PROGRAM
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TIMES ARE IN EST
THURSDAY
SEPT. 23, 2021
12:30 - 2:15 p.m. SESSION 1: CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND KNOW-HOW: THE ROLE OF MIGRANTS
Chair: Marcel Martel, York University
Participants:
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Jack Cecillon, Glendon College, “The Rise and Fall of an Early Ontario Winery”
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Chelsea Davis, Colby College, “All that Glitters is Wine? Viticultural Capitalists and the Creation of Britain’s Colonial Wine Industry.”
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Antonio de Ruggiero, Pontifícal Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul-PUCRS, “Wine entrepreneurs : Italian immigrants and the wine-making industry in Rio Grande do Sul”
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Annick Foucrier, Professor emerita La Sorbonne (Université Paris 1): “The contribution of French traders and migrants to California viticulture”
2:15 - 2:30 p.m. BREAK
2:30-4:15 p.m. SESSION 2: SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
Chair: Carolyn Podruchny, York University
Participants:
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Kathleen Brosnan, University of Oklahoma, “Preserving Winescapes Amidst North America’s Urban Sprawl."
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Erica Hannickel, Northland College, “George Engelmann, 19th Century North American Grapes, and Europe’s Battle with Phylloxeral”
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Mikael Pierre, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and University of Newcastle, “A Theoretical Wine Model: Introducing and Adapting French Wine Literature into Colonial Australia.”
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Donna M. Senese, University of British Columbia, “Winescape Heritage as Agricultural Landscape Resilience in the Southern Interior of British Columbia”
4:30- 5:45 p.m. AVIE BENNETT PUBLIC LECTURE IN CANADIAN HISTORY
Chief Clarence Louie will deliver a public lecture on Indigenous Peoples and the wine industry in British Columbia in the context of globalization and climate change.
FRIDAY
SEPT. 24, 2021
1:00 – 2:45 p.m. SESSION 3: CONSUMPTION, QUALITY, AND MARKETING
Chair: David Forer, Master of Wine, Barcelona
Participants:
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Marie-Joëlle Duchesne, Université du Québec à Montréal, “The Fertile Pairing of Wine and Québec: A Cultural History of the Early Commercial Mandate of the Société des alcools du Québec (1971-1986).”
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Patrice Dutil, Ryerson University, “The 1988 ‘Niagara Accord’ in Perspective: The Ontario Wine Industry in Four Historical Phases.”
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James Simpson, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Wine Quality and international transfers of technology, 1850-1939.”
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Steve Stein, University of Miami, “Making Wine for the People’s Taste: The Emergence of Argentina’s Wine Industry, 1885-1915.”
2:45 - 3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. SESSION 4: EMPIRE, INDIGENOUS AND RACIALIZED MINORITIES
Chair: Ben Bryce, University of British Columbia
Participants:
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Shana Klein, Kent State University, “’Making an American Rhineland’ in California: The Politics of Grapes, Race, and Westward Settlement.”
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Julie McIntyre, University of Newcastle, “Decolonising wine: First peoples’ connections with grapes and their products.”
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Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, “British Imperial Viticulture and Settler Colonialism: Should Wine History Have a Postcolonial Future?”