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Trent University May 21 to May 23, 2015

CONTESTING ’S FUTURE L’AVENIR DU CANADA: DÉBATS ET CONTESTATIONS elcome to “Contesting Canada’s nombreux domaines de recherche et de spéciali- Future” and . We want sation. Le premier Président de l’université, le Wto extend a special welcome to our Professeur T.H.B. Symons, est le fondateur de la international ICCS visitors who have traveled from renommée Revue des études canadiennes; Thomas around the world to attend this conference. Symons a envisagé la création de nombreux pro- grammes interdisciplinaires qui mettent l’accent Since Trent University’s founding half a century sur le Canada, sa culture et son environnement. Le ago, the institution has been at the forefront of the Centre Frost pour la recherche en études cana- study of Canada across all disciplines and research diennes et études autochtones se trouve à Trent. Le areas. Trent’s first president, Professor T.H.B. Centre propose également le seul programme de Symons, founded the Journal of Canadian Studies doctorat au Canada dédié aux études canadiennes, and encouraged the establishment of interdisciplin- offert conjointement avec l’université Carleton. À ary programs focusing on Canada, its peoples, its l’aube du 150e anniversaire du Canada, ainsi qu’à culture, and its environment. The Frost Centre for l’occasion du 50e anniversaire de l’Université, Trent research in Canadian Studies and Indigenous Stud- est le lieu idéal pour faire une analyse approfondie ies is located at Trent, which also offers Canada’s dans la discipline des Études canadiennes. only doctoral program dedicated to Canadian Stud- ies, offered jointly with . On the Conference Co-chairs cusp of Canada’s sesquicentennial, and the 50th Dr. Joan Sangster, FRSC (Trent University) Anniversary of the University’s creation, there is Dr. Bill Waiser, FRSC, SOM (University of no better place to hold an examination of Canadian Saskatchewan) Studies than at Trent.

ienvenu au colloque “Contester l’avenir du Canada” et à l’université Trent. Nous Bsouhaitons, plus particulièrement, la bienvenue à nos visiteurs internationaux de l’ICCS qui ont voyagé du monde entier pour assister à ce colloque.

Depuis sa fondation il y a 50 ans, l’université Trent est à l’avant-garde des études canadiennes dans de

FUNDS PROVIDED BY / FINANCÉ PAR The Symons Trust Fund; Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies; Canadian Studies Department; in Canadian Studies, Professor Bryan Palmer; ICCS/CIEC; Trent University. SCHEDULE LEGEND CC = Champlain LEC = Lady Eaton College THURSDAY, MAY 21 PANEL | CC COUNCIL CHAMBERS 13:00–14:15 QUESTIONING NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PLENARY | LEC LH 201 AND MANAGEMENT KNOWING CANADA: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Shannon Stunden-Bower () Chair Ralph Heintzman () Chair Gabrielle Slowey () First Nations and Frack- Bronwyn Drainie (Literary Review of Canada) ing in Canada: Policy and Politics at Play Mark Starowicz (Canada: A People’s ) Matt Dow (York University) Archetypes of Growth: Under- Jane Moss (Duke University) standing Fracking Capitalism Bryan Palmer (Trent University) Mark J. McLaughlin (Trent University) Qualifying Canada’s Ecosystems: Crawford Stanley ‘Buzz’ Holling and the Application of Advanced Systems Analysis within Ecologi- 14:30–16:00 cal Science, 1945–1980 PANEL | LEC LH 201 GENDER, RACE AND SPORT IN CANADA 16:15–17:45 Jenny Ellison (Trent University) Chair 201 Andrew C. Holman (Bridgewater State University) Reading PANEL | LEC LH Frank Grace’s Record: Lacrosse and Identity in Early Twen- CANADIAN CULTURAL DIPLOMACY: THE NATIONAL tieth Century Canada PAST IN POST-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Danielle N. Gabay (McMaster University) Documenting Lynda Jessup (Queen’s University) Chair the Experiences of Black Female Student Athletes in Cana- Jeffrey Brison (Queen’s University) ‘Magnificent Ideas and dian Happy Incidents’: The 1940 Tour of American New Deal Jessica Dunkin (Queen’s University) Canoe Sport, Colo- Art in Canada nialism, and the Politics of Place Asa McKetcher (Queen’s University) Tackling Apartheid: Canada, South Africa, and Sport Diplomacy, 1968–1980 Sarah E.K. Smith (Harvard University) The Work of the PANEL | LEC LH 208 49th Parallel: Examining Visual Art and the Construction of WRITING: SPACE, COLONIALISM, DECOLONIZATION the Canadian State Abroad Owen Kane (Trent University) Chair Elizabeth Diggon (Queen’s University) Experimental Mark Dickinson (OCAD University) Decolonizing the Mod- Diplomacy: Canadian Contemporary Art and International ern Canadian Mind in Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies Cultural Relations in 1980s New York Susan Manning (Mount Saint Vincent University) Living Away: The Poetics of Displacement in Newfoundland ROUNDTABLE | CC A2 OUR ‘OCEAN ESTATE’: CANADA’S PAST AND FUTURE IN PANEL | CC A2 THE NORTH ATLANTIC CHANGING URBAN SPACES Stephen Hornsby (University of Maine) Chair and Dick Bourgeois-Doyle (National Research Council of Commentator Canada) Chair Claire Campbell (Bucknell University) Kate M. Daley (York University) Rural and Urban Canada Brian Payne (Bridgewater State University) Institutionalised: The Politics of Growth Management and Neil Forkey (St. Lawrence University) the Creation of the Region of Waterloo C.S. Ogden (Independent Scholar) Changing the Face of the Albertan City in the mid-2000s PANEL | CC COUNCIL CHAMBERS Laura G. Pin (York University) Global Austerity and Local RACE, IMMIGRATION, MULTICULTURALISM, AND Democracy: Participatory Budgeting in Hamilton, ON. and IDENTITIES Guelph, ON. Momin Rahman (Trent University) Chair Patrick Imbert (University of Ottawa) Comparative Multiculturalisms: Kymlicka’s Canadian Multicultural Perspective, in Comparison with Québec Interculturalism,

