Saturday March 28th, 2026, Conference Day 1
Morning:
8:50–10:20 Panel 1: Gendered and Queer Resistance
Moderator: Nancy Carvell
Grace Chapnik, ““Worse Than the Taliban”: Making and
Breaking Women’s Resilience and Resistance During
Canada’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2011”
Kat Gibson, “Spaces of Power Informing the Construction
and Production of Queer Space in Montréal from the 1970s
to the 2010s”
Sandi Stewart [Online], “Has any woman a part in this?
If so, what is her name and where can she be found?":
Investigating the Role of Women’s Organizations, Lady
Managers, Artists, and Labourers at the World Fairs.”
10:20–10:30 Break
10:00–12:00 Panel 2: Have Historians Challenged Their Own Norms
Moderator: Bethany Henderson
Em Coulton, “Accounts of the First Crusade: The Divide
Between Arab & Western Historiography”
Julia Buys [Online], “Towards Presence: Metonymy,
Historiography, Heraclitus”
Caleb Linder, “The Politics of Punishment: How
Demographic Factors Influence Judgements of Criminal
Responsibility and Punitive Severity”
Asher Reisman [Online], “Disciplinary Progress and John
Rawls’ Two Moral Powers”
12:00–13:00 Lunch on campus
Afternoon:
13:00–14:30 Panel 3: Exploring Disability in the Atlantic: Perspectives from
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ireland
Moderator: Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Aidan Keenan, “‘A Higher Type of Irish Soldier’: Ableist
Rhetoric in An t-Oglach During the Irish Civil War, 1922-
1923.”
Stephanie Bannister, “‘The Children Here All Sign to
Her’: Childhood and Crip Temporalities”
Sydney Curry, “Domesticity Incarcerated: Care and
Agency within the Provincial Lunatic Asylum”
14:30–14:40 Break
14:40–15:40 Panel 4: World War I
Moderator: Delaney Beck
Rob Smol, “Seeking out the Silent Killers: No. 5
Canadian Mobile Laboratory on the Western Front, 1915”
Bradley Shoebottom, “Do not play the game”: A
Resilience and Resistance Comparison between Canadian
Engineers and Infantry during the First World War”
15:40–15:50 Break
15:50–16:50 Panel 5: Germany
Moderator: Spencer Paddock
Paul Refvik, “Reg Flags Divided: In Defense of the
Communist Theory of Social Fascism in Germany, 1914–
1933”
Emma Craib, “Reconstruction through the ‘Latest
Destruction’: Early Holocaust Documentation and the
Creation of Transnational Jewish Identity”
17:00– Keynote by Dr. Mark McLaughlin
Introduction: Zachary Tingley
Sunday March 29th, 2026, Conference Day 2
Morning:
9:00–10:20 Panel 6: Borderlands
Moderator: Bradley Todd Shoebottom
Erick Talavera, “Imperial Loyalty in Distressed Nova
Scotia and New Granda: A Call for Comparative Imperial
History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions”
Imperial Loyalty in Distressed Nova Scotia and New
Susan Dickson-Smith, “African Canadian and African
American Religious Resistance: A Borderlands Approach”
Tommy Pinette, “The Poet Laureate of the Mi’kmaw
People and an Acadian Folklorist Walk into a Conference:
Recharting (Decolonizing) Maine Acadian Cultural Selection
through Truthtelling at the Affecting Presence Conferences,
1988–1990”
10:20–10:30 Break
10:30–11:50 Panel 7: Indigenous Resistance/ ResilienceModerator: Andy Post
Derek DeMello, “Massachuseuk and Merrymount:
Algonquian Agency and Early English Settler Colonialism,
1614-1630 CE”
Vivian Emily Lamoureux, “Subverting Colonial Authority:
The Evolution of Mi’kmaq Resistance on Cole Harbour No
30 Reserve, 1880–1974”
Robyn Mansfield, “Labour, Gender, and Resistance:
Experiences at the Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova
Scotia”