Workshop Schedule

Sites of Memory: Religion, Multiculturalism, and the Demands of the Past

University of Toronto, September 15-17, 2016

Overview

Thursday, September 15

Graduate Student Workshop: 9:00am – 5:00pm, University College, Room 240 (15 King’s College Circle). *Lunch provided at nearby Massey College.
Welcome Lecture: 5.30pm – 7:00pm, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (170 St. George Street, 1st Floor).
Group Dinner: 7.30pm (location in printed program).

Friday, September 16

Workshop Panels #1-3: 9:30am – 5:30pm, Jackman Humanities Institute, Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street, 10th Floor). *Lunch provided on-site.
Group Dinner: 6.30pm (location will be announced at the event).

Saturday, September 17

Workshop Panels #4-6: 9:30am – 5:30pm, Department for the Study of Religion, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318 (170 St. George Street, 3rd Floor). *Lunch provided on-site.

Full Program

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Graduate Student Workshop University College, Room 240 15 King’s College Circle
9:00-9:15	Introductory Remarks & Moderator Introductions
9:15 –10:45	Session 1: Landscapes of Memory
	How do places communicate, obfuscate, illustrate the past?
	Kaleigh McLelland, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Remembering through Space and Story: Narratives of Colonial Martyrdom Ashley Morford, English & Book History, University of Toronto Decolonizing Coast Salish Territory through Pauline Johnson’s Legends of Vancouver Judith Ellen Brunton, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Centennial Sightseeing for the Canadian Multicultural: Imperial Oil Contributions and Maps Misia Robins, York University Reviving Civic Boosterism in Prince Rupert
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:25	Session 2: The (Un)known Archival Memory
	How do scholars work with the allure of secrets and mysteries in addressing their publics?
	Annie Heckman, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Curious Gifts: A Tibetan Prayer Wheel and Material Canon at the Royal Ontario Museum Gregory Fewster, Study of Religion & Book History, University of Toronto Lost Books, Vanished Gospels, or, How Can We Analyze Missing Sites of Memory? Justin Stein, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Sacred Secrets in a Public Archive: Reiki Symbols and the Hawayo Takata Archive
12:30-2:00	Lunch at nearby Massey College
2:15-3:30	Session 3: Infrastructures of Ideology
	How do systems carry pasts and futures?
	Ayan Kassim, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Racializing Non-Consent: Exploring the Racial and Religious Dynamics of Organ Donation Promotion in the Greater Toronto Area Lukas Feilen, University of Tübingen Science Adapting to Multiculturalism: Practices of Internationalization in the Everyday Life of a Research Institute Roxanne Korpan, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Sacred and Secular Sex Ed: Historicizing the Debate Over Ontario’s Sexual Education Curriculum
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-5:00	Session 4: Mediating the Past
	How do specific sites and modes of mediation construct difference and continuity?
	Raphael Reichel, University of Tübingen “When you cross this threshold, you’re in Germany!” – Sites of Memory Among German Men Living in Thailand Suzanne van Geuns, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Grieving June Cleaver: Whiteness and Fifties Nostalgia in Biblical Womanhood Blogging Helen Ahner, University of Tübingen Drink to Remember: When Cuba Libre Becomes a Site of Memory and a Symbol of Everyday Multiculturalism
Welcome Lecture Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 170 St. George Street, 1st Floor
5:30-7:00	Public lecture — Sites of Memory: Religion and Erinnerungskultur in Canada and Germany
	Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto Monique Scheer, University of Tübingen
7.:30pm	Group Dinner (location in printed program)

Friday, September 16, 2016

Sites of Memory Workshop Panels Jackman Humanities Institute at the Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street, 10th Floor
9:30 –11:30am	Panel 1: Rocks, Bones, and Statues
	Moderated by Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
	Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota — Memory Rocks J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto — Rammohun Roy’s Bones Lisa Blee, Wake Forest University — Souvenirs
11:30am-1pm	Lunch provided on-site
1-3pm	Panel 2: Telling Memories
	Moderated by J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto
	Ju Hui Judy Han, University of Toronto — Yellow Ribbons Cheryl Suzack, University of Toronto — Storying Memory-Justice Rebecca Wittman, University of Toronto — Free-Floating Guilt
3-3:30pm	Break
3:30-5:30pm	Panel 3: Bureaucratic Memories
	Moderated by Monique Scheer, University of Tübingen
	Avigail Eisenberg, University of Victoria — The Citizenship Handbook Jennifer Selby, Memorial University — Wedding Dress/Marriage License Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University — Petition for Naturalization
6:30pm	Group Dinner (location will be announced at the event)

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Sites of Memory Workshop Panels Department for the Study of Religion at the Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318 170 St. George Street, 3rd Floor
9:30 –11:30am	Panel 4: Communities of Memory
	Moderated by Sean Mills, University of Toronto
	Eugenia Kisin, New York University — Walking with Our Sisters Project Sivane Hirsch, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières — Playing with Memory in Private Montreal Jewish Schools Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria — Cascadia
11:30am-1pm	Lunch provided on-site
1-3pm	Panel 5: Remembering in Place
	Moderated by Ju Hui Judy Han, University of Toronto
	Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University — Sites of the Underground Railroad in Ontario Yaniv Feller, Jewish Museum Berlin — A Portrait of Leo Baeck Till Van Rahden, Université de Montréal — Marc Chagall’s Stained Glass Windows in Mainz
3-3:30pm	Break
3:30-5:30pm	Panel 6: Memories of Law
	Moderated by Benjamin Berger, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
	Birgitte Scheperlern Johansen, University of Copenhagen — Hate Crimes & the Holocaust Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University — The Haldimand Treaty