This Thursday, 8 April 2010, graduate students of the History Department at the University of Windsor will present papers from two courses being offered this term:
43-510: Post-Colonialism and 43-511 Modernity
The symposium will take place in McPherson Lounge at Alumni Hall on the University of Windsor campus.
Schedule:
9:30 AM: Welcome
9:30-11: Modernity and Colonialism in Canada
- Joelle Fitzgerald, Travel Writing in Canada: A Colonial Look
- Lisa Serwatkiewicz, “Racism or Progressive Thinking: Changes in Canadian Immigration Policy between 1900-1950”
- Sara Harwood: “The Colonial Revival Movement in Salem, Massachusetts”
- Rob Van Hoorn, Native-White Relations on the Ohio Borderland in Revolutionary America
- Melissa Phillips, “Saving the Children”: How Colonialism Worked in Canada
- Amanda Mariuz: “’The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation’: Birth Control and State Intervention in Women’s Health, 1900-1950”
11-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45: Modernity and Colonialism around the World
- Nusrat Rahman: “’Mother and Child Were Saved’: Early Modern Midwifery and its Encounters in the Modern World, 1690-1750”
- Gabriele Wilson, “Modernization of Childhood”
- Conal Calvert, British India and the Missionary Imagination
- Allison Finan, Nazi Orientalism in Eastern Europe
- Jen Massender, A Noble Cause: America’s Other War in Vietnam
- Andi Camillo, Only Ice-cream: Italian Orientalism in Scotland
Lunch 12:45-1:30
1:30-3: Modernity and Culture
- Charles McMillan: “Fiat lux (Let there be light): Toward a Modern Society: The Origins of Freemasonry as a Reflection of Modernity”
- Sean Morton: “Writing Nova Scotia into Modernity: Exploring the Tensions of Cultural Transition in Late-18th Century Halifax Newspapers”
- Matt Pritchard: “A Timed Presentation on Taylorism from a Not-So-Automated Historian”
- Marija Byrne, “A Modern Institution: Paradoxes in the Policies of the Department of Indian Affairs”
- Mervat Boulbol, Cultural Colonization and Muslims in the West
For more information contact Jennifer Rocheleau in the History department: history@uwindsor.ca