"L’empire, le genre et la culture de la différence" / "Empire, Gender and the Culture of Difference"
Le Groupe d’histoire de Montréal Colloque du Premier mai / The Montreal History Group May Day Conference
5–6 mai / May 2011
Thomson House, McGill University
3650 McTavish Street
Inscription / Registration: $30/$15 étudiants / students
Jeudi 5 mai / Thursday, May 5th
18h00-19h15 Vins et fromages / Wine and Cheese
19h15 Mot de bienvenue / Welcome by conference organizers: Sean Mills, University of Toronto
19h30 Conférence d’ouverture / Keynote: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba – “James Douglas and Geographies of North-‐American Empire”
Vendredi 6 mai / Friday, May 6th
9h00‐10h30 Communauté et conflit / Community and Conflict
Thomas Peace, York University – “Variations in Empire: Comparing Aboriginal
Communities in the midst of European Administrative Change”
Greg Robinson, Université du Québec à Montréal – “REGAN v. KING: Birthright
Citizenship and Interracial Alliances”
Daniel Horner, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester – “Contemplating Alfred Perry’s British Empire: Connecting Local and Global Politics on the Streets of Mid‐Nineteenth‐Century Montreal”
11h00‐12h30 Immigration et déportation / Immigration and Deportation
Amanda Ricci, McGill University – “Towards an Understanding of the Place of Immigrant Women and their Feminisms in Quebec’s Second‐Wave Feminist Movement”
Sonya Roy, McGill University – “‘On the Bum’: Experiencing Deportability in Montreal during the Great Depression”
14h00‐15h30 Empire, citoyenneté et genre / Empire, Citizenship and Gender
Beverley Duguid, Royal Holloway, University of London – “Assessing Mary Prince (c1788-‐ ?): Female Writer‐Traveller or Anti-‐Slavery Campaigner?”
Elizabeth Kirkland, Dawson College and McGill University – “Intersections on Sherbrooke Street: Nation and Empire, Gender and Class in turn of the century Montreal”
Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University – “How Babies Rule the World: The Iconography of the Global Poster Child”
16h00‐17h30 Théoriser la race et l’empire dans le contexte québécois / Theorizing Race and Empire in the Quebec Context
Bettina Bradbury and Jarett Henderson, York University – “Thinking through Understandings of Civilization and Race in 1830s Lower Canada”
David Austin, Alfie Roberts Institute – “Fear of a Black Planet: Race, Nation, Subversion, and the Practice of Empire”
Micheline Labelle, Université du Québec à Montréal – “La construction de la race et ses effets contemporains”
17h30 Mot de la fin / Wrap‐up : Magda Fahrni, Université du Québec à Montréal
Ce colloque est rendu possible grâce au FQRSC. This conference is made possible by funding from the FQRSC.
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