EH.N: Announcement: Globalization and the Making of Canada Workshop

[Andrew Smith]

Dear Colleagues:

Apologies for cross posting.

We would like to draw your attention to an upcoming interdisciplinary
workshop, “Globalization and the Making of Canada”. The workshop will
take place at Woerner House, the conference facility of the Centre for
International Governance Innovation (CIGI) at the University of
Waterloo, 29-30 January 2010. The program appears below.  

This workshop will be an opportunity to hear the research of a diverse
group of scholars. We would encourage academics, graduate students, and
other interested people to attend.  We particularly welcome the
attendance of people from the Waterloo area. Those interested in
attending should contact Andrew Smith by 1 January 2010.

The organizers would like to express their gratitude to CIGI for their
generous support of this workshop.

Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee:
Dimitry Anastakis, Trent University
Herb Emery, University of Calgary
Mark Kuhlberg, Laurentian University
Andrew Smith, Laurentian University (Contact Person)


Workshop Venue: Woerner House is the conference facility owned by the
Centre for International Governance Innovation. It is located in a
wooded area roughly thirty minutes from the Waterloo campus.

Friday, 29 January 2010

1:00-1:30 Registration

1:30-1:50 Opening Remarks by Andrew Smith, Laurentian University.

2:00-3:00 Session 1: Early Globalization

Professor Mike Dove, Department of History, University of Western
Ontario. “Pelts and Profits as Precursors: Antecedents of Globalization
in the Canadian Fur Trade”

Professor George Colpitts, Department of History, University of Calgary.
“Early Globalization and the Pricing of Plains Provisions for the
Canadian Fur Trade, 1811-1882”

3:00-3:15 COFFEE BREAK

3:15-4:35 Session 2: Globalization and the British Empire

Professor Andrew Smith, Department of History, Laurentian University.
“Globalization in British North America in the 1860s: the Economic
Foundations of Confederation”

Dr. Andrew Dilley, Department of History, University of Aberdeen,
Scotland. “Development Politics and Power in the British World: The City
of London and the early years of Ontario-Hydro”

Commentator: Professor William Coleman, Canada Research Chair on Global
Governance and Public Policy, McMaster University.

4:35-4:45 COFFEE BREAK

4:45-5:15 Keynote Address, Professor Matthias Kipping, Chair in Business
History, Schulich School of Business, York University.

5:15-6:00 RECEPTION

6:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday 30 January 2010

8:30 BREAKFAST

9:00-10:20 Session 3: Globalization and Canadian Natural Resources

Dr. Daryl White, Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta. “Managing a
War Metal: the International Nickel Company’s First World War”

Professor Mark Kuhlberg, Department of History, Laurentian University.
“The Myth of Provincial Protectionism in Ontario’s Forest Industry,
1894-1963”

Professor Herb Emery, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
“Natural Resources Exports, Wealth, and Accumulation and Development
in Settler Economies: North-western Ontario and South Australia,
1905-1915”

10:20-10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30-11:50 Session 4: Multinational Enterprise and Canada

Dr. Greig Mordue, Toyota Canada. “Public Policy Meets Industrial
Strategy: Building Paradigmatic Change in the Canadian Auto Industry,
1945-1960”

Professor Graham Taylor, Department of History, Trent University. “The
Whiskey Kings: The International Expansion of Seagram, 1934-2001″

Professor Robin Gendron, Department of History, Nipissing University.
“Seeds of Decline? Inco and Globalisation in the Nickel Industry in
the 1960s and 1970s”

Commentator: Professor Joe Martin, Director of Canadian Business
History, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

12:00-1:00 LUNCH

1:00-2:20 Session 5: The Political Economy of International Trade
1867-1914

Professor Eugene Beaulieu, Depa
rtment of Economics, University of
Calgary. “The Political Mr. Jevan Cherniwchan, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
“The Restrictiveness of Canada’s Trade Policy: 1880-1910”

2:20-2:45 COFFEE BREAK

2:45-4:00 Session 6: The Political Economy of International Trade Since
1945

Dr. Michael Stevenson, Schulich School of Business, York University.
“The Limits of Alliance: Cold War Solidarity and Canadian Wheat
Exports to China, 1950-1963″

Professor Bruce Muirhead, Department of History, University of Waterloo.
“Canadian Participation in the International Monetary Fund, 1944 – 1973”

Commentator: Professor John English, CIGI, University of Waterloo.

4:30 End of Workshop.

More details regarding the workshop can be found at:

http://andrewdsmith.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/program-%E2%80%9Cglobalization-and-the-making-of-canada-canadas-international-economic-linkages-from-the-fur-trade-to-the-21st-century%E2%80%9D/