Empire, Gender and the Culture of Difference
May 5-6, 2011
Thomson House, McGill University 3650 McTavish Street
Registration: $30/$15 students
Thursday, May 5th
18:00-19:15 Wine and Cheese
19:15 Welcome by conference organizers: Sean Mills (University of Toronto)
19:30 Keynote: Adele Perry (University of Manitoba)
James Douglas and Geographies of North-American Empire
Friday, May 6th
9:00-10:30 Community and Conflict
Chair: Martin Petitclerc, (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Thomas Peace (York University)
Variations in Empire: Comparing Aboriginal Communities in the Midst of European Administrative Change
Greg Robinson (Université du Québec à Montréal)
REGAN vs KING: Birthright, Citizenship and Interracial Alliances
Daniel Horner (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester)
Contempling Alfred Perry's British Empire: Connecting Local and Global Politics on the Streets of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Monteal
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Immigration and Deportation
Chair: Bruno Ramirez (Université de Montréal)
Amanda Ricci (McGill University)
Towards an Understanding of the Place of Immigrant Women and their Feminisms in Quebec's Second-Wave Feminist Movement
Sonya Roy (McGill University)
"On the Bum": Experiencing Deportability in Montreal during the Great Depression
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Empire, Citizenship and Gender
Chair: Sylvie Taschereau (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
Beverly Duguid (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Assessing Mary Prince (c1788-?): Female Writer-Traveller or Anti-Slavery Campaigner?
Elizabeth Kirkland (Dawson College and McGill University)
Intersections on Sherbrooke Street: Nation and Empire, Gender and Class in turn of the century Montreal
Karen Dubinsky (Queen's University)
How Babies Rule the World; The Iconography of the Global Poster Child
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Theorizing Race and Empire in the Quebec Context
Chair: Brian Young (McGill University)
Bettina Bradbury and Jarett Henderson (York University)
Thinking through Understanding of Civilization and Race in 1830 Lower Canada
David Austin (Alfie Roberts Institute)
Fear of Black Planet: Race, Nation, Subversion, and the Practice of Empire
MIcheline Labelle (Université du Québec à Montréal)
La construction de la race et ses effets contemporains
17:30 Wrap-up by Magda Farhni (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Program
Empire, Gender and the Culture of Difference
Acknowledgements
The MHG wishes to thank the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) for its support
