Canadian-American Center

University of Maine—University of New Brunswick International Graduate Student History Conference

The International Graduate Student History Conference continues a long-standing relationship between the University of Maine and the University of New Brunswick. Begun in 1999 at the University of New Brunswick, the conference is intended to provide a professional, peer-group environment for graduate students to present their research and to help enhance connections between the two universities at the graduate student level.

University of New Brunswick University of Maine

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 28 - 30, 2007 - University of New Brunswick

Keynote Speaker : Dr. Scott W. See

Dr. Scott W. See will deliver the keynote address on 28 September 2007. Dr. See is Chair of the Department of History and Libra Professor of History at the University of Maine. He is a specialist in Canadian history, Canadian-American history, and Northeast Borderlands. His publications include The History of Canada (2001) and Riots in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s (1993; second printing, 1999), plus numerous scholarly articles.

For more information please contact Don Nerbas.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 20 - 22, 2006 - University of Maine

Program

Friday, October 20, 2006

3:00pm    Registration
4:00pm    Keynote Address
                  Dr. Linda Kealey (UNB): "The Nurse is Worth It": Revisiting Women's Caring Work"
6:00pm    Welcome Banquet Dinner

Saturday, October 21, 2006

7:30am-8:30am       Registration and Light Breakfast
8:30am-10.00am     Panel 1: Gender Roles in Transition: Late 19th- Early 20^th Century
                                   Mary Okin, University of Maine "The Diagnosis of Mental Disorder in Women in Quebec,                                                          1912-1940: An Analysis of Women's Ambivalent Relationship to Culturally Prescribed Roles as                                         Demonstrated through Expressions of 'Madness'"Le'Trice Donaldson, University of Tennessee-                                      Knoxville "From Triumph to Tragedy: African-American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship and Manhood                                      in the Spanish-American-Filipino War"Krista Chatman, University of New Brunswick "Merchant                                      Men and Office Girls: The Experience of Female Clerical Workers in St. John's Newfoundland to                                      Confederation"Shannon Risk, University of Maine: "'Taxation and Representation (are)                                       Inseparable': Early Petitions for Maine Woman Suffrage, 1872-1897"
10:00am-10:30am   Coffee Break
10:30am-12:00pm   Panel 2: Public Memory and Popular Discourse
                                     Todd Spencer, University of New Brunswick, "Remembering the Firefighters: Searching for New                                      Brunswick Memorials"Chiara Tedaldi, University College Dublin "Prescribing Memory, Rewriting                                      History: An Exploration of the Introduction of Italy's 'Day of Remembrance'"Kirk Niergarth, University                                      of New Brunswick, "The Place of Healing and the Place of Art in New Brunswick"Gregory Jones-                                      Katz, University of Maine, "The Paul de Man Affair"
12:00pm-2:00pm     Lunch
2:00pm-3:30pm        Panel 3: Cultural and Technology
                                   Jennie Leland, University of Maine "From Superwoman to Supergirl: The Construct of Teenage                                      Girls 'Having it All' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"Joy Giguere, University of Maine "A Monster for the                                      Masses: The Rise of Zombie Cinema in the United States"Christopher Clark, University of                                      Saskatchewan "Early Modern Travel Writing and the Blog: Striking Similarities Across 500 Years of                                      Print Media"Gary Campbell, University of New Brunswick "The Duke of Kent's Telegraph System
3:30-4:00pm             Coffee Break
4:00pm-5:30pm        Panel 4: Two Centuries of International Conflict
                                    Tony M. Kennedy, University of New Brunswick "The Korean War and the USMC at the Chosin                                      Reservoir"Kelly Chaves, University of New Brunswick "Suitable Provisions are not made for their                                      Return: The Collision of Maori Culture and British Seamanship, 1805-1825"D. Jeannine Cole,                                      University of Tennessee-Knoxville "Transatlantic Kinsmen: Issues of Class in British and                                            Confederate Relations"David Turpie, University of Maine "The Greatest of our New Possessions:                                      National Geographic, the Philippines, and US Imperialism, 1898-1905"

