DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
9th Annual University of Maine - University of New Brunswick International History Graduate Student Conference
FRIDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER
3pm – 3:30 pm Registration [Memorial Hall]
3:30pm – 5 pm
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Scott See, University of Maine, “The Peaceable Kingdom Paradox: Canadian Historians and the Negotiation of a Myth” [Memorial Hall]
5pm – 6 pm Wine and Cheese Reception [Memorial Hall]
SATURDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER
8:20am – 8:50am Refreshments [Tilley Hall]
8:50am – 9:40am [Tilley 104]
1. The Imagined Past and Present: Commemoration and Media Representations in the United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Chair: Heather Molyneaux)
Joy Giguere, University of Maine, "Making the American Sphinx: Jacob Bigelow, the Egyptian Revival and Post-Civil War Commemoration"
David Turpie, University of Maine, "From Broadway to Hollywood: The Image of the 1939 University of Tennessee Football Team"
9:40am – 9:50am Refreshment Break [Tilley Hall]
9:50am – 11:05am [Tilley 104]
2. Women and the Politics of Gender in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries (Chair: Dr. Linda Kealey)
Hilary Ingram, McGill University, “‘The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit’: The Recruitment and Training of Single Female Missionaries within Three British Protestant Missionary Organizations Between 1875 and 1910”
Gay Fanjoy, University of New Brunswick, “A Dangerous Liaison: The Maggie Vail Murder”
Shannon Risk, University of Maine, “‘Mr. Editor, Have We Digressed?: John Neal’s 1870 Editorial Debate on Maine Woman Suffrage”
11:05am – 11:10am Break
11:10am-12:00pm [Tilley 104]
3. The Left and Social Change in New Brunswick in the 1960s and 1970s (Chair: Dr. Kirk Niergarth)
Patrick Webber, University of New Brunswick, “Pushed to the Side: The New Democratic Party and the Political Culture of New Brunswick, 1960-75”
Matt Baglole, University of New Brunswick, “‘We Have Our Bigots’: Contextualizing New Brunswick’s Human Rights Initiatives Under Louis J. Robichaud, 1960-1970”
12:00pm-12:45pm Lunch [Tilley Hall]
12:45pm-1:35pm [Tilley 104]
4. The Changing Legal and Gender Terrain of New Brunswick Labour in the 20th Century (Chair: Mark McLaughlin)
Carolynn McNally, Université de Moncton, "Les accidentés devant la justice au Nouveau-Brunswick, 1914-1920, perspectives de recherche"
Kim Dunphy, University of New Brunswick, “The Early Women,1913-1963: The First 50 Years of Women in the New Brunswick Federation of Labour”
1:35pm-1:45pm Break
1:45pm-2:35pm [Tilley 104]
5. The Second World War: Logistical Challenges, Personal Experiences (Chair: Dr. Sean Kennedy)
Ian Haight, University of New Brunswick, “Canadian Troop Convoy System, June 1940”
Sophia Belliveau, Université de Moncton, "Une jeune Résistante française au cœur des années noires : analyse du journal personnel de Denise Domenach (1939-1944)"
2:35pm-2:50pm Refreshment Break [Tilley Hall]
2:50pm-4:05pm [Tilley 104]
6. Historians and Historiography (Chair: Amber Grant)
Patrick-Michel Noël, Université Laval, "Réfléchir à l’histoire en historien: vers une connaissance de l’histoire par l’histoire"
Mark McLaughlin, University of New Brunswick, “As the World of Wood Turns: A Historiographical and Theoretical Survey of the Development of Eastern Canada’s Forest Industries Since 1800”
Michelle McDonald, University of New Brunswick, "Making History and Writing History: The Historians and the Historiography of Prince Edward Island in the Late Nineteenth Century"
4:05pm-4:15pm Break
4:15pm-5:05pm [Tilley 104]
7. Magic, Consumer Culture, and Identity: The Cultural History of the Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Chair: Michelle McDonald)
Robert Hodges, University of Maine, “The Loyalists of Saint John: City Building, Consumer Culture, and Identity, 1784 to 1799”
Cameron Goodfellow, University of Saskatchewan, “Bad Press: The Censorship of Magical Publications in 17th Century London”
7pm-12am BANQUET [Residence of Dr. Bill Parenteau, 37 Reading St.]
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
8:30am-9am Refreshments [Tilley Hall]
9am-10:15am [Tilley 104]
8. Tensions and Conflict in Northeastern North America (Chair: Jazmine Belyea)
Gary Campbell, University of New Brunswick, “The Raid on Fort Fairfield: An Episode in the Maine/New Brunswick Border Controversy”
Paula Sheehan-Kopp, University of Maine, “French Canadian and Irish Immigrants to New England in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond: Ethnic Identity, Language, and Socio-Economic Rivalry”
Edward Martin, University of Maine, "The Prize Game in the Borderlands: Privateering in Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the Eighteenth Century and the War of 1812"
10:15am-10:25am Break
10:25am-11:15am [Tilley 104]
9. Responding to Jim Crow (Chair: David Bent)
Philip McCormack, Miami University, “Cargo Movements, Symbolic Empowerment, and Marcus Garvey: A Religious Analysis of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA”
Mike Aloisio, University of New Brunswick, “Dunbar Memorial Hospital: A Historical Sketch”
11:15am-11:30am Refreshment Break [Tilley Hall]
11:30am-12:20pm [Tilley 104]
10. Aspects of Canadian Foreign and Public Policy, 1960s-1980s (Chair: Ian Haight)
Stefano Tijerina, University of Maine, “Voyage of Discovery 1968: Initial Steps Toward Greater Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the Case of Colombia”
Esther Steeves, University of Alberta, “Patient Charges and the Future of Health Care: The Alberta Department of Hospitals and Medical Care 1979-1984”
12:20pm-1:00pm Lunch [Tilley Hall]
1:00pm-1:50pm [Tilley 104]
11. Strikes in Canada from the Postwar to “Postindustrial” Period (Chair: Roxanne Reeves)
Courtney MacIsaac, University of New Brunswick, “The Coal Miners on Strike: Cape Breton 1947”
William Vinh-Doyle, University of New Brunswick, “Discord on the Picket Line: Working-Class Responses to the Practices and Policies of Local 175 of the UFCW during a Strike with Canada Safeway Ltd. in Thunder Bay, Ontario (2001-2002)"
1:50pm-2:00pm Refreshment Break [Tilley Hall]
2:00pm-2:50pm [Tilley 104]
12. Rural History and Sport in the Atlantic Region (Chair: Patrick Webber)
David Bent, University of New Brunswick, “Fertile Historical Ground: A Review of Recent Scholarship in Maritime Rural History"
Todd Spencer, University of New Brunswick, “Harness Racing and the Fair in the Maritimes and New England, 1850-1939”
2:50pm-3:00pm Closing Remarks [Tilley 104]