John Sandlos

Past Perspectives:

Department of History Annual Graduate Conference

AA-1046, Memorial University of Newfoundland

April 7, 2015

9:45 to 10:00      Welcome

• Opening Remarks: Dominique Brégent-Heald, Graduate Coordinator, Department of History

10:00 to 11:15    Newfoundland Narratives

• ‘Les différences font toujours la différence’: Writings on Newfoundland’s
• West Coast in Imperial Literature: Nakita Ryan
• ‘Stars, Stripes, and Sacrifice’: Wartime Grief Narratives for an American Bomber Crew: Darrell Hillier
• Fred Earle: The Catalyst behind the Fogo Island Shipbuilders and Producer’s Co-operative: Jay McGrath
• Chair/Commentator: Terry Bishop-Stirling, Chair, Department of History

11:15 to 11:45    Break (light refreshments served)

11:45 to 12:45 pm Sexuality and Identity

• ‘This Monstrous Benediction’: Writings on the Transgender Community: Caitlin Piercey
• ‘Mistaken Identity?’: The Search for Same-Sex Sexuality in America: Jeffry Neuhouser
• Chair/Commentator: John Sandlos, Department of History

12:45 to 1:45      Lunch (refreshments provided)

1:45 to 2:45        Performance

• Newfoundland Renaissance: Some Writings on Post-Confederation Culture and Cultural Policy in Newfoundland: Joan Sullivan
• ‘One book makes you larger and one book makes you small’: Contextualisation, ahistoricism and the backgrounding of music in Haight-Ashbury historiography:  Liam O’Keefe
• Chair/Commentator: Jamie Skidmore, Department of English

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

APRIL 7, 2015

3:00 - 4:00 PM

AA-1046

Surrending Surinam:

The Wild Coast and Competing Visions of Empire in the Early English Atlantic, 1650-1680

Justin Roberts

Justin Roberts, associate professor at Dalhousie University, is a historian of the early modern Atlantic world, of labour and slavery in the Carribean. He is the author of Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).