, "Centers of 'Community': Literary Expressionists and radical Weimar Conservatives in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

2:15pm – 2:30pm Break [Tilley Hall 28]

2:15pm – 3:30pm

10.1 Twentieth Century Politics and Diplomacy. [Tilley Hall 5]

Sami Jeskanen, University of Maine, "Trudeau and the American Presidents – Diplomatic Management of Personal Relations."
Zachary Wareham, University of New Brunswick, "The Cold War and the Spanish Concordat of 1953."
Kate Betts-Wilmott, Wilfred Laurier University, "Politics and the Army in Post-Fascist Italy during the Second World War."

3:30pm – 4pm Closing remarks. [Tilley Hall 5]