2024 Colloquium Schedule
THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2024 - UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - Registration and Light Refreshments, Room 2M70
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2024 - FIELD TRIP
9:00 am to 11:30 am - Travel to Clearwater from Holiday Inn Downtown
11:30 am to 11:45 am - Coffee break and technical set-up
Session One - Session Chair Dr. Roland Bohr
11:45 am to 12:10 pm - “Experimental Studies on Indigenous Plant Management and Arrow Manufacture in Southern Manitoba” by Dr. Roland Bohr
12:10 pm to 12:35 pm - “In Search of Collaboration: The Potential of Archaeological Methods for Ethnohistorical Research” by Steph Skelton
12:35 pm to 1:00 pm - “paskahtêw – ‘burning the grass’: Plains Cree and Saulteaux Traditional Use of Fire” by Dr. Andrew M. Miller
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm - Lunch break
2:00 to 5:00 - Discussion of Pre-Confederation Peace Treaties in the Region
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm - Dinner
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm - Trip to Star Mound
7:00 pm to 9:30 pm - Return travel to the Holiday Inn Downtown in Winnipeg
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2024 - UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG, 2ND FLOOR OF MANITOBA HALL
9:00 am to 9:10 am - Opening
Session Two - Session Chair David Malaher
9:10 am to 9:35 am - “The Red River Diaries of Peter Garrioch: Fur Trader, Teacher, Contrarian, Smuggler, Trail Blazer” by Dr. Sandra Anderson
9:35 am to 10:00 am - “The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Management: Hiring ‘the right sort’ for the modern fur trade, 1919-1931” by Dr. George Colpitts
10:00 am to 10:25 am - “Command and Control: Joseph Isbister, James Duffield, and the Reformation of Manners in James Bay, 1741-1744” by Dr. Scott Stephen
10:25 am to 10:50 am - “Five French Songs of Réal Boucher: Remnants of Rupert’s Land” by Dr. Lynn Whidden
10:50 am to 11:10 am - Coffee break
Session Three - Session Chair Dr. Erin Millions
11:10 am to 11:35 am - “Decolonizing Indigenous Land History: A Nehinuw (Cree) Perspective” by Dr. Keith Goulet
11:35 am to 12:00 noon - “Epistemic Justice and Colonial Reparations: Recovering Anisininew Histories” by Dr. Patricia Harms
12:00 noon to 12:25 pm - “‘Ono abinoonzhiishag ji-gikendamowaad., so the children would know’: Cataloguing the Pauingassi Collection/ Obaawingaashiing Gichi-aabijitaawinan” by Dr. Maureen Matthews
12:25 pm to 1:50 pm - Lunch
Session Four - Session Chair Rosemary Malaher
1:50 pm to 3:05 pm - On the Other Hand: New histories from the colonial archives
3:05 pm to 3:25 pm - Coffee break
Session Five - Session Chair Dr. Scott Stephen
3:25 pm to 3:50 pm - “La Verendrye Maps in Review” by David Malaher
3:50 pm to 4:15 pm - “Discovery of New George Nelson Manuscripts” by Dr. Harry Duckworth
4:15 pm to 4:40 pm - “Adventures in Documentary Editing, 1964-2024: Whose Voices?” by Dr. Jennifer S.H. Brown
4:40 pm to 5:00 pm - General Meeting