Active History: History for the Future
Glendon College, September 27-28, 2008
Saturday September 27
9:00am – 10:30am
Opening Plenary
Active History: Histories
Chairs: Jim Clifford, York University and Victoria Freeman, University of Toronto
Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario
Craig Heron, York University
Dean Jacobs, Walpole Island First Nation Heritage Centre
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee and Treat Break
11:00am – 12:45pm
Roundtable
The Challenges of Community Research: Insiders, Outsiders, and Those In Between
Moderator: Eric Payseur, York University
Susana Miranda, York University
Shana Penn, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Magdalena Blackmore, University of Manitoba
Claire Campbell, Dalhousie University
Eva Marie Garroutte, Boston College
12:45pm – 1:30pm Lunch (Provided)
1:30pm – 3:30pm (Concurrent sessions)
Archaeology as Active History: Civic Engagement and Social Activism in Current Archaeological Practice
Chair: Robert Chidester, University of Michigan
Kim Christensen, University of California, Berkeley
Meghan Habas Siudzinski, James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc.
Jenna Wallace Coplin, Hofstra University
Dan Hull, Council for British Archaeology
Grassroots History
Chair: Jennifer Stevens
Mary Breen, Second Wave Feminist Archives
Geoffrey Reaume, Psychiatric Survivor Archives
Dr. Lillian Petroff, Dora Nipp and Jean Forde, Multicultural History Society
Teaching Active History
Moderator: TBA
Rob Hancock, University of Western Ontario
Stuart Henderson, Queen’s University
Patricia Rogers, Carolyn Loeb, or Dylan Miner, Michigan State University
Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Florida State University
3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee and Snack Break
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Presentation and Guided Walk
History of the Don Valley
Jennifer Bonnell, Marcel Fortin
5:30pm – 8:00pm Dinner (Provided)
Keynote Address and Performance
Injured Workers’ History Project, “Sir William Meredith and Workers’ Compensation In Ontario: Studying History To Make History”
Sunday September 28
10:30am – 12:15pm (Concurrent sessions)
Active Labour History as Public History: Experiences in Three Museums
Chair: Craig Heron, York University
Renee Wetselaar, Worker Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton
Ken Clavette and Sanna Guerin, Workers Heritage Centre, Ottawa
Rhonda L. Hinther, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Sexual Response: Active History in a Post-Liberation Era
Chair: Marc Stein, York University
Elise Chenier, Simon Fraser University
Gary Kinsman, Laurentian University
Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University
Mary MacDonald, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Peoples With Histories: Beyond Recognition
Chair: Kim Anderson
Zane Bell, Chief, Algonquin Woodland Métis Aboriginal Tribe and Alesia Maltz, Antioch University New England
Janna Promislow, York University
Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto
12:15pm – 1:00pm Lunch (Provided)
1:00pm – 2:45pm
Roundtable
Sites of Active History
Moderator: TBA
Brenda Trofanenko, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Karim Tiro, Xavier University
Karen Dearlove, McMaster University
David Zonderman, North Carolina State University
2:45pm – 3:15pm Coffee and Treat Break
3:15pm-4:30pm
Closing Plenary
Active History: History for the Future
Chairs: Tom Peace, York University and Lisa Helps, University of Toronto
Lorraine O’Donnell, Quebec City
M. Elizabeth Atcheson, Policy Director for Senator Nancy Ruth
Final Panelist: TBA
