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HIM 16 programme

Friday, March 4
5:00pm
Reception
Location: LB 1014

History Department Atrium

6:00-7:30
Opening Keynote Address
Dr. Joe Lee
''Reflections on the History of the Irish Diaspora''
Location:  LB 1014
 

Saturday, March 5

Registration & Breakfast

8am - History Department Atrium


Opening Remarks - Dr. Wilson Jacob, Graduate Program Director; Dr. Frank Chalk, MIGS; Dr. Steven High, COHDS
9:15 -- LB 1014

 

PANEL I – Memory and Memorializing

10:15 - 11:45am -- LB 1014

Moderator: Abbey Mahon

 

Tanya Lanthanh Nguyen
MA Candidate, Department of History, Sarah Lawrence College

“Inclusive Stories, Untold Versions: Memories of the Vietnam Era”
 

Derek Caners
MA, Department of History, Carleton University,
“A Canadian Whose Background was Different than My Own”: Heritage Canada and the use of Immigrant Stories, 1973 – 1979” 

 

Jon Malek

MA, Department of History, University of Manitoba

"Memories of Migration: History and Remembering in the Winnipeg-Filipino Community"

 

Jessa Alston-O’Connor
MA Student, Art History, Concordia University
“From Sushi to Chop Suey: Negotiating Asian-Canadian Identities Through Food Culture and Art”

Coffee Break
11:45 am -- History Department Atrium

 

PANEL II – National Narratives
12pm – 1:15pm-- LB  1014
Moderator: Ryan Madden

 

Toulouse Roy

MA, Department of History, McGill University
“Memories of the “New Paradise”: the Manshuu imin and the politics of historical remembrance in postwar Japan”

 

Deepa Nair, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Appalachian State University
“Diasporic Hindu Nationalistic Discourse on representation of Hinduism in school texts in America”

 

Matthew Galway

PhD Candidate, Department of History, Concordia University

“Maoism in Action? - Atavism and Disproportionate Revenge during the Pol Pot Regime, 1975-1978”

 

Lunch

1:15pm – 2:30pm -- History Department Atrium

 

PANEL III– Cityscapes and Community Life
2:30pm – 3:45pm -- LB 1014

Moderator: Tanya Rowell-Katzemba

 

Razieh Rezazadeh, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Iran University of Science and Technology
“Community Formation by Rural Migrants in Metropolitan Areas”

 

Celine Bastien
MA Student, Department of History, University of New Brunswick
“A Dozen Little Red Chairs: Bertha Gregory and Immigrant Families at Canada's First Port Nursery, 1920-1922”

 

Matthew Howse
MA Student, Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Fractured Past, Virtual Present: The Resettled Identity in the Internet Age”

Coffee Break
3:45pm – 4:00pm -- History Department Atrium  

 

PANEL IV – Diasporic Identities
4:00:pm – 5:15pm -- LB 1014 
Moderator:  Heather McNabb

 

Andrew Hinson, PhD
Postdoctoral Student, University of Toronto
“A Crisis of identity? -- Manifestations of Scottishness in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Toronto”


Mike McLaughlin
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Carleton University

"Irish Within the Empire: A Case Study of Group Consciousness"  

 

Emrah Sahin
PhD Candidate, Department of History, McGill University

“Bitter Taste of Liberty: Ottoman Migration to America”

 

Tyesha Maddox

PhD Candidate, Department of History, New York University

"Paving the Way -- Early Caribbean American Immigrant Women 1900-1964"

 

6:00 -7:30pm
Closing Keynote Address
Dr. Frances Swyripa
“Inserting Immigration and Ethnicity into the Canadian Discourse on Region and Nation”
Location: LB 1014

 

8pm -
Closing Dinner
Location TBA