L’Avenir du Canada: Débats et Contestations 3 Colombia, and the UK complicated… John Carlaw (York University) Asserting a Neoconserva- Ruth Sandwell (OISE/University of ) History as an tive Imaginary and Vision in Citizenship, Immigration and Academic Subject in Universities Multiculturalism: Policy Directions Under the Conservative Stéphane Lévesque (University of Ottawa) History in the Party of Canada Schools: Views From Prospective Teachers Across Canada Carl E. James and Andrea Davis (York University) Instruc- Jocelyn Létourneau (Laval) Take Youth Out of Mythistories: tive Episodes: The Shifting Positions of the Jamaican A Pragmatic Approach to Historical Diaspora in Canada PANEL | CC A2 PANEL | LEC LH 208 CHALLENGES FOR FEMINISM IN THE WELFARE STATE FIRST NATIONS STORIES: SPACE, IDENTITIES, AND James Struthers (Trent University) Chair THE LAND Margaret Little (Queen’s University) and Lynne Marks John Milloy (Trent University) Chair () Tensions Within the Sisterhood: Sue Heffernan () Moosonee as a Pine Women’s Welfare Rights Groups and the English Canadian tree Radar Base: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Cold War Second Wave Women’s Movement and a Northern Cree Town Lisa Pasolli (Trent University) Working Mothers in the Wel- Ryan Bowie (York University) A Shared Vision? Planning fare State: Child Care Challenges in the 1970s and 1980s the Future Development of Indigenous Homelands in the Casey Ready (Community Counselling & Resource Centre Far North of & Trent University) Impacting Feminist Michele Lacombe (Trent University) Technologies of trans- Agendas: A Desperate Need to Fundraise? portation and metaphors of movement in Innu writing PANEL | CC COUNCIL CHAMBERS 18:00–18:15 RECLAIMING CANADIAN BODIES: VISUAL MEDIA AND BUSES LEAVE FROM BATA LIBRARY STEPS REPRESENTATION Julia Harrison (Trent University) Chair Buses will provide transportation to and from Market Hall, Michael Connors Jackman (York University) Media Lega- Peterborough. cies: Community, Memory and Territory Jennifer Gauthier (Randolph College) Feeling our Pain: The 19:30–21:30 Embodied Cinema of Loretta Todd READING | MARKET HALL, PETERBOROUGH Karen McGarry (McMaster University) Ethnographic Fric- tions and Ice Scandals MIRIAM TOEWS READING Lynda Mannik (York University) Arrivals by Boat in the Margaret Steffler (Trent University) Chair Canadian Press: Humanitarian Effort or Crisis A Reading by Miriam Toews followed by a Q & A session at Market Hall with a reception to follow. Transportation to and from the venue will be provided. PANEL | CC LIVING COMMONS WHITHER SUSTAINABILITY? HISTORICAL ATTITUDES TOWARD CONSUMER CULTURE Sylvie Taschereau (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) FRIDAY, MAY 22 Chair Donica Belisle () Mrs. Consumer to 9:00–10:30 the Rescue: Alberta’s Home Weeks During the Great Depression PLENARY | LEC LH 201 Graham Broad (King’s University College) The Checkout A CONVERSATION WITH MAUDE BARLOW Line, Not the Assembly Line: Consumer-Homemakers and Blue Future, Protecting Water for People and the Planet Canada’s Wartime Prices and Trade Board Forever Sarah Shropshire (Guelph University) Health for Sale: Marley Waiser (National Water Research Institute, Exploring the Contradictions of Medicare and Health Pro- Environment Canada, Retired) Chair motion Within Canada’s Consumer Economy

