Symposium, October 13-15, University of Toronto
Location: Media Room, University College, University of Toronto

Friday, October 13
Morning:
Welcome Session: 9:30-10:00—Franca Iacovetta and John Ingham

First Plenary Session: 10:00-11:30
New Perspectives on Race and Whiteness: A Roundtable
Facilitator: Franca Iacovetta
Discussants: James Barrett, History, University of Illinois, Urbana; Donna Gabbacia, History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Grace Hale, History, University of Virginia; David Roediger, History,University of Minnesota
Commentary: The Audience

Lunch: 11:30-1:00

Afternoon:
1:00—2:30:
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Workplace
Facilitator: Criag Heron, History, York University
Papers:
Jennifer Carson, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Toronto "Homeopathic Doses of Trade Unionism: A Comparative Analysis of the New York Trade Union League's Campaign to Organize African- American and Italian Women Workers"

Jennifer Guglielmo, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Minnesota: "Italian American Women's Dialogue on Race in Labor and Neighborhood Coalition Movements, New York City, 1930-1945"

Caroline Ann Waldron, History, Utica College of Syracuse University: "Not Excluding Women and Invalids": The Construction of Whiteness in Illinois' Coal Communities" Commentators: Karen Dubinsky, History, Queen’s University Bruno Ramirez, History, Universite de Montreal

2:45—4:45:
Challenges to Whiteness
Facilitator: Victor Satzewich, Sociology, McMaster University
Papers:
David Roediger, "What's White Got to Do With it? Guiliani, the 'Holy Virgin Mary' and Critical Race Studies"

Jeet Heer, Ph.D. candidate, History, York University, "Black Boys and non-native sons: Immigrants and African-American youth in Little Orphan Annie”

Alice Taylor, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Western Ontario, "Justifying Transgression: Opposition and Resistance to White Maine Women's Antislavery Activism"
Commentators:
Richard Iton, Political Science, University of Toronto
Mariana Valverde, Criminology, University of Toronto

5:00-6:30—Film introduced by Bruno Ramirez

Saturday, October 14
Morning:
9:30-11:30: Race, Whiteness and New Historical Approaches
Facilitator: Gerald Ginsburg, History, York University
Papers:
James Barrett: "From the Global to the Personal: Older Approaches, Newer Approaches and Good Questions for Understanding the 'New Immigrant' Workers (18802-1940s)"

Sharon Wall, Ph.D. candidate, History, York University, "Improving on Whiteness:Going Native at Ontario Summer Camps, 1920- 1955"

Sheila McManus, Ph.D. candidate, History, York University: "Cartographies of Race and Gender Around the 49th Parallel in the Late Nineteenth Century" Commentators: Marlene Shore, History, York University TBA

Lunch: 11:30—1:00

Afternoon:
1:00—2:30: Public Productions of Whiteness
Facilitator: Jack Blocker, History, University of Western Ontario
Papers:
Grace Elizabeth Hale. "Deadly Amusements: Spectacle Lynchings and the Contradictions of Segregation as Culture"

Barrington Walker, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Toronto: "By Way of Blackness: The Juridical Production of Whiteness in Ontario Criminal Trials, 1934-1953"

Megan Kelley, Ph.D. Candidate, History, York University, "Passing Performances: Race, Gender, and Politics in Fifties Film"
Commentators:
Molly Ladd Taylor, History, York University

Carolyn Strange, Criminology, University of Toronto

2:45-4:45: Complicating Whiteness Historiography
Facilitator: Margaret Kellow, History, University of Western Ontario
Papers:
Donna Gabbacia: "Women, Whiteness, and the making of multi-ethnic Nations"

Tom Guglielmo, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Minnesota: "Rethinking Whiteness Historiography: Italians in the U.S., 1890- 1945"

David Goutor, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Toronto, "'Maintaining Civilized Standards': The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and Immigration Policy Commentators: Michael Wayne, History, University of Toronto Celilia Morgan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Films: 5:00-6:30

Reception, Saturday Evening: Franca Iacovetta’s Home

Sunday, October 15
Morning: 9:30-11:30
Second Plenary Session: Round Table: Summing Up- Where do We Stand Now?
Facilitator: John Ingham
Panelists: Barrett, Gabbacia, Hale and Roediger
Commentary: Audience