Sunday, October 22, 2006

8:00am-8:30am      Light Breakfast
8:30am-9:45am      "Panel 5: Changing Nature of Texts: Interpreting and Reinterpreting Historical Sources"
                                     Nathan P. Morse, University of Vermont "The Monforte Heresy: Spiritual Purge, or Financial                                      Grab?"
                                     Cameron Goodfellow, University of Saskatchewan, John Partridge's Books of Secrets: Trade                                                Manual or Popular Press?”
                                     Jennifer Farkas, James Madison University "The English Mirror: Comparing New Cultures                                        Through English Early Modern Philosophy"
9:45-10:15                 Coffee Break
10:15pm-11:45am   Panel 6: 20th Century Social and Economic Transition in Canada
                                     Mike Wilcox, University of New Brunswick "The United Oil Workers of Canada Strike and Labour's                                      Postwar Settlement in New Brunswick, 1948"
                                     Kimberly Dunphy, University of New Brunswick "Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2464:                                      The Bethel Nursing Home Strike, 1981-1982"
                                     Lisa Pasolli, University of New Brunswick "The Influence of the 'Saskatchewan Mafia' on the                                      Modernization of the New Brunswick Civil Service, 1960-1970"
                                     Don Nerbas, University of New Brunswick "Accumulating Capital in Saint John: T. McAvity & Sons                                      Ltd. in the 1920s"
11:45am-12:45pm   Lunch
12:45pm-2:00pm     Panel 7: Colonialism: 16-18th Century Britain and North America
                                      Laura Geoghegan, University of Maine, "Henry Knox and his involvement in the Northwest Ohio                                       Frontier, 1787-1794."
                                      Abigail Chandler, University of Maine "From Incontinency to Fornication: York County Under                                       Siege"
                                      Jen Turner University of Massachusetts "Public Poor Relief in 17th Century Colonial America and                                       England"

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 14 - 16, 2005 - University of New Brunswick

Program

Friday, 21 October
3 pm – 3:30 pm    Welcome and registration
3:30pm – 5 pm     Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Judd (University of Maine) "North American Environmental History:
                                 A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States."
5 pm – 6 pm          Wine and Cheese Reception

Saturday, 22 October
8:30am – 9am Refreshments
9am – 10am

1.1 20th Century Right-wing Radicals

James Brittain, University of New Brunswick, "Systemic Silencing of Political Voice: The Relevance of the National Front Agreement (1958-1974) within Contemporary Colombian Society."
Val Deacon, York University, "Cagoulard Characteristics: Defining the members of the Comité secret d'action révolutionnaire."

1.2 Acadians and Loyalists: history and commemoration

10am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:30am

2.1 Immigration and Community Formation

11:30am – 12pm Lunch
12pm – 1:15pm

3.1 Civil-Military relations [Tilley Hall 5]

1:15pm – 1:30pm Break
1:30pm – 2:45pm

4.1 Military history and commemoration

Robert Harding, Dalhousie University, "Continuity and Commemoration: Newfoundland's Cultural Memory of the Battle of Beaumont Hamel."
Tony Kennedy, University of New Brunswick, "S.L.A. Marshall's Controversial Contribution to Military History and Tactics."
Deborah Bulmer, University of New Brunswick, "From Wheatfield to Battlefield: Canadian Junior Officers in the years preceding the Second World War."

4.2 Women and Twentieth Century Canadian Culture

David Bent, University of New Brunswick, "Modernity and Rural Women: The Women's Institute of Nova Scotia and the Campaign for Rural Modernization, 1918-1956."
Heather Molyneaux, University of New Brunswick, "Now She Can Cope: Sedatives, Tranquillizers and the Image of the Hysterical Housewife

2:45pm – 3pm Break
3pm – 4pm

5.1 Cultural Constructions of Forests and Trails

Abigail Smith, University of Maine, "A Culture of Walking: The Creation of Trail Landscapes and Trail Narratives along the Appalachian and Sierra Nevada Ranges, 1876-1925."
Dale Potts, University of Maine, "Henry Red Eagle and Walter MacDougall: Woods Laborers, Popular Literature and Cultural Perceptions of the Maine North Woods, 1930-1950."

