150 @ York Conference and Workshop - Globalizing Confederation: How Governments, Nations and Communities Around the World Viewed the Emergence of Canada in 1867

The Robarts Centre is pleased to announce the following Avie Bennett Conference
Location:TBA
Date:September 29-30th, 2016
Time:TBA

Please periodically visit the conference site for updated information.

A 2016 workshop/conference, and 2017 scholarly book publication, that explores Canadian Confederation from global perspectives. The conference will host scholars from around the world (as well as Canadians with expertise in non-Canadian settings) to present research findings on the ways in which peoples, colonies and foreign governments understood and considered the changes that were taking place in British North America in the 1860s. Was the emergence of the Canadian nation an issue of interest during this period? How was the new colonial government perceived by others - with enthusiasm, disregard, or trepidation? To what extent was the creation of Canada considered a possible threat or model for future nation-building?

It is a two day event with three panels:

1) European Perspectives on Confederation

Austria-Hungary: Benno Gammerl (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Belgium: Natalie Tousignant (Université Saint-Louis, Brussels)
France: Alban Bargain (York University, Toronto)
Spain: Josep Fradera (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
Vatican: Roberto Perin (York University, Toronto)

2) Perspectives on Confederation from the British Empire

Australia: Ann Curthoys (University of Sydney)
Caribbean: Franklin Knight (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
India: Kamala Sankaran (University of Delhi)
Irish: Thomas Mohr (University College Dublin)
UK: Edward Beasley (San Diego State University)
Southern Africa: Timothy Stapleton (University of Calgary)

3) North and South American Perspectives on Confederation

Aboriginal Peoples: Deborah McGregor (Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto)
Argentina: Ben Bryce ( University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George)
Brazil, Chile & Mexico: Carsten Schulz (Catholic University of Chile, Santiago)
Fenians: William Jenkins (York University, Toronto)
United States: David Cameron (University of Toronto) and Jacqueline Krikorian (York University, Toronto)

Conference Organizers:
Adrian Shubert (History)
Jacqueline Krikorian (Political Science)
Marcel Martel (History)