2006 Discussion Forum

for the

Third Annual Workshop of the

Consortium on Democratic Constitutionalism

University of Victoria

1-3 December 2006

Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community

2006 Papers

Click here for the link to the  Workshop Discussion Paper

John Lutz

Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again

This workshop builds upon a conference entitled “Worlds in Collision:  Critically Analyzing Aboriginal and European Contact Narratives”, held at UVic in February 2002.  Papers derived from that conference will be published next year by UBC Press in a volume entitled Myth and Memory:  Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact.  This paper is the introduction to that volume.

 

Michael Asch

Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History

Kim Anderson

Conquest or Creation? Native Women’s Bodies as the Contact Zone

Bain Attwood

Treating the Past: Narratives of Possession and Dispossession in a Settler Community

Catherine Dauvergne

Truth in a Thousand Words

Anne Godlewska

Juxtaposing Narratives: The Place of Stories in the Historical Geography of Canada

David Grant

David Grant will not be able to attend the workshop, but his fascinating comments on the topic of the workshop can be accessed here.

Comments on Discussion Paper ‘Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community’

Sneja Gunew

Counter-narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance

David Leech

Skelton-Clark, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University

David Leech will be attending the workshop, but his work came to our attention too late for inclusion in the program. His paper can be accessed here:

Canada's Tricksters: on Mi'Kmaq Diplomacy and the Om/mission of History

Audrey Macklin

Getting to Us:  Locating Legal Narratives of Arrival

Martha Nandorfy

Communicating Rights: Media, Rights Organizations, Education and the Arts

David Neufeld

Yukon & Western Arctic Historian, Parks Canada - Western Canada Service Centre,
Whitehorse, Yukon

Dave Neufeld will be attending the workshop, but his work came to our attention too late for
inclusion in the program. His paper can be accessed here:

Public Memory and Public Holidays:

Discovery Day and the Establishment of a Klondike Society

Sean Rehaag

(Mis)reading the Borders of the Sexual Subaltern: Sexual Minority Refugee Claims in Canada

Jacinta Ruru

Layered Landscapes in Site-specific 'Pristine' Places

Patricia Tuitt

The Birth of the European Union and the Death of the Refugee

December 1-3, 2006
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada