UNB - U Maine Graduate Student History Conference, 2006

University of Maine, Orono

Friday, October 20, 2006

3:00pm         Registration

4:00pm         Keynote Address  Dr. Linda Kealey (UNB):

                            "The Nurse is Worth It": Revisiting Women's Caring Work"

6:00pm         Welcome Banquet Dinner

Saturday, October 21, 2006

7:30am-8:30am       Registration and Light Breakfast

8:30am-10.00am     Panel 1: Gender Roles in Transition: Late 19th- Early 20^th Century

Mary Okin, University of Maine "The Diagnosis of Mental Disorder in

Women in Quebec, 1912-1940: An Analysis of Women's Ambivalent Relationship to Culturally Prescribed Roles as Demonstrated through Expressions of 'Madness'"

Le'Trice Donaldson, University of Tennessee-Knoxville "From Triumph to

Tragedy: African-American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship and Manhood in the Spanish-American-Filipino War"

Krista Chatman, University of New Brunswick "Merchant Men and Office

Girls: The Experience of Female Clerical Workers in St. John's Newfoundland to Confederation"

Shannon Risk, University of Maine: "'Taxation and Representation (are)

Inseparable': Early Petitions for Maine Woman Suffrage, 1872-1897"

10:00am-10:30am   Coffee Break

10:30am-12:00pm   Panel 2: Public Memory and Popular Discourse

Todd Spencer, University of New Brunswick, "Remembering the

Firefighters: Searching for New Brunswick Memorials"

Chiara Tedaldi, University College Dublin "Prescribing Memory, Rewriting

History: An Exploration of the Introduction of Italy's 'Day of

Remembrance'"

Kirk Niergarth, University of New Brunswick, "The Place of Healing and

the Place of Art in New Brunswick"

Gregory Jones-Katz, University of Maine, "The Paul de Man Affair"

12:00pm-2:00pm     Lunch

2:00pm-3:30pm       Panel 3: Cultural and Technology

Jennie Leland, University of Maine "From Superwoman to Supergirl: The

Construct of Teenage Girls 'Having it All' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Joy Giguere, University of Maine "A Monster for the Masses: The Rise of

Zombie Cinema in the United States"

Christopher Clark, University of Saskatchewan "Early Modern Travel

Writing and the Blog: Striking Similarities Across 500 Years of

                     Print Media"

Gary Campbell, University of New Brunswick "The Duke of Kent's

Telegraph System

3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break

4:00pm-5:30pm Panel 4: Two Centuries of International Conflict

Tony M. Kennedy, University of New Brunswick "The Korean War and the

USMC at the Chosin Reservoir"

Kelly Chaves, University of New Brunswick "Suitable Provisions are not

made for their Return: The Collision of Maori Culture and British Seamanship, 1805-1825"

D. Jeannine Cole, University of Tennessee-Knoxville "Transatlantic

Kinsmen: Issues of Class in British and Confederate Relations"

David Turpie, University of Maine "The Greatest of our New

Possessions: National Geographic, the Philippines, and US Imperialism, 1898-1905" 

Sunday, October 22, 2006

8:00am-8:30am Light Breakfast

8:30am-9:45am       "Panel 5: Changing Nature of Texts: Interpreting and

Reinterpreting Historical Sources

Nathan P. Morse, University of Vermont "The Monforte Heresy: Spiritual

Purge, or Financial Grab?"

Cameron Goodfellow, University of Saskatchewan, John Partridge's

Books of Secrets: Trade Manual or Popular Press?”

Jennifer Farkas, James Madison University "The English Mirror:

Comparing New Cultures Through English Early Modern

Philosophy"

9:45-10:15    Coffee Break

10:15pm-11:45am   Panel 6: 20th Century Social and Economic Transition in

Canada

Mike Wilcox, University of New Brunswick "The United Oil Workers of

Canada Strike and Labour's Postwar Settlement in New Brunswick, 1948"

Kimberly Dunphy, University of New Brunswick "Canadian Union of Public

Employees Local 2464: The Bethel Nursing Home Strike, 1981-1982"

Lisa Pasolli, University of New Brunswick "The Influence of the

'Saskatchewan Mafia' on the Modernization of the New Brunswick Civil Service, 1960-1970"

Don Nerbas, University of New Brunswick "Accumulating Capital in Saint

John: T. McAvity & Sons Ltd. in the 1920s"

11:45am-12:45pm   Lunch

12:45pm-2:00pm     Panel 7: Colonialism: 16-18th Century Britain and

North America

Laura Geoghegan, University of Maine, "Henry Knox and his involvement

in the Northwest Ohio Frontier, 1787-1794."

Abigail Chandler, University of Maine "From Incontinency to Fornication:

York County Under Siege"

Jen Turner University of Massachusetts "Public Poor Relief in 17th

Century Colonial America and England"