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2006-2007 Annual Public Symposium
 BRIDGING
NATIONAL BORDERS IN NORTH AMERICA:
Transnational and Comparative Histories
Part I: Held September 15
& 16, 2006, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
Part II: Held
March 24, 2007, Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
Texas, USA
Bridging National Borders in
North America convened an international group
of scholars to discuss the history of borderlands in
North America. In the past century "Borderlands" has
become shorthand for the U.S. Southwest and the Mexican
north, yet little attention has been paid to the border
dividing Canada and the U.S. despite a similarly rich
history. This conference aimed to correct that
oversight. In an era when all of North American's
borders are growing economically, demographically and
politically more important, it is imperative to cast
light on the collective history of theses regions.
Sharing knowledge on First Nations peoples, labor
migration, industrial growth, political policies, and
environmental trends, this conference will illustrate
how the shared histories of Canadians, Mexicans and
Americans hold lessons for all North Americans and
beyond.
This
two-part symposium, co-sponsored by the
William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University (SMU)
and the Department of
History at Simon Fraser University (SFU),
included the initial public presentations held at SFU in
greater Vancouver in September 2006, and was
followed in March 2007 by a conference at SMU in Dallas,
Texas.
Ultimately Duke University Press published the papers as
a volume in 2010 edited by conference organizers Andrew
Graybill and Benjamin Johnson. Contributors include Dominique
Brégent-Heald, Catherine Cocks, Andrea Geiger, Miguel
Ángel González Quiroga, Andrew R. Graybill, Michel
Hogue, Benjamin H. Johnson, S. Deborah Kang, Carolyn
Podruchny, Bethel Saler, Jennifer Seltz, Rachel St.
John, and Lissa Wadewitz.
Organized by
Andrew Graybill,
University of Nebraska;
Benjamin H. Johnson,
Southern Methodist University;
Joseph E. Taylor III,
Simon Fraser University.
Co-sponsored
by
The William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University
The Department of History
at Simon Fraser University (SFU)
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