Programme for “Contested National Identities”
Wednesday, October 16th
3:00-4:00
Registration and coffee
4:00-4:15
Opening Remarks and Words of Welcome from the Organizing Committee
4:15-5:30
Session #1: Empty Time, EmptyLand, Empty Spectacle: Art and Cinema in Colonial Constructions of Nationhood
Chair: Constanza Burucua, Western University, London Ontario
Paper 1.1
May Chew, Queen’s University, KingstonOntario, “Imagined Sounds: Interactive Technologies and the Myth of Participation”
Paper 1.2
Erin Sutherland, Queen’s University, KingstonOntario, “Indigenous Imagery in the National Imaginary”
Paper 1.3
Caroline Damiens, Inalco, Paris France, “Les Tchouktches dans le cinéma soviétique: de la représentation d’un peuple arriéré à la revendication de l’égalité”
Paper 1.4
Leah Decter, Queen’s University, KingstonOntario, “Five Blanket Suite: A Reckoning with the Great White North”
5:45-7:00
Reception at Brough Hall
Thursday, October 17th
8:30-9:30
Registration and continental breakfast
9:30-10:45
Session #2: NationBuilding
Chair: Paul Nesbitt-Larking, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario
Paper 2.1
Lucas Savino, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario, “Making Indigenous Peoples Legible. Modern State Formation and Its Discontents”
Paper 2.2
Helia Gianeella Ramirez-Munoz, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario, “Racialized and Post-Colonial Identity in the Australian Democracy: Deficit in Indigenous Political Participation”
Paper 2.3
Bojan Baca, YorkUniversity, TorontoOntario, “Enjoy Your Nationality! Nationalism as an Instrument of Depoliticization in Montenegro”
Paper 2.4
Sevan Beukian, University of Alberta, EdmontonAlberta, “Collective Memory, Territoriality and National Identity: Examining post-Soviet ArmenianNationBuilding (1988-2010)”
10:45-11:00
Morning coffee break
11:00-12:15
Session #3: Minority Groups and NationBuilding
Chair: Pascal Maeder, University of Basel, BaselSwitzerland
Paper 3.1
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah and Erwin Selimos, University of Windsor, Windsor Ontario, “Border City: Representing Locality and Multiculturalism in a Transnational City”
Paper 3.2
Vytharane Devarajan, Western University, “The Lions of Lanka: Analyzing the Historical Roots of the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict”
Paper 3.3
Ramon Fonkoué, Michigan Technological University,Houghton Michigan,“Du projet de l’état-nation à l’État sans nation au Cameroun: essai sur un demi-siècle d’amnésie”
12:15-1:45
Lunch at Brough Hall
1:45-3:00
Session #4:Spirituality and National Identity
Chair: Ramona Mielusel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LafayetteLouisiana
Paper 4.1
Sterline Sama Lindor, L’Université de Paris VIII, Paris France, “La question identitaire haïtienne entre fiction et réalité: Le mythe, au fondement d’une identité nationale”
Paper 4.2
John-Daniel Steele, Huron University College, London Ontario, “The Danish Cartoons Controversy: Ignorance, Imperialism and Immigration”
Paper 4.3
Bill Acres, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario, “The Textbook of National Religion: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the World Religions Text”
3:00-3:15
Afternoon coffee break.
3:15-4:30
Session #5: Indigeneity, Resistance, and Identity
Chair: Teresa Hubel, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario
Paper 5.1
Vicki S. Hallett, MemorialUniversity, St. John’sNewfoundland, “‘She Taught Us How to be Labradorian’: Doris Saunders and Oppositional Labrador Identity”
Paper 5.2
Sandra Krahn, University of Manitoba, WinnipegManitoba, “The Impact of Settler and Indigenous Relationships on Family Identities”
Paper 5.3
Jocelyn Kent, Huron University College, “Food Security and Cultural Identity in Nunavut”
Paper 5.4
Stacy Ernst, Carleton University, Ottawa Ontario, “Robert Houle: Transnationalism, Aboriginal Sovereignty, and What History Buried”
4:30-5:00
Break with coffee and snacks
5:00-6:00
First Keynote address
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Manitoba, “Ge Go Wani Ke Kan Aande Wenjiwan,‘Don't forget where you come from’”
Friday October 18th
8:30-9:30
Continental breakfast
9:30-10:45
Session #6, Querying Hybridity
Chair: Lucas Savino, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario
Paper 6.1
Daniel Bauer, University of Southern Indiana, EvansvilleIndiana, “Challenging Mestizaje: Reflections in Identity in Coastal Ecuador”
Paper 6.2
Rachel Hunt, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario, “Oppression and Liberation: An Examination of Igbo Women in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood”
Paper 6.3
Jennifer Howell, IllinoisStateUniversity, NormalIllinois, “Mapping the Vietnamese Diaspora in Clément Baloup’s Mémoires de Viet Kieu”
Paper 6.4
Jennifer Boum Make, University of Pittsburgh, PittsburghPennsylvania, “L’identité pied-noire: apatridité et métissage”
10:45-11:00
Morning coffee break
11:00-12:15
Roundtable: Contestation, Integration, Resistance: Immigration and National Identity
Moderator: Mark Blagrave, Huron University College, London Ontario
Discussant 1
Patrick Imbert, L’Université d’Ottawa, OttawaOntario, “Relational Identities in Canada and the Valorization of Change”
Discussant 2
Paul Nesbitt-Larking, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario, “Citizenship, Multiculturalism and (Post)National Identities”
Discussant 3
Pascal Maeder, University of Basel, BaselSwitzerland, “Germans into Europeans: Nationhood and Expellees in Postwar Canada”
Discussant 4
Judy White, University of Regina, ReginaSaskatchewan, “Our research evolves as we learn more about our research and one another”
12:15-1:45
Lunch at Brough Hall
1:45-3:00
Session #7: Culture and Identity
Chair: Geoff Read, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario
Paper 7.1
Wenjun Deng, L’Université de Paris-III, Paris France, “La construction d’une identité nationale dans le cinéma chinois sur la Guerre sino-japonaise”
Paper 7.2
Ramona Mielusel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette Louisiana, “La représentation de la (dés)intégration des populations minoritaires en France contemporaine”
Paper 7.3
Christina Brassard, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, “Laurentie de Mathieu Denis et Simon Lavoie: une (ré)itération d’un mythe”
Paper 7.4
Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay, LakeheadUniversity, Thunder BayOntario, “Food, Citizenship and Power: Indian Policy and Indigenous People in Northern Canada in the Post-WWII Period”
3:00-3:15
Afternoon coffee break
3:15-4:30
Session #8: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism
Chair: Bill Acres, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario
Paper 8.1
Geoff Read, HuronUniversityCollege, LondonOntario, “‘Il servit la France jusqu'au sacrifice de sa vie’: Masculinity and the Political Contestation of National Identity in Interwar France”
Paper 8.2
Andrea Stevenson Allen, WesternUniversity, LondonOntario, “Premature Nationalization: Lesbian Women and Brazilian Nationalist Ideologies”
Paper 8.3
Afsana Tabibi, YorkUniversity, TorontoOntario, “Afghan Women ‘Speak Back’: Agency and Colonial Representations in the Contemporary West”
4:30-5:00
Break with coffee and snacks
5:00-6:00
Second Keynote address
Cynthia Enloe, Clarke University, Boston Massachusetts, “What Makes It So Hard to Be a Nationalist Feminist?”
6:00-6:15
Closing remarks