2021 Bridgewater Symposium
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Bridgewater State University Undergraduate Research Conference
The conference, hosted by the American Studies Program and the Canadian Studies Program and featuring three WWU students, took place on Friday, April 2, 2021.
Student Presentation Topics
Panel 1A. Immigrant and Refugee Experiences: Then and Now
Lucienne Quirk, Bridgewater State University
The Vietnam Brain Drain: An Exodus of Educated Americans to Canada
Jonnell Richard, SUNY Plattsburgh
Social Reactions to Haitian Immigrants in Canada and the United States Post World War II
Stephanie E. Amoah and Sofia Palma Florido, McMaster University
The Alien Womb: Systematic review of the gendered experience of migrant mothers and their interactions with receiving communities in the United States of America
Sophie Sklar, McGill University
Mapping the Journey to Freedom: The Voice of a Fugitive and Canada as a Safe Haven for Escaped Slaves
Cian McEneaney, Bridgewater State University
Irish Famine Immigration and the Quebecois
Panel 1B. Women, War, and the Quest for Oui
Rylie Moscato, Acadia University
Writing Women into History: Margaret Atwood’s and Dionne Brand’s Interrogation and Relocation of Power
Candace Gagne, Bridgewater State University
Women’s Rights and the Suffrage Movement in Quebec
Jennifer Munson, University of Maine
The Dieppe Raid: Avoidable Disaster or Lesson in Amphibious Assault?
Zachariah Rowland, Bridgewater State University
French Canadians and the Canadian Army, c. 1867-1918
Juan Morales, Bridgewater State University
The 1995 Referendum in Quebec
Panel 2A. Immigration and Refugee Policy
Emmelyn Affeldt, Western Washington University
Community Sponsorship of Refugees: How Canada Can be a Model for the United States
Charles Hongseok Choi, McGill University
Preferential Refugee Policies in Postwar Canada
Katherine Jardine, Acadia University
Gender, Sexuality, and Immigration Policy: Chinese-Canadian Experiences
M. Joseph, York University
Out of Place: Racialized Bodies at the USA-Canada Border
Panel 2B. Education and Popular Culture in Canada and Quebec
Christopher Smith, Bridgewater State University
Les insolences du Frère Untel and Education Reform in Quebec’s Quiet Revolution
Hannah Smelter, St. Lawrence University
Expo ’67: Celebrating Canada as a Different Kind of North American Nation
Kat Rice, Brock University
Setting the Expectation: How American Success at the World Junior Hockey Championships Is a Canadian Product
Derek Williams, Bridgewater State University
Hockey and Indigenous Identities in Quebec
James Wright, Bridgewater State University
Competing Nationalisms in Quebec Sport: Nordiques vs Canadiens in the 1980s
Panel 2C. Indigenous Peoples
Alex Crisman, Bridgewater State University
Indigenous Peoples and Nationalism in Quebec
Natale Szabo, Western Washington University
Indigenous Free Movement: A First Step Towards Reconciliation in the U.S. and Canada
Mallory Forcier, Bridgewater State University,
Indigenous Peoples in Quebec
Beverly Marsden, Brock University
Burying the Hatchet: Addressing Disproportionate Media Representations of Indigenous Missing and Murdered Peoples
Thomas Gadbois, Bridgewater State University
Conflicts between the Quebec State and Indigenous Peoples
Keynote Address
Dr. Neil Forkey, Department of History, St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
“Powering Dissent: Popular Opposition to Public Utilities in the St. Lawrence River Watershed, Ontario-New York-Quebec, c. 1970s”
Panel 3A. Trade, Security, Diplomacy, and Borders
Alexandra Selene, Western Washington University
The Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Border Closure between America and Canada in Small Border Towns
Sebastian Farkas, Acadia University
Canadian Climate Change Policy: A Commitment to Environmental Securitization and its effects on the Athabasca Oil Sands
John Oshei, University at Buffalo
Canadian Trade and Technology between China and the USMCA
Dael Vasquez, York University
Branding as Soft Power: How Canada’s International Image Renders Hard Borders Pliable
Lauren Millett, Acadia University
Extractive Expansion: Transnational Trade and Colonialism in through the British East India Company, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the Russian-American Company
Panel 3B. Themes in Canada-United States-Quebec Relations
Amy Doucette, University of Lethbridge
Gun Violence in Canada and the United States of America
Philippe Granger, Université du Québec à Montréal
A Matter of Perspective? A Comparative Analysis of Progressivism in Quebec and in the United States
Deitrich Wahl, Bridgewater State University
Quebec, the Civil War, and Canadian Confederation
Jake Cuneo, Bridgewater State University
The CCTC the AFL and the Rise of Labor Nationalism in Quebec
Katharine Desmarais, Bridgewater State University
American Television: The Canadian-American Border