5.2 Community and Modernity

Shawna Stairs, University of New Brunswick, "'Tending to the Uplift of Humanity': Inspector George Mersereau and New Brunswick Schools: 1884-1900."
Stephen MacPherson, University of New Brunswick, "Marysville after the Boss, 1922-1957: A Small Town's Quest for Empowerment."

4pm – 4:15pm Break
4:15pm – 5:15pm

6.2 Forest fires and forest exploitation
6.2 North-Eastern North America's Bourgeoisie: Papers and Politics

Joy Giguere, University of Maine, "The Parsons' Papers: the archival records of a prominent Maine family."
Don Nerbas, University of New Brunswick, "The Politics of Saint John's Bourgeoisie, 1919-1927."

6:30pm Banquet

Sunday, 23 October
9am – 9:30am Refreshments
9:30am – 10:45am

7.1 Religious Images and Objects. [Tilley Hall 5]

Dale Block, University of Calgary, "Instruments of Faith: The Religious Significance of the Telescope and the Microscope in the 17th Century."
Katie Poulin, Pennsylvania State University, "Painting Antwerp in the 16th Century: Issues of Gender, Artistic Style and Religion in the Art of Jan van Hemessen."
Emily Soldera, Carleton University, "Conduits of Faith and Knowledge: Sacred Objects in Museums."

10:45am – 11:00am Break
11am – 12:15pm

8.1 Industry and Community

Murray McEachan, University of New Brunswick, "Wooden Walls and Satanic Mills: A comparison of the Portsmouth dockyard and the cotton mills of Lancashire as industries in the early Industrial Revolution in Britain."
Joseph Gerth, University of Massachusetts, "The Vast Roles of Cincinnati's Breweries from 1800 to Prohibition."
Brian Payne, University of Maine, "'Intrusions of Strangers': Modes of Production and Defining Local Culture in the 19th Century Gulf of St. Lawrence Mackerel Fishery."

12:15pm – 1pm Lunch
1pm – 2:15pm

9.1 Modern Germany

Anthony Nardini, Villanova University, "Varieties of Nationalism and German Unification: A Brief Historiographical Survey."
Peter Mersereau, Dalhousie University, "The Phoebus Scandal: The military, the cinema, and the battle for hearts and minds in Weimar Germany."
Michael C. Wallo, Pennsylvania State University, "Centers of 'Community': Literary Expressionists and radical Weimar Conservatives in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"

2:15pm – 2:30pm Break
2:15pm – 3:30pm

10.1 Twentieth Century Politics and Diplomacy

Sami Jeskanen, University of Maine, "Trudeau and the American Presidents – Diplomatic Management of Personal Relations."
Zachary Wareham, University of New Brunswick, "The Cold War and the Spanish Concordat of 1953."
Kate Betts-Wilmott, Wilfred Laurier University, "Politics and the Army in Post-Fascist Italy during the Second World War."

3:30pm – 4pm Closing remarks

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 15-17, 2004—UMaine Orono

Friday:

4:00pm Keynote Address by Professor William Parenteau, University of New Brunswick
6:00pm Welcome Dinner

Saturday:

