The Great War: From Memory to History

Canadian Indians and the Great War for Civilization

Timothy Winegard, The University of Western Ontario

Salon A/B

12:45 PM

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

Robert Morley, University of Saskatchewan

12:45 PM

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

Katherine McGowan, University of Waterloo

12:45 PM

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, University of the Fraser Valley

12:45 PM

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

Thomas Hodd, Université de Moncton

12:45 PM

Canon Fodder: Canadian Canonicity, the Erasure of Great War narratives and the Self Conscious Re-invention of Canadian Cultural Identity

Zachary Abram, University of Ottawa

2:15 PM

History Trumps Memory: The Strange Case of Sir Richard Turner

William Stewart, University of Birmingham

2:15 PM

Kitsch and the Arrest of Collective Mourning

Mark A.R. Facknitz, James Madison University

2:15 PM

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

Martin Loeschnigg, University of Graz

2:15 PM

‘We Shall Keep the Faith’: The Semiotics of the Poppy in Great War Verse and Contemporary Commemoration

Alicia Robinet, The University of Western Ontario

2:15 PM

‘Every day and every night, for a long time, some one died’: Representations of Death in Nurses’ Narratives of the Great War

Alice Kelly, University of Cambridge

3:45 PM

Ireland and the Great War: Memory, History and Politics

Richard Grayson, Goldsmiths College, University of London

3:45 PM

Kitchener’s Tourists’: voices from wartime hospital ships

Carol Acton, University of Waterloo, St Jerome’s University

3:45 PM

The Forgotten Few: French Canadians and the Great War

Geoff Keelan, University of Waterloo

3:45 PM