Rethinking The Great White North

Conference Video Streams

Day 1: 01 FEB 08

• Bruce Erickson (York University):
  “A Phantasy in White in a World that is Dead”: Grey Owl and the Whiteness of Surrogacy
  (01/02/08 8:30-9:00am)
• Jocelyn Thorpe (York University):
  Making Race, Nature and Nation in 'Temagami's Tangled Wild'
  (01/02/08 9:00-9:30am)
• Dr. Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (York University):
  Le Petit Dérangement: Expropriation, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Landscape in Cape Breton Highlands National Park
  (01/02/08 9:30-10:00am)
• Dr. Phillip Mackintosh (Brock University):
  The “occult relation between man and vegetable”: Transcendentalism, race, city beautification and the park planning impulse in Toronto, circa 1900
  (01/02/08 10:45-11:15am)
• Dr. Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia):
  Legalities of Nature: Law, Empire, and Wilderness Landscapes in Canada [video not available]
  (01/02/08 11:15-11:45am)
• Richard Milligan and Tyler McCreary (University of Saskatchewan):
  Just an Innocent Journey in the North: Exploring the Racial and Spatial Constructions in Samuel Hearne's Travelogues
  (01/02/08 2:45-3:15pm)
• Emilie Cameron (Queen's University):
  Of Beaver Dung and Copper Wires: Rethinking Narrative Geographies of the Central Arctic
  (01/02/08 3:15-3:45pm)
• Lauren Vedal (University of Wisconsin - Madison):
  Geographies of Victimhood and Whiteness in Two First Nations Novels
  (01/02/08 4:15-4:45pm)
• Renee Hulan (Saint Mary's University):
  White Technologies and the End of Science in Gwendolyn MacEwen's Terror and Erebus
  (01/02/08 4:45-5:15pm)

Day 2: 02 FEB 08

• Dr. Stephen Bocking (Trent University):
  Indiginous Knowledge and the Intersection of Science, Nature and Cultural Identity in Northern Canada
  (02/02/08 8:30-9:00am)
• Jessica Dempsey, Stephen Gould and Dr. Juanita Sundberg (UBC):
  Changing Land Tenure, Defining Subjects: Neoliberalism and Property Regimes on Native Reserves
  (02/02/08 9:00-9:30am)
• Brian Egan (Carleton University):
  Titles, Territories, Treaties: The Long Road to Reconciliation in British Columbia
  (02/02/08 9:30-10:00am)
• Dr. Amina Mire (Carleton University):
  Purity, Prairie Wheat and the Politics of Whiteness
  (02/02/08 10:45-11:15am)
• Dr. Roger Keil and Claire Major (York University):
  SARS and Service Work: Infectious Disease and Racialization in Toronto
  (02/02/08 11:15-11:45am)
• Dr. Kay Anderson (University of Western Sydney):
  Discussant Address
  (02/02/08 1:00-1:30pm)
• Dr. Sherene Razack (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/U of T):
  Discussant Address
  (02/02/08 1:30-2:00pm)