10:45–12:00 PANEL | LEC LH 208 PANEL | LEC LH 201 EDUCATION AND THE STATE: POWER, COLONIALISM DIALOGUE ACROSS CHASMS: HISTORY AND HISTORY AND RESISTANCE EDUCATION IN CANADA Cecilia Danysk (Western Washington University) Chair Stéphane Lévesque (University of Ottawa) Chair Paul Warren Bennett (Saint Mary’s University) Consolida- Raphael Gani (University of Ottawa) Discussant tion, Bureaucracy, and the Public Schools: The Triumph of Penney Clark (UBC) History Education in Canada: It’s the Modern Bureaucratic Education State, 1920 to 1993 4 Contesting Canada’s Future FRIDAY, MAY 22 Canadian Historiography? Sean Carleton (Trent University) Unsettling Canada’s Schooling History: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Dennis Pilon (York University) The Origins of Canadian Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia, 1849–1925 Democracy Andy Hanson (Retired, ETFO/EEFO) Capacity for Resis- Logan Mardhani-Bayne (Yale University) Revisiting the tance: Building Activism in Teachers’ Unions Fourth World: Ecological Crises and Decolonial Political Economy in Canadian Social Science 12:00–13:00 PANEL | CC LIVING COMMONS LUNCH | CC GREAT HALL ROUNDTABLE: ‘POLICING THE CRISIS’ REVISITED: PRISONING, DISPLACEMENT, AND EXPULSION OF THE 13:00–14:15 OTHER PLENARY | CC GREAT HALL Gillian Balfour (Trent University) Chair David Hugill (York University) Three to Five Lessons We A CONVERSATION WITH MARY SIMON ( LEADER) Can Learn from Policing the Crisis The Future of the North: Arctic Canada in the 21st Century Stacy Douglas (Carleton University) The Time of Liberal- Shelagh D. Grant (Trent University) Chair ism: Kafka, Security Certificates, and the Aesthetics of ’s Violence 14:30–15:45 Simon Wallace () Exposing the Crisis of PANEL | LEC LH 201 Urban Housing in Toronto: What Happens When Global CONTESTING INDIGENOUS EDUCATION IN THE Capital Becomes a Slumlord GREAT LAKES AND ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY: 1760–2006 Gillian Balfour (Trent University) The Post Fordist Crisis of Joan Sangster (Trent University) Chair Law and Order in Canada: Returning to Birmingham Thomas Peace () Wendat, School- ing and the Creation of the : Social and Political 16:00–17:15 networks at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century PLENARY | LEC LH 201 Alison Norman (Trent University) “Taught by an Indian THE FUTURE OF ART AND POLITICS ROUNDTABLE Woman”: Education and Politics at Tyendinaga in the late Bryan Palmer (Trent University) Chair Nineteenth Century Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge (Visual Artists in Toronto) Kathryn Labelle (University of Saskatchewan) ‘If Only She Peter Raymont (White Pine Productions) Were a Boy’: Éléonore Sioui, Indigenous Feminism and Judith Thompson () Education

