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Wilson Institute for Canadian History, the McMaster Department

1 McMaster Graduate History Conference Alternate History Chester New Hall 6 th Floor May 14 th -15 th 2016 Sponsored by the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, the McMaster Department of History, and the McMaster History Graduate Student Association.

2 Conference Schedule Saturday, May 14, :00 Registration Opens Registration Table Located: 6 th floor of CNH 8:30-10:00 Panel 1 Writing and Re-Writing History CNH :00-10:15 Break Panel 2 Parks, Recreation, and Environmentalism since 1900 CNH :15-11:45 Panel 3 European Postwar Reconstruction CNH :00-12:45 Lunch in CNH 614 Panel 4 Identities and Interpretations: Religion in World History CNH :45-2:15 Panel 5 - Constructing and Reconciling Memory CNH 607 2:15-2:30 Break 2:30-4:00 Panel 6 Colonial Historiography CNH 614 4:00-4:15 Break Panel 7 Masculinity in Chaos CNH 607 4:15-5:15 Keynote Address by Dr. Phil Van Huizen in CNH 607 6:00 on Social Mingling at the Ye Olde Squire 875 Main St W, Hamilton Sunday, May 15, :00-11:00 Round Table Discussion in CNH 607

3 Saturday May Panels 8:30am to 10:30am Panel 1 Writing and Re-Writing History CNH 614 Nilab Ferozan, Arazoo Ferozan, Nick Bridges, of Guelph Chair: Dr. Armstrong The Success and Failure of the Protestant Reformation in the Early Modern Europe Commerce in Marseille: Merchants and Cross-Cultural Influences in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean Trade Travelling through Scottish Tourism Historiography: Transnational and Comparative Approaches to History Panel 2 Parks, Recreation, and Environmentalism since 1900 CNH 607 Mica Jorgenson, Sara Giglia, McMaster Kimberly Roberts, York Chair: Dr. Egan Playground, not Sanctuary: Family Camping at Algonquin Before World War II Don t Swim There!: Hamilton Harbour s Polluted and Toxic History National Parks and Their Resisters: A Case from Northern Thailand 10:15am to 11:45am Panel 3 European Postwar Reconstruction CNH 607 Tim Mueller, McMaster Chair: Dr. Horn Nazi Elite School Teachers and Pupils in Occupied Germany,

4 Brittany Gataveckas, Ross Huyskamp, of Toronto UNRRA s Mission to France : France, America, and the Rise of Transnational Relief An Acknowledgment of Failure? C70 and Rotterdam s Reconstruction in Retrospect Panel 4 Identities and Interpretations: Religion in World History CNH 614 Vanessa Lovisa, Robert Revington, Chair: Jacqueline Kirkham The Italian Problem : Italian Immigrants and the Roman Catholic Church in Toronto The Legacy of Bishop John A.T. Robinson 12:45 to 2:15pm Panel 5 Constructing and Reconciling Memory CNH 607 Jean A. Smith, York Breanna Lester, Independent scholar Maggie McGoldrick, Queens Chair: Dr. Heathorn Emancipation in the British West Indies: Reconstructions, Meanings and Commemorations Sculpting, Exhibiting, and Teaching Nationhood: A Critical Examination of Canada s First World War Centenary From Truth to Reconciliation: Grassroots Archives, Indigenous Memory, and Healing Through the Shingwauk Residential School Center

5 2:30pm to 4:00pm Panel 6 Colonial Historiography CNH 614 Sandria Green-Stewart, Paul Emiljanowicz, Samantha Stevens-Hall, Chair: Ateeka Khan Women and Health in Colonial Jamaica, 1850s-1890s Local Realities, Colonial Anxieties, and Policy Adaptation: Developing Community in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, The Power of Prose: Intellectuals Intermediaries and Historical Imagination in Colonial Buganda, Panel 7 Masculinity in Chaos CNH 607 Curran Egan, McMaster Jacqueline Kirkham, Chair: TBD Imposing Order, Disturbing the Peace Selling to the Logger and the Lumber Baron: Decoding Masculinities in Logging Equipment Advertisements, Keynote Address CNH 607 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm Dr. Phil Van Huizen, Alternating Currents, Reversing Flows: The Historical Nature of Canadian Energy Networks Sunday May :00 am to 11:00 am Round Table Discussion CNH 607 Responding to the Challenge of Big History Panelists: Jacqueline Kirkham, Samantha Stevens-Hall and Mica Jorgenson

Curriculum Vitae Bryce Traister Department of English Western University

Curriculum Vitae Bryce Traister Department of English Western University Current Position Chair, Department of English, University of Western Ontario 2011- President, University of Western Ontario Faculty