Program

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

Eva Marie Garroutte, Boston College

Susana Miranda, York University

Keith Jamieson, Independent Six Nations Cultural Consultant and Curator

Magdalena Blackmore, University of Manitoba

Claire Campbell, Dalhousie University

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

Jenna Wallace Coplin, Hofstra University

Dan Hull, Council for British Archaeology

Grassroots History

Chair: Jennifer Stephen

Mary Breen, Second Wave Archival Project

Geoffrey Reaume, Psychiatric Survivor Archives

Dr. Lillian Petroff, Dora Nipp and Jean Forde, Multicultural History Society

Teaching Active History

Moderator: Patricia Rogers, Michigan State University

Rob Hancock, University of Western Ontario

Stuart Henderson, Queen’s University

Dylan Miner, Michigan State University

Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Florida State University

3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee and Snack Break

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Open Multimedia Session

Jennifer Bonnell, Jordan Hale and Marcel Fortin, Don River Historical GIS Mapping Project

Megan Davies, History of Madness Website, historyofmadness.ca

Kathryn Harvey, “Cutting, Pasting, Remembering” Video

James Cullingham, select film clips

Jessica van Horssen and Jon van der Veen, Mega Projects Website, megaprojects.fims.uwo.ca

Tim Groves, Missing Plaque Project, www.missingplaque.tao.ca

Robin Elliott, Murmur, murmurtoronto.ca

Samantha Curtrara, York University, “Historic Space: Mobilizing history for social change”

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: Keith Jamieson, Independent Six Nations Cultural Consultant and Curator

Karim Tiro, Xavier University

Karen Dearlove, McMaster University

David Zonderman, North Carolina State University

Andrew Mccann, Kingston, Ontario

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

James Cullingham, Tamarack Productions and York University

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