Graduate History Conference
Rethinking the Past(s) Conference
April 8, 2016
9:45 to 10:00
Opening Remarks: Dominique Brégent-Heald, Graduate Coordinator, Department of History
10:00 to 11:30
Stefanie Comeau, From Acadia to Newfoundland: Reflections on Acadian Identityand History beyond Le Grand Dérangement
Andy Post , 'In those days there was no king in Israel': John Reeves vs. the Newfoundland Fishing Admirals
Blair Matthews, Hope and Vanquished Reality: An Examination of the Hegemonic Modernising Ideology of the Smallwood Administration, 1949-1972
Chair/Commentator: Terry Bishop- Stirling, Head, Department of History
11:30 to 11:45 Break
11:45 to 12:45
Gladdale Matthews, Education, Environment, and Indigenous Narratives: Reflections on Northern History: Modernization and Colonialism
Sally Western, Mining North America: Declensionism’s Rise, Fall, and Rebirth in Histories of Community and Natural Resource Extraction
Chair/Commentator: Jon Clapperton, Department of History
12:45 to 1:30 Lunch
1:30 to 3:00
Christine De Brabandere, Death, Dreams, and Iconoclasm: The Black Death and Burial in Medieval England: a Historiography
Stephen Bishop, The Study of Dream-Visions: Dream-Visions in The Chronicle of John of Worcester
Sydney Burton, Byzantine Gender: Finding Women in the Iconoclast Period
Chair/Commentator: John Geck, Department of English
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Jerry Banister, Associate Professor and Co-ordinator Canadian Studies Program, Departmentof History, Dalhousie University
After the 'History Wars': Canadian History in the Post-Harper Era