Friday, September 15 - Segal Centre Room 1400-1430

6:30 - 8:00 pm    "Writing about Multiple Borderlands"
                          David J. Weber, Dedman Professor of History and Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
                          Southern Methodist University


Saturday, September 16 - Fletcher Challenge Theater, Room 1900

8:00 - 8:15 am   OPENING REMARKS

8:15                   PART I: PATHS NOT TAKEN: THE EMERGENCE OF NATIONAL BORDERS

                         1. “‘Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians
                             Bethel Saler, Assistant Professor of History, Haverford College.
                             Carolyn Podruchny, Assistant Professor of History, York University.

8:45                   PART II: PEOPLES IN BETWEEN

                          2. “Conflict and Cooperation in the Making of Texas-Mexico Border Society, 1848-1880”
                              Miguel Angel Gonzalez Quiroga, Maestro, Colegio de Historia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

                          3. “Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains, 1850-1900”
                              Michel Hogue, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

9:45 - 10:15        MORNING BREAK

10:15 am           PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND STATE-MAKING

                         4.  “Epidemics, Indians and Border-Making in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest”
                               Jennifer Seltz, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Washington; Visiting Lecturer, National University of
                               Ireland-Galway

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

11:15 am           PART IV: MODERN BORDER ENFORCEMENT AND CONTESTATION

                         6. “Crossing the Line: The INS and the Federal Regulation of the Mexican Border”
                             S. Deborah Kang, Independent Scholar; Ph.D. in History, University of California-Berkeley

11:45 - 1:15       LUNCH BREAK

                        7. “Pacific Policies:  State Power and Salmon in the Canada-U.S. Borderlands”
                             Lissa Wadewitz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University.

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

2:15 pm           PART V: BORDER REPRESENTATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY 

                       9. “Tourism, Culture, and the Modern Self Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1880-1940”
                            Catherine Cocks, Acting Director of the School of American Research Press, Ph.D. in History, University of
                            California Davis.

                      10. “Projecting the In-Between: Cinematic Representations of National Borders in North America”
                             Dominique Brégent-Heald, Assistant Professor of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

3:15 pm          AFTERNOON BREAK

                      
3:45 pm          CLOSING COMMENTS

                      11.  "Border Crossings and the Borderlands: Slippery Meanings along North America's Frontiers"
                             Alexander Dawson, Simon Fraser University

                      12.  "The Global Implications of the North American Borderlands Concept"
                             Leo Shin, University of British Columbia

4:15 pm          DISCUSSION - Participants and the Audience

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