{"id":49894,"date":"2018-03-14T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49894"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:09:04","slug":"crossing-borders-conference-to-touch-on-binational-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/03\/crossing-borders-conference-to-touch-on-binational-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Borders conference to touch on binational issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scholars from across Canada and the United States will gather at Brock this week to discuss all aspects of cross-border relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two-day Crossing Borders conference, held Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17, covers a broad spectrum of topics, from history and politics to trade, industry, religion, education, climate and Indigenous issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event will also include a free public lecture by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/08\/fulbright-scholar-immersed-in-history-of-local-black-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniel J. Broyld,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> visiting Fulbright Research Chair in Transnational Studies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Brock\u2019s Canadian Studies program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broyld\u2019s lecture, \u201cDouglass, Tubman &amp; Brown: Recasting Their Fight for Black Liberation in the Transnational Light of Rochester and St. Catharines,\u201d takes place Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m. in Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre. The assistant professor of History at Central Connecticut State University is an expert on Harriet Tubman and has consulted on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Maryland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Crossing Borders conference is an important experiential learning opportunity for students, who will meet peers from across Canada and the U.S. and compare experiences of studying in different programs and living in different regions, says Marian Bredin, Associate Professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film and Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStudents have developed their own research collaborations on topics such as the Jay Treaty that have come directly out of a previous conference,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eight current and former students from Brock\u2019s joint MA in Canadian-American Studies are presenting at this year\u2019s conference, along with a number of international students from other graduate programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is a perfect chance to highlight our Canadian Studies and Canadian-American Studies MA programs here at Brock,\u201d Bredin says. \u201cMany of our own students have been successful presenters over the years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference has been a binational Niagara institution for more than 20 years, with Brock a frequently chosen as the Canadian venue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars from across Canada and the United States will gather at Brock this week to discuss all aspects of cross-border relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":46200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,188,55,37,1,4],"tags":[241,192,3520,153,6414,5158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49895,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49894\/revisions\/49895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}