Bruce McCaffrey Memorial Graduate Seminar Series


Dates for Fall 2009:  All seminars scheduled 4:00 - 5:30pm, Social Sciences Building, Room 4317 (Winter 2010 speakers TBA)

 

Oct 1 - "Illusions of Power:  The National Front in 1970s British Politics"  Aneesh Murali Mohan

Nov 12 - "Origins of the Holocaust Reconsidered: The Role of Purposeful Passivity" Maggie Lopatowska

Nov 26 - "Clenched in the JAWS of America?  Canadian Sovereignty and the Joint Artic Weather Station Program"  Daniel Heidt

Dec 10 - "We are ALL Liberals Now?  Tory Travails in the Age of the Liberal State"  Jeremy Marks

Jan 14

Jan 28

Feb 11

Feb 25

Mar 11

Mar 25

 


Previous Sessions

Click here for our Spring 2009 Schedule

Click here for our Fall 2008 Schedule

Spring 2008

10 January: Tim Compeau
“Pouring Sand Down a Rat Hole”: The Public Contest of Museums and Memory in Small Town Ontario

18 October: Dorotea Gucciardo
Another of those mad, wild schemes: Popular Invention Ideas from the Second World War

24 January: Cindy Brown
La Guerra in Marzabotto: The Second World War from Northern Italian Perspective

7 February: Forrest Pass
Chaining Drunks to Stumps in Early Gastown, or, Popular History and the Politics of Identity in Twentieth-Century British Columbia

21 February: Karin Britt Keighley
A League of Notions: Anglo-American Alliance and the 1953 Coup in Iran

6 March: Richard Holt
A Compelling Topic About the First World War

20 March: Adrian Ciani
“Just Watch Me”: Trudeau, Vatican Recognition and the Politics of Federalism

27 March: Mike Wong
C Force and the Battle of Hong Kong, 1941

3 April: Geoffrey C. Stewart
Modernization and Civic Action in South Vietnam, 1955–63

Fall 2007

18 October: Dorotea Gucciardo
Another of those mad, wild schemes: Popular Invention Ideas from the Second World War

1 November: Nicolas Virtue
The Crusade against Bolshevik Russia: Italian Propaganda on the Eastern Front, 1941-43

15 November: Shauna Devine
To Make something out of the Dying of this war: Scientific Medicine during the American Civil War, 1861-1865

29 November: Julia Berest
Nikolai Turgenev (1789-1871) A Portrait of the Early Russian Liberal

6 December: Marina Soroka
Unique Bonds: A Russian Family Archive (1820-1920)

Spring 2007

18 January: Rollen Lee
Adversaries, Agency, and Atrocities in the Vietnam War Computer Game

25 January: Richard Holt
Pepperleigh's Paradigm: A Research Note on the Canadian Militia

1 February: Craig Greenham
Creating National Sport: Baseball and the Civil War

15 February: Jamie McKellar
Victor's Legacy: The Impact of the US Reverse Course on Post-Second World War Japan

15 March: Josh Perell
'Objects of the Committee': The American Jewish Committee, Commentary Magazine, and Origins of Neoconservatism

22 March: Liam Van Beek
'Borrowed Glory': Motherhood, War, and the Story of Anna Durie.

29 March: Adrian Ciani [cancelled]
The Anglo-Papal 'Dialogue' of 1848-1852: A Case Study in British and Vatican Diplomacy

Fall 2006

5 October: Ryan O'Connor
'Agrarian Protest in Post-Progressive Ontario: The Story of the Ontario Farmers' Union"

19 October: Richard Holt
Pepperleigh's Paradigm: Militia and the Canadian War Effort, 1914-1918 [postponed]

9 November: Geoff Stewart
Modernization in Post-Colonial Vietnam

23 November: Jessica Van Horssen
The Man More Myth than Legend: Elijah Harper, Manitoba, and the Meech Lake Accord

30 November: Tea Gucciardo
In Living Memory: Commemoration and Landscapes of Peace in Canada

Spring 2006

Jan 19, Ryan O'Connor
‘The Famous Tractor Demonstration’ of 1971: How the National Farmers Union took on the Government of Prince Edward Island and Won.

Jan 26, Liam van Beek
‘Heroes In Any Other Conflict’: Myth and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Feb 2, Marise Bachand
‘The Belle is in Town’: or, Space as a Category of Analysis to Reconsider the History of Women in the Slaveholding South

Feb 16, Adrian Ciani
Canada and the Vatican to 1945: The Challenges of Diplomacy in the Era of Protestant Dominion.

Feb 23, Chris Tait
‘No law on the fourth of June’: Drinking, violence, sports and other Canadian pastimes on royal birthdays.

Mar 9, Jane Whalen
Memory and the Marketplace: De-Historicizing the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Mar 16, Tea Gucciardo
Lock, Stock, but no Smoking Barrel: The Bren Gun "Scandal" and Canada's Armament Industry.

Mar 23, Cat Rose Time change - Seminar being held at 4:30
Rags to Respectability: British Class Migration and the Memoirs of An Ordinary Man.

Mar 30, Graham Broad Time change - Seminar being held at 4:30
Victory Shopping: Canadian Retailers Confront the Second World War.

Apr 6, Marina Soroka
Cuban Cuisine – A Reflection of Cuban History.

Fall 2005

October 6, Rollen Lee
Incommensurable Conflict: Present and Potential Creationist Responses to Evolution in American Museums.

October 20, Josh Perell
Guarding the Good: Police as Agents of Class Control in Progressive Era Toronto.

November 3, Andrew Ross
In League with Each Other: The Organization of the Professional Hockey Industry, 1900-67.

November 17, Dean Ruffilli
Getting After the Chauffeurs: Canadians and the Coming of the Automobile Age.

December 1, Dylan A. Cyr
Not So Lean, Not So Mean, But Still Marines: Researching Pacific War Veterans of the 1st Marine Division.