CONFERENCE 2020
Postponed until further notice
THÈME - 2020 - THEME
Unfortunately, due to increasingly serious health and safety concerns about Covid-19, and as a result of premier Legault's recent press conference, the History in the Making conference this Friday, March 13th and Saturday, March 14th, is postponed indefinitely.
We hope to see you when we are able to reschedule.
Étant donné les préoccupations liées à la santé et sécurité en lien avec Covid-19 ainsi qu'en réponse à la plus récente conférence de presse du premier ministre Legault, nous nous voyons dans l'obligation de reporter la conférence History in the Making à une date ultérieure indéterminée.
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Nous espérons vous voir lorsque la conférence aura lieu.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
History in the Making is a student-run conference put on by Concordia graduate students for graduate students across North America. The conference provides emerging scholars with a platform to present their research, receive valuable input from panelists and conference attendees, and ultimately refine their findings and strengthen their arguments. The conference also provides graduate students with an opportunity to network and forge friendships with other emerging scholars from across the continent.
History in the Making est un colloque étudiant organisé par des membres du corps étudiant des deuxième et troisième cycles de Concordia pour des étudiantes et étudiants des deuxième et troisième cycles à travers l'Amérique du nord. Le colloque offre l'opportunité aux membres de la relève académique de présenter leur travail, de recevoir des commentaires constructifs de la part des autres conférencières et conférenciers et du public, et, ultimement, de perfectionner leur recherche. Le colloque offre également l'opportunité de rencontrer et de forger des liens avec d'autres chercheuses et chercheurs émergents à travers le continent.
What is Commonplace?: Historicizing the Ordinary
Historical research often focuses on the exceptional. We turn to events that disrupt patterns and overturn previous ways of living and knowing. We attempt to conceptualize coherent beginnings, conclusions, and legacies; we seek to create narratives. Yet lived experiences slip through the gaps in our models of explanation as subjectivities and social structures are constructed within and around ordinary objects, moments and practices. History is made by and expressed through the everyday and the ordinary. If we shift our focus to incorporate these often neglected perspectives, what might we observe in the experiences, practices, and rituals that are embedded in our everyday lives?
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of History in the Making, the Concordia History department annual graduate conference, we are seeking to historicize “the ordinary,” and to interrogate aspects of daily interaction and material culture so often rendered invisible through the cultural construction of their “ordinariness.” What can we learn when we treat these moments and phenomena as integral to the telling of our histories and as objects of historical inquiry in their own right?
Qu’est-ce que le banal?: L’historicisation de l’ordinaire
Les recherches historiques sont souvent centrées sur l’exceptionnel. Elles portent sur des évènements qui bouleversent les modèles établis et qui chamboulent les repères et discours qui auparavant nous permettaient de donner un sens au monde qui nous entoure. Nous tentons alors d’apposer une structure cohérente à ces bouleversements. Nous cherchons des débuts, des conclusions et des héritages; nous tentons de créer des récits. Cependant, nos expériences vécues se faufilent à travers les fissures de ces modèles de conceptualisation du quotidien. C’est alors que nos subjectivités et structures sociales se construisent autour et à travers certains objets, moments et rituels qui forment le quotidien et l’ordinaire. L’Histoire est donc créée et exprimée à travers le quotidien et le banal. Que pourrions-nous observer en incorporant à notre analyse ces perspectives trop souvent négligées qui sont intégrées et qui constituent le quotidien?
En l’honneur du 25e colloque History in the Making du département d’histoire de l’université Concordia, cherche à historiciser “l’ordinaire” et à poser un regard critique sur les interactions et matérialités quotidiennes parfois rendues invisibles par le fait même de leur banalité. Que pourrions-nous apprendre en analysant ces moments et phénomènes en tant que parties intégrales des récits de notre histoire et en tant qu’objets historiques en soi?
GUEST SPEAKERS
Keynote:
Rick Hill & Kanen’tó:kon
Hemlock
Living Extemporaneously: Haudenosaunee Model for Surviving Colonization
Richard W. Hill is a Tuscarora of the Beaver Clan, residing at the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Born in Christopher Columbus Hospital in Buffalo, NY in 1950, he has spent his adult life in search for connections to all of the things that are acknowledged in the Thanksgiving Address. As an artist and curator, he has explored the use of creativity as a tool to re-energize those connections. As an educator, he has tried to bridge the gap between ancestral wisdom and the colonial haze that he grew up within. The son of an ironworker, he taught for twenty years at the University of Buffalo in building erected by his father and brother. He has also taught McMaster University, FNTI and Six Nations Polytechnic. He also served as Museum Director at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Assistant Director for Public Programs at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute. Currently, he serves as Indigenous Innovations Specialist at Mohawk College, Hamilton, ON.