PLENARY | CC COUNCIL CHAMBERS PANEL | LEC LH 208 THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN ARCHIVES ROUNDTABLE UNDERSTANDING AND CONTESTING CANADIAN Michael Eamon (Trent University) Chair POLITICS Loryl MacDonald (Association of Canadian Archivists) Kevin Spooner (Wilfrid Laurier University) Chair Theresa Rowat (Canadian Council of Archives) David Rapaport (Trent University) The Corporate ‘Borging’ Tom Nesmith () of the Canadian State in Ontario: The Privatization of Infor- mation Technology in the Ontario Public Service Magdalena Fiřtová (Charles University in Prague) Mediat- 18:30 ing Oil Sands in Europe: Representation of Canadian Oil ARTS EVENT | ARTSPACE & DOWNTOWN Sands PETERBOROUGH Anna Sotnykova (York University) Examining Approaches ARTS AND COMMUNITY: ARTIST’S INTRODUCTION to Elder Care in Ontario: Confronting Issues in Care by AND RECEPTION, ARTSPACE, PETERBOROUGH Examining the Relationship of Care Providers and Recipi- Dayna Danger (Visual Artist) Photo Exhibit and Artist’s ents Introduction: “Sisters” Reception starts at 6:30pm PANEL | CC COUNCIL CHAMBERS Artist talk at 7:30pm RE-THINKING KEY CONCEPTS IN CANADIAN INTELLEC- Followed by cultural events in Peterborough TUAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY François Rocher (University of Ottawa) Chair Matthew Cain (Carleton University) The Place of Edmund Burke in Confederation: Pivotal Voice, or Identity Marker in L’Avenir du Canada: Débats et Contestations 5 SATURDAY, MAY 23 PANEL | CC COUNCIL CHAMBERS 9:00–10:30 THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF WHITE-COLLAR PLENARY | LEC LH 201 ORGANIZING IN CANADA CANADA, & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Steven Tufts (York University) Chair Panel members will reflect critically on how and where Martha Attridge Bufton (Carleton University) Solidarity in Canada and Canadians see themselves both as a nation Association: The Unionization of Professors, Librarians and as citizens in a 21st century globalized world. and Support Staff at Carleton University (1973–1976) May Chazan (Trent University) Chair Morna Ballantyne (PSAC) Current Organizing Challenges Adam Chapnick (/Royal Military Facing Trade Unions and Workers College of Canada) Stephanie Ross (York University) Organizing the Public Jasmin Habib () Sector: The Contradictions of Growth in CUPE’s First Ten Alex Neve (Amnesty International Canada) Years Julia Smith (Trent University) Past Due: The Office and Professional Workers Organizing Committee and the First 10:45–12:00 Canadian Bank Strike, , 1941–1942 PANEL | CC A2 THE STUDY OF CANADA IN NORTH AND ROUNDTABLE | LEC LH 207 AMERICA THE STUDY OF CANADA IN EUROPE Colin Coates (York University) Chair Caroline Rosenthal (Universität Jena) Chair Kenneth M. Holland (Ball State University) Commentator Michael Brophy (University College Dublin) Commentator Roseanna Dufault (American Council for Quebec Studies) Alan Hallsworth (University of Portsmouth) Salvador Cervantes (UNIVA-The Catholic University) Oriana Palusci (Univ di Napoli “L’Orientale”) Sergio Stange (ACHECA, Chile) Janne Korkka (University of Turku) Marcin Gabrys (Jagiellonian University) PANEL | LEC LH 201 CONTESTING COMMEMORATION AND CULTURE PANEL | LEC LH 208 Meaghan Beaton () Chair REFORM, RESISTANCE AND REVOLUTION IN THE Kate Zankowicz (Independent Scholar) Teaching in Muse- CANADIAN POLITY ums for a Difficult Future: Canadian Nature as Pedagogical Jonathan Greene (Trent University) Chair Object at the Royal Ontario Museum Rusa Jeremic (OISE/) Laughing Our Michelle Desveaux (University of Saskatchewan) Inter- Way to the Voting Booth: Satire as Resistance in Canada’s sections of Historical Consciousness at the Fortress of 2011 Election Louisbourg and the National Archives: Writing the Present Dock Currie (York University) Guattari & Goodwin: by Contesting the Past Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Early Twentieth Century Jonathan Lockyer (Artspace) Charting the Development of Canadian West Indigenous Curatorial Practice Amal Madibbo () Race, Immigration, Sarah Dougherty (Queen’s University) Authoritative Myths La Francophonie, and the Politics of Resistance and Meaning: The Founding of the Stratford Shakespear- ean Festival 12:00–13:00 LUNCH | CC GREAT HALL PANEL | CC LIVING COMMONS PROPOSITION FOR DECOLONIZING CANADA: ART PRACTICES AS PRESENT (AND FUTURE) IMAGINARIES 13:00–14:15 Colleen O’Manique (Trent University) Chair PLENARY | CC GREAT HALL Ger Zielinski (Trent University) Commentator A CONVERSATION WITH ERICA LEE Caroline Langill (OCAD University) Curated Objects as Idle No More and Indigenous Resistance at Canada’s Agents of Decolonization 150th Anniversary Andrea Fatona (OCAD University) The State of Blackness: Bill Waiser (University of Saskatchewan) Chair Reflections On Strategies for Decolonizing Practices Dot Tuer (OCAD University) Performing Decoloniality: Indigenous Struggles and Hemispheric Connections Robert Diaz (OCAD University) Filipinos as Imperial Legacies and Canadian Imaginaries 6 Contesting Canada’s Future SATURDAY, MAY 23 PANEL | LEC LH 201 14:30–16:00 QUESTIONING CANADIAN CURRICULUM PLENARY | LEC LH 201 Caroline Durand (Trent University) Chair THE FUTURE OF WORK: PANEL DISCUSSION Theodore Michael Christou (Queen’s University) Debating Dimitry Anastakis (Trent University) Chair History, Heritage, and Commemoration: The Ontario Cur- Jim Stanford (UNIFOR) riculum’s Turn to Historical Thinking Adrian Smith (Carleton University) David Tough (Trent University) Contesting Liberation, Kaylie Tiessen (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) Contesting Canada: The Future of the Impossibility of Canadian Studies as a Project of Liberation Graham Shular (OISE/University of Toronto) Teacher Self- 16:15–17:30 Efficacy, Pedagogy and Decolonization: Teaching Practice PANEL | CC A2 and Equitable Classrooms THE STUDY OF CANADA IN ASIA-PACIFIC, MIDDLE Rose Fine-Meyer (OISE/University of Toronto) Was the EAST AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Promise of Canadian Studies Fulfilled?: Examining the Daniel Ben-Natan, (Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Inclusion of Diverse Voices in History Course Studies in retired) Chair Ontario Schools, 1970s–1990s Tatyana Kuzmina (St Petersburg University) Commentator Yuki Shimomura, (Kobe International University) PANEL | CC COUNCIL CHAMBERS Robyn Morris, (University of Wollongong) THE PUBLIC SECTOR, POLITICS, AND THE WELFARE Andrew Kim (Korea University) STATE Chris Dummitt (Trent University) Chair PANEL | LEC LH 207 Leah Levac (University of Guelph) Exploring Regional NARRATIVES OF IDENTITIES Variations in the Impacts of Changing Public Services Michele Lacombe (Trent University) Chair Nicole S. Bernhardt (York University) Exposing and Brenda Beck (University of Toronto) An Ancient Oral Leg- Contesting the Racial Hierarchies of the Canadian Welfare end From India Newly Retold State Bronwyn E. Jaques (Queen’s University) Canada at Peace Jennifer Mussell (York University) The Evolution and and Soldiers at War: Canadian U.N. Soldiers in Korea, Erosion of Intergovernmental Social Transfers in Canada, Egypt, and Vietnam and the Cold War Home Front 1985–2014

