The 2024 Humanities Graduate Student Symposium, “Narratives of Identity,” took place on February 10th in Pond Inlet.

The full day of programming in Pond Inlet included presentations from MA and PhD students from all across the Faculty of Humanities. Congratulations Paige Groot (MA History candidate) and her organizing committee on a job well done!

The full program is presented below.

Panel 1: Mapping Memory

Steven Hamelin (History), “Finding Richardson”

Brendan Holk (English), “The Poppy and the Rhetoric of Service that Promotes Nationalism”

Joshua Manitowabi (History), “Mapping Anishinaabe Kendaaswin: Land, Truth, and Treaties through Oral History”

Panel 2: Voicing the Visual

Liao Zihuan (HUMA), “Image Narrative of Identity: Louise Bourgeois’ Spider Images and Unconscious Desire”

Miranda King (Classics), “The Small Finds from the Sanctuary of Venus at Pompeii”

John Wilfred Bessai (Canadian Studies, Trent), “Exploring Identity Narratives through NFBC’s Digital Projects”

Keynote Address

Gregory Betts (English), “I Am That Am I: An Ontography of I”

Panel 3: Countering Colonial Conversations

Long Hoang Vu (HUMA), “Narrating Space: A Father-and-Son Duoethnographic Exploration of Vietnam’s Territory”

Philip Akoje (SCLA), “Narrative of Identity through Masquerade Performance in Ibaji, North Central Nigeria”

Alia Wazzan (HUMA), “Muslim Women’s Scholarship: Discursive Decolonization of Human/Women’s Rights”

Panel 4: Negotiating Nature

Julie Gemuend (HUMA), “Becoming World: Re-imaging the Material Self”

Claire Thyne (English), “Probing Positions and Planets: Encountering the Alien in Vandana Singh’s ‘The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet'”

Daniel Belanger (Classics), “Hepatitis Bee: The Influence of Roma Culture on their Understanding of Bee Disease”