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28 – 30 January 2015
Great Hall, University College
The Great Wars: Marking History and Humanity
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Student Organizers
Mr. Paul Aseltine, MA candidate (Political Studies)
Ms. Kimvy Ngo, undergraduate (Political Studies)
Mr. Douglas Fergusson, undergraduate (Political Studies)
Ms. Meagan Cloutier, undergraduate (Political Studies)
About the conference
This free, public conference is dedicated to the study of the Great Wars (given the confluence of anniversaries of WWI (100) start of WWII (75) and end of Cold War (25)) and their ongoing impact on Canadian society.(Please click here to see full bios of panels and schedule)
Speakers | Institution | Specialization |
Gene Walz | University of Manitoba | Canada's Films about WWI |
David McDonald | U of Wisconsin | Russia 1917 |
Dean Oliver | Canadian Museum of History | Canada's role in WWI |
Moderator: HLCol Barry Burns, Honourary Lieutenant Colonel 38 Signal Regiment |
1:00PM Panel Two: World War Two
Speakers | Institution | Specialization |
Robert Young | U of Winnipeg | Origins of WWII |
Iain Johnston | Cambridge | Dominions and WWII |
Catherine Chatterley | U of Manitoba | Why We Now Call it Hitler's War: Anti-Semitism and the Origins of WWII |
Stephan Jaeger | U of Manitoba | The Memory and Significance of the WWII in North America, Western and Central Europe in the 21st Century |
Moderator: Jeffery Taylor, Dean of Arts, U of Manitoba |
Speakers | Institution | Specialization |
Jim Fergusson | U of Manitoba | Was M.A.D. mad? |
Andrew Burtch | War Museum | Cold War Civil Defence |
Kyle Haddad-Fonda | Middle East Institute | Chinese/Arab Perspective of Cold War |
Moderator: Andrea Charron, Deputy-Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, U of Manitoba |
Speaker | Institution | Specilization |
Adam Chapnick | Canadian Forces College | United Nations/ League of Nations |
Melanie Morin-Pelletier | War Museum | Hom front Impact, Nurses Postewar |
James Hanley | U of Winnipeg | Medicine and the Home Front in Britain |
Jody Perrun | U of Manitoba | Manitoba's contribution to WWII and after effects (suggestion) |
Moderator: Terry MacLeod, CBC Radio host "The Weekend Morning Show" |
11:30 AM Panel Five: Future of War
Speaker | Institution | Specialization |
Brigadier General Ploughman | 2 CAD | Commander, 2 Canadian Air Division |
Brigadier General Hyde | 1 CAD | Deputy-Commander, CANR |
Bryan Peeler | U of Manitoba | Geneva Conventions and Reciprocity |
Emmanuel Goffi | U of Manitoba | Drones and the future of war |
Moderator: HCol Rempel, Honourary Colonel 1 CAD |
For more information, contact:
Political Studies Student Conference
525 Fletcher Argue,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5
PH: (204) 272-1691
Email: pssc@umanitoba.ca
Thank you to all of our sponsors:
The J.W. Dafoe Foundation
Veterans Affairs Canada
SSHRC Connection Grant
Canadian International Council (Winnipeg)
Conference of Defence Associations Institute
Manitoba Institute for Policy Research
University of Manitoba Arts' Endowment Fund
Arts Student Body Council (ASBC)
Political Studies Department (UM)
Department of Economics (UM)
Department of German and Slavic Studies (UM)
Department of Sociology
Department of French, Spanish and Itlaian
Manitoba Chair of Global Governance Studies
Manitoba Education and Advance Learning
St. John's College (UM)
University of Manitoba Students' Union
St. Paul's College
The Student Association for the Masters of Politics and Public Administration (SAMPA)
Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East & North Africa
Centre for Defence and Security Studies
(UM)