8:00am           Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:00am           Panel 1: Citizenship, Nationalism, and Cultural Identity
                         Amanda Braden, Boston College, "Making Ends Meet: Working-Class Women and the Struggle for
                         Affluence"
                         Whitney Strub, UCLA, "Arming for the Culture Wars: Pornography and the Rise of the New Right"10:30-11:00am         Coffee Break
11:00am         Panel 2: Politics and the Military in the Early Republic
                         Gary Campbell, University of New Brunswick, "A Military Interpretation of the Maine/New Brunswick Border
                         Controversy, 1783-1843"
                         Myles Beaupre, University of New Brunswick, “Antimasonic Thought: Republican Quarrel or Sociological
                         Critique”
12:00pm         Lunch
1:00pm           Panel 3: Evolving Issues in Religion and Morality
                         Bethany Tanis, Boston College, "Religion, Culture, and Imperialism: The Oxford Movement in Late-
                         Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain"
                         Janet Mullin, University of New Brunswick, "Parlour Games: Gaming and the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-
                         Century England"
                         Adrian Ciani, University of New Brunswick, “Canada and the Vatican to 1945: The Challenges of
                         Diplomacy in the Era of Protestant Domination”
2:45pm           Coffee Break
3:15pm           Panel 4: Land Use Policies in the Twentieth Century
                         Dale Potts, University of Maine, "Where Field and Forest Meet: Valuation of the Small Farm Woodlot in the
                         Popular Literature of Maine, 1930-1959"
                         Joshua Dickison, University of New Brunswick, "Making New Brunswick Modern: Vocational Training in
                         the Mactaquac Regional Development Plan, 1965-1975"
                         Katie Ferrar, University of New Brunswick, "The Mactaquac Hydroelectric Project's Relationship to the
                         Construction of Large Dams"
                         Abigail Smith, University of Maine, "A History of Trail Use in North America: From a Path of necessity to a
                         Trail of Diversion”
5:00pm           Dinner Banquet

Sunday:

8:00am           Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:00am            Panel 5: Political Reform Movements
                          Anthony Cantor, University of British Columbia, “Envisioning the Right: Caricature and the Action
                          Française, 1920-1926”
                          Daniel F. Cuthbertson, University of New Brunswick, "Destined to Failure: The Attempted Reform of King
                          Amanullah of Afghanistan, 1919-1929"
                          Nicolas P. Markellos, Villanova University, "The Hunt for True October: The Historiography of 1917 from
                          Post World War II to the Present"
10:30am          Coffee Break
11:00am          Panel 6: International Forces in the World War II and Cold War Periods
                          Julie Root, University of New Brunswick, "Canadian-American Relations and the United Nations
                          Temporary Commission on Korea"
                          Brian Clancy, University of Western Ontario, "Seven Days in July: Clifford, Vietnam, and the Rethinking of
                          American Credibility, 1965"
                          Kevin Norris, University of New Brunswick, "The War Weary Project"
12:30pm          Lunch

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, Oct. 17-19, 2003—UNB Fredericton

Friday:

4:00pm KeynoteProfessor Michael Lang, University of Maine, "Global Integration in the Nineteenth Century."

Saturday:

10:00am          Panel One: Revisionism and Modern Historical Methodology
                          Glenn Leonard, "A Match Made in ??: The Use of Organizational Theory in Diplomatic and Military
                          History."
                          Lee Windsor, "Contain the Enemy or Capture Vienna: The Language of Canadian Army Success
                          Measurement in Operation Olive, Italy 1944."
1:00pm            Panel Two: Urban and Environmental History
                        Leah Grandy, "Reconstructing the Role of the Urban Horse, Saint John, 1871-1901."
                          Dale Potts, "Guiding the Populace: Conservation Ideas and the Value of Place in the Maine Writings of
                          Henry Red Eagle."
                          Jeremy Leblanc, "Untitled: Witty Title About Conservation Projects in New Brunswick."
                          Brian Payne, "The Historical Geography of the North Atlantic Fisheries."
3:30pm            Panel Three: 20th-Century Canadian Labour History
                          Hannah McCarthy, "Strike of the Scottish Fisher Girls, 1910: A Research Note."
                          Chris Gallant, "A Progressive Failure: The Education System in New Brunswick's Unemployment Relief
                          Camps, 1934-1936."
                          Janis Thiessen, "Problems in Labour History: The Mennonites of Manitoba, 1945-2003."

