Men of Suvla: The Legacy of Gallipoli in Ireland and Newfoundland

Jane McGaughey — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:45:00 PST

Jane McGaughey received her PhD in 2008 from Birkbeck College at the University of London. Her monograph, Ulster’s Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities in the north of Ireland 1912-1923, will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in January 2012. Her new research investigates facets of imperialism during the battle of Gallipoli.

Roundtable Discussion – The Great War and Education

Laura Fasick et al. — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:30:00 PST

The panelists will discus their experiences in teaching the First World War to students at the secondary and post-sencondary level.

Canadian Indians and the Great War for Civilization

Timothy Winegard — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:45:00 PST

Dr. Winegard has recently published two books: Indigenous Peoples of the Dominions and the First World War (Cambridge University Press) and For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War (University of Manitoba Press).

Question of Caste and Colour: Native Women and the First World War

Katherine McGowan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:45:00 PST

Katharine McGowan is working on her dissertation in Canadian history, which focuses on the homefront Indigenous experience of the First World War. She is a research fellow at Social Invention Generation at the University of Waterloo.

The Great War and the Shaping of Indigenous Reponses to the Second World War in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States

Scott Sheffield — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:45:00 PST

R. Scott Sheffield completed his PhD. in 2000 at Wilfrid Laurier University, before undertaking postdocs in Calgary, Victoria and Wellington, NZ. His research explores Indigenous peoples and warfare in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US. He is also researching British Columbia’s experience of the Second World War.

The Writer-Soldier as Historian: Charles G.D. Roberts, the CWRO, and the Canada in Flanders series

Thomas Hodd — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:45:00 PST

Thomas Hodd is an Assistant Professor in Canadian literature at the Université de Moncton. His work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Canadian Poetry, and Studies in Canadian Literature. He is currently working on a critical edition of Flora Macdonald Denison’s early Canadian spiritualism novel, Mary Melville, the Psychic (1900).

Constructing the “Ace”: Feature Films in the Interwar Period and the Great War in the Air

Robert Morley — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:45:00 PST

Robert Morley is a PhD Candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. He is currently working on a dissertation that explores the depiction of aviation on screen in Great Britain during the interwar period.

Brenda Walker’s Challenge to the Anzac Legend in her Great War Novel The Wing of Night

Donna Coates — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:45:00 PST

Donna Coates is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Calgary. With Sherrill Grace, she has co-edited two volumes of Canada and the Theatre of War: Eight Plays on World War One and Two (2009) and Canada and the Theatre of War: Six Contemporary Dramas (2010), and with George Melnyk, Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2008). She has also published numerous book chapters and articles in Canadian, Australian, British, and European journals primarily on women’s fictional responses to the First and Second World Wars and to the Vietnam War.

History Trumps Memory: The Strange Case of Sir Richard Turner

William Stewart — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:15:00 PST

After a short 30 year hiatus in high tech William Stewart returned to academia as a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham in the UK under Dr. Gary Sheffield. William is working on a military biography of the controversial Great War Canadian general Richard Turner.

“Lest We Forget”: Remembering the First World War in Contemporary Anglo-Canadian Fiction

Martin Loeschnigg — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:15:00 PST

Martin Loeschnigg is Professor of English at the University of Graz, Austria, where he is also chair of the section on post-colonial literatures, and deputy director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. His main fields of research are narrative theory, autobiography, the English novel, the literature of war, and Canadian literature.