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Kanen’tó:kon Hemlock
Kanien’kehá:ka from Kahnawà:ke
of the Bear Clan.
Concordia Professor of Haudenosaunee Peoples Program.
Masters in Indigenous Language Revitalization
Dr. Rhona Richman Kenneally
Home – The (Un)Commonplace
Rhona Richman Kenneally is a Professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, and a co-founder and Fellow of the School of Irish Studies, at Concordia. Her research crosses the domains of design justice, food studies, and the architecture and design of the built environment to explore agency and performance in the home, especially in mid-twentieth-century Ireland.
SCHEDULE
Friday, March 13
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Opening Keynote Address
Atwater Library,1200 Atwater Ave.
Walking distance from
Atwater station, Green line.
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5:15 p.m.
Doors open
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5:30 p.m.
Keynote Address:
Dr. Mary Anne Poutanen,
Concordia University
"Hospitality in Mid-Nineteenth
Century Montreal: Women,
Public Houses, and the Every Day"
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6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Wine and cheese reception
non-alcoholic and vegan options available
Saturday, March 14 - A.M.
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Center for Teaching and Learning
Faubourg Building, 1250 Rue Guy
Walking distance from
Guy-Concordia station, Green line.
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8:45 - 9 a.m.
Registration
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9 - 9:30 a.m.
Opening remarks
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9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Panels
Room A: Feelings and Sensations
Room B: Health and Home
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10:45 - 11 a.m.
Break
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11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Panels
Room A: Foodways, Food Waste
Room B: Pro-test/Con-test
Saturday, March 14 - P.M.
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Center for Teaching and Learning
Faubourg Building, 1250 Rue Guy
Walking distance from
Guy-Concordia station, Green line.
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12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
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1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
Panels
Room A: Committing to Memory
Room B: Purchase(d) Power
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2:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Break
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2:45 - 3:45 p.m.
Keynote Address
Dr. Rhona Richman Kenneally,
Concordia University
“Home — The (Un)Common Place”
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3:45 - 4 p.m.
Closing Remarks
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4:30 p.m.
Celebration at McKibbin’s Irish Pub,
1426 Bishop St.
OUR SUPPORTERS
The 2020 edition of History in the Making would not have been possible without the generous help of our supporters. We would like to extend our warmest thanks to all of you!
L'édition 2020 du colloque History in the Making n'aurait pas été possible sans la généreuse contribution de nos partenaires. Nous vous remercions pour votre support!
At Concordia
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History Department
Graduate History Student Association
Office of the Dean,Faculty of Arts and Science
Hospitality Concordia
Concordia University Alumni Association
School of Irish Studies
Individualized Program
Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL)
In Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal
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Brûleries Café Faro Roasting House
1444 Rue Sainte-Catherine O
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Cinéma Moderne
5150 St Laurent Blvd
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Libraire Paragraphe Bookstore
2220 McGill College Ave.
MEET THE ORGANIZERS
Angel
Angel Azzuolo is pursuing a Master of Arts in History at Concordia University. Her interests lie in the power of food memorialization, and the intersections of eating and identity. She previously worked as a professional cook in both Montreal and France, and her current research is inspired by her experiences in the restaurant industry.
Hannah
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka is a first-year MA student in the Department of History. Hannah’s current project examines allegations of cannibalism against Indigenous peoples and Jews in the mid-seventeenth century. Her research interests include early modern intellectual history, Jewish history, and medical history.
Geneviève
Geneviève is an MA student originally from Winnipeg, MB. Her research focuses on the ways Haitians in Montreal are remembering the Trujillo dictatorship, specifically the waves of border-induced violence that took place under his rule and their legacy into today.
Graham
Coming from a background in cultural studies and close to a decade working in Montreal's independent music community, Graham is in the first year of his MA in history at Concordia.
His research looks at the development of private property in the context of settler colonialism in late-18th century Upper Canada.
Meaghan
Meaghan is a second-year MA student in History, working with the School of Irish Studies and member of CAIS (Canadian Association of Irish Studies). Her research focuses on the history of the Great War in Ireland, specifically on the evolution of public memory and centenaries.
Mélissa-Anne
Mélissa-Anne is a graduate student in history at Concordia University. Her research examines the long-lasting impact of twentieth-century British child migrant schemes and child-rescue rhetoric. She focuses on the memory and lived experiences of British migrant children sent to Australia.
Solveig
Solveig Hanson is a graduate student in history at Concordia University. Solveig is interested in histories of medicine and representations of science in print and literature. Solveig is currently examining seventeenth-century physicians’ representations and appropriations of vernacular midwifery practices in medical texts.
Teejay
Teejay Bhalla is a first year MA student studying the immigrant artist experience in states seeking independence.
His interests include migration and cultural theory, art history, and cinema. He sits on the executive committee of the GHSA and is a film curator at Cinema Moderne in Montreal.