Sunday:

10:30am          Panel Four: Early Modern European History
                          Timothy Pearson, "The Rhetoric of Conversion: Anti-Jansenism in The Jesuit Relations, 1640-1670."
                          Amy O'Reilly, "The Creation of a Public Persona: Provincial Russian Gentry Women's Education, 1764-
                          1861."
1:00pm            Panel Five: Immigration, Emigration, and Assimilation
                          Ryan O'Connor, "Making Sense of Chaos: The Symbolic Value of Charlottetown's Orange Lodge Riot,
                          1877."
                          Sharon Weaver, "Cape Breton and the Back to the Land Movement."
                          Heather Steele, "The Role of New Brunswick Government in Immigrant Recruitment and Settlement,
                          1945-1971."
3:00pm            Panel Six: North American Cultural History
                          Hans Carlson, "With Wishing You Good Trade and No Want of Provisions: Subsistence and the Creation
                          of a Cultural Environment in the James Bay Fur Trade."
                          Josh McFadgen, "In the Shadow of the Rock: Ritual Murder and the Jew of Quebec City, 1904-1914."
                          Kirk Niergarth, "Fred Ross and Northrop Frye: Humanism in Canada and the Hope for Education."

Friday & Saturday, Oct. 18 & 19, 2002—UMaine Orono

Friday:

5:30pm Introduction and Welcome
6:30pm KeynoteProfessor Stephen Turner, University of New Brunswick

Saturday:

9:00am           Panel One: Work, War, and Life in the Northeast
                         Joshua Smith, UMaine, “Privateers as Smugglers: Collusive Captures and the War of 1812 in the Bay of
                         Fundy.”
                         Betty P. Duff, UMaine, “Industrial Welfare and Company Towns: Corporate Attempts to Establish a New
                         Social Order.”
10:30am         Panel Two: Language and Culture in Canada
                         Tony Penders, UMaine, “The Thorns Posed, the Scorned Rose.”
                         Matthew James Baglole, UNB, “Confederation of Regions Party as a Continuation of Protest in New
                         Brunswick.”
                         Paul Buck, UMaine, “Gérald Leblanc, Moncton Mantra, et la recherche d’une nouvelle identité
                         acadienne.”
1:00pm           Panel Three: Imagery and History
                         Dale Potts, UMaine, “Resistance, Reclamation, and Reversing the Outcome: Henry Red Eagle and
                         American Popular Culture.”
                         Nicholas Kenny, McGill, “Reading Between the Brushstrokes: Art as a Primary Source in
                         History.”
3:00pm           Panel Four: Empire and the World
                         David Parsons, UNB, “Colony and Empire Defined: The Royal Tour through New Brunswick, 1860.”
                         James A. Wood, UNB, “The Origins of Canadian Participation in the First Special Service Force.”
                         Glenn Leonard, UNB, “The Inevitable Fall: The Failure of the League of Nations: A Case Study.”

Friday & Saturday, Oct. 12-13, 2001— UNB Fredericton

Friday:

4:00pm KeynoteProfessor Liam Riordan, University of Maine, "Doing History Across Regions and Specialties."

Saturday:

9:00am           Panel One: Women, Politics, and the Media
                         Heather Molyneaux, UNB, "Advertisements and the 'Beauty Myth': An Historical Analysis."
                         Matthew Baglole, UNB, "Living in the Right: Women's Involvement in the Confederation of Regions Party."                          Norm Dods, UNB, "The Importance of Newspapers and Literacy to Britian and the General WWI
                         Generation."
11:00am         Panel Two: Land Stewardship and the Environment
                         Phillipe Charland, McGill, "Un Géographe au Coeur du Wananki ou Définition de la Territorialité et
                         Reconstruction de la Carte Mentale du Wabanaki par la Toponymie Actuelle."
                         Kimberly Jarvis, University of New Hampshire, "'A memorial made by God': The 1925-1928 Campaign to
                         Save Franconia Notch."
1:30pm           Panel Three: 20th-Century Military Affairs and Ideology
                         Aaron Plamondon, University of Calgary, "King No Longer: The Evolution of the Maritime Helicopter
                         Project."
                         Andrew Theobald, UNB, "Precedent Without Warning: The United Nations Peacekeeping Operations to
                         the Congo and Rwanda."
                         David Furber, SUNY Buffalo, "Nazi Nebraska: Frontier Myths and Nazi Ideology in the
                         Warthegau."
3:30pm           Panel Four: Law, Order, and Society in the 19th Century
                         Scott Lanzendorf, UMaine, "Militia Officers and Collective Resistance to the Public Militia System in Maine
                         and New Hampshire, 1790-1846: A Marxist Perspective."
                         Maj. James D. Campbell, UMaine, "'Training for Sport is Training for War': Sport and the Transformation
                         of the British Army, 1860-1914."
                         Blake Brown, Dalhousie, "'A Delusion, a Mockery, and a Snare': Challenges to the Array and Jury
                         Selection in the Nineteenth Century."

Friday & Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 2000—UMaine Orono

Friday:

1:15pm           Panel One: Representations, Present and Past: Photography, Nationality, and Narrative
                         Hans M. Carlson, UMaine, “A Reason for Stories: Nature, Natives, and the Narrative Net.”
                         Gabrielle Kemp, Memorial University, “The Apotheosis of Sir Wilfred Grenfell: Photography and
                         Philanthropy at the Labrador Mission.”
                         Joseph W. Moser, University of Pennsylvania, “Determining Jewish Nationality in Poland and Lithuania
                         from the Perspective of the Komitee für den Osten During World War I.”
4:00pm           KeynoteProfessor David Frank, University of New Brunswick, “Making History: The Search for J. B.
                         McLachlan.”

Saturday:

10:00am          Panel Two: Canada: Region, Immigration, and Politics
                          Laura A. Detre, UMaine, “’Not Desirable Neighbors’: Ethnic Prejudice Toward Immigrants in the Debates
                          of the House of Commons, 1896-1914.”
                          Corey Slumkoski, UNB, “New Brunswick, the Rowell-Sirois Commission, and the Wartime Tax
                          Agreement.”
                          Brian Payne, UMaine, “Nova Scotia Fishermen in the American Fishing Fleet, 1837-1854.”
1:00pm            Panel Three: Native Peoples: Colonial Experience and Geographic Change
                          Phillipe Charland, “Une Géographie chez les Abénakis ou mejassala migakawinnoak: mécanique et
                          dynamique de dépossession du territoire Amériquain s’atterdant à l’expérience qu’a vécue la nation
                          Wabanaki.”
                          Barbara J. Lindsay, UMaine, “New Perspectives on Native Americans and Christian Missionaries in the
                          Colonial Northeast.”
2:30pm            Panel Four: Economics and Everyday Life
                          Betty P. Duff, UMaine “Married Men Wanted: Gender Roles in the Model Company Towns of Millinocket,
                          Maine, and Lynch, Kentucky.”
                          Jeremy Morrison, “On the Trail of an ‘Industrial Expert’: Harry Hereford, the 1923 Sydney Steel & Coal
                          Strike, and the Department of Labour’s Role in Industrial Relations in Canada in the 1920s.”
                          Sharon MacDonald, UNB, “’As the Locusts in Egypt Gather Crops’: The Hooked Mat Mania and Cross-
                          Border Shopping in the Early Twentieth Century.”

Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999—UNB Fredericton

8:45am            Welcome
9:00am            Panel One: Regional Responses
                          Tim Lewis, UNB, “A Progressive Voice in an Agricultural Wilderness: The Maritime Farmer and Co-
                          operative Dairyman, 1900-1929.”
                          Joshua Smith, UMaine, “The ‘Quoddy Hanged.”
                          Brad Shoebotton, UNB, “Branch Lines and Politics: The Case of Albert County Railways, 1864-
                          1918.”
12:30pm          Panel Two: Native Negotiations
                          Micah Pawling, UMaine, “Negotiation with the Written Word: 19th Century Maliseet and Passamaquoddy
                          Petitions.”
                          Martha Walls, UNB, “Native Responses to the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia,
                          1929-1950.”
2:00pm            Panel Three: Masculine Matters
                          Brian Clancy, UNB, “Strike from Point Luck: An Assessment of American Performance During the Battle
                          of Midway.”
                          Elizabeth Hedler, UMaine, “’Never Give Up;’ or, Canadian Masculinity in 19th Century Fiction.”
                          Mark Savoie, UNB, “A Bad Night in Boston: The Ace Bailey—Eddie Shore Incident.”

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