PANEL | CC LIVING COMMONS ROUNDTABLE | LEC LH 208 RELIGION IN CANADA ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH—THE CONTINUING John Wadland (Trent University) Chair STORY OF CULTURE IN THE KAWARTHAS Peter Bush (Independent Scholar) Contesting the Land: Dennis Carter Edwards (City of Peterborough) Chair Ownership and Meaning at the Site of Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Beth McMaster (Peterborough Theatre Guild) Residential School, Shoal Lake, ON. Michael Peterman (Trent University) Paul L. Gareau (University of Ottawa) Striking a Path Debra Soule (City of Kawartha Lakes) Through the Wilderness: The Negotiations of Catholic Bill Kimball (Electric City Culture Council) Evangelical Youth in a Secular and Multicultural Canada Fynn Leitch (Art Gallery of Peterborough) Janet McLellan (Wilfrid Laurier University) Religious Diversity in Small-Town Ontario: A Case Study within the Haliburton Highlands 18:00 Cynthia Loch-Drake (York University) ‘A non-drinker, a non-smoker, she was a good-living woman’: Pentacostal- ICCS BANQUET | CC GREAT HALL ism and the Class Politics of Alberta Meatpacking Unionist COCKTAIL RECEPTION AND AWARDS 18:00–19:00 Ethel Wilson BANQUET 19:00 Celebrating Canadian Studies in an international context

This program was finalized on 1 May 2015, but is subject to last-minute changes.

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Cover photos:“Water” wall and detail from the Nindinawemaaganidok / All My Relations mural project, Toronto. Artists: Natasha Naveau, Rosary Spence, Gwen Lane, Angela Malley, Judy Rheume, Gary M. Johnston, Amanda Murray, Rebecca Baird, Cotee Harper, Graham Curry, Briana Stone, Lyndsey Lickers-Nyle Johnston, Isaac Weber, Honey Smith, Shelby Rain McDonald, Paula Gonzalez-Ossa, Kalmplex, Adrion Corey Charles, Ron Razor and Steven Henderson. Photos by Jennifer Tiberio.