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PROGRAM

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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:

  • Jack Cecillon, Glendon College, “The Rise and Fall of an Early Ontario Winery” 

  • Chelsea Davis, Colby College, “All that Glitters is Wine? Viticultural Capitalists and the Creation of Britain’s Colonial Wine Industry.” 

  • 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” 

  • 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:

  • Kathleen Brosnan, University of Oklahoma, “Preserving Winescapes Amidst North America’s Urban Sprawl."

  • Erica Hannickel, Northland College, “George Engelmann, 19th Century North American Grapes, and Europe’s Battle with Phylloxeral”

  • Mikael Pierre, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and University of Newcastle, “A Theoretical Wine Model: Introducing and Adapting French Wine Literature into Colonial Australia.”

  • 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:

  • 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).”

  • Patrice Dutil, Ryerson University, “The 1988 ‘Niagara Accord’ in Perspective: The Ontario Wine Industry in Four Historical Phases.” 

  • James Simpson, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Wine Quality and international transfers of technology, 1850-1939.”

  • 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:

  • Shana Klein, Kent State University, “’Making an American Rhineland’ in California: The Politics of Grapes, Race, and Westward Settlement.” 

  • Julie McIntyre, University of Newcastle, “Decolonising wine: First peoples’ connections with grapes and their products.” 

  • Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, “British Imperial Viticulture and Settler Colonialism: Should Wine History Have a Postcolonial Future?” 

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