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.
Conference Schedule Saturday, May 14, 2016 8:00 Registration Opens Registration Table Located: 6 th floor of CNH 8:30-10:00 Panel 1 Writing and Re-Writing History CNH 614 10:00-10:15 Break Panel 2 Parks, Recreation, and Environmentalism since 1900 CNH 607 10:15-11:45 Panel 3 European Postwar Reconstruction CNH 607 12:00-12:45 Lunch in CNH 614 Panel 4 Identities and Interpretations: Religion in World History CNH 614 12:45-2:15 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, 2016 9:00-11:00 Round Table Discussion in CNH 607
Saturday May 14 2016 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,
1945-1949 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
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, 1935-1956 The Power of Prose: Intellectuals Intermediaries and Historical Imagination in Colonial Buganda, 1880-1940 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, 1946-1965 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 15 2016 9:00 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