Co-sponsored by
The Clements Center for Southwest Studies at
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas and
The Department of History at
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia

Part II:
March 24, 2007 -- Spring Symposium
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium

8:30-9:00        REGISTRATION COFFEE

9:00-9:30        INTRODUCTION
                      Andrew Graybill, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
                            Benjamin H. Johnson, Southern Methodist University

9:30-10:00      PART I: PATHS NOT TAKEN: THE EMERGENCE OF NATIONAL BORDERS
                     “‘Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians”
                             Bethel Saler, Haverford College & Carolyn Podruchny, York University

10:00-10:15    BREAK

10:15-11:15    PART II: PEOPLES IN BETWEEN
                     “Conflict and Cooperation in the Making of Texas-Mexico Border Society, 1848-1880”
                             Miguel Ángel González Quiroga, Colegio de Historia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

                           “Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains, 1850-1900”
                            Michel Hogue, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:15-11:30    COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30    PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND STATE-MAKING
                     “Epidemics, Indians, and Border-Making in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest”
                             Jennifer Seltz, independent scholar

                            “Divided Ranges: Trans-Border Ranches and the Creation of National Space along the Western Mexico-U.S. Border”
                             Rachel St. John, Harvard University

12:30-1:45      LUNCHEON - UMPHREY LEE BALLROOM

1:45-3:15            PART IV: MODERN BORDER ENFORCEMENT AND CONTESTATION
                     “Crossing the Line: The INS and the Federal Regulation of the Mexican Border”
                             S. Deborah Kang, Clements Center for Southwest Studies Research Fellow, Southern Methodist University

                            “Pacific Policies:  State Power and Salmon in the Canada-U.S. Borderlands”
                             Lissa Wadewitz, Linfield College, currently on leave at the The Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University

                            “The International Borders in Relation to One Another: Japanese Immigrants in the North American West”
                              Andrea A. E. Geiger, Simon Fraser University

3:14-3:30        BREAK

3:30-4:30        PART V: BORDER REPRESENTATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
                     “Tourism, Culture, and the Modern Self along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1880-1940”
                             Catherine Cocks, School of American Research Press

                             “Projecting the In-Between: Cinematic Representations of National Borders in North America, 1929-1960”
                              Dominique Brégent-Heald, Memorial University of Newfoundland

4:30-5:00         COMMENTARY AND DISCUSSION
                             Joseph E. Taylor III, Simon Fraser University
                             John Mack Faragher, Yale University

5:00                RECEPTION

Organized by Andrew Graybill, University of Nebraska; Benjamin H. Johnson, Southern Methodist University;
and Joseph E. Taylor III, Simon Fraser University.

This project is undertaken with the assistance of the Government of Canada/ avec l’aide du gouvernement du Canada.

Directions and maps to Southern Methodist University.

Last updated March 22, 2007.