September 21 – 23, 2018
Program of Events
Friday, 21 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall
6:00 pm: Light refreshments and registration
7:00 pm: Keynote presentation: 聽Dr. Lisa Todd
鈥淪tudying Sexual and Racial 鈥楳ixture鈥 in the Shadow of War and Genocide: German Southwest Africa, 1904-1913鈥
Saturday, 22 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall
8:00-8:30 am: Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:30 am: Religion and Race in Colonial North America
Chair: Eric Toups
- Kevin March, McGill University, 鈥淟anguages Barbarous and Regular:鈥 Native Dialects in the Jesuit Relations, 1632-1650.
- Eric Toups, University of Maine, 鈥淒uplicity is pushed too far in the proceedings of this Father:鈥 Jesuits, First Nations, and Imperial Diplomacy at French Detroit, 1728-1751.
- Lucretia Grindle, University of Maine, 鈥淭he Long Echo: Racism, Policy, and the Future in the War of 1812.鈥
*5 minute break*
9:35-10:20 am: Women, Germany, and the Second World War
Chair: Dr. Lisa Todd
- Emily Wood, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淎 Blessing:鈥 The Effects of a Lost Menstrual Cycle in the Nazi Camp Systems.
- Emily McPherson, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淭he Utilization of Women鈥檚 Wartime Experiences: Gender and the Public Memory of the Second World War in a Divided Germany, 1945-Present.鈥
*10:20-10:35 am: 15 minute refreshment break*
10:35 am-11:50 pm: Confronting Colonialism
Chair: Lucretia Grindle
- Courtney Mrazek, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淣orth America, 1600-1800: An Ecology of Competing Systems of Knowledge.鈥
- Carlie Manners, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淩ebellion, Fear, and Infantilizing Spiritual Power: English Travellers Discourse on Afro-Creole Spirituality and Practice, 1650-1850.鈥
- Lola Remy, Concordia University, 鈥淢aking the Map Speak: Indigenous Animated Cartographies.鈥
- Saleem Khan, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淐olonization, Decolonization, and UN Peace Operations in Africa.鈥
*BREAK FOR LUNCH – 11:50 am – 1:35 pm*
1:35-2:35 pm: Women and Politics
Chair: Dr. Mary Freeman
- Sarah Domareki, University of Maine, 鈥淟ove, Loss, and Writing the Self in the Intimate Diaries of Henriette Dessaulles (1860-1946) and Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942).鈥
- Leslie Szabo, Concordia University, 鈥淭he Case of Marguerite Pitre: Sympathy, the Media, and Capital Punishment in Canada.鈥
- Emma Schroeder, University of Maine, 鈥淎n Exploration of Spatial, Feminist Politics at the Women and Life on Earth Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1980.鈥
*2:35-2:45 pm: 10 minute break*
2:45-3:45 pm: 20th Century Resistance
Chair: Dr. Jennie Woodard
- Derek Garcia, Concordia University 鈥淪inging, Resistance, and Identity: Corridos, Sediciosos, and Mejicotejanos.鈥
- Dave Hazzan, York University 鈥淣ew York Babylon and the Birth of Punk Rock.鈥
- Katelyin Stieva, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淎 Victory, A Loss, or a Draw?: Assessing the efficacy of the FBI鈥檚 COINTELPRO methods against the Black Panther Party in Chicago.鈥
*3:45-4:00 pm: 15 minute refreshment break*
4:00-5:15 pm: Micro-, Macro-, and Method
Chair: Dr. Howard Segal
- Delaina Toothman, University of Maine, 鈥淧olitics of Water in Texas, 1500-1917.鈥
- Alan Jones, University of New Brunswick, 鈥Juden Raus.鈥 Konrad Adenauer鈥檚 Response to the Swastika Epidemic of 1959-1960.鈥
- Bryan Gordon, Concordia University, 鈥淐ollection Memories: An Oral History of Collecting, Hoarding, and Sentimental Objects in Twentieth-Century Maine.鈥
- Ben Griffin, University of New Brunswick 鈥淔rom seizing pigs to seizing liquor: Canadian Municipal Policing and Law as Ideology from the late 18th Century to World War II.鈥
6:30 pm: Meet at the Common Loon Pub in Orono for Dinner, 36 Main St., Orono, ME, 04473
Image Credit: Patten Lumbermen鈥檚 Museum Archive
Sunday, 23 September 2018, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall
8:30-9:00 am: Refreshments
9:00 AM-9:45 AM: Anthropological Louisbourg
Chair: Ian Jesse
- Jessica Hinton, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淚ncomplete Narratives: Highlighting the inconsistencies between historic, archaeological, and bioarchaeological date of the Block 3 skeletal assemblage from the fortress of Louisbourg.鈥
- Mattia Fonzo, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淧arasite Abundance as a result of Diet, Sanitation, and Medicinal Practices at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS.鈥
*5 minute break*
9:50 AM-10:35 AM: Public New Brunswick
Chair: Dr. Mark McLaughlin
- Elisa Sance, University of Maine, 鈥淧ublic Schools and Ratepayers in Late Nineteenth Century New Brunswick: a linguistic divide?鈥
- Bliss White, University of New Brunswick, 聽鈥淗ighs and Lows: Technocrats, Reform, and Engineering Modernity during New Brunswick鈥檚 Era of Equal Opportunity, 1950-83.鈥
*10:35-10:50 pm : 15 minute refreshment break*
10:50 AM-11:50 AM: Thinking 91福利 Borderlands
Chair: Dr. Liam Riordan
- Richard Yeomans, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淭he Strange Ordeal of Gilliam Butler: Loyalist Dissent and New Brunswick鈥檚 Border Question, 1784-1787.鈥
- Brittany Goetting, University of Maine, 鈥淏lessing of Peace to Our American Continent:鈥 The Baptist Borderlands of Maine and Nova Scotia, 1790-1830
- Ian Baird, University of New Brunswick, 鈥淣ew Brunswick Anglican Involvement in WWI鈥