MA Colloquium

Thursday, April 10, 2025
Lawson Hall 2270C & 1227

 
Each panelist will have fifteen minutes for a presentation.  The Commentator will have fifteen minutes, and the floor will then be open to questions from the audience.

9:15-10:30am – SESSION 1 – Ontario/Canada – Lawson Hall 2270C

Professor Cody Groat, Moderator

Alexander Fitch - Examining Scouts Canada's role in Residential Schools and Indian Day Schools in Ontario

Scott MacGregor - Everywhere and Nowhere All at Once: Revisiting ‘The Scots [Identity] in Canada’ Through Cultural Associations, 1830-1900.

Rebecca Small – Ontario Potter's Fields and their Reflection of Intergenerational Poverty


9:15-10:30am – SESSION 2 – China/Asia – Lawson Hall 1227

Professor Carl Young, Moderator

Connor Broekaert - Chinese Scholars' Experiences at Canadian Universities during China's Reform Era

Samuel Diavolitsis - Chasing Red Shadows: USAMGIK's War on Communism in South Korea

Yi Wan – The Past That Will Remain Unfinished: Four Leaders' Memorial Halls Across the Taiwan Strait

 

Break: 10:30-10:45

10:45am -12:15 pm – Session 3 – Bodies, Sexuality – Lawson Hall 2270C

Professor Laurel Shire, Moderator

Maxwell Benett - Disorient/ed/ing Bodies: Racialization, Disabilities and Archival Silence in the Detroit River Region

Natasha Hall - Repressed Sexualities: Exploring the Impact of Sexual Repression in French Gothic Print Culture in the 18th & 19th Centuries

Olivia Holland - Canadian Women and Varsity Sports at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

 

LUNCH: 12:15-1:15

1:15-2:30pm – SESSION 4 – War/Revolution – Lawson Hall 1227

Professor Jonathan Vance, Moderator

Seth Bradfield - Prisoners of a Dying Regime: Stalag VII-A in 1944-45

Benjamin Buchanan - The Social Revolution: How Virginian Social Elites Fought to Maintain their Authority Before and After the American Revolution

Huanyu Li - Legal and Moral Studies of Using Civilian Passenger Ships for Military Purposes During Two World Wars 


1:15-2:45pm – SESSION 5 – Global – Lawson Hall 2270C

Professor Frank Schumacher, Moderator

Samra Khan - Anti-Western Narratives in South Asia: Historical Origins and Geopolitical Implications in Shaping a New Global Order

Samuel Stewart - The Lucky Dragon, Radiation, and the Awakening of a Global Nuclear Anthropocene

Malcolm Tatic - Universalizing the Particular: Tensions Between Nationalism and Internationalism in the Comintern

Jiayi Wei - The Belt and Road and the BRIC's: China's Conception of Global Order and Globalization