On Friday, October 16, 2015, McMaster University will be hosting “From Political Economy and Environment to Culture, Memory, and Society: A Symposium in Honour of H.V. Nelles” from 12:45pm to 6:00pm. All are invited to attend.
Here is the program of presentations:
Session 1: Culture, Memory, and Society
Stephen Henderson, “The Don Messer Jubilee and Canada’s Counter-Counterculture”
Sarah Glassford, ““For Patriotic Purposes”: Rural Women’s War Work and the Bonds of Community, 1914-1919”
Colin McMahon, “Canonizing O’Connell : The 1875 Birth Centenary of Ireland’s “Liberator” in Canada”
Laurence Mussio, “Winners, Losers and Bankers in the Making of Canada’s Central Bank, 1932 – 1938”
Session 2: Environment and Political Economy
Sean Kheraj, “The Nature of Pipeline Corporations: Trans Mountain Pipe Line Company and its Environmental Record”
Stéphane Castonguay, “The Government of Natural Resources: State Science and Territorialities in Quebec, 1867-1939”
Liza Piper, “An Environmental History of Alberta Coal”
Matthew Evenden, “Beyond Organic Machines? New Directions in River Historiography”

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