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: Dr. Lisa Todd
“Studying Sexual and Racial ‘Mixture’ in the Shadow of War and Genocide: German Southwest Africa, 1904-1913”
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, “Languages Barbarous and Regular:” Native Dialects in the Jesuit Relations, 1632-1650.
- Eric Toups, University of Maine, “Duplicity is pushed too far in the proceedings of this Father:” Jesuits, First Nations, and Imperial Diplomacy at French Detroit, 1728-1751.
- Lucretia Grindle, University of Maine, “The Long Echo: Racism, Policy, and the Future in the War of 1812.”
*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, “A Blessing:” The Effects of a Lost Menstrual Cycle in the Nazi Camp Systems.
- Emily McPherson, University of New Brunswick, “The Utilization of Women’s Wartime Experiences: Gender and the Public Memory of the Second World War in a Divided Germany, 1945-Present.”
*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, “North America, 1600-1800: An Ecology of Competing Systems of Knowledge.”
- Carlie Manners, University of New Brunswick, “Rebellion, Fear, and Infantilizing Spiritual Power: English Travellers Discourse on Afro-Creole Spirituality and Practice, 1650-1850.”
- Lola Remy, Concordia University, “Making the Map Speak: Indigenous Animated Cartographies.”
- Saleem Khan, University of New Brunswick, “Colonization, Decolonization, and UN Peace Operations in Africa.”
*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, “Love, Loss, and Writing the Self in the Intimate Diaries of Henriette Dessaulles (1860-1946) and Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942).”
- Leslie Szabo, Concordia University, “The Case of Marguerite Pitre: Sympathy, the Media, and Capital Punishment in Canada.”
- Emma Schroeder, University of Maine, “An Exploration of Spatial, Feminist Politics at the Women and Life on Earth Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1980.”
*2:35-2:45 pm: 10 minute break*
2:45-3:45 pm: 20th Century Resistance
Chair: Dr. Jennie Woodard
- Derek Garcia, Concordia University “Singing, Resistance, and Identity: Corridos, Sediciosos, and Mejicotejanos.”
- Dave Hazzan, York University “New York Babylon and the Birth of Punk Rock.”
- Katelyin Stieva, University of New Brunswick, “A Victory, A Loss, or a Draw?: Assessing the efficacy of the FBI’s COINTELPRO methods against the Black Panther Party in Chicago.”
*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, “Politics of Water in Texas, 1500-1917.”
- Alan Jones, University of New Brunswick, “Juden Raus.” Konrad Adenauer’s Response to the Swastika Epidemic of 1959-1960.”
- Bryan Gordon, Concordia University, “Collection Memories: An Oral History of Collecting, Hoarding, and Sentimental Objects in Twentieth-Century Maine.”
- Ben Griffin, University of New Brunswick “From seizing pigs to seizing liquor: Canadian Municipal Policing and Law as Ideology from the late 18th Century to World War II.”
6:30 pm: Meet at the Common Loon Pub in Orono for Dinner, 36 Main St., Orono, ME, 04473
Image Credit: Patten Lumbermen’s 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, “Incomplete Narratives: Highlighting the inconsistencies between historic, archaeological, and bioarchaeological date of the Block 3 skeletal assemblage from the fortress of Louisbourg.”
- Mattia Fonzo, University of New Brunswick, “Parasite Abundance as a result of Diet, Sanitation, and Medicinal Practices at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS.”
*5 minute break*
9:50 AM-10:35 AM: Public New Brunswick
Chair: Dr. Mark McLaughlin
- Elisa Sance, University of Maine, “Public Schools and Ratepayers in Late Nineteenth Century New Brunswick: a linguistic divide?”
- Bliss White, University of New Brunswick, “Highs and Lows: Technocrats, Reform, and Engineering Modernity during New Brunswick’s Era of Equal Opportunity, 1950-83.”
*10:35-10:50 pm : 15 minute refreshment break*
10:50 AM-11:50 AM: Thinking About Borderlands
Chair: Dr. Liam Riordan
- Richard Yeomans, University of New Brunswick, “The Strange Ordeal of Gilliam Butler: Loyalist Dissent and New Brunswick’s Border Question, 1784-1787.”
- Brittany Goetting, University of Maine, “Blessing of Peace to Our American Continent:” The Baptist Borderlands of Maine and Nova Scotia, 1790-1830
- Ian Baird, University of New Brunswick, “New Brunswick Anglican Involvement in WWI”