Posts
8:45 - 9:15
9:15 - 9:30
Douglas Parker, Associate Vice-President, Muskoka and Graduate Studies
Paule Laberge, Director of Research Services and Graduate Studies
Gordon Morrell, History Department Chair
Session One: Post WWII Foreign Policy in Print and Deed
9:30 - 10:45
Chairs: Gordon Morrell,
Yvonne Hunter
Cold Columns: Anne O'Hare McCormick and the Origins of the
Cold War in the New York Times (1944-1948)
Jessica Parks
The Fourth Republic and The First Indochinese War 1945 -1954:
Its impact on the formation and failure of France's involvement in
the European Defense Community
Session Two: Living Memory and the longue durée
11:00 - 12:15
Danielle Whipp
Skating for the State or Skating for herself? The Case of
Katarina Witt and Unofficial Informing for the East German
Stasi
Dustin Wall
An Environmental History of Osprey Links, Callander, Ontario.
12:15 - 1:30
Lunch
Session Three: Literary Representations and Historical Practices
1:30 - 2:45
Chairs: Derek Neal,
Kristen Rossetti
Poetry as Historical Evidence: The Medium, the Message and the
Methodology
David Bernardi
Deciphering Orwell: How To Use Fiction As Historical Evidence
2:45 - 3:00
Break
Session Four: Chivalry, Food, and Women’s Identities
3:00 - 4:15
Chairs: Steve Muhlberger,
Heather McGugan
The Fairer Sex": Female Members of the Order of St. Johns and
Their Impact on the Meaning of Chivalry
What's cooking? Immigrant women and the shaping of identity in
postwar North Bay, Ontario
4:15 - 4:30
Closing remarks from Dean Bavington
