The Fort Garry Lectures Graduate Student History Conference 2016 May 5-7

The Fort Garry Lectures
Graduate Student History Conference
2016
May 5-7th 2016
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The Fort Garry Lectures gratefully acknowledges the support from the
following contributors:
University of Manitoba Department of History
University of Winnipeg Department of History
University of Winnipeg Faculty of Graduate Studies
Association of Canadian Archivists University of Manitoba Student Chapter
(UMACA)
University of Manitoba History Graduate Students' Association (HGSA)
University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities
The Manitoba Historical Society
University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections
University of Manitoba – Fort Garry Bookstore
University of Manitoba Press
A special Thank You goes to Sylvie Winslow, Katy Hunt, and Sandra Ferguson
(University of Manitoba) and, Anne-Laurence Caudano (University of Winnipeg),
who worked closely with the HGSA with the organization, communications and
promotion of the Fort Garry Lectures.
2016 Fort Garry Lectures Organizing Committee:
Petra Lundy – President (HGSA)
Holly Johanson – Vice-President and Treasurer (HGSA)
Ulysses Patola – Vice-President and Secretary (HGSA)
Leesha Cowen – Co-Chair (UMACA)
Chantal Fehr – Co-Chair (UMACA)
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MESSAGE FROM THE HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT
ASSOCIATION:
It gives me great pleasure to welcome all of you, on behalf of the History Graduate
Students Association, to the Fort Garry Lectures Conference 2016! We are very excited about the
response we received for this year’s event as we have 31 presenters from 7 different institutions,
located in 3 provinces. It is very gratifying to note that the presentations cover a wide range of
very interesting historical topics!
The Fort Garry Lectures aims to promote scholarly exchange on critical questions
increasingly central to research across the Arts and Humanities by bringing together student
researchers from across Canada to engage in comprehensive thinking across disciplinary
boundaries and methodological approaches.
The Fort Garry Lectures helps generate opportunities for student professional development
and research dissemination in a supportive environment. Furthermore, the Fort Garry Lectures is
a platform where students can showcase their research in a collegial environment and forge
interdisciplinary connections with students and faculty from across the university and the country.
I would like to thank each of you for attending the conference and bringing your expertise
to the event, and we could not succeed without your support and leadership.
Enjoy the conference.
Petra Lundy
President of the HGSA
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Thursday, May 5th
4:30pm - 5:00pm Registration – University of Manitoba Archives and Special
Collections. [330 Elizabeth Dafoe Library]
5:15pm - 6:30pm Opening Remarks and Roundtable Discussion
Keepers of Knowledge: Archives and its impact on Historical
Research
Chair: Jordan Bass: University of Manitoba Faculty of
Medicine Archivist
Anne Lindsay: Research and Access Archivist at the NCTR.
Dr. Mary Jane McCallum: Associate Professor (History) at the
University of Winnipeg
Dr. Shawna Ferris: Associate Professor (Women and Gender
Studies) at the University of Manitoba
Dr. Len Kuffert: Associate Professor (History) at the
University of Manitoba.
Dr. Andrew Burke: Associate Professor (English) at the
University of Winnipeg.
Dr. Vanessa Warne: Associate Professor (English, Film and
Theatre) at the University of Manitoba.
6:30pm - 8:00pm Hors d’Oeuvres Reception
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Friday, May 6th
8:30am - 9:00am Registration – Cross Common Room (#108), St. John’s
College
9:00am – 10:15am
Session 1
Room 125: Social History: War
Sponsored by the U of M Department of History
Chair: Dr. Erik Thomson
Stuart Maddocks (University of Manitoba) - Just Watch me:
Pierre Trudeau's Justification of the War Measures Act
Sabrina Janke (University of Winnipeg) - The Mettle of a Man:
Shell-shock and Gender during World War I
James Grimes (University of Manitoba) Olusegen Anthony Ofongo (University of Manitoba) - Strategy
of Survival: The Use of Unconventional Military Strategies
during the Nigeria Civil War (1967-1970)
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Room 128: Political History
Sponsored by the U of W Department of History
Chair: Dr. David Churchill
Andrew Webster (University of Manitoba) - First Opium War:
Not Simply a Moral Dilemma
Maxwell Harley (University of Manitoba) - Judiciary
Environmentalism: Rafferty Alameda, Oldman River, and the
Development of Canadian Environmental Law
Joel Trono-Doerksen (U of M/U of W) - An Ottoman
Modernity: Algeria, the Modern Age and the Wider Ottoman
World
Kuangyi Pei (University of Manitoba) - Why China's
Industrialization did not start in the Eighteenth century?
10:15am - 10:30am
Refreshment Break
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10:30am - 11:45am
Session 2
Room 125: Medical History
Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities
Chair: Dr. James Hanley
Alex Judge (University of Winnipeg) - “Suffering from
reformist ideas”: Punitive Psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Carly Naismith (York University) - A Sticky End: The Struggle
of the British and Canadian Governments to eliminate Body
Snatchers in the nineteenth century
Ulysses Patola (University of Manitoba) - 'Accessibility be
damned, we saw all the sights: American disabled Travelers
Navigate the Domestic and International Travel Scene During
the 1980's and '90's.
Room 128: Entertainment History
Sponsored by the U of M History Graduate Students’
Association
Chair: Dr. Tina Chen
Laurel Johanson (University of Manitoba) - Marilyn Munroe
and the Performance of Gender in Billy Wilder's Some like it
hot.
Kierston McLeod (University of Manitoba) - Bathing Beauty
Esther Williams, Femininity, and Athleticism
Robert Revington (McMaster University) – The “Shocking,
Positively Shocking” Truth about the 1960s James Bond Films
and the Cold War
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11:45am - 1pm
Lunch - Cross Common Room, St. John’s College
1pm – 2:15pm
Session 3
Room 125: Social History
Sponsored by the Manitoba Historical Society
Chair: Dr. Roisin Cossar
Rebecca Harris (Canadian Mennonite University) - Beyond Just
Exhibits: Canadian War Museum Controversies and the Public
Trust
Jordon Roy (University of Manitoba) - Indian Debt: Working
with York Factory
Megan Hubert (University of Saskatchewan) - Hippies use the
Side Door: The 1970 Protests at Saskatoon's Bessborough Hotel
Jason Bone (University of Manitoba) - Keeshkisit – Cutfoot: Journey to the Star World: How Water Came to the Earth Room 128: Religious History
Sponsored by the U of M Graduate Students’ Association
Chair: Dr. Ryan Eyford
Ian MacKay (University of Manitoba) - "Providence and
Modern Historical Writing"
Kenny Wollman (Canadian Mennonite University) - First
Impressions: Hutterites and Manitoba.
Sharon Graham (University of Manitoba) - Abuse or Discipline
in Manitoba Childcare Institutions: Uncovering Physical
Violence in the Winnipeg Jewish Orphanage
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2:15 – 3:30
Session 4
Room 125: Manitoba History
Sponsored by The University of Winnipeg Graduate Studies
Chair: Dr. Esyllt Jones
Sara Young Min (University of Manitoba) - Establishing
Dentistry as a Profession in Canada: The Importance of
Education, License, and Professional Image
Shelisa Klassen (U of W/U of M) - Laughing at Others and
Laughing at Themselves: Humour in the Manitoba Free Press
from 1873-1880
Christopher Kshyk (York University) - We came very, very close
to a strike: CUPE Local 1063 and memories of the 1988 Round
of Bargaining
3:30-4:00
Coffee Break and Refreshments
4pm-5:15pm
Keynote Address - Dr. Adele Perry (University of Manitoba)
[St. John’s College, Room 128]
“The Water we drink and the Histories we carry: Municipal
Water and Settler Colonialism in early 20th century.”
- - - End of Friday’s Panel Sessions at St. John’s College - - 6pm - 8:30pm
Dinner at Mona Lisa’s Restaurant
1697 Corydon Avenue
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Saturday, May 7th University of Winnipeg
9:00-9:30am
Registration/Coffee
9:30-10:45
Session 5
Manitoba Board Room (2M70): Social History
Sponsored by the U of M Graduate Studies
Chair: Dr. Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
Harnoor Kaur Bhangu (University of Winnipeg) - O, you
Martyr, Hold My Hands: The absence of women in the visual
history of the Iran-Iraq war.
Marie-Eve Presber (University of Manitoba) - Prostitution in
New York City during the Progressive Era
Michelle Bradsma (University of Saskatchewan) - An Honoured
Place: A Farm Experience of the Western Canadian Home
Front During the Great War
Karlee Anne Sapoznik (St. Boniface University) - Who/if/when
to marry, it's a choice: a summary of the history of forced
marriage in Canada, 1948-2008
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11:00-12:00
Session 6
Manitoba Boardroom (2M70): Archives
Chair: Brett Lougheed from the U of W Archives
Sponsored by The Association for Manitoba Archives
Chantel Fehr (U of M/U of W) - Novel Ideas: The Place of
Archives in English-language Canadian Literary Life and
Fiction, 1960-2015
Nicole Courrier (U of M/ U of W) - A snapshot of photographic
archives in Canada
Jessica Nichol (U of M/ U of W) - Traversing the hidden
network of the CBC archival record
12:00-12:30pm
Refreshments
12:30pm - 1:30pm Keynote Address – Dr. Thomas Nesmith (U of Manitoba)
“Archives and History in Our Time”
1:30pm-1:45pm
2:30-3:30
Closing Remarks
Lunch at Stella’s at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain
(340 Provencher Blvd)
- - - Thank you for your participation! - - -
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The Fort Garry Lectures gratefully acknowledges support from the
following contributors:
Department of History
Graduate Students’ Association
Institute for the Humanities
The Fort Garry Book Store
The University of Manitoba Archives and Special
Collections
University of Manitoba Press
Department of History
Department of Graduate Studies
The University of Manitoba ACA Student Chapter
The Manitoba Historical Society
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