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Between Postwar and Present Day Canada – Detailed Timetable

THURSDAY, MAY 6

Thursday Morning Parallel Sessions 1 – 11:00AM – 12:30PM

Session 1A –International Politics of Race

  • Daniel Manulak (Western University) – Black and White: Transnational Advocacy Networks, South African Apartheid, and the 1970 White and Black Papers on Canadian Foreign Policy
  • Will Langford (University of Alberta) – Apartheid Internationalism: Canadian Activism in Defence of White Rule in Southern Africa, 1970s-1980s
  • Sarah Miles (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill) –‘Liberté est un mot noir’: Quebecois Nationalism and Racial Discourse from Vallières to the 1980 Referendum

Session 1B: Immigration, the Economy, and Labour

  • Nicholas Fast (University of Toronto) – Neoliberalism, Deindustrialization, and Meat Packing in Post-1970 Canada
  • Edward Dunsworth (McGill University) – “A Poor Calibre of Men”: Neoliberal Common Sense and the Shift to Temporary Foreign Labour in Canadian Agriculture
  • Gabriela Castillo (Queen’s University) – Outsourcing Exploitation: The Canadian Mining Industry in Latin America

Session 1C: Food & Agriculture

  • Jodey Nurse (McMaster University) – Canadian Food Policies in the 1970s and Beyond
  • Alex Hughes (York University) – The Franchise: Pizza’s Mass Commodification in Toronto
  • Laura Larsen (University of Saskatchewan) – The Business of Grain Movement: Examining the Crow Rate Debate, 1967-1983

THURSDAY LUNCH 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Thursday Afternoon Parallel Sessions 2 – 1:30 PM– 3:00 PM

Session 2A: Information for Whom?: Keeping an Eye on the State 

  • Sean Holman (Mount Royal University) – At the mountains of revolution: Progressive Conservative MP Gerald Baldwin’s unfinished campaign for freedom of information in Canada (1971- 1982)
  • Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) – The National Library of Canada’s Electronics Publication Pilot Project and its Enduring Contribution to Web Archiving

Session 2B: Maternal Health & Abortion

  • Whitney Wood (Vancouver Island University) – Medicare, Midwifery, and Monopolization: Changing “Choices” in Childbirth, 1970-2000
  • Shannon Stettner (University of Waterloo) – Canada’s Jerry Falwell: Rev. Ken Campbell’s Influence on Anti-Abortion Activism
  • Katrina Ackerman (University of Regina) – “Ruled by the Church”: Abortion Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador Post-Morgentaler

Session 2C: Drug Debates

  • Erika Dyck (University of Saskatchewan), Michael Chartier (University of Saskatchewan) & Mathew Savelli (McMaster University) – Just Say No, eh?: Teens, Doctors, Drugs and the battle over healthy brains
  • Greg Marquis (UNB Saint John) – Johnny Reeferseed: The Rowbotham Trials and Canada’s Post-1970 Drug Debate

Thursday Plenary Session – 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Plenary:  Frameworks for Writing and Teaching late-20th Century Canada

Participants: Alan MacEachern (Western University); Joan Sangster (Trent University); Laura Madokoro (Carleton University); Penny Bryden (University of Victoria); Marcel Martel (York University); Dominique Clément (University of Alberta); Crystal Fraser (University of Alberta)

Moderators:  Nancy Janovicek (University of Calgary); Dimitry Anastakis (University of Toronto)

Thursday Evening Special Event – 7:30 – 9:30 PM

Writing the First Draft of Late-Twentieth Century: The View from the Press Corps

Panelists: Ian Hanomansing, Susan Delacourt

Moderators: Ben Bradley (University of Northern British Columbia); Kevin Brushett (Royal Military College)

FRIDAY MAY 7

Friday Morning Parallel Session 3, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Session 3A: Queering 1970s Gay and Lesbian History 

  • Nick Hrynyk (University of Toronto) – Queer crip crossroads in the postwar period: Disability activism, neoliberalism, and gay liberation
  • Patrizia Gentile (Carleton University) – At the root of the cause? The leather and drag communities in 1970s gay and lesbian movement
  • Tom Hooper (York University) – First country to decriminalize? Queer mythologies 50 years after the 1969 criminal code reform

Session 3B: Urban & Rural Planning

  • Harold Bérubé (Université de Sherbrooke) – Late stage suburbanization? The Planning and Failure of the “Port-Saint-Raphaël” Project (1975-1989) 
  • Jamie Murton (Nipissing University) – Understanding the ALR: British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve, 1973 to Now

Session 3C: Sovereignty Beyond National (and Planetary) Borders

  • Andrea Chandler (Carleton University) – “Balancing Human Rights and Sovereignty in the Cold War: Canada and the CSCE in the 1970s”
  • Shannon Brown (Queen’s University) – Spar Aerospace’s International Work and the Canadian “Way to the Stars”
  • Paula Hastings (University of Toronto) Decolonization and Denial: Canada and the Turks and Caicos Islands in the 1970s

Friday Morning Parallel Session 4, 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Session 4A: Lesbian and Gay Identities and Families

  • Candice Klein (University of Saskatchewan) – “We thought we were the only lesbians in the world:” 1971 Vancouver and the Formation of Transnational Feminist Identities
  • Erin Gallagher-Cohoon (Queen’s University) – In the Family, In the Streets: Gay and Lesbian Parents’ Activism in Canada, 1970s-1990s

Session 4B: Environmentalism 

  • Roberta Lexier (Mount Royal University) – Thirty Years to Catastrophe: The 1988 “Changing Atmosphere” Conference and the Climate Crisis
  • John-Henry Harter (Simon Fraser University) – “Beyond the War in the Woods: Cooperation and Conflict between First Nations, Workers, and Environmentalists in British Columbia in the 1980s  and 1990s”
  • M. Blake Butler (Western University) – “Where have all the green trees gone?” Project Green, Student Environmentalism, and Hope at Queen’s University

Session 4C: Indigenous Activism

  • Cathleen Clark (University of Toronto) – The Long Summer of ’74 and the Native People’s Caravan: “A Political Education” in Indigenous Rights, Organizing, and Activism
  • Madeline Knickerbocker (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) – Xolhmet te mekw’stam it kwelat / We have to take care of everything that belongs to us: Stó:lō Repatriation Efforts, 1990s-2000s
  • Hereward Longley (University of Alberta) – “Our Rightful Share of the Benefits:” Land Claims and Energy Conflicts in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region

Session 4D: Recreation

  • Mary-Ann Shantz – More Than A Suntan? The Canadian Nudist Movement in the 1970s
  • Ben Bradley (UNBC) – The Great Naked, Rowdy, Drunken Outdoors: Clashing Cultures of Nature in Canadian Parks, 1970-1985
  • Peter A. Stevens (Humber College) – After the Boom: Family Cottaging in Ontario during the 1970s

FRIDAY LUNCH – 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

FRIDAY AFTERNOON KEYNOTE – 1:00PM – 2:30PM

Keynote: In Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin

Chair: Sarah Nickel (University of Alberta)

Friday Afternoon Parallel Session 5 – 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Session 5A: Condominiums and Co-ops 

  • Douglas C. Harris (University of British Columbia) – Condominium in the Country: The Sprawl of Ownership in British Columbia
  • Ute Lehrer (York University) – The role of amenities in high-rise condominium buildings: a comparative perspective from the 1970s to the 2000s
  • Gerda R. Wekerle (York University) ‘Confidence in condominiums in Ontario is at an all-time low’: a rough start in the mid-1970s
  • Simon Vickers (University of Toronto) – Co-ops not Condos: Hierarchies of Housing Tenure in 1980s Pointe-Saint-Charles

Session 5B: Energy and Mining

  • Heather Green (Saint Mary’s University) & Liza Piper (University of Alberta) – The Need for Public Buy-In: Strip Mining Reclamation in 1970s Alberta
  • Charles Levi (Archives of Ontario) – The end of post-war optimism : Two episodes in the history of “Nuclear Ontario”, 1979-1986
  • Mark Sholdice (King’s University College at UWO) – Ontario Hydro and the 1970s Energy Crisis
  • Alan MacEachern (Western) and Rosemary Giles (Western) – That ‘70s Class: Teaching Energy during Canada’s Energy Crisis

Session 5C: Debating Neo-Liberalism 

  • Catherine Gidney (St. Thomas University) – Creating the “Age of Care”: Challenging Education’s Neo-Liberal Order, 1970-2010
  • Christopher Dummitt (Trent University) – Meoliberalism: Common Assumptions in a Polarized Age
  • Stephen Gordon (Université Laval) – Why did real wages stop growing in the 1970s?
  • David Tough (Trent University) – “The old rules no longer apply, and we haven’t discovered the new ones:” Historical Neoliberalism and Ideological Uncertainty in Magazine Writing in the 1970s

Friday Evening Keynote – 7:00 – 9:00 PM

Citizen Archivists: Saving, Researching, and Celebrating Ephemeral Canadian Pop-Culture (1970-2000).

Media Presentation and Q&A with Ed Conroy, Retrontario

Moderator: Matthew Hayday (University of Guelph)

SATURDAY MAY 8

Saturday Morning Parallel Session 6 – 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Session 6A: Transnational Networking

  • Eric Fillion (University of Toronto) – Forging Solidarities at Mariposa ’75: Forward Into a New Decade
  • Eryk Martin (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) – Not Just a Holiday in the Sun: Transnational Travel and Radical Politics in the 1970s and 1980s”
  • Amanda Ricci (York University) – Feminists Confront the Neoliberal Turn: The Third United Nations World Conference on Women (Nairobi, 1985)

Session 6B: Right-Wing Movements In Canada, 1970-1990

  • Kevin Anderson (Mount Royal University / University of Calgary) – God, Freedom, and the British Connection: Robert Thompson, the World Anti-Communist League, and Conservatism in 1970s Canada
  • Peter Graham – Lament for a Nation: Populist Backlash in Ontario
  • Jennifer Tunnicliffe (Ryerson University) – Peddling Hate: The “Radical Right” in Canada, 1970-90

Session 6C: Feminist Dissent

  • Lara Campbell (Simon Fraser University) – ‘We Didn’t Ask to be Older’: The Politics of Age and Gender in early 1970s Feminist and Anti- war Activism
  • Joan Sangster (Trent University) – Three Short Stories: Alternate Renditions of 1970s Feminism in Canada
  • Lisa Pasolli (Queen’s University) – Feminists, Child Care, and Tax Reform

SATURDAY LUNCH 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Saturday Afternoon Parallel Session 7 – 1:00 – 2:30 PM

Session 7A: The Religious Right

  • Linda M. Ambrose (Laurentian University) – Pentecostals and Public Engagement: Bernice Gerard and the Religious Right in 1970s Vancouver
  • Julia Pyryeskina (York University) – “A remarkably dense historical and political juncture”: Anita Bryant, The Body Politic, and the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Community in January 1978
  • Bruce Douville (Algoma University) – Always Look on the Bright Side of Anti-Blasphemy Laws: Religious Conservative Reaction to “Life of Brian”

Session 7B: Canadian Politics and Political Culture

  • Daniel Meister – ‘Chasing more precise details’: Canadian Multiculturalism in the 1970s
  • Louise Carbert (Dalhousie University) – Joe Clark’s big blue PC tent of 1976
  • Raymond Blake (University of Regina) – What if there were no Charter in 1982: Pierre Trudeau and the Construction of Canadian Identity

Session 7C:  Women’s Activism

  • Matthieu Caron (University of Toronto) – “La rue, la nuit, femmes sans peur”: Public Space, Bylaws, and Sex Work in Montreal, 1978-1986
  • Caroline Durand (Trent University) – Fighting for a Better Diet: Working-class Homemakers’ Activism in Pointe-Saint-Charles, 1970-2000
  • Nancy Janovicek (University of Calgary) – “Many of us can no longer stomach these forms of lobbying”: Feminist Opposition to Austerity in Alberta

Saturday Afternoon Parallel Sessions 8 – 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Session 8A: The North

  • Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger) & Lize-Marié van der Watt – Northern Development and Canadian Identities in the 1970s
  • Jonathan Luedee (University of Toronto) – Privatizing science: Industry funding and the transformation of northern environmental knowledge, 1970-2000
  • Glenn Iceton – Divergent Claims: Indigenous Land Claims and the Yukon-BC Border

Session 8B: Canada’s International Relations

  • David Webster (Bishop’s University) – Cross Currents: Canadian churches and Canadian foreign policy, 1970-2000
  • Kevin Brushett (Royal Military College) – Global Justice Warriors –The Lost History of Cross-Partisan Canadian International Development Policy
  • Matthew Hayday (University of Guelph) – Progressive Conservatives on the World Stage: Canadian Foreign Policy during the Clark & Mulroney Years

Session 8C: Feminism, Women in the Home, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and Beyond

  • Andrea Eidinger (Concordia University) and Lynne Marks (University of Victoria) – “Potential Women Power:” Religious and Ethnic Voices to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
  • Margaret Little (Queen’s University) – Whose Poverty and Mothering Counts: Guaranteed Annual Income Advocates to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
  • Sarah Nickel (University of Alberta) – “We Must Make Our Children Proud”: Indigenous Women, Activism, and the Aftermath of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

SATURDAY EVENING ACTIVITY – 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Stephen High (Concordia University): “History of the Present Time: The Cohabitation of Memory and History After the Postwar Boom” SEPERATE EGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HERE

Webinar followed by Q & A moderated by Petra Dolata (University of Calgary) and Nancy Janovicek (University of Calgary